Anthony Rapp News

See some of the biggest names performing at cabaret venues in NYC this spring, at a range of budget points, including original Roger and Mark from RENT in a duo show at 54 Below, Smash star Megan Hilty, a celebration of Liza Minelli, and more.

Creation Entertainment's A SALUTE TO BROADWAY will bring a Broadway-themed fan convention to The Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort, featuring Tony winners, live performances, cosplay, trivia, and a one-night concert with an 11-piece orchestra.

The genderqueer indie rock cabaret staple has lost none of its bite, and found two definitive interpreters.

It’s been 30 years since Jonathan Larson’s rock opera Rent opened at the Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996, and arguably changed the theatrical landscape of Broadway.

Charlotte Cohn has been appointed Producing Artistic Director of American Theater Group, succeeding founder Jim Vagias, who is retiring after leading the organization since its founding.

BroadwayWorld has learned that a live concert performance of Rent will be taking place this year! The concert will feature RENT’s original musical director, Tim Weil, on the keys, with the original Rent band.

BroadwayWorld has your first look at the A-list lineup set to appear at The Broadway Festival this summer. Check out videos from today's preview featuring Tony Award-winnerAlex Newell, Talia Suskauer, and Tony-nominee Jenn Colella performing selections from stage and popular music.

Starring Buffalo will produce the Pulitzer prize winning musical RENT as it’s spring production. For the first time in the company’s history, the show will be performed on the mainstage of Shea’s Buffalo Theatre for one performance only on Saturday May 9, 2026 at 2pm. 

Taye Diggs, Aiko Nakasone, and Mitch Wood will join the star-studded line-up for The Festival, the three-day outdoor event taking place at Kingston’s historic Hutton Brickyards.

Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre has announced a third performance, Saturday, April 25 at 2 p.m., of its Porchlight in Concert production of Follies. Learn more about the show here!

Theatre Aspen is accepting submissions through next Friday, April 10 for the organization’s seventh annual one-person show festival, Solo Flights, to be held from September 8-13, 2026.

New York City-based playwright, actor, and producer Youlim Nam has been selected as a 2026 Resident Artist at HB Studio. Nam will develop her original full-length play, New Year's Day (Sae Hae), culminating in a public reading.

Reeve Carney, Alex Newell, JJ Niemann, and five new members of the RENT original Broadway company have joined the star-studded line-up for The Festival, the first-of-its-kind three-day outdoor celebration.

Hamilton, Shucked, Water for Elephants, Clue, and a fifth smash-hit show to be announced in May will make up the 2026-2027 Glenn Korff Broadway Series.

Little Theatre of Fall River, the birthplace of theatre on the South Coast, will present Indoor/Outdoor, a play by Kenny Finkle at Little Theatre's Firebarn.

Current star of Masquerade Telly Leung discusses with Jennifer Ashley Tepper playing the Phantom in the immersive production, the full circle from Rent fan to Rent actor, Gavin Creel’s leadership during a production that never was, and much more. 

Fasten your seatbelts! The Musical Theatre Guild is a non-profit membership theatre company founded in 1996 by a dedicated group of professional musical theatre artists. Beginning in living rooms, these artists were interested in exploring and preserving the unique American art form of musical theatre by presenting either forgotten, neglected, or unfairly dismissed Broadway musicals. Brian Kim McCormick is playing the only leading man who can handle Margo Channing portrayed deliciously by Barbara Carlton Heart. Live extended orchestrations by the generosity of the David Lee Foundation under the direction of the very talented Brad Ellis.

Lorna Dallas, one of cabaret's most acclaimed and cherished artists and the recipient of a 2020 Bistro Award for “Consummate Cabaret Artistry,” returns to Chelsea Table + Stage.

Anthony Rapp will star in Touch, a new solo play written by Kenny Finkle and directed by Jonathan Silverstein, and produced by Jack DePalma and Andrew Stein, at the East Village Basement.

The Festival, a first-of-its-kind three-day outdoor celebration of Broadway’s greatest hits and brightest stars, will come to the Hudson River waterfront, featuring Audra McDonald, Kelli O’Hara and more.