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Seven Ages Theatricals will be presenting the WORLD PREMIERE production of Fool, Christopher Moore's New York Times best-selling comic novel in a new adaptation by the Reduced Shakespeare Company's Austin Tichenor, in June 2025.

Shakespeare’s Globe has revealed the cast of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes. Romeo and Juliet launches the summer season, running from 25 April until 2 August in the Globe Theatre.  

Watch an exclusive clip from tonight's episode of NBC's The Irrational, starring Broadway alum Jesse L. Martin. In the episode, Alec and Rose go undercover in a community theater production of Little Shop of Horrors to try and solve an actor’s murder. 

Dance On Productions has announced the West Coast premiere of Tennessee Williams' In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel at the Hudson Backstage Theatre in Hollywood. Learn more here!

The Old Vic has released rehearsal photos for Conor McPherson’s new play The Brightening Air. Check out photos of the cast in action in the rehearsal room here!

John Proctor is the Villain begins previews tonight at the Booth Theatre on Thursday, March 20, 2025 ahead of a Monday, April 14 opening night. Meet the cast of John Proctor is the Villain here!

Two River Theater has revealed the cast and creative team for ¡VOS!, a World Premiere debut by the powerful new voice, Christina Pumarieg. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

 Arlekin, the innovative theater company founded by Igor Golyak, has announced its 15th Anniversary plans, including a long-awaited run of Our Class in Boston.

The Consul General of Bulgaria in Los Angeles, Mr. Boyko Hristov, and his spouse, Mrs. Sylvia Hristova, in collaboration with internationally renowned musicians, will host an evening of chamber music featuring a string quartet, piano, and flute, showcasing Classical Bulgarian Music in honor of Bulgaria's National Day.

London Theatre Company has announced two further productions opening at the Bridge Theatre during 2025, including a new staging of Into The Woods as well as the return of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Discover the star-studded cast of Broadway's OTHELLO as previews launch tonight, February 24, 2025, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Premiere set for March 23.

Gateway Playhouse in Somers Point will showcase all of William Shakespeare's 37 plays – in just 95 minutes – in “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged/Revised/Again)” by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield. Learn more!

What if Shakespeare got it all wrong? Baltimore Center Stage steps into the intersection of The Merchant of Venice and Jewish history with Sarah Mantell's Everything That Never Happened.

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced its Summer Season, running from April – October 2025.  Learn more about the full upcoming lineup here!

PCPA will present William Shakespeare’s beloved romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing, bringing wit, romance, and intrigue to the Marian Theatre stage.

Today’s subject Barry Edelstein is currently living his theatre life as the Artistic Director of San Diego’s renowned Old Globe. On January 30th he will be giving a special presentation on putting together his adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays entitled Henry 6. at our very own Folger Theatre as part of their third annual Reding Room Series which runs from January 30th through February 2nd.

The cast and creative team of Noises Off, written by Tony Award winner Michael Frayn, at Gulfshore Playhouse has been revealed. See who is starring and learn more about the production.

Arin Arbus's bold reimagining of The Merchant of Venice trades Venetian canals for tech bro skyscrapers in a near-future America dominated by corporate giants. Presented by New York-based TFANA (Theatre For A New Audience), the production’s corrosive bigotry and blinding vengeance feel eerily familiar - in a world shaped by Silicon Valley billionaires, power and prejudice still reign supreme. 

Disney Theatrical Group has announced the full casting for Hercules which opens at Theatre Royal Drury Lane this June. Learn more about the production and cast here!

Those who knock Shakespeare like to say that his plays aren’t relevant to our lives or our society – what I think they really mean is that the language he uses is challenging for us, and thus doesn’t seem relevant, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.  Rather than point them to Anthony Jeselnik’s infinitely tasteless (so I’m not linking to it) but wildly funny response to this complaint (which they rarely appreciate), I now instead ask them about Measure for Measure.

Annie Potts will star in two industry readings of the compelling new solo play, White Lies, written by playwright Elizabeth Dewberry. Learn more about the upcoming play.

Red Bull Theater has announced that John Douglas Thompson will be presented with the Matador Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Classical Theater at the Running of the Red Bulls Gala Benefit.

Following his triumph in Seattle Opera’s celebrated Samson and Delilah in Concert in 2023, Seattle Symphony Conductor Emeritus Ludovic Morlot will helm an unprecedented operatic event in January 2025: the SO premiere of Les Troyens in Concert, a rarely performed abridged version of Hector Berlioz’s epic masterpiece, Les Troyens à Carthage. The SO adaptation, Part 2 of Berlioz’s monumental opera, Les Troyens, the pinnacle of the composer’s life work, begins with the arrival of the great warrior Aeneas at Carthage and ends with the tragic immolation of Queen Dido.

Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts are getting a foothold in London’s East End. Shylock, here a single parent, requests a pound of flesh from Antonio, part of Mosley’s aficionados, in order to clear his debts. The demands of the Jewish moneylender who’s endlessly abused in public by the same people who require her services immediately gain further nuance in Brigid Larmour and Tracy-Ann Oberman.

Three men's friendship is strained by an all-white canvas. @metrojournalist