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BUG Cancels Final Broadway Preview Due To Illness


by A.A. Cristi - January 07, 2026

Manhattan Theatre Club has canceled the final preview performance of BUG due to an illness in the company. The Broadway production, starring Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood, is still scheduled to open January 8 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre....

Cast and Creatives Set For Agatha Christie's THE MIRROR CRACK'D at Asolo Rep


by Stephi Wild - December 31, 2025

Asolo Repertory Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for The Mirror Crack'd with performances January 21–March 14, 2026. Learn more about the show here!...

THE DANCE OF DEATH to be Presented at Steppenwolf Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 22, 2025

Steppenwolf Theatre Company will continue its 50th Anniversary Season with August Strindberg’s master class in marital warfare The Dance of Death, adapted by Conor McPherson....

Twelve Days of Christmas: Namir Smallwood


by Nicole Rosky - December 23, 2025

It's a very merry Christmas for Namir Smallwood, who after five years away, returns to Broadway this season! Smallwood is currently starring opposite Carrie Coon in Bug, which opens January 8 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. He took a break from rehearsals to tell us all about one of his favorite ...

BroadwayWorld Classifieds 12/18/2025; Jobs In Development, Production, and More


by - December 18, 2025

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 12/18/2025 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry....

BroadwayWorld Classifieds 12/18/2025; Jobs In Development, Production, and More


by - December 18, 2025

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 12/18/2025 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry....

LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD Will Close Early on Broadway


by Nicole Rosky - December 12, 2025

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Little Bear Ridge Road, the new play by Samuel D. Hunter, starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, with direction by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, will close earlier than expected....

Meet the Cast of BUG, Now in Previews on Broadway


by Stephi Wild - December 17, 2025

Performances are now underway for the Broadway premiere of Bug, written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer. Meet the cast of Bug here!...

BroadwayWorld Classifieds 12/11/2025; Jobs In Operations, Marketing and More


by - December 11, 2025

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 12/11/2025 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry....

BroadwayWorld Classifieds 12/11/2025; Jobs In Operations, Marketing and More


by - December 11, 2025

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 12/11/2025 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry....

Past Shows

Amadeus
Amadeus
11/6 - 1/4/2026


Steppenwolf Theatre's 50th Anniversary Season continues with Peter Shaffer's  Amadeus,  extended again by popular demand. In its four-star review,  The Daily Herald  called it "absolutely ...

You Will Get Sick
You Will Get Sick
6/5 - 7/13/2025


A young man with a secret. An older woman who will listen. A predatory flock of birds. An upcoming audition for  The Wizard of Oz ...

The Book of Grace
The Book of Grace
3/27 - 5/18/2025


Grace looks for the good in everything: in her husband’s rules, in the border he patrols, in the return of his estranged son. But a ...

Fool for Love
Fool for Love
1/30 - 3/16/2025


In a sweltering motel room in the Mojave Desert, May and Eddie lick their wounds and get ready for another relentless round. This brawl is ...

Leroy and Lucy
10/24 - 12/15/2024


Leroy and Lucy, the world premiere play by Ngozi Anyanwu, explores the meeting of two lost souls in the depths of the Mississippi. The cast ...

Leroy and Lucy
Leroy and Lucy
10/24 - 12/15/2024


Two lost souls meet at a crossroads, in the dead of night, deep in the Mississippi of it all.


Brian d'Arcy James will take the stage at Steppenwolf Theatre Company for a special one-night-only performance on December 7, 2024. Accompanied by music director Dan ...

Noises Off
Noises Off
9/12 - 10/27/2024


The cast and crew of  Nothing On  are scrambling to prepare for opening night, but despite their earnest efforts, the production is an absolute mess. ...

Little Bear Ridge Road
Little Bear Ridge Road
6/13 - 7/21/2024


Ensemble Member  Laurie Metcalf  comes home to Steppenwolf to star in  Little Bear Ridge Road , a comic, cosmic and intimate world premiere, penned by ...


Steppenwolf presents The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington. On stage September 1st through October 9th.  Dizzying and fantastical, this skewering Chicago premiere from ...

King James
King James
3/3 - 4/10/2022


King LeBron Jamess reign in Cleveland brings promise, prosperity and renewal to a city in desperate need of all three. It also brings together two ...

Dance Nation
Dance Nation
12/12 - 2/2/2020


A pre-teen dance troupe navigates ambition, friendship and desire as they claw their way to Nationals in Tampa Bay. Featuring a multigenerational cast of women ...

Lindiwe
Lindiwe
11/7 - 1/5/2020


The evocative live music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo forms the foundation of this Steppenwolf world premiere production written and co-directed by ensemble member Eric Simonson. ...

Lindiwe
Lindiwe
11/7 - 1/5/2020


The evocative live music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo forms the foundation of this Steppenwolf world premiere production written and co-directed by ensemble member Eric Simonson. ...

True West
True West
7/5 - 8/25/2019


In 1982, Steppenwolf exploded onto the American Theatre scene with its now legendary production of Sam Shepard's True West. This American classic traces the volatile ...

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