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Get a first look at Pioneer Theatre Company (PTC)'s Utah premiere of Dear Evan Hansen, the acclaimed Broadway musical featuring a book by Steven Levenson and music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The production runs through November 8, 2025, at the Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre in Salt Lake City.

Pioneer Theatre Company’s professional production of DEAR EVAN HANSEN could easily be at home on a Broadway stage, and it is certainly one of Utah’s best shows this year. The original production is rightfully beloved, but this iteration adds even more layers, brilliantly flitting between realism and theatricality in arresting ways.

Go behind the scenes with a first look at video of Dear Evan Hansen in rehearsal at Pioneer Theatre Company, directed by Karen Azenberg and starring Kyle Dalsimer in the title role.

Pioneer Theatre Company will present the Utah premiere of Dear Evan Hansen at Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets here!

PARADE, winner of the 2023 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, is now playing at Broadway In Chicago's CIBC Theatre for a limited engagement. Learn how to purchase tickets here!

AT THIS PERFORMANCE… returns to The Green Room 42 featuring Standbys, Understudies and Alternates from MAYBE HAPPY ENDING; PIRATES! THE PENZANCE MUSICAL; SUNSET BOULEVARD; MOULIN ROUGE!; BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB and REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES: THE MUSICAL.

The Orpheum Theatre Group has announced the limited engagement of the pre-Broadway production of Austen's Pride September 9-10.

The Palace Theater will present Austen's Pride: A New Musical of Pride and Prejudice. Where wit and romance meet, a writer finds her true voice. Learn more here!

Austen’s Pride will launch a new production ahead of a multi-city national tour before setting its sights on Broadway. The new production will make its debut at STAGES St. Louis. Learn more!

When PARADE debuted on Broadway in December 1998 it won Tonys for Best Book and Best Original Score and six Drama Desk Awards. The 2023 revival was nominated for six Tony Awards itself, winning two. Now touring, the show, based on a true story, is in Los Angeles through July 12. And while it takes place 1913–1915, it is still just as relevant today as it was a century ago.

Broadway In Chicago has announced that individual tickets for PARADE, winner of the 2023 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, will go on sale starting Friday, May 30.

The Tony Award-winning musical Parade is playing now at The 5th Avenue Theatre as part of its highly anticipated North American Tour. This limited engagement will run through May 4.

Dear Readers, we live in divisive times. That’s no news to anyone. Our society is extremely polarized with many basing beliefs on fear, misinformation, and xenophobia while those in charge propagate that division by spreading lies. Sadly, this kind of behavior has been around forever, but if we can look at stories of this ilk, then maybe we can learn to rise above them. And that’s where shows like “Parade”, currently performing at the 5th Avenue Theatre, come into play.

As a Yeshiva boy with Ashkenazi DNA, my reaction to PARADE may have been more visceral than that of people who dislike OUR TOWN staging, see no reason for Leo Frank's lynching to become a big musical, or simply don't have Jewish skin and blood in the game.

What did our critic think of PARADE at Emerson Colonial Theatre?

AT THIS PERFORMANCE… will return to The Green Room 42 featuring Standbys, Understudies and Alternates from GYPSY; MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL; & JULIET; OH, MARY!; HADESTOWN; and more.

Lempicka is headed to Seoul, South Korea in 2026! It has been noted that the musical will be translated into Korean for this production. Learn more about the production here!

Check out first look video of the new touring production of Michael Arden's Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Parade, now on tour across the United States. The production is led by Max Chernin (Parade on Broadway) and Talia Suskauer as Leo and Lucille Frank.

The touring company of PARADE, now playing at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, recounts the sad, but true tale of Leo Frank and Mary Phagan. Mr. Frank was almost certainly falsely convicted of Ms. Phagan’s April 27, 1913 murder due to an early twentieth century eruption of rampant antisemitism.

BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look at photos from the touring production of the recent Broadway revival of Parade is now on tour across the United States. The production is on stage through January 26th, 2025 at Hennepin Arts in Minneapolis.