Modest 2023

On Friday, May 10, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom presented his May Revision proposal for the 2024-25 State Budget. With a remaining $27.6 billion dollar deficit in the current year, the arts were among the hardest hit in Newsom’s proposed spending cuts.

Netflix has announced that the comedy special Jo Koy: Live From Brooklyn will premiere globally on June 4, 2024. The special was filmed at The Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, NY in November 2023. This marks Koy’s fifth special with Netflix, following Live From The Los Angeles Forum (2022), Comin’ In Hot (2019),  and Live From Seattle (2017), in addition to his variety special In His Elements (2020). 

Comedian Jo Koy announced his ALL-NEW JO KOY: JUST BEING KOY TOUR that will include a stop at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, Nov. 23. The tour will kick off Sept. 6 at the Toyota Center in Houston and continue through 2025.

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company reveals the cast for the free Shakespeare on the Common production of THE WINTER'S TALE, running from July 16 to August 4.

Joanna Pickering's brand-new plays have found development success and plans for staged runs commencing in fall 2024 to 2025.

Color and light will converge in a program of symphonic works by Jimmy López Bellido, Duke Ellington, and Modest Mussorgsky, which will comprise the final Symphonic Series concert of the 2023–24 season. 

Japan Society’s 2023-2024 Performing Arts Season will culminate with a contemporary dance program titled Beyond Ballet, Beyond Hip-Hop, consisting of two North American premiere pieces: Dying Swan & Its Cause of Death, by Japanese prima ballerina Hana Sakai and cellistUdai Shika, in a work conceived and created by internationally acclaimed experimental theater director Toshiki Okada; and Encounter, by the hip-hop-centered dance group MWMW led by Moto Takahashi. 

Princeton University Concerts (PUC)’s 2024-25 season offers more opportunities than ever before to listen your way to the world’s most celebrated musicians, among friends. Learn more about the season lineup here!

Join actors J. Smith-Cameron and Joe Morton as they narrate MasterVoices' performance of THE GRAPES OF WRATH at Carnegie Hall on April 17. Don't miss this unique theatrical experience.

Emmy-nominee (Succession) J. Smith-Cameron and Emmy Award-winner (Scandal) Joe Morton will co-narrateMasterVoices’ revised concert version of The Grapes of Wrath. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The National Symphony Orchestra has unveiled its 2024–2025 season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Discover the 2024 Access ALLways series by Kinetic Light, a set of online, participatory workshops focusing on equity and accessibility in the arts. Learn more about the workshops!

There’s an awful lot of death in opera, Timothy O’Leary, the general director of Washington National Opera, lamented on a recent opening night. And those plentiful tragedies are also often further burdened with overbearing scores, turgid storylines, super-large casts and strident if not shrill performances. 

MasterVoices will close its 2023-24 season on April 17 at Carnegie Hall with a revised concert version of The Grapes of Wrath by composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Michael Korie based on the epic novel of the same name by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck.

Celebrate the final season of the Evanston-based BACH WEEK FESTIVAL, a beloved Chicago spring tradition since 1974. The 50th anniversary season, running from April 26 to May 5, 2024, will conclude with J. S. Bach's final sacred masterpiece, the Mass in B Minor.

Leeds Studio has announced that there will be two live staged concert performances of songs this April from their brand-new soul and funk musical Chisholm for President! at The Southbank Centre, London and Slung Low, Leeds.

The Hollywood Bowl was honored last night as the Outdoor Concert Venue of the Year (Red Rocks Award) at the 35th Annual Pollstar Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.

What did our critic think of AMERICAN OPERA INITIATIVE: THREE 20-MINUTE OPERAS at Kennedy Center?

Kim David Smith invites Broadway World and its readers to his upcoming presentation of 'More Mostly Marlene' at Joe's Pub on February 6th. The show features an expanded program of Marlene Dietrich, Liza Minnelli, and Kylie Minogue songs, accompanied by a talented band. Don't miss this critically-acclaimed performer's captivating performance.

If your New Year's resolutions include watching more award-winning, internationally-acclaimed festival favorites from around the world, look no further than FILM MOVEMENT PLUS, now available as a channel via Prime Video.

The 6th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is back January 18-28, 2024, ready to heat up Chicago with its annual international pageant of puppet shows and artists at dozens of venues around the city.

The winner of Canberra Youth Theatre's 2023 Emerging Playwright Commission is Sydney-based playwright Sonia Dodd, for her play, How to Destroy the Beep Test in Five Days.

How to Dance in Ohio, with book and lyrics by Rebekah Greer Melocik, music by Jacob Yandura, choreography by Mayte Natalio, and direction by Sammi Cannold, opened on Broadway on December 10th at the Belasco Theatre. The musical is inspired by Alexandra Shiva’s Peabody Award-winning documentary of the same name. See what the critics had to say!

This holiday season, the Majestic and Empire Theatres in San Antonio are hosting a winter wonderland of entertainment as part of Holidays on Houston Street. Don't miss out on the festive December lineup!

Abraham Alexander’s new EP Electric Deluxe Session, recorded live at Adrian Quesada’s (Black Pumas, Grupo Fantasma) Electric Deluxe Recorders in Austin. The EP features a cover of Chris Isaak’s beloved “Wicked Game” alongside live versions of three tracks from Alexander’s critically acclaimed debut record SEA/SONS which is out now.