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Tickets For THE WIZ Go On Sale Tomorrow At The Marcus Performing Arts Center
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 14, 2025

Tickets for the Milwaukee engagement of THE WIZ will go on sale November 14 at 10 a.m. ahead of the production’s one-week run at the Marcus Performing Arts Center from March 24–29, 2026.

THE WIZ National Tour is Coming to The North Charleston PAC
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 11, 2025

Everybody look around! The Wiz is back and coming to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center. This groundbreaking twist on The Wizard of Oz changed the face of Broadway, with its iconic score packed with soul, gospel, rock, and 70s funk.

THE WIZ National Tour is Coming to Wharton Center in December
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 3, 2025

The Wiz will be at Wharton Center. This twist on The Wizard of Oz changed the face of Broadway—from its iconic score packed with soul, gospel, rock, and 70s funk to its stirring tale of Dorothy’s journey to find her place in a contemporary world. 

THE WIZ National Tour is Coming to The Fabulous Fox
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 24, 2025

The North American Tour of THE WIZ will include a stop in St. Louis at The Fabulous Fox this fall. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets to the tour here!

Tickets to THE WIZ in Portland to go on Sale Next Week
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 15, 2025

Tckets for the Portland, OR engagement of The Wiz will go on sale Monday, October 20 at 10 AM. Learn more about the Portland engagement and see how to purchase tickets here!

Review: Ease on Down the Road to see THE WIZ at Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
by Albert Gutierrez - Oct 2, 2025

The benefit of a stage production means it will always be malleable to change, always willing to look at how a story written in the past can still be relevant in the present, and remain timeless for the future. What follows in this new production of The Wiz is a recontextualization of our favorite characters. While the structure of the story is faithful to the Baum novel and MGM film, it comes with small, but noticeable details that reframe this familiar story not just as a fantastical quest, but as a bildungsroman and revenge tale at the same time.

THE WIZ And 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE… BY CIRQUE DU SOLEIL On Sale At Kravis Center This Week
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 27, 2025

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts has announced that tickets for THE WIZ and additional performances of ’TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE… BY CIRQUE DU SOLEIL will go on sale to the public Friday, August 29 at 10:00 a.m..

Review: Ease on Down the Road to THE WIZ at Citizens Opera House
by R. Scott Reedy - Aug 21, 2025

What did our critic think of THE WIZ at Citizens Opera House?

THE WIZ To Launch 2025�"26 Broadway In Miami Series At The Adrienne Arsht Center
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 14, 2025

The Adrienne Arsht Center will open its 2025–26 Broadway in Miami series with the South Florida premiere of THE WIZ, running October 7–12. The 50th anniversary revival will star Dana Cimone, Alan Mingo Jr., and Miami native Amitria Fanae’ in a high-energy, all-Black reimagining of The Wizard of Oz.

Review: THE WIZ National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
by Jeffrey Kare - Aug 6, 2025

The Wiz is an all-Black musical reimagining of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 classic children’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The story follows Dorothy, a young girl who lives on a farm in Kansas, until a cyclone arrives, picks up her house, and blows her away to the fantastical land of Oz.

Review: THE WIZ at KC Music Hall
by Alan Portner - Jul 9, 2025

A surprising, bright, and entertaining production of THE WIZ opened Tuesday night at Kansas City’s Music Hall to an almost full house for a one week run.  THE WIZ is the season closer for American Theatre Guild’s 2024-2025 season.  I’m not sure what I was expecting with THE WIZ, but I found myself being grabbed from the very first number and thoroughly entertained.

THE WIZ Comes to Kansas City Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Jun 11, 2025

PNC Broadway in Kansas City will present the Tony Award-winning Best Musical that took the world by storm, THE WIZ. This production closes out the 24–25 PNC BROADWAY IN KANSAS CITY season and will take the Music Hall stage for 8 performances.

Interview: Alan Mingo Jr. of THE WIZ at Saenger Theatre
by Tara Bennett - May 14, 2025

As THE WIZ celebrates its 50th anniversary, few performers embody its legacy and evolution quite like Alan Mingo Jr., who originated the title role on the pre-Broadway tour, lit up the Broadway stage and now brings his bold, reimagined Wiz to audiences across the country.

Review: THE WIZ at Hobby Center For The Performing Arts
by Armando Urdiales - May 2, 2025

​The national tour of The Wiz, currently running at Houston's Hobby Center through May 4, 2025, delivers a vocally powerful revival of the 1975 Tony Award-winning musical.

Review: When the Sound Fails, the Cast Soars in THE WIZ at DCPA
by Jon Bee - Apr 16, 2025

Technical difficulties once again take centerstage at the Buell for the latest National Tour to come to Denver. The Wiz got off to a late start and even later second act after audio equipment failed. I am not sure if these issues are specific to the touring productions or if the problems are in-house. Eitherway, they seem to be happening more frequently in a space that already has problems with the acoustics.


THE WIZ Tickets on Sale At Broadway Dallas on March 28
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 25, 2025

Tickets for the Dallas, Texas engagement of THE WIZ will go on sale Friday, March 28 for 16 performances from September 9-21 at the Music Hall at Fair Park as part of the 2024/2025 Broadway series presented by Broadway Dallas.

Review: THE WIZ at Shea's Buffalo Theatre
by Michael Rabice - Mar 5, 2025

Everything OZ continues these days. L Frank Baum would be flabbergasted to think that his 1900 novel 'THE  WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ' would be as popular, if not MORE popular, in 2025. The endless fascination  with the story of young Dorothy being whisked away by a twister from her home in Kansas to the mystical land of Oz has always been a favorite of young and old. The beloved MGM musical starring Judy Garland continues to be a perennial favorite. And in 1975 a little musical called THE WIZ took Broadway by storm, updating the story to present day with an all Black cast. In 2003, the prequel musical WICKED opened and  has been dazzling Broadway audiences ever since, to say nothing of the blockbuster movie version in 2024. The 2025 Academy Awards included 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow,'  2 songs from THE WIZ and 1 from WICKED. The fascination continues....

Video: Inside Rehearsals for THE WIZ On Tour
by Joshua Wright - Feb 12, 2025

Get a first look at the cast of The Wiz in rehearsals ahead of the tour's first performances at the West Herr Auditorium Theatre in Rochester, NY. The tour begins performances on February 22nd, 2025. Watch the cast perform 'Be A Lion,' 'Ease On Down The Road,' and more.

Tickets on Sale This Week For THE WIZ in Memphis
by Stephi Wild - Feb 11, 2025

Tickets for the Memphis engagement of The Wiz will go on sale Wednesday, February 12 at 10am for 8 performances July 22-27. Learn more about the show here!

THE WIZ North American Tour is Coming to The Hobby Center This Spring
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 28, 2025

The Wiz National Tour is coming to the Hobby Center in the spring. The principal cast includes Dana Cimone, making her national tour debut, as Dorothy,  Alan Mingo Jr. Learn more about the tour dates and see how to purchase tickets.