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Every discipline within the performing arts has a moment when a practitioner stops inheriting tradition and starts building something new. For Xin Dong, a principal aerial trapeze performer and coach with over two decades of professional experience, that moment came not on a stage but in a training room, where he began dismantling the assumptions that had long governed how high-speed aerial rotation was taught.

BroadwayWorld is launching the May 2026 Games Challenge - a month-long streak competition open to fans across the U.S., with a $250 merch prize pack featuring merchandise from popular Broadway shows up for grabs.

It’s not every season that features two voices so deeply woven into the fabric of American theater. This fall, Vivo Performing Arts welcomes LaChanze, the original Celie in The Color Purple, whose electrifying cabaret artistry has earned raves from BroadwayWorld and audiences alike. In spring 2027, six‑time Tony Award® winner Audra McDonald returns to Symphony Hall for an intimate evening of song and storytelling.

Let BroadwayWorld and Ticketmaster be your guide to which plays and musicals are the most buzz-worthy this week. Check out the shows we recommend that you should snag tickets to this week, starting April 27, 2026.

Ready to see your next West End show? Of course you are! Let BroadwayWorld and Ticketmaster be your guide to which plays and musicals are the most buzz-worthy this week. Check out the shows we recommend that you should snag tickets to the week of April 27, 2026!

It was just another day for the world when young Ting Han Lin sat down in the train, bass case resting against his knee, the hum of the metro tracks still vibrating in his ears. He was coming back home from a rehearsal during his first tour in Taiwan, exhausted, adrenaline still flickering, every note replaying in his mind. At twenty, his mind was filled with ideas, tones, transitions between songs, and about how the groove could have locked in tighter.

After six weeks of voting, BroadwayWorld readers have crowned Newsies the Ultimate Best Movie Musical in the 2026 edition of BroadwayWorld's Annual Bracket.

New York’s arts and culture scene spans world-class museums, landmark performance venues, and experimental art spaces woven into the city’s daily life. It includes longstanding institutions such as the American Museum of Natural History, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and The Juilliard School, alongside newer icons like the High Line. Within this vibrant ecosystem, much of the work that shapes culture happens offstage. “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it,” wrote Bertolt Brecht. And if art shapes the world, then those who steward it behind the scenes shape the conditions in which that transformation becomes possible.

Let BroadwayWorld and Ticketmaster be your guide to which plays and musicals are the most buzz-worthy this week. Check out the shows we recommend that you should snag tickets to this week, starting April 20, 2026.

Few performers are born into the circus—and even fewer transform that legacy into mastery on one of the most dangerous apparatuses in live performance. Rodrigo Gomez is one of them. His journey growing up under the big top to performing on international stages is a story of discipline, risk, and a relentless pursuit of precision.

Ready to see your next West End show? Of course you are! Let BroadwayWorld and Ticketmaster be your guide to which plays and musicals are the most buzz-worthy this week.

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The winners of the 2025 BroadwayWorld Stage Recording Awards have been revealed, celebrating outstanding achievements in theatrical and performance-based recordings released during the 2025 calendar year.

Let BroadwayWorld and Ticketmaster be your guide to which plays and musicals are the most buzz-worthy this week. Check out the shows we recommend that you should snag tickets to this week, starting April 13, 2026.

In 2025, London welcomed a new musical, The Garden, created by Angela Fantine Wan, offering theatre lovers a deeply evocative reimagining of a timeless story. Adapted from the classic children’s novel The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the production invites audiences into a poetic landscape where memory, loss, and renewal intertwine.

Recently, the stage adaptation of the classic mystery masterpiece And Then There Were None has returned to critical acclaim, prompting renewed reflection on human nature, guilt, and fate. Within this tightly structured ensemble drama—renowned for its psychological intensity—New York–based Chinese actor Boyu Chen portrays Anthony Marston, one of the ten central characters.

In short-form filmmaking, where time constraints often limit character depth, Going Dutch stands out for its ability to deliver a nuanced performance within a tightly structured runtime.

Since launching last fall, BroadwayWorld My Shows has been the place where theatre fans log every production they've seen, rate performances, write reviews, and document their theatre experiences.

Hear directly from Tony winner Hugh Jackman, Sepideh Moafi (The Pitt), Tony nominee Corey Stoll, Emmy nominee Cecily Strong, Ella Beatty (Appropriate) and Marianna Gailus (Vanya) on why this season of Audible x TOGETHER — the remarkable initiative that makes New York theater more intimate and accessible than ever — is not to be missed. 

The Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle has a reputation for being difficult to solve. Part of the reason is that the puzzles feature increasing daily difficulty that peaks on that day each week. So it's no surprise to encounter some clues in the Sunday edition that leave you scratching your head.