Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater artistic director Alicia Graf Mack (center) poses with members of the company. Andrew Eccles hide caption
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Tom Stoppard's plays include Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia. He's pictured above in London in 2017. Justin Tallis/WPA Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Misty Copeland was the first Black female principal dancer in the history of American Ballet Theatre. She took a final bow at Lincoln Center on Oct. 22, 2025 Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP hide caption
Misty Copeland, left, and Oprah Winfrey attend the American Ballet Theatre's Fall Gala honoring Misty Copeland at David Geffen Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025, in New York. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP hide caption
At the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., students perform in a pilot production of Once Upon a One More Time Jr. The junior production repurposes the original Broadway show, featuring the music of Britney Spears, for schools. Eva Marie Uzcategui for NPR hide caption
Back To The Future and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade posters were illustrated by Drew Struzan. FlixPix and Photo 12/Alamy hide caption
A curtain call during a performance of Hamilton on Broadway at Richard Rodgers Theatre on Sept. 9, 2025 in New York City. The union representing Broadway actors and stage managers says it is getting close to a strike. Valerie Terranova/Getty Images North America hide caption
A puppeteer plays a mourning mother in Gaza during a performance of Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress! in Ypsilanti, Mich. Timothy Chen Allen hide caption
Bread and Puppet Theater is still working to ‘make the revolution irresistible’
"Happy To Be Here" cast member performs during the screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show during the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 25 in Hollywood, California. Jesse Grant/Getty Images hide caption
Shiver with antici...pation: 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' turns 50
Ro Boddie as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Stephen Conrad Moore as Bayard Rustin in the 2025 Ford's Theatre production of The American Five, directed by Aaron Posner in Washington, D.C. Scott Suchman hide caption
'The American Five' explores the untold story behind the March on Washington
Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performing onstage in San Juan on July 11 during the first night of his 30-show residency in Puerto Rico. Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Bad Bunny skipped touring the States. Will other performers follow suit?
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in a revival of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" Andy Henderson/DKC O&M hide caption
'Bill & Ted' actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunite for 'Waiting for Godot'
New York-based Tere O'Connor Dance received a National Dance Project grant for a work called The Lace. Maria Baranova/New England Foundation for the Arts hide caption
20 new dance projects will receive up to $100K each — but the grant program is ending
Stephen Nakagawa's career spans more than a decade, first as a dancer with Ballet West II before joining the Washington Ballet.
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Street performers entertain passersby on the Royal Mile as crowds of entertainers and festival-goers gather for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Aug. 1, 2025. The Fringe, one of the world's largest performing arts festivals, features over 3,800 shows across 265 venues and draws an audience of roughly 3 million visitors. Ewan Bootman/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
Is Edinburgh's Fringe still fringe, or has it — gasp — gone mainstream?
Dancers rehearse at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Anna-Rose Gassot/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump speaks during the unveiling of the Kennedy Center Honors nominees on Aug. 13, 2025, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Donald Trump talks to the media in the Hall of Nations at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 17, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
More than 5,000 items from composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, including lyric and music sketches and unpublished scripts, are now housed in the Library of Congress. Shawn Miller/Library of Congress, Stephen Sondheim Collection, Music Division hide caption
Take a peek at Stephen Sondheim’s papers, now at the Library of Congress
ATSUKO OKATSUKA: FATHER - "Fans call her 'Mother,' but Atsuko is 'Father'âthriving professionally yet clueless about basics. A 7-year laundry hiatus and learning that marriage licenses precede weddings are just some hilariously relatable discoveries she shares in her special." Temma Hankin/Disney hide caption
