Dramatists Guild Foundation has named musical theater composer and lyricist Madeline Myers as the 2025 recipient of the Stephen Schwartz Award. Learn more here!
Broadway In Chicago has announced that The Wiz, Les Misérables, and Chicago will return to the city in 2026. The new national tours will play at the James M. Nederlander Theatre, the Cadillac Palace Theatre, and the Auditorium Theatre.
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.
Everyone will like the top drawer national tour of SOME LIKE IT HOT, currently playing at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City. The classy design, tight choreography, and pastiche score recall the musicals of yesteryear to perfection while casting light on the story’s themes and dialogue through a stirring contemporary lens.
The Micheaux Film Festival has revealed initial programming for its seventh edition, which includes the Los Angeles premiere of “It’s Dorothy,” a new documentary exploring 125 years of Dorothy Gale’s cultural legacy.
Dear Readers, first off there were way too many empty seats at the Paramount last night for the new musical version of “Some Like It Hot”. Where were you all? Do you not like musicals? Do you not like fun? Were you trapped under something heavy? (I will only accept the last answer as a viable excuse.). At any rate, get your tickets and do not let this one get away. Secondly, for our performance we got the added opportunity to see the resilience of theater people and the power of the understudy. But more on that later.
Some Like It Hot has announced casting for the second year of the North American tour. The tour will continue for the 2025-26 season playing cities including Seattle, Washington DC, Boston, Toronto, and Nashville.
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is September 15, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
BIGFOOT!, a new musical comedy by Amber Ruffin, David A. Schmoll, and Kevin Sciretta will premiere off-Broadway this spring at New York City Center Stage I.
Broadway Sacramento’s new season is sizzling with the arrival of the first national tour of Some Like it Hot. Based on the classic 1959 film of the same name, its reimagination on Broadway in 2022 garnered four Tony Award wins out of thirteen nominations. Now, it’s bringing the Golden Age to Sacramento for an unforgettable experience of glitz and glamour.
What did our critic think of SOME LIKE IT HOT at Keller Auditorium?
SOME LIKE IT HOT will be coming to San Jose’s Center for the Performing Arts for a limited engagement this fall. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets here!
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..
Tickets are now on sale for five of the shows in Omaha Performing Arts' 2025/2026 Broadway season. Each tour is making its Nebraska debut and will play a week of performances at the Orpheum Theater.
Single tickets for the upcoming engagement of SOME LIKE IT HOT in Salt Lake City will go on sale Friday, August 22. Learn more about the tour and see how to purchase tickets.
Premera Blue Cross Broadway at The Paramount will present Some Like It Hot at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre from September 16–21, 2025. The hit musical comedy, which won four Tony Awards including Best Choreography and Best Costumes, and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, will make its Seattle stop as part of the 2025/2026 Broadway at The Paramount series.
What did our critic think of THE WIZ at Citizens Opera House?
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 20, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
Dramatists Guild Foundation has revealed that Amber Ruffin, Tony, Emmy and Writers Guild nominated writer, comedian and New York Times best-selling author, will return as host of the organization’s annual Gala. Learn more!
SOME LIKE IT HOT is coming to Portland. Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, SOME LIKE IT HOT is the story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit.
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