An obtuse title is but one of many complications in an ambitious but overreaching North American premiere of Urmetazoan by Alex Rugman. With a sci fi approach it is both micro and macro from the cosmic to quotedian. There is a simultaneous production in London which has opened to mostly positive reviews.

TheaterWorks Hartford, under the leadership of Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero and Managing Director Jeff Griffin, announces details for its production of LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD, written by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale). The 2026 Tony Nominee for Best Play is set to kick off TheaterWorks Hartford’s 26/27 season.

Barrington Stage Company will celebrate Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown, recipient of the 2026 William Finn Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, at its annual BSC in NYC event on Monday, October 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the legendary 54 Below.

Cape Ann Collectors autumn show, “Affirmation of Life: Bold Color Fields and Kindred Spirits,” opens October 17-18, 1-5 p.m., celebrating life, color and joy – an intentional nod to Manship’s “Hockney Reproductions” radiating intense, joyful, expressive chromatic hues. New ways of seeing, feeling and creating drove both Hockney and Blaine.

Mannes School of Music filled the nave of Our Lady of Good Counsel in New York with Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica. Arguably the best music school in New York, Mannes produces wonderful operas and concerts week after week. They are offered free and they're always a treat.

Any solo show needs a premise to explain why the character is talking to us, the audience, and telling us this story. Playwright Mark St. German who adopted this from Eddie’s autobiography has created a very effective premise to explain this. Eddie is finally going to talk about his experiences the next day at a Synagogue. He is nervous so he is practicing in front of us who he calls his new friends.

Join Shakespeare & Company for Celebrating Jewish Plays, a three-day festival bringing Jewish stories, voices, and perspectives to the stage through powerful plays, staged readings, poetry, music, and conversation.

“Beatle Girls,” has its Sarasota premiere as the season-opening attraction at Tree Fort Productions.

Two hours later Joey was still smarting from her response to his phone call. He was tucked up in the Maitland's office in an ageing, three-story walk-up on King Street East. But Joanna's words found him. ('I wish I didn't like you,' was the best thing she had said.)

For the third iteration of Shaker Museum’s acclaimed series of pop-up exhibitions, Kiki Smith, who has been lauded since the 1980s for her multidisciplinary work, will be the guest curator. Shaker Outpost: Kiki Smith’s Visiting considers the quiet intimacy of welcome, bringing together a selection of Smith’s blankets. Alongside original Shaker cabinets, chests, and other storage pieces, Smith will be showing woven blankets, works on paper, and sculptural objects.

The artist began casting his paintings in bronze using the lost-wax method to further the fluidity of his medium. Fields of Capture includes several unique bronze casts: Whitewash Relief, Silver Nitrate Relief, and Cast Relief Painting (II), each with their distinctive set of folds and crevices, and a finish that either reflects or absorbs light

I tried so hard to like this adaptation of Paul Gallico‘s very short novella, The Snow Goose –a Story of Dunkirk, but some elements just made it difficult to do so.

Sixteen years after leaving her native Venezuela to settle in Tampa where she would become an associate instructor of dance at the University of South Florida, Paula Nuñez founded the nonprofit Tampa City Ballet, marshalling 42 dancers from the Tampa Bay area to present the company’s first major performance at the Hillsborough Community College in Ybor City in 2018.

A Black-billed Cuckoo, is the second play written by Mat Smart as part of the DNA New Work Series at the La Jolla Playhouse. Smart, an avid birder himself, got the idea for the play during a birding outing after he didn’t see the cuckoo that everyone else saw. The play, directed by Shelley Butler, follows five bird-watchers over 24 hours in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Featuring book, music, and lyrics written by Sophie B. Hawkins, BIRDS OF NEW YORK brings to life the heartfelt story of an estranged daughter who returns home to New York City with her seven-year-old son to reconnect with her dying father.

This one-day symposium explores current scholarship on early modern European art and is organized in conjunction with An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection

In the story, Carrie has long been an outcast among her classmates, taunted for how she acts and what she wears, and she must deal with an oppressive relationship with her mother, Margaret, who has strong views on religion and how Carrie should be raised.

Toward the end of his life Agrippa is known to have written a now lost autobiography. In the manner of I Claudius the author Robert Harris has created a first person narrative. It covers the complex and troubled era of civil wars following the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. Agrippa was lifelong friends with Caesar's heir, a great nephew Octavian. This is the fascinating tale of his rise to Augustus who destroyed the Republic and became Rome's first emperor.

Lincoln in the Bardo, a new opera by Missy Mazzoli, is based on George Saunders’s Booker Prize–winning novel. Previewed at Green-wood Cemetery, the opera will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on October 19.

At age 18, Mary returns to Scotland as queen, having grown up in France. Her several years of rule before abdicating are marked by constant internal threats. At various times, four powerful men close to Mary are murdered by other men close to her. The opera conveys the instability adeptly in its drama and music.

During the Cold War, an advertising executive is mistaken by spies for a U.S government man of interest to their hostile country. A chase by plane, train, and automobile from New York to Mount Rushmore commences. The twist (and there is plenty of dance-like choreography) is that the underlying tension from the suspense is retained, but the action is played for laughs.

Now in its fourth year, the MassArt Common Good Awards shine a light on individuals and organizations who put art and design to work in service of others—expanding access to creative opportunities, enriching public life, championing diverse voices, and imagining new possibilities for their communities.

Joey flopped down on his bed in residence. Joanna’s words prowled in his head; uncomfortably so, like sharp thorns every so often making him wince to temper the sting of their indictment. He knew that she was right. He did make scenes. He was impulsive. He did shout. He was crazy. 'I can't help it,' he had said multiple times in the long debate that circled and cawed in his head like a murder of crows.

The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation announced that it will donate one of the artist’s oil paintings, Untitled, c. 1936, to the Cape Ann Museum’s permanent collection.

Early on in freeFall Theatre’s production of “What a Glorious Feeling!” two impressive performers playing Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen start tap dancing wildly inside a small Hollywood rehearsal studio. They’re creating steps that will become a crucial part of the tongue-twisting song “Moses Supposes” in their classic 1952 film “Singin’ in the Rain.”