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The 42nd Helen Hayes Awards were presented at an event at The Anthem. The awards celebrated productions in the Washington, DC region in the 2025 calendar year.

For Broadway fans, the highlight of every spring is the announcement of the Tony Award nominations—the most prestigious recognition in American theatre. But how are Tony nominees chosen, and who gets to decide? In this guide, we break down the Tony Awards nomination process and reveal how Broadway’s biggest honors are determined.

The 2026 Helen Hayes Award nominations have been announced, recognizing outstanding achievement in Washington-area professional theatre. Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, and dozens of regional companies are represented across performance, direction, design, and production categories. The awards highlight the breadth of theatre work presented throughout the D.C. metropolitan area.

New York Theatre Barn will continue its 12th season of the Choreography Lab with Songs For Hands On A Thursday on Thursday, September 18, 2025, at 7:00 PM ET at Five Angels Theater (789 Tenth Ave., NYC) and via livestream. ASL and Live CART captioning services will be provided for both in-person and streaming audiences. Tickets are available here.

Deaf Austin Theatre and Visionaries of the Creative Arts' A Strange Loop will move to streaming – one-night-only. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here!

Visionaries of the Creative Arts and Deaf Austin Theatre's collaboration and co-production of A Strange Loop, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-Winning musical by Michael R. Jackson opens in Washington, D.C. this week. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has revealed the Nominating Committee for the 2025-2026 Broadway season. Learn more about the Tony Awards here!

Deaf Austin Theatre and Visionaries of the Creative Arts have revealed the cast and creatives for a historic collaboration with a co-production of A Strange Loop. Learn more and see how to attend!

For Broadway fans, the highlight of every spring is the announcement of the Tony Award nominations—the most prestigious recognition in American theatre. But how are Tony nominees chosen, and who gets to decide? In this guide, we break down the Tony Awards nomination process and reveal how Broadway’s biggest honors are determined.

Deaf Austin Theatre has announced their 2025 lineup of shows. Earlier this fall, they announced their summer 2025 production of the musical A Strange Loop.

Deaf Austin Theatre (DAT) and Visionaries of the Creative Arts (VOCA) have announced a historic collaboration with a co-production of A Strange Loop, the Tony Award-winning musical by Michael R. Jackson to be presented in Summer 2025.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced the Nominating Committee for the 2024-2025 Broadway season. Find out who made the list!

At its best, Spring Awakening smartly and gut-punchingly calls out religious and bourgeois hypocrisy and shows the (very literal) grave dangers of society’s obsession with innocence and sexual purity on the very youth that this obsession claims to protect. Here, on Skylight Music Theatre’s stage, its inclusivity transcends it to new heights.

Signature Theatre has announced an extension of the world premiere musical Private Jones, written and directed by Marshall Pailet. Originally scheduled to close March 10, Private Jones will extend one week and now closes Sunday, March 17. 

Get a first look at the company of Signature Theatre's Private Jones performing 'Now the Bastards Join the Fight' in an all-new video.

The shattering of the world that took place during World War I propelled humanity into a fight for survival amidst the onslaught of enemy forces. The cacophony and horror of that war was fought in the trenches and on the open fields as portrayed in the poem “In Flanders Fields”, and in the many films including All Quiet on the Western Front and 1917, etc. Right now, however, this war is being fought theatrically (and with an emotional gut punch) on the stage of the Max at Signature Theatre.

Get a first look at photos of the world premiere of Private Jones at Signature Theatre. Learn how to purchase tickets!

BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look Signature Theatre's world premiere musical Private Jones. The musical is written and directed by Marshall Pailet (Who’s Your Baghdaddy, or how i started the iraq war and Triassic Parq).

Today’s subject Amelia Hensley is currently living her theatre life at Signature Theatre as The Storyteller for the World Premiere musical Private Jones. The production runs through March 10th in Signature’s MAX space.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at Signature Theatre's production of Private Jones here!