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Tancredi

Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Gaetano Rossi after Voltaire

Bregenz Festival

Released 4 July 2025

Turandot

Giacomo Puccini and Franco Alfano, libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni

Arena di Verona

Released 26 June 2025

Sara Blanch (L'Amour), Juan Francisco Gatell (Orphée) and Anna Prohaska (Euridice)

Orphée et Euridice

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Teatro Maggio Musicale Florence

Released 20 June 2025

Kafka

Jack Klaff

Twilight Theatre Company

59e59 Theatres, Brits OffBroadway, New York

12–29 June 2025

Good Night, and Good Luck

George Clooney and Grant Heslov

CNN at the Winter Garden, New York City

8 June 2025

Duke Orsino (Arjun Pande) and Olivia (Jasmine Jean Sim)

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

ACT Contemporary Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare

Falls Theatre

7–22 June 2025

Adina

Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Cherardo Bevilacqua Aldobrandini

Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro and Wexford Opera Festival

Released 6 June 2025

Luke Barton as Mr Darcy and April Hughes as Lizzy Bennet

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen adapted by Abigail Pickard Price with Sarah Gobran and Matt Pinches

Guildford Shakespeare Company

59e59 Theatres, Brits OffBroadway, New York

30 May–29 June 2025

ECHO: Memories of the World

Gryphon Trio

Victoria Symphony

McPherson Playhouse

29 May 2025

Duel Reality

Shana Carroll

Seattle Rep

Bagley Wright Theater

29 May–22 June 2025

A Special Relationship

Tim Marriott and Jeff Stolzer

Twilight Theatre Company in association with Take Note Theatre & Smokescreen ...

59e59 Theatres, Brits OffBroadway, New York

29 May–29 June 2025

Un Ballo in Maschera

Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Antonio Somma

Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona

Released 23 May 2025

Michaela Bedel (Emma) and Gabriel Partington (Jerry)

Betrayal

Harold Pinter

Thursday's Child

Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia

15–25 May 2025

Jack Stokes as Wesley Lee Bainbridge as Mr Lupine

Shellshocked

Philip Stokes

Richard Jordan Productions and 412 with Lawrence Batley Theatre, Harrogate Th...

59e59 Theatres, Brits OffBroadway, New York

14 May–8 June 2025

Gertrude Lawrence: A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening

Lucy Stevens

Astor Theatre, Kent

59E59 Theatres, Brits OffBroadway, New York

13–25 May 2025

Flight

Jonathan Dover, libretto April De Angelis

State Opera South Australia

Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, South Australia

8–10 May 2025

Tosca

Music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa

Seattle Opera

McCaw Hall

3–17 May 2025

Andrei Zhilikhovsky (Andrei), Olga Kulchynska (Natasha) and Alexandra Yangel (Sonia)

War and Peace

Sergei Prokofiev after Leo Tolstoy

Bayerische Staatsoper

Released 2 May 2025

Golden

Andrew Lee Creech

ACT Contemporary Theatre

Falls Theatre

26 April–11 May 2025

Vincent Moisy as Matthew Hopkins, Nadia Jackson as Susan Edwards, Christopher Ashman as Richard Edwards and Rei Mordue as Rebecca West

The Ungodly

Joanna Carrick

Red Rose Chain

59e59 Theaters, Brits OffBroadway, New York

24 April–11 May 2025

The Mistake

Michael Mears

Essential Theatre

59E59 Theatres, Brits OffBroadway, New York

24 April–11 May 2025

The Last Laugh

Paul Hendy

Jamie Wilson Productions

59E59 Theatres, Brits OffBroadway, New York

23 April–25 May 2025

Justin Welsh as Marullo, Jan van der Hooft as Matteo Borsa and Andrew Greenwood as Count Ceprano with the Pacific Opera Victoria Chorus and Supernumaries

Rigoletto

Music by Giuseppi Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Pacific Opera Victoria

Royal Theatre

23–29 April 2025

Il Bajazet

Antonio Vivaldi and others

La Fenice, Venice

Released 18 April 2025

Gabriell Salgado, Diana Burbano and Diana Garle

Laughs in Spanish

Alexis Scheer

Seattle Rep

Bagley Wright Theater

17 April–11 May 2025

Audition

Katie Kitamura

Fern Press

Released 17 April 2025

Parade

Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, book by Alfred Uhry

The Fifth Avenue Theatre

16 April–4 May 2025

Macbeth

Music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Piave and Andrea Maffei after ...

Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona

Released 4 April 2025

Sally Matthews (Tatiana), Lilly Jørstad (Olga on chair) with Bernadetta Grabias (Larina) and Cristina Melis (nurse) in background

Eugene Onegin

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky after Alexander Pushkin

De Munt/La Monnaie, Brussels

Released 14 March 2025

Mother Russia

Lauren Yee

Seattle Rep

Leo K. Theater

6 March–13 April 2025

Duke Kim as Tamino and Rodion Pogossov as Papageno

The Magic Flute

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder

Seattle Opera

McCaw Hall

22 February–9 March 2025

The children's chorus in Sant’Andrea della Valle

Tosca

Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Released 21 February 2025

Callum Spivack as the Prince and Andrew Love as the Pilot

The Little Prince

Music by Rachel Portman, libretto by Nicholas Wright

Pacific Opera Victoria

Royal Theatre

19–25 February 2025

Arabella

Richard Strauss, libretto Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Released 14 February 2025

Cyrus Lane as Herman and Antonia Rudder as Julia Augustin

Wedding Band

Alice Childress

Stratford Festival

Stratford Festival Theatre

From 7 February 2025

Salome

Music by Richard Strauss, text by Hedwig Lachmann

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Gent, Belgium

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Gent

7 February–7 August 2025

Musician Nathan Breedlove. Scenic Design by Matthew Smucker. Lighting Design by Porsche McGovern.

Blues for an Alabama Sky

Pearl Cleage

Seattle Rep

Bagley Wright Theatre

30 January–23 February 2025

Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country and Broadway’s Rebirth

Todd Almond

Methuen Drama

Released 23 January 2025

Judith

Music by Frano Parać, text by Frano Parać and Tonko Maroević

Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb

Croatian National Theatre

17 January–17 July 2025

Carmen

Georges Bizet, text by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy

Opéra de Rouen Normandie

Opéra de Rouen Normandie, France

10 January–10 July 2025

News

A “journey of resilience, brilliance and hope”: Poor

Gate and Belgrade to tell O’Sullivan’s Poor tale

3 June 2025

Dublin’s Gate Theatre and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry are to stage the world première of Poor, adapted by Sonya Kelly from Katriona O’Sullivan’s memoir.

Five-year-long celebration of Brian Friel to launch in August

2 June 2025

FrielDays: A Homecoming to showcase Northern Irish playwright in lead up to centenary of his birth.

New English Ballet Theatre at USA dance festival

21 May 2025

Newport Dance Festival will take place at The Great Friends Meeting House, Rhode Island in July 2025.

James Graham play to punch its weight on Broadway

10 March 2025

James Graham’s play Punch which had its première at Nottingham Playhouse in 2024 will go to Broadway in autumn 2025.

“Real treat”: David Hayman who will play Willy Loman

Hayman to lead cast of Death of a Salesman

14 January 2025

David Hayman is to play Willy Loman in a new tour of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman for Trafalgar Theatre Productions and Raw Material.

Features

A new source of inspiration

24 January 2025

Occasionally, global developments can influence a generation of theatre-makers. This could be that moment.

Glenn Fleshler and George Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck

How to break box office records

9 May 2025

George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck is making everybody involved rich.

The perfect play for our troubled times?

20 June 2025

Art is about to become the latest Broadway star vehicle. Will a London run follow?