Two-time Tony winner Christine Baranski and Academy Award nominee Richard E. Grant will star in Noël Coward's HAY FEVER at Wyndham's Theatre, marking Baranski's West End debut and Grant's return to the West End stage after 20 years.
The National Theatre will present a star-studded 2026 season with Cate Blanchett, Sandra Oh, and others enhancing its global reach. Learn more about the full lineup here!
Theatre is, of course, a window on another world, often glitzier and brighter than our own, sometimes a reflection that can comfort or discomfit us and sometimes a portal into what it is to be human at all. It is an escape - and who can deny that we need such refuges more than ever - but it can be so much more than mere escapism. The best theatre of 2025 made those lofty promises - and kept them.
The full cast has been revealed for the RSC’s forthcoming production of William Shakespeare’s razor-sharp thriller of hypocrisy and corruption, Measure for Measure. See who is starring and learn more!
Oh what a beautiful sound that came out of the ASU Newport Center for the Arts when the Jackson County Community Theatre presented Rodgers & Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! this past weekend, June 20–22.
RSC Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey have announced a new programme of productions playing in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2025/26, bringing together stories from across the centuries and from across the globe.
Emily Burns' adaptation of 'Frankenstein,' brings a new perspective, and perfectly captures the Gothic atmosphere, the struggle between creation and responsibility, and what family means – all the elements that keep bringing us back to this story.
Washington, DC is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for June 2025 include Frankenstein and more.
Shakespeare Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Frankenstein, adapted and directed by Emily Burns from the novel by Mary Shelley, has been extended by eight additional performances. Learn more!
Shakespeare Theatre Company has revealed the cast and creative team of Frankenstein, a world-premiere adaptation by writer and director Emily Burns. Learn more and see how to attend!
Wagner College Theatre's Stage One will present ROMEO & JULIET. A pair of star-crossed lovers take the stage in a surreal yet familiar retelling of the Bard's classic tale at Wagner College's Stage One venue. Learn more.
Details have been announced for the RSC's Summer 2025 season and upcoming festive family show, The BFG. Learn more about the full season lineup and how to get tickets here!
The cast has been announced for the world premiere of Belly of the Beast, an award-winning new play from a debut playwright, Saana Sze. Learn more about the show and the cast here!
See what the critics are saying about Reykjavík plays at Hampstead Theatre. Read the reviews for Richard Bean’s play and learn more about the production.
There’s a whiff of Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem about Richard Bean’s Reykjavík. Come and raise a melancholic glass to the old world of superstition, mythic tales of magic and monsters, fated to be swallowed by the bloodless age of bureaucracy. It’s like spending an evening with that old man in the pub the light of whose eyes fades as he recounts tales of yonder realising that things ain’t what they used to be.
Luke Fields and Emyr Strudwick take honours with plays set in Northern Ireland and South Wales
Three new titles are coming soon to stream on National Theatre at Home, beginning with Till The Stars Come Down next month. Dear Octopus and Underdog will soon follow, with streaming dates to be announced in the future. Learn more about the upcoming productions here!
Simon Godwin is no stranger to the work of Shakespeare. Until May 5, his production of Macbeth is playing in D.C. with a cast led by Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma. The film version of this same production will hit theaters on May 2. BroadwayWorld sat down with Godwin to discuss his take on Shakespeare’s tragedy, Fiennes’ performance, and what the play means for contemporary audiences.
An intense and well filmed release of an atmospheric production of Macbeth. Showing in cinemas from 2 May.
Videos
