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Want to take your acting to the next level? The Prague Shakespeare Company's 2025 Summer Intensive offers unparalleled training with 25 Artistic Directors & Producers and over 70 Master Faculty members – leading experts in the world of theatre.

Christopher Davies, a leading figure in children's education and theatre for children with special educational needs, has been awarded a Doctor of Arts. Learn more about Davies here!

The University of Hartford, Hartt School Dance Division will present, “Horizons” the spring senior dance concert. Performances are March 12, 13, and 14 at 7:30pm in the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Theater at the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Art Center.

The Lone Star College-University Park Drama Department brings Steve Martin's witty and insightful play, 'Picasso at the Lapin Agile,' to the stage beginning this weekend.

The Syracuse University Department of Drama will continue the 2024/2025 season with the uniquely engaging “A Walrus in the Body of a Crocodile” by MJ Kaufman, directed by Daniella Caggiano. Learn how to attend.

Wagner College Theatre's Stage One will present ROMEO & JULIET. A pair of star-crossed lovers take the stage in a surreal yet familiar retelling of the Bard's classic tale at Wagner College's Stage One venue. Learn more.

Famed Spanish pianist Josu De Solaun will perform a  free recital at the St. Ann Catholic Church in Washington.  De Solaun will play selected works of Robert Schumann and Sergei Prokofiev.

This February, the University of Washington School of Drama will present The Winter’s Tale, directed by the visionary Kate Drummond. Learn more about the show here!

Grossmont College Theatre Arts will present The Pirates of Penzance! The comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan includes infectious melodies, zany characters, and madcap wit.

GRAMMY Award-winning American organist Paul Jacobs will be presented by the Texas Christian University in a solo organ recital at the university's Ed Landreth Hall and Auditorium in February. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Opera singer David Daniels sued the University of Michigan after being fired for sexual misconduct in 2020. Now, a judge has dismissed the lawsuit, stating that Daniels waited too long to sue the university.

Brown University has named acclaimed choreographer and current Associate Professor, Sydney Skybetter, as the Faculty Director of the Brown Arts Institute. Learn more!

George Mason University's College of Visual and Performing Arts has announced the public launch of the Give Voice initiative, a $35 million fundraising effort to renovate and modernize the Center for the Arts into a state-of-the-art venue.

Purchase College, State University of New York’s Broadway Technical Theatre History Project will present the Eleventh “Backstage Legends and Masters Award” to Michael Wyatt.

The Farm Theater has awarded playwright Gina Femia with their 2025/26 College Collaboration Project Commision. Learn more about the Commission and about Femia here.

Education plays a vital role in shaping artists into extraordinary performers, which is why I always enjoy visiting universities to witness the incredible work our students are creating. This time, however, I had the distinct privilege of attending Dr. Ian Aipperspach’s organ recital at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia on Friday, Jan. 17.  

Karen Slack will continue the nationwide tour of her new program African Queens. This program celebrates the history and legacy of seven African queens, revered as rulers but not widely heralded in the Western world. Learn how to attend.

The Bharat Rang Mahotsav (BRM) 2025, recognized as the world’s largest theatre festival, flagged off  at the National School of Drama (NSD) premises in Mandi House, New Delhi.

Joshua Borenstein has been appointed Chair of the Theater Management Program and Assistant Professor Adjunct at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, effective July 1, 2025. Learn more about Borenstein.

exas State University's School of Theatre, Dance, and Film will present Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, running this February, in the Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre.

LAMDA, the UK's leading performing arts institution and the world's oldest drama school, has officially launched its first international base in New York City, in collaboration with its US sister organisation, the American Friends of LAMDA.

Cypress College Theatre Arts Department will open the classic musical comedy, Hello, Dolly! in March. This production is directed by James Hormel, with choreography by Christopher M. Albrecht.

The School of Drama at UNCSA has announced a $1 million gift from acclaimed actor and two-time Tony Award-winning director of stage and screen Joe Mantello, a graduate of the school’s class of ’84.

University of Arkansas-East Arkansas Community College will present the GRAMMY award-winning group Kool & the Gang on Saturday, March 15th at 7:30 p.m. at the EACC Fine Arts Center. 

The New School’s College of Performing Arts – Mannes, Jazz, Drama, has announced the appointment of acclaimed bassoonist and prolific performer Adrian Morejon to the faculty of the esteemed performing arts school.