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Donations to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ iconic Red Buckets raised a staggering and record-shattering $6,849,510 in the lobbies of 57 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring productions.

The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, a world premiere musical with book by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, music and lyrics by Michael Breslin with additional music and lyrics by Patrick Foley, is now in previews.

Nominations for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced.

Last night, the Dramatists Guild of America honored the recipients of their 2025 Awards with a ceremony at Green Fig at which playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists celebrated their fellow theatre writers.

Call Me Izzy will hold a Box Office Opening event on Monday, May 5 at 10AM! A special ticket price of $25 will be offered for the first 100 tickets purchased in-person at the Studio 54 box office

The Broadway Education Alliance has just announced that multi-award-winning Broadway performer Kevin Del Aguila will host the 2024-25 Roger Rees Awards for Excellence in Student Performance.

The acclaimed indie drama Bound, starring Broadway star Ramin Karimloo, will come to select theaters and major streaming and cable platforms on May 16.

The current Off-Broadway run of the Olivier Award-winning smash-hit, Vanya, starring Olivier Award winner Andrew Scott has recouped its initial investment.

The winners of the 2025 New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards will be announced next week.

The full cast and creative team has been announced for Evita at the London Palladium, starring the previously announced Rachel Zegler as Eva Peron.

Tony Award-winner Jonathan Groff and the Broadway company of “Just In Time” recently stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform “Beyond the Sea” from the new musical based on the career of Bobby Darin.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 30, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Todrick Hall will direct and choreograph the West End Premiere of Burlesque the Musical at the Savoy Theatre in London.

New production photos are now available for Moulin Rouge! The Musical, featuring Jordan Fisher as Christian.

The Mellon Foundation announced $15 million in emergency support for state humanities councils after the National Endowment for the Humanities canceled grants to redirect funding toward President Trump's priorities, leaving many councils at risk.

Real Women Have Curves just opened on Broadway! Check out photos of stars on the red carpet, including Sara Bareilles, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and more!

Earlier this week, Dead Outlaw officially opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre! BroadwayWorld was there for opening night and you can check out photos from the red carpet arrivals here.

Laura Bell Bundy is bringing Legally Blonde to the Museum of Broadway! In a new video, she presents the iconic shoes that she wore in the original Broadway production to the museum as she reunites with the cast of the beloved musical.

Tony Award-winning director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell breaks down the creation of “Where Is Betty?”—the viral showstopper from Boop! The Musical—and reveals how post-tryout rewrites, vintage inspiration, and theatrical illusion brought Betty Boop’s world to life onstage.

Roundabout Theatre Company celebrated opening night of the reimagined, jazz-infused, New Orleans-style Broadway production, Pirates! The Penzance Musical.

Ryan Silverman (Broadway’s Side Show, Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera) portrayed the most famous illusionist and showman of all time in the new musical, The Impossible Man, featuring more than 20 stage illusions.