Williamstown Theatre Festival Cancels Summer 2026 Programming

Playbill: Massachusetts' Williamstown Theatre Festival will not present programming in summer 2026. The summer theatre company will resume in 2027. The company says it will use the intervening time "to activate a new phase of artistic research, development, and year-round engagement," aimed at creating a sustainable model of newly year-round programming, with the annual summer Festival as a cornerstone.

Chasing the Cool at Williamstown Theatre Festival

AMERICAN THEATRE: “If you find yourself dozing off during my show, don’t worry about it,” Ahamefule J. Oluo assured me, by way of a short video text half an hour before the start of their solo musical narrative show, The Things Around Us. I found it curious and ironic that my 10-show weekend—my first at the Williamstown Theatre Festival—began with an invitation to take a nap.

Report: Coachella Postponed Again to October 2021

www.ticketnews.com: Coachella, the enormously popular music festival in California, is once again moving its date back, Rolling Stone reports. Traditionally held in April, it was bumped to October this year due to the coronavirus, then bumped to April 2021 when it became clear that the virus would not be at a point where state authorities would allow a mass gathering in the fall.

The state of festivals and concerts: preparing for live events to commence

www.ticketnews.com: With COVID-19 continuing to have an impact on events for the foreseeable future, it’s safe to say that concerts and festivals, as we have known them, will not be happening anytime soon. However, promoters and organizers around the world are finding new ways to bring back live events faster than anyone could have imagined.

Osheaga's summer of silence: 'I still can't believe it's not happening'

Montreal Gazette: Crickets.

That’s what you’ll hear if you head out to Parc Jean-Drapeau next weekend. And as loud as crickets get, they can’t compete with what would have filled the air, were this a regular summer: the rousing sounds of the 15th Osheaga Music and Arts Festival.

Lollapalooza Co-Founder Says Concerts Unlikely To Return Until 2022

brobible.com: As every diehard Coldplay fan like myself knows, the band released its eighth studio album in November but made the unconventional decision to hold off on touring, deciding it would wait until a later date in order to explore ways it could reduce the environmental impact that comes with traveling around the world to play shows.

Three Rivers Arts Festival moves online as Trust ends programming through June 14

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The annual Three Rivers Arts Festival and Children’s Theater Festival that draw thousands of people Downtown have become the latest cultural casualties of COVID-19.

Williamstown Theatre Festival to Present its Season in Audio Format on Audible

www.broadwayworld.com: Williamstown Theatre Festival and Audible announced today that the 2020 Williamstown Theatre Festival summer season will be produced on Audible, the world's largest producer and provider of original spoken-word entertainment and audiobooks.

Edinburgh's August festivals cancelled due to coronavirus

Edinburgh festival | The Guardian: Edinburgh’s five August festivals, which were due to welcome audiences of more than 4.4 million people and 25,000 artists, have in effect been cancelled.

The fringe, the world’s biggest arts festival, on Wednesday joined the city’s book, art and international festivals and military tattoo in announcing that the plug was being pulled on preparations for this year

20 people hospitalized for heat-related illnesses at Warped Tour stop

www.usatoday.com: At least 20 people have been transported to nearby hospitals and at least 200 have been treated for heat-related illnesses at the Warped Tour concert at the Nashville Fairgrounds, authorities said.