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Parallel Society will present a cross-genre festival in Lisbon in 2026, featuring tech and cultural pioneers like Apparat, Gilles Peterson, Clark, Moses Boyd, Calibre, and Kode9.

Join the comedy duo Disco Horses for a special Valentine's Day comedy show at BCC's Eris Mainstage.

This award-winning comedy by Paul Slade Smith combines the best elements of classic farce and modern wit for an evening full of fast-paced fun, door-slamming antics, and side-splitting surprises.

Producers have announced an invitation-only New York City reading of AMERICAN GAME, a new musical set in Round Rock, Texas, against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and rising political unrest.

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts will present Tony award-nominee Will Swenson starring as “Sweeney Todd” in its upcoming major revival of the Stephen Sondheim masterpiece, SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET.

Memphis may be expecting a snowstorm but The Outsiders: A New Musical is heating things up at the Orpheum! 

In Between the Moon and the Sun is a new play written and performed by Martina Demaio and Elian Wigisser, running April 2-18, 2026 in New York City as part of the FRIGID New York Festival.

Whether or not you are familiar with this chaotic style of British comedy, Richard Bean’s One Man, Two Guv’nors offers an enjoyable introduction to fast-paced, wacky farce.

A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL, currently playing at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City, is dually rousing and intimate.

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

Ballyhoo Table & Stage will present a bold, fresh take on RENT, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, running July 16 through August 16, 2026.

Power Ballad, the new musical comedy starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas, will hold its world premiere this spring at the Dublin International Film Festival, ahead of its forthcoming theatrical release.

STARZ has shared a sneak peek clip of the second episode of The Nowhere Man debuting on Friday, January 23.

Apple TV has shared a sneak peek clip from the second season of the kids and family series “Yo Gabba GabbaLand!” featuring rock group Silversun Pickups performing a rendition of the fan-favorite song “Party In My Tummy.

The 10th Korean Musical Awards honored leading productions and performers including “The Man in Hanbok,” “Maybe Happy Ending,” and multiple acting and creative winners.

The new musical Wonder, based on the novel and film of the same name, has extended its run at American Repertory Theater through February 15, 2026.

Go inside rehearsals for Chicago Shakespeare Theater's presentation of Royal Shakespeare Company's  Hamnet, based on the best-selling novel by Maggie O'Farrell, adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Life of Pi, Red Velvet, Hymn), and directed by Erica Whyman.

Get a first look at Seattle Rep's production of The Heart Sellers, now on stage through February 1st, 2026.

Max Harwood (Percy Jackson) and Rob Rokicki (composer and lyricist) join The Roundtable for a BroadwayWorld exclusive to celebrate the release of the brand-new Percy Jackson and the Olympians West End Cast Album, now out everywhere.

The Broadway League and the Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds (COBUG) presented the 16th Annual Broadway Salutes, an industry-wide celebration honoring 450 Broadway veterans whose decades of work onstage and behind the scenes have shaped the fabric of the American theatre.

That loaded question—which speaks volumes—is posed by Mary, the middle sister who has returned home for her mother’s funeral in Shelagh Stephenson’s powerful albeit flawed drama, ‘The Memory of Water,’ now at Burbage Theatre Company.

Broadway legend Liza Minnelli has teamed up with AI audio company ElevenLabs to co-create new music using artificial intelligence.

White Women in the United States didn’t earn the right to vote until 1920, and Black women weren’t allowed to vote until 1965.

Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to world-premiere play The Recipe, featuring Broadway veteran Christina Kirk (Well, Clybourne Park) as Julia and two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can).

Since the holiday season has just passed, I wanted to share my list of theatre-themed gifts that can be added to future wishlists.