Cameron Mackintosh News

ASU Gammage has announced its 2026–2027 Desert Financial Broadway Across America-Arizona Broadway season with a dynamic blend of Tempe premieres, beloved classics, and acclaimed new hits.

Wharton Center has announced a lineup of shows that will entertain and inspire audiences for its 45th season. Learn more about the upcoming lineup here!

Broadway San Jose has announced its 2026/27 season, showcasing a lineup of acclaimed musicals, including Hamilton, Beauty and the Beast, and more. Learn more here!

MISS SAIGON, the acclaimed musical, will be performed at Milton Keynes Theatre from April 7 to 11, featuring powerful storytelling and a talented cast.

This week’s headlines span Hollywood honors, cultural policy shifts, and major institutional developments on both sides of the Atlantic. From SAG Award winners including Jessie Buckley to casting victories at the Artios Awards, recognition is front and center. At the same time, leadership and funding decisions are shaping the landscape at institutions like the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Young Vic, and Shakespeare's Globe. Add in Laura Linney’s call to support community theater and a first look at Mary Poppins in Japan, and it’s a week defined by both celebration and change across the performing arts.

Direct from New York City, Nederlander presents Broadway at DPAC’s 2026 / 2027 Season, with eight shows performing at the Durham Performing Arts Center.

Cameron Mackintosh has announced that LES MISÉRABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, HAMILTON & OLIVER! will all extend booking until March 2027.

Go Live Theatre, in partnership with HAMILTON, will present the first relaxed performance in the UK on April 29, 2026, at Victoria Palace Theatre, enhancing accessibility.

An Avenue Q reunion will take place next week at the 2026 Children’s & Family Emmy Awards in New York City. Host John Tartaglia will be joined onstage by fellow Avenue Q Broadway cast members Stephanie d’Abruzzo and Jennifer Barnhart to present an award at the ceremony.

Watch an in-rehearsal video from the 2026 Japan revival of MARY POPPINS at Tokyu Theatre Orb in Tokyo, running March 28 to May 9 with a Japanese cast.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is February 25, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

This March, the legendary production arrives in Singapore in its most expansive incarnation yet. 'Les Misérables: The Arena Spectacular World Tour' will take over the Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands for a strictly limited seven-week run from 24 March to 10 May 2026.

TPAC's 2026-27 Broadway season will showcase 10 shows, including PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, with two-week runs for each.

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Broadway In Chicago has announced casting for the Chicago engagement of Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES.

Four classic books take center stage as The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) has announced its 2026–2027 Season. The 107th season will span productions at the restored Emery Theater, the Ralph and Patricia Corbett Showtime Stage on Red Bank Road, and touring engagements in schools and community venues nationwide.

The musical theatre production Les Misérables – The Arena Spectacular will be presented at the Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands from March 24 through April 19, 2026, as part of its international tour.

The world premiere of The Cottinghley Fairies, a new musical by Packham & Kealy, will be presented at Birmingham Hippodrome. The Cottingley Fairies by Packham & Kealy — Clare Packham and Fintan Kealy.

Hudson Valley Shakespeare has received $534,000 in Federal Funding for free and reduced-cost Public School arts education expansion thanks to U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

Las Vegas' Heart of the Arts, The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, has announced its latest lineup of Broadway productions – the 2026-2027 season of its popular and acclaimed Toyota Broadway Las Vegas Series.