Student Blog: A Look into the First Few Months of School as a Performer by Student Blogger: Timothy Klimek
- October 27, 2025 When people think of a new school year, they mostly think of the stress of students or the anxiety (or excitement) of starting a new year. However, compared to students who just complete their extracurricular acivities, theatre kids and performers have a little bit of a busier schedule during a show season.
Student Blog: Back To School: Finding Balance as an Artist and Young Adult by Student Blogger: Nicolette Clivio
- October 27, 2025 As much as I have always loved having a very well-laid-out schedule for myself and participating in whatever I can, I’ve also learned how important self-care is, especially in a program that requires so much from you each and every day.
Schuyler Sisters Explored Beyond HAMILTON in New Book From Amanda Vaill by Michael Major
- October 27, 2025 The Schuyler Sisters are stepping into the spotlight in a new biography from Amanda Vaill. Pride and Pleasure reintroduces the Schuyler sisters—Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy—to readers who may already know them from Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton.
Industry Pro Newsletter: We’re Getting New Deals on Broadway, and TodayTix is Acquired by MARI by Alex Freeman
- October 27, 2025 On Broadway, both actors and musicians move closer to new contracts, with tentative deals heading to their respective unions for ratification. Beyond New York, the spotlight turns to growth and innovation — from Shakespeare & Company’s upcoming intensive for mid-career professionals in the Berkshires to the Shubert Organization’s landmark partnership in London. Meanwhile, TodayTix joins Ari Emanuel’s expanding live-events empire, and BroadwayWorld’s own Next On Stage competition returns for its sixth season, celebrating the next generation of musical theatre talent.
Interview: Doug Scholz Carlson/Christopher Franklin of COSÌ FAN TUTTE at MN Opera by Joe Sarafolean
- October 27, 2025 MN Opera is preparing to mount a groundbreaking new production of Così Fan Tutte where the audience gets have a hand in the finale of the story. BroadwayWorld was able to connect with Principal Conductor Christopher Franklin and Stage Director Doug Scholz-Carlson to discuss this new mounting.
Review: SPANISH STEW at New Conservatory Theatre Center by Steve Murray
- October 27, 2025 Eight-year-old Marga Gomez should’ve paid more attention when her Latino parents tried to teach her how to cook. For the father, it’s a matter of cultural pride, the mother, a means to catch a man. Fast forward to 1976 when she desperately needs the recipe to Caldo Gallego (Spanish stew) to secure a cook’s job at San Francisco’s ACME Café. It’s just one of the many heartfelt anecdotes included in comic legend Marga Gomez’s lesbian coming out story making a World Premiere at NCTC.
Review: DECEIVED at Arizona Theatre Company by Herbert Paine
- October 27, 2025 Patrick Hamilton’s Gas Light lit its first flame in 1938, a moody little stage thriller set in the fog-drenched backstreets of 1880s London. It was a venom-laced marital drama where domesticity was turned into a psychological trap.
Review: ARMS AND THE MAN at Lamb's Players Theatre by ErinMarie Reiter
- October 27, 2025 “Arms and the Man”, the classic George Bernard Shaw play, is currently skewering the romantic ideals of going to battle or falling in love with wit at Lamb’s Players Theatre through November 16th. Under the sharp and playful direction of Deborah Gilmour Smyth, it turns 19th-century notions of heroism and passion delightfully upside down. It’s brisk, bright, very funny, and may have you craving something chocolate before it’s over.
Review: ALMOST FAMOUS at A.C.T. Of CT by Sherry Shameer Cohen
- October 27, 2025 A.C.T. of CT opened its 2025-2026 season with Almost Famous: The Musical in a masterful production. Long-time patrons of A.C.T. know they will get total professionalism from the cast and creative crew, but this production of Almost Famous has something extra. A.C.T.’s artistic director and director of this production, Daniel C. Levine, worked with Cameron Crowe and Tom Kitts on the revised book and score, which will be the new licensed version of Almost Famous going forward.
Review: FIFTH DATE at Nu Sass Theatre by Roger Catlin
- October 27, 2025 Dating is a whole different beast these days, fueled by phone apps, texts, Google checks, reality shows and who knows what else. It makes the goings on in the Nu Sass Theatre’s new production “Fifth Date” look positively quaint.
Review: URINETOWN at Second Generation Theatre by Michael Rabice
- October 27, 2025 The days when old fashioned musical comedies were drawn from classic love stories, silly high school antics and farces will always be tried and true. But more heady topics like mental illness, Alzheimers, race relations, big business, and corrupt governments also have found a place into the uniquely American canon of musicals. A ridiculously named musical, URINETOWN, is now playing at Shea's Smith Theatre, and the fine production by Second Generation Theatre not only entertains but provides much food for thought in this time of government unrest.
Review: DECEIVED at Fulton Theatre by Rich Mehrenberg
- October 27, 2025 Fulton Theatre is going all in this Halloween season. Not only do they have the creepy Jekyll and Hyde on the mainstage, but they are doubling down with the suspenseful thriller, Deceived on the fourth floor.
Rachel Zegler Would 'Love' to Bring EVITA to Broadway by Josh Sharpe
- October 27, 2025 During a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Rachel Zegler shared her hope that Jamie Lloyd's production of Evita, which played a limited run in the West End this summer, would make its way across the pond.
Video: ART Auctions Canvases For Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS by Stephi Wild
- October 27, 2025 The Broadway production of ART will auction four of the white canvases used within the show after they have been defaced in the performance, and proceeds will be donated to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Review: BLOODY MARY AND THE NINE DAY QUEEN, Union Theatre by Kat Mokrynski
- October 27, 2025 Even from the title of Bloody Mary and the Nine Day Queen, one can tell whose side writer Gareth Hides is on. The new musical, directed by Adam Stone, tells the story of Mary I of England (Cezarah Bonner) and Lady Jane Grey (Anna Unwin), cousins who were caught up in a battle for the Queendom after the death of Edward VI (played by a literal puppet), the son of Henry VIII. The title of the show comes from the nicknames for the two women, with Mary executing Jane after convicting her of treason for her nine-day reign as Queen of England and Ireland.
Review Roundup: MACBETH, starring Sam Heughan and Lia Williams by Aliya Al-Hassan
- October 27, 2025 Directed by Daniel Raggett, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s brings a new version of Macbeth to the small studio space in Stratford-upon-Avon. Starring Sam Heughan, best known for his role in the series Outlander, and Lia Williams as Lady Macbeth. This staging imagines the play in a gangland pub in 20th-century Glasgow, with its characters as violent criminals.
CABARET prorroga funciones hasta el 1 de febrero by Jose German Martinez Paneque
- October 27, 2025 La producción inmersiva de LETSGO de CABARET que puede verse en el Umusic Hotel Teatro Albéniz ha anunciado que prorroga funciones, al menos, hasta el próximo 1 de febrero.
Student Blog: In The Music by Student Blogger: Eva Viciana
- October 27, 2025 I grew up surrounded by music, so it has always been part of how I understand the world. When everything else feels scattered, music returns like something constant beneath the noise, reminding you that you are not lost.
El Centro Superior de Diseño de Moda reinterpreta el vestuario de WICKED: PARTE II by Jose German Martinez Paneque
- October 27, 2025 Los estudiantes de tercer curso del Grado en Diseño de Moda del Centro Superior de Diseño de Moda de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (CSDMM) trabajarán con los docentes Juan Vidal, David Salvador y Javier Zunzunegui en la creación y confección de una prenda inspirada en una de las dos protagonistas del evento cinematográfico de Universal Pictures International Spain WICKED: FOR GOOD (PARTE II), que llegará a nuestros cines el próximo 21 de noviembre.
Review: LANDSCAPE - ELENA ANTONIOU, Shoreditch Town Hall by Matthew Paluch
- October 27, 2025 Normally all we see are signs confirming no photography or filming at the theatre, but Elena Antoniou wants you to do the exact opposite during her work LANDSCAPE. The piece was part of the Dance Umbrella festival and was performed for two nights in the Assembly Hall at Shoreditch Town Hall.