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Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler will star in a concert staging of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at the Hollywood Bowl and Radio City Music Hall.

Stephen Schwartz is currently working on a new Oz spin-off movie alongside book writer Winnie Holzman, which would be based on L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz, and would tell the story of Princess Ozma.

The polish non-replica production of Wicked at Teatr Muzyczny ROMA has announced they will release a cast recording. This is the first time the musical has ever been staged in Poland.

The Broadway blockbuster WICKED will welcome new principal cast members to the Gershwin Theatre beginning Tuesday, March 3rd. They will join a company that will include the recently announced Keri René Fuller as Elphaba and Emma Flynn as Glinda.

Danya Taymor, director of Broadway's John Proctor Is the Villain, will return to the project to helm the forthcoming movie adaptation. For her direction of the stage production, she received one of the show's seven Tony nominations.

Tony Award-winners Danny Burstein and Ruthie Ann Miles will co-host Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation “Mr. Abbott” Award Gala celebrating Bartlett Sher.

Elle, the highly anticipated Legally Blonde prequel series from Hello Sunshine and Amazon MGM Studios, will premiere on Prime Video on July 1. A second season of the series is already on the way.

Wicked will be holding an open call in Miami for singers and dancers for the Broadway and National Touring companies! The open call will take place at DanceArts Miami.

Wicked on Broadway stars Lencia Kebede and Allie Trimm have announced that they will be playing their final performances in March. Read their posts and see the photos!

Hamnet, KPop Demon Hunters, Only Murders in the Building, and more have been nominated in the Motion Pictures and Television categories at the 37th Annual Producers Guild Awards.

BroadwayWorld spoke with casting director Bernard Telsey about his work on the pair of Wicked films, his reaction to being included on the Oscar shortlist, and how he hopes the new awards category will change the way people understand the work of casting directors everywhere.

Tony and Emmy Award–winning comedian Alex Edelman will return to BroadwaySF’s Curran Theatre with his latest show, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, for one performance.

BroadwayWorld caught up with Wicked: For Good composer John Powell and executive music producer Stephen Oremus, who shared insights into the process of bringing the music to the screen and revealed easter eggs in the score of the new film.

Sadie Sink will star in the film version of John Proctor is the Villain, in addition to serving as an executive producer. Sink received a Tony nomination for her performance as Shelby on Broadway.

Hoy WICKED: FOR GOOD aterriza en todos los cines del mundo para desafiar la gravedad una última vez. Y es así, que también está disponible la Banda sonora oficial en todas las plataformas digitales con las versiones en estudio de las canciones de este segundo acto de WICKED. 

You can now check out photos from the red carpet of the Wicked: For Good New York City premiere, which streamed live, and marked the final stop of the press tour for the film.

The Wicked movie's 'Young Nessarose,' Cesily Collette, visited the Broadway production this week. In a new social media video, Collette sits backstage with Broadway's Nessa, Jenna Bainbridge.

WICKED, St. Louis’s most popular musical, will return to The Fabulous Fox in Spring 2027! Fabulous Fox 2025-2026 Season Ticket Holders will receive priority access when they renew their season tickets this spring for the 2026-2027 season.

Ahora sí, WICKED: PARTE II ya está en España. Ayer, Kinépolis viajó a la Ciudad Esmeralda y acogió la Premiere de la segunda parte de este evento cinematográfico donde invitados y fans pudieron disfrutar de la película más esperada del año. Así, el épico desenlace de la historia de Elphaba y Glinda llegará a salas el viernes 21 de noviembre.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 12, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.