Three Rivers Film Festival kicks off this week

The Tartan: This week marks the official start of the Three Rivers Film Festival, located right here in Pittsburgh. Started in 1982, it has grown into Southwest Pennsylvania’s premier film festival, showcasing movies of all genres from all over the world.

Hitting the ground running with Suzanne Nance at Wexford Festival Opera

Oregon ArtsWatch: When Suzanne Nance packed up her belongings to move from Portland to Wexford in Ireland, she didn’t know that it would take several months for the container to arrive. Having completed a very successful ten-year stint as CEO of All Classical Radio (read Brett Campbell’s story here), Nance packed a 20-foot container in October of 2025 in anticipation of becoming the Executive Director of Wexford Festival Opera, an international opera festival on the cusp of his 75th anniversary. But the cargo container didn’t show up until April. So, Nance had to live out of a suitcase for six months while living in a granny cottage that belongs to longtime volunteers of the festival.

Martin Audio & TiMax Provide Immersive Sound For Vache Baroque Festival In The UK

ProSoundWeb: Vache Baroque’s 2026 Festival took place at The Vache, a historic estate in Buckinghamshire, UK, with performances built around a water theme supported by a main system headed Martin Audio loudspeakers working with TiMax spatial audio processing to support music, theater and immersive soundscapes.

Festival at UT Austin to Honor Terrence McNally’s New-Play Legacy

AMERICAN THEATRE: The Terrence McNally Foundation, in partnership with Texas Performing Arts, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and Rattlestick Theater, has announced the Terrence McNally Festival, a pop-up festival that will run Jan. 29-31, 2027, in Austin. The three-day festival will bring together distinguished theatre artists, emerging playwrights, and leading scholars for a weekend of performances, new play readings, and academic exploration.

La MaMa and Spiderwoman Theater Present Global Indigenous Theatre Festival

AMERICAN THEATRE: La MaMa, in association with Spiderwoman Theater, has announced the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival, a nine-day festival produced in collaboration with Loose Change Productions. It will bring artists from all over the world to New York to celebrate Spiderwoman Theater’s 50th anniversary and to honor the transformative excellence of Indigenous cultures. It showcases a range of Indigenous artists from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Minneapolis. It runs Oct. 30-Nov. 7, 2026 at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre and Downstairs Theatre. Tickets are now on sale online.

A Scottish "Midsummer!" Homecoming

College of Fine Arts: This summer, students, faculty and alumni from the School of Drama made a theatrical pilgrimage to Andrew Carnegie’s homeland of Scotland, where they performed a radically reimagined adaptation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

UKRAINIAN DREAMS to Light Up Cooper Square at Citizen Arts Festival

BroadwayWorld: Ukrainian Dreams, created by Tais Poda, brings to life the vivid and wildly imaginative works of Ukraine's best-loved artist Maria Prymachenko in an audiovisual spectacle expressing the hope and pride of a nation. At a time when Prymachenko's life's work is at unprecedented risk from the ongoing Russian invasion, Ukrainian Dreams animates her enduring masterpieces using innovative projection mapping, set to an original Ukrainian folk score performed by MasterVoices.

Variety's Pixels and Pencils 2026: Brad Bird, Travis Knight and More

variety.com: Variety’s “Pixels and Pencils” panel returns to the SCAD Savannah Film Festival for a fifth year, spotlighting the directors behind the year’s standout animated features. Six filmmakers will join this year’s conversation which include: Brad Bird for Netflix’s “Ray Gunn”; Daniel Chong for Pixar’s “Hoppers”; Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado for DreamWorks Animation’s “Forgotten Island”; Travis Knight for Laika’s “Wildwood”; and Leah Nelson for Independent Film Company’s “Tangles.”

A Festival of Imported Importance: BIAF 2026 and the Provincialism of Prestige

The Theatre Times: There are at least two ways for an international arts festival to be provincial. The first is obvious: isolation, lack of money, lack of access, lack of connection to the international artistic circuit. The second is more interesting. It begins when all those problems have apparently been solved. The money is there. The stars arrive. The venues fill. An institution gains access to precisely the people whose presence is supposed to certify its international importance. And yet it continues to behave as if importance were something produced elsewhere and imported for local display.

Shaw Festival Names Manami Hara and Murdoch Schon Neil Munro Interns

BroadwayWorld: As part of the Slaight Family Academy, the Shaw Festival engages two directors as Neil Munro Interns each season. This prestigious internship is intended to deepen the practice and promote the next generation of Canadian theatre directors through an ongoing training “gymnasia” with resident Shaw designers, visiting directors and general theatre practitioners in the Shaw Festival's world-class repertory environment.

Oceans Calling 2026 Canceled as Nor’easter Track Worsens

TicketNews: Oceans Calling has canceled its entire 2026 festival in Ocean City, Maryland, one day after organizers called off Friday’s opening program while hoping to salvage the remainder of the weekend. Festival organizers announced the full cancellation Friday, saying a stronger and updated westward track for the nor’easter has made it impossible to safely continue building the beachfront event.

Backyard Theatre Festival launches new outdoor stage in Montreal

Intermission Magazine: The intercultural theatre company launched its new open-air stage at Cité-des-Hospitalières earlier this month. The former seat of the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph, Cité-des-Hospitalières sits on Avenue des Pins at the northeastern foot of the iconic Mount Royal hill. The City of Montreal purchased the heritage complex in 2017 and converted it into a community space that currently hosts 33 non-profit organizations, including Teesri Duniya Theatre.

What Burning Man’s Gen Z problem says about the festival

Salon.com: The first time Samantha R. went to Burning Man, it was on a whim. She hadn’t read much about it and had no idea what to expect. She received a free ticket from someone she met at a Grateful Dead event and had little time to prepare. She didn’t bring goggles or even a big coat to survive the cold, dusty nights. Despite the spontaneity and haphazardness of it all, which contributed to a rough burn, the 22-year-old returned on two more occasions — including this year.

UNPACKING HOME to be Presented at Destinos Chicago International Latino Theater Festival

BroadwayWorld: Collaboraction Theatre Company will host a limited run of Unpacking Home by Chicago’s Raices to Roots as part of the 9th Destinos Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, September 18-27 at Collaboraction’s House of Belonging in Humboldt Park, Chicago’s live theater space for social change.

Meet Michael Man, the versatile actor playing Gollum at the Stratford Festival

Intermission Magazine: There’s something delightfully impish about the way Michael Man moves onstage. I noticed it when I saw the actor in the Stratford Festival’s world premiere production of Jovanni Sy 施崇梵’s The Tao of the World as Dr. Wilson Wong, a sexually repressed, buttoned-up physician from Saskatchewan caught in the social chaos of a wealthy Singaporean family. I noticed it again in The Hobbit, when he played the instantly recognizable Gollum, a creature who has spent centuries skulking around Middle-earth obsessing over a certain band of gold.

The Sol Project Marks 10 Years With SolFest 2026

AMERICAN THEATRE: The Sol Project, the Obie award-winning theatre initiative dedicated to producing and elevating Latine voices, has announced SolFest 2026, its annual festival celebrating Latine writers and artists with Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (PRTT) and North Star Projects. This year’s festival marks the Sol Project’s 10th anniversary and SolFest’s 9th year. This season’s SolFest will run Sept. 27-Oct. 4 throughout Manhattan, with readings of new work presented at PRTT in midtown Manhattan.

Robert Juliat Modernizes The Grand Old Lady of Leven Street in Edinburgh

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: Built in 1906, the King's Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, fondly referred to as The Grand Old Lady of Leven Street, has just emerged from a four-year heritage redevelopment with major alterations to public and technical infrastructure. Home to a wide variety of entertainment from drama to dance, musicals to family shows, live music to pantomime

Laika Officially Doubles Down on Stop-Motion in the AI Era

collider.com: This past weekend, on Sunday during the Telluride Film Festival, Laika President and CEO Travis Knight sat down for a discussion with cinematographer and six-time Oscar nominee Caleb Deschanel and film expert Dave Karger to talk about Wildwood, the next stop-motion animated film from Laika.

How to Make Sense of 4,000 Edinburgh Shows: Just Soak It All Up

The New York Times: “Fringe” implies decoration happening out on a margin, threads on the hem of a larger garment. But if you have ever elbowed your way down a crammed Edinburgh sidewalk in August, past hundreds of posters for stand-up shows and circus spectaculars, accepting promotional fliers from, say, a woman wearing a disco ball on her head — you might wonder what garment could possibly be larger than this.

Interview: Sophia Walker & André Morin of OHIO STATE MURDERS and A NEW WORK IN PROGRESS at Shaw Festival

BroadwayWorld: Celebrated Canadian actors Sophia Walker and André Morin are, as they say, "booked and busy." Walker and Morin star in not only one Shaw Festival production this season, but two: Adrienne Kennedy's Ohio State Murders and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' A New Work in Progress.