By David Sheward January 16, 2026: People who make movies and write novels are terrible at relationships. What’s more they don’t give a hoot about the environment or climate change unless their more mature…

Exploring genius, indulging ego, examining personal sacrifice at the alter of art, with a toe firmly immersed in the mud of the river of farce, The Disappear is a clever, with a dash of charm, seriocomedy that …

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★★★☆☆ Erica Schmidt’s world premiere dramedy skewers a self-absorbed filmmaker and the people who love him The post The Disappear: Art Isn’t Easy appeared first on New York Stage Review.

Confederate statuary takes on new meanings in a history-making show at MOCA and the Brick in LA. MONUMENTS, installation view. Courtesy the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen. MON…

At the center of the wheel, a stage manager discovers who she is by keeping everything else moving. The post Finding the Center of the Wheel: Tia Harewood-Millington and the Art of Holding It All Together appea…

The Drama League has revealed the cast members for DirectorFest 2026, a festival focusing on the art of Contemporary Stage directing by an exciting new generation of talent, featuring two staged readings of two…

On Wednesday night, FX celebrated the highly-anticipated series premiere of The Beauty with a star-studded red carpet and screening at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York. Take a look at photos from the…

A unique type of art is coming to Parkville Market.

Imagine, just as you have gotten with the times and started to effectively use social media to communicate and engage with younger audiences, the tool is yanked away. That is kinda what is happening in Australi…

By . An online conversation in partnership with artEquity that is connecting art service organizations and leadership who have shaped the arts ecosystem. 

The singer will reunite with her Wicked co-star in a revival of the musical inspired by artist Georges Seurat in summer 2027 Wicked co-stars Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey are to reunite on stage in Stephen …

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/festivals-series/250-years-of-us/overview Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon delivers a powerful orchestral journey through Washington, DC’s iconic structures, told in…

Go behind the scenes with Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon as he brings Monuments to life — a powerful orchestral journey through Washington, D.C.’s iconic structures, told in four movement…

Go behind the scenes with Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon as he brings Monuments to life — a powerful orchestral journey through Washington, DC’s iconic structures, told in four movements:…

He has broken his ankles, endured 365 days in a cell and faced down the 20th century’s worst winter. Yet he says he is not a masochist. We meet the man Marina Abramovich calls ‘the master’ For one year, b…

This dashing dude is Richard F. Outcault (1863-1928), once hailed by many as the inventor of the newspaper comic strip. Many hands went into the evolution of this unique art form however; it’s more accurate t…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has released her 2026 State of the State report, which includes a plan to preserve performing art spaces in New York. To help secure the long-term future of smaller performanc…

A recent report in The Art Newspaper addressed an issue of which I was entirely unaware – Visual artists are essentially being forced to pay for their own shows as a result of so much funding to museums and g…

Wicked director Jon M. Chu is set to receive the 2026 Cinematic Imagery Award from The Art Directors Guild. The ceremony will take place on February 28, 2026, at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. �…

Join us for our 20th Anniversary Festival of New Musicals January 16-18, 2026! The Festival has launched more than 50 new musicals into the universe (including the Tony Award-winning sensation Come From Away), …

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani helped promote Under the Radar Theater Festival's "Under the Radar for All" effort, giving away 1,500 free tickets to participating shows at theaters across the city. Mamda…

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By KIM COOK Maybe it’s a scratched-up old sideboard found at a yard sale and turned into a snazzy media console. Or a couple of well-traveled vintage trunks given a new home as bedside tables. Designers and D…

Art in a time of war: an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and collages at 52 Walker. Nicole Eisenman: STY, installation view. Courtesy 52 Walker. Nicole Eisenman: STY, 52 Walker, curated by Ebon…

The new year begins with offerings from Ubuntu Fine Art Gallery, Pig Iron Theatre Company, FringeArts, and more. Kyle V. Hiller rounds up.

Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 gets its only US stop at the Philadelphia Art Museum. K.A. McFadden reviews.

The Art Directors Guild has revealed the nominees for its 30th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, which include the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Wicked: For Good, and NBC's Wicked: One Wonderful Night s…

Engaging in creativity can reduce depression, improve immunity and delay ageing – all while you’re having fun For some reason, we have collectively agreed that new year is the time to reinvent ourselves. T…

With a pair of high-profile exhibits drawing crowds  in Europe, the director puts his inimitable aesthetic on display. 

‘You don’t have to be tortured to make great art,’ says founder of mental health support organisation Artist Wellbeing From Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf, from Nina Simone to Amy Winehouse, the tortu…

Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Abbas Wahab is a New York-based, Canadian comedian and actor. He’s been featured on Just For Laughs and Edinburgh Frin…

Béla Fleck has canceled his upcoming appearance at Kennedy Center after a recent board vote resulted in former President Donald Trump’s name being attached to the institution. In a statement shared on social…

Tony Award winners Mandy Patinkin, Maryann Plunkett, and more are among the stage alums joining the cast of Audible's The Space Within. The audio drama, led by fellow Tony winner Jessica Chastain, will return f…

Event Features Special Performances byAlex De Bard, Hamilton Hayes, Dante Pope, Latrice Pace, Echinacea Monroe Sidora, and Nick tha 1da WASHINGTON, DC—Mosaic Theater Company’s benefit The Spark 2026 will …

"Playing Shylock" at the Segal Centre Jan 18, 2026 - Feb 08, 2026 A Segal Centre presentation of a Starvox Entertainment production By Mark Leiren-Young Starring Saul Rubinek Get Tickets: https://purchase.sega…

"Playing Shylock" at the Segal Centre Jan 18, 2026 - Feb 08, 2026 A Segal Centre presentation of a Starvox Entertainment production By Mark Leiren-Young Starring Saul Rubinek Get Tickets: https://purchase.sega…

The Set Decorators Society of America has announced the nominations for the SDSA Awards for Film 2025. The SDSA Awards for Film 2025 is celebrating excellence in the art of Set Decoration for films released in …

It is tempting to talk about this art gallery in the language used to discuss the performing arts, like theater, opera, orchestra concerts and ballet.

It’s all delicious art deco inside Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, revived most brilliantly at the Menier Chocolate Factory under Christopher Luscombe’s immaculate direction. The revival arrives as a fizzin…

The London UK Theatre Review: Fallen Angels at the Menier Chocolate Factory By Ross It’s all delicious art deco inside Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, revived most brilliantly at the Menier Chocolate Factory …

Broadway may be a living art form, but few artists capture its pulse quite like Ken Fallin. Known for his instantly recognizable pen-and-ink caricatures of legends from stage and screen, Fallin distills not jus…

Wanyue Jie is making his mark on Broadway as an above-the-title co-producer of Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), at just 17 years old. Currently a high school senior, Wanyue was drawn to becoming a …

In this episode, join world-renowned voice coach and author Patsy Rodenburg in conversation with the Stratford Festival’s former Head of Voice, Janine Pearson, as they explore Rodenburg’s groundbreaking wor…

 LOOKING BACK AT 2025: SOME PARODIES OF 2025 BROADWAY EVENTS JUST IN TIME - Since Jonathan Groff himself has such open fun making fun of his own sweating and spitting, we did a parody-tribute to his Bobby …

Our annual year-in-art-reviews. Does arts criticism go viral? Relatively speaking, it does! Our editors are here with a countdown of 2025’s most engrossing, attention-grabbing reviews, from music to film …

BEIJING (AP) — Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high and gra…

IN HONOR OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT traces the bond between Roger Guenveur Smith and Jean-Michel Basquiat, from the Venice studio to the club scene, from spoken word to canvas — illuminating how art, politics, a…

Samantha Dodemaide has been can-canning up a storm as Nini in Broadway’s "Spectacular, Spectacular" hit Moulin Rouge! According to her calculations, that's approximately 30,000 high kicks over the four years…

I mentioned last week that Arts Midwest sent out a year in review newsletter recently. In addition to the laundromat turned laundrobar in Columbus, OH that has taken a place in that city’s music scene, they m…

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, located at Lincoln Center, has announced a new exhibition highlighting the history of magic performance. The exhibition, Mystery and Wonder: A Legacy of Gold…

A young Tom McCamus starring opposite the legendary Martha Henry in Long Day's Journey Into Night – a landmark production of an American classic that sold out nearly its entire 1994 run and was brought back b…

SAN DIEGO — Centennial celebrations, new breakthrough artists and notable anniversaries abounded in jazz in 2025. It was a year that saw America’s richest homegrown musical art form celebrated near — incl…

By CODY JACKSON DORAL, Fla. (AP) — When Fernando Dávila was 8 years old in Colombia, he failed a drawing class because he painted donkeys red. There was a reason for that: He is colorblind. Now the 72-year-o…

Audible Theater will soon present the world premiere of The Disappear, a new comedy written and directed by BAFTA Award nominee Erica Schmidt – featuring Dylan Baker, Madeline Brewer, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ham…

In her transdisciplinary Media Art Xploration series, science provides the data that art transforms into sensory and emotional experiences.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the stage play prequel set in 1959 Hawkins, Indiana, first opened at Broadway's Marquis Theatre in April. Now, with season five of the Netflix series wrapping up the mystery w…

There are movies that you watch because they add to humanity’s great history of finding life’s meaning through art, and then there are movies that you watch because it’s fun to hear someone say, in panick…

Across film (“Sinners,” “One Battle After Another”), theater (“Ragtime”) and TV (“The Lowdown”), four works suggested what achieving racial equality in America would take.

Performance art has a distinct urgency in Los Angeles, a city that in a perpetual state of rehearsal.

The original Korean production of Maybe Happy Ending has sold out every performance of its Seoul engagement and has announced plans for a nationwide tour following the conclusion of its run. The musical opened …

For Patti LuPone, starring in The Artist was more than just another acting job: it was entering an entirely new world. "I was gobsmacked when I walked in the door, and because I am obsessed with the real Gilded…

Ballet Jörgen’s holiday scare reaffirmed its mission: taking the art form to remote towns and outposts where most people have never seen a pas de deux.

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Zachary Quinto is putting on his attorney hat in The Artist, the new Gilded Age-era murder mystery on The Network streaming service. The performer, who was most recently seen on Broadway in 2024’s Cult of Lov…

An operatic Vivaldi pastiche, with a new story by Sarah Ruhl, offers an ambivalent message about how art can make people pay attention.

The return of Yasmina Reza's play starring James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris, and Bobby Cannavale, is at the Music Box Theatre.

Frontmezzjunkies reports: No Return Visits to the Kennedy Center for this Theatre Critic By Ross For years, I went to Washington not for politics, but for art (and friendship). The Kennedy Center was once a pla…

Our critics salute the year's outstanding productions, with some commentary on the state of the art.

From Olivia Nuzzi’s “punctured armor” to America's deportation machine, the country's most notorious courtroom sketch artist transforms the aftermath of Trump's election into a doc and an ongoing fine-art…

An exclusive interview with actor Thomas Winiker, our Seth in Kimberly Akimbo! 🤩 Thank you to all our donors and sponoros who help make art thrive in Montreal at the Segal Centre! 💙 - Une interview excl…

Sainsbury theatre, London Academy of Music and Dramatic ArtBoutique staging with just 12 dancers makes up for its small scale with inventive choreography by Valentino Zucchetti and a spirited cast The Nutcracke…

French theory’s influences ripple through the development of American art in a show at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought, installation view. Courtesy Palais de To…