John Kander News

Let BroadwayWorld and Ticketmaster be your guide to which plays and musicals are the most buzz-worthy this week, starting April 21, 2025. Check out five Broadway shows we recommend that you should snag tickets to right now!

Operatic soprano and arts and health advocate Renée Fleming, one of the most highly acclaimed singers of our time, will make her debut with Tulsa Opera when she brings her popular Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene concert to town. Learn more!

Watch new footage of Eva Noblezada in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway. The new video features the production's new 'Sally Bowles' performing 'Mein Herr,' while she discusses taking on the iconic character.

Supermodel and entrepreneur Ashley Graham is currently making her Broadway debut the role of “Roxie Hart” in Chicago! Check out photos from Graham's opening night here! 

Supermodel and entrepreneur Ashley Graham took her first Broadway bow this evening as she makes her debut in the role of “Roxie Hart” in Chicago! watch the video!

The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts has announced the upcoming 2025-2026 Broadway season. Subscriptions are on sale now.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 15, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Roundabout Theatre Company will present a special one-night event Ring Them Bells: A Birthday Celebration for John Kander, featuring Jennifer Lopez, Whoopi Goldberg and more. Learn more about the event and see how to attend.

SoL Summer Theatre, Carbondale's premiere professional Musical Theatre company, will bring Cabaret to the Mainstage for their 2025 Season! Check here for more details.

Kiss of the Spider Woman, the much-anticipated movie musical, has officially landed a release date. It will hit U.S. theaters on October 10th from Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate, and LD Entertainment.

Award-winning concert and Broadway star Karen Mason will return to Wicker Park's Davenport's for the Chicago premiere of her celebrated show Just in Styne: Karen Sings Jule. Learn more!

The Pompano Players fifth production of their inaugural season, The World Goes ‘Round – a musical retrospective of the work of the award-winning composer and lyricist duo John Kander and Fred Ebb will open on April 25th at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center and run through May 4th.

The 2025 iteration of Classic Stage Company's Classics Gone Mad!, a benefit event hosted by stage and screen star Nina West took place this week. See photos from the event here!

On a recent visit to CBS Mornings, supermodel Ashley Graham discussed making her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago and how she wrote down her Broadway goals on her vision board in 2019. Watch the interview now!

The acclaimed Broadway and cabaret singer - still going strong at 100 – celebrated her birthday with 4/1 and 4/2 shows at Don't Tell Mama featuring hits of the Great American Songbook, guest stars and plenty of fun.

The Dramatists Guild of America has announced that the recipient of its 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award is playwright David Henry Hwang. The award will be presented at the Guild’s annual awards ceremony on Monday, April 28. 

Once upon a time, Fort Smith was considered the gateway to the Wild West (Indian Territory—present-day Oklahoma), and in turn, it had a very wild history to go with it. So, it is fitting that the first show I saw with The Community School of the Arts and Institute for the Creative Arts is Chicago: Teen Edition, performed March 13-16 in the beautiful King Opera House in Van Buren, which is just next door.

The first production photos of trailblazing country music star Orville Peck as ‘Emcee’ and two-time Tony Award nominee Eva Noblezada as ‘Sally Bowles’ have been unveiled in the Tony Award-winning Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.

Enjoy CHICAGO on Wharton Center's Cobb Great Hall stage this spring. Learn more about Broadway's long-running musical and see how to purchase tickets to the tour.

Broadway's Rachel Potter will released a new album, 'Stages' under the label Joy Machine Records. The album will be released in streaming and digital formats and on CD next month.