The latest theatre news from New Orleans — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Time is running out to submit for the 2025 BroadwayWorld New Orleans Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.
RIVERDANCE 30 - The New Generation, the international Irish dance phenomenon seen by over 30 million people worldwide, will return to the United States in 2026.
When the national tour of KIMBERLY AKIMBO arrived in New Orleans, it brought a Tony-winning musical balancing quirky humor and emotional depth.
What did our critic think of EXHAUSTED PAINT at Fat Squirrel? Fat Squirrel's production of EXHAUSTED PAINT: THE DEATH OF VAN GOGH takes an unconventional approach to Vincent van Gogh's story.
Keith Claverie steps into Victor Frankenstein this October, portraying one of literature's most challenging roles in The NOLA Project's production of FRANKENSTEIN at Greenway Station.
Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts is leaning all the way into spooky season with the world premiere of THE GRAVEYARD GIRLS, a Halloween-night anthology spun amid headstones, fog and the distant yip of coyotes.
Evil Dead In Concert, a new live-to-film production, will launch September 22 in Buffalo, New York, beginning a run of 50 cities this fall, including a special three-night event in Los Angeles for Halloween.
YOSHIKO AND KAMIKUSA, and LUZEMBERG SANTANA, principal dancers of the Indianapolis Ballet, will be the guest artists in the Alameda Civic Ballet's production of The Nutcracker.
On Monday evening October 6, more than five dozen theatres, professional and academic, around the US performed Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence, a half-dozen short plays selected from a semi-annual national competition among high school student writers to explore the theme in its title.
New Orleans in the fall isn’t just about crisp air, gumbo and jazz drifting through the streets; it’s also a prime moment for theater, dance and bold storytelling.
It's time to freshen up your book and warm up those pipes! Next On Stage, Broadway's biggest national competition for high school and college students, is officially back for Season 6, and this season will be bigger and better than ever! Submit a video to enter the competition!
BroadwayWorld announced today that its new My Shows platform has surpassed 10,000 user reviews since its launch.
Performances are now underway for the North American Tour of SUFFS, which officially opened in Seattle, WA at The 5th Avenue Theatre on Friday, September 19, 2025.
Due to popular demand, a second leg of the North American tour of GABBY’S DOLLHOUSE LIVE! PRESENTED BY WALMART will launch in Macon, GA, on January 14, 2026.
Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré will present THE LEHMAN TRILOGY October 2–19, 2025.
Fat Squirrel will present Exhausted Paint: The Death of Van Gogh, directed by Carly Stroud and starring Drew Stroud in a one-man performance.
Nominations are now open for the 2025 BroadwayWorld New Orleans Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.
Rivertown Theaters is making national history with the first U.
BroadwayWorld’s industry-leading, completely free digital show program service, Stage Mag, announced the launch of Stage Mag 2.
BroadwayWorld introduces MyShows, a new feature that lets you track shows you’ve seen, rate productions, share reviews, and connect with friends.
The stage is set for an extraordinary celebration of creativity and movement as the Rocky Mountain Choreography Festival 2026 returns to the historic Peery's Egyptian Theater in downtown Ogden, Utah.
BroadwayWorld has just learned that Heathers The Musical, which recently made its return to New York City at New World Stages, plans to hit the road! Heathers will launch a US tour, beginning in Spring 2027, with tours across other parts of the world to come as well.
The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans (TWTC) brings its landmark 10th Anniversary Season to a riveting close with Tennessee Williams’ rarely-produced Out Cry: The Two-Character Play, staged at Loyola University New Orleans.
Not Dead Yet! – John Cleese and the Holy Grail at 50 comes to the Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans in September.
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The Marvelous Wonderettes Westwego Perf Arts Theatre (1/08-1/24) |
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Come From Away Jefferson Perf Arts Center (9/11-9/20) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Barry Bostwick Mahalia Jackson Theatre (10/29-10/29) |
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Alonzo King LINES Ballet Mahalia Jackson Theater (11/14-11/14) |
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Million Dollar Quartet Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts (12/11-12/20) |
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42nd Street Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts (3/05-3/21) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts (10/23-10/31) |
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Bruno Mars, Raye & DJ Pee.Wee Caesars Superdome (9/16-9/16) |
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A Gentleman''s Guide To Love and Murder Westwego Perf Arts Theatre (7/31-8/09) |
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The Addams Family Sullivan Theater (7/17-8/02) |
