Meg Rodgers News

So, in no order (and with no clarity of categories), here are the BROADWAY WORLD HOUSTON CRITICS’ CHOICE awards for the 2025-2026 season! CHEERS!

Sir Tom Stoppard’s last play, LEOPOLDSTADT, is his most personal. He wrote a narrative loosely based on his own family, changed the location to Austria, and finally wrote a Jewish script. The show debuted in London in 2020 and ran on Broadway from 2022 to 2023. It garnered the Tony for best play that year, and this Main Street Theater production represents its Regional debut.

Main Street Theater will continue its 50th Season with its 20th Tom Stoppard production, the late playwright’s last play, Leopoldstadt. Check out photos from the show here!

Main Street Theater has extended the run of its regional premiere of Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard. There have been only two U.S. productions of Leopoldstadt since its world premiere in London in 2020.

Rec Room Arts has delivered at least the first half of a miracle. This is something that feels less like a revival and more like a call to arms, and Kushner’s words echo louder and more forcefully than ever. 

Main Street Theater is bringing the hilarity of The 39 Steps to its Rice Village stage this summer. Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps. See the photos here!

We know this is a vaudeville production from the start, and the cast revels in the buffoonery. THE 39 STEPS is perfect summer theater fare for fans of silly spies and inventive theatrical staging.

As the Summer draws to a hot close, and school days loom on the near horizon, it’s good to know that some childish antics will survive well into the Fall.  The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, has pulled out the stops with Shakespeare’s zany take on the battle of the sexes, Much Ado About Nothing. 

American Shakespeare Center (ASC) finishes its 35th Anniversary Season and its celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio with a flourish, with vivid portrayals of two of Shakespeare's most complex and compelling characters: the bitter, tortured prince Hamlet and the proud, relentless warrior Coriolanus.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

American Shakespeare Center continues its 2022 season with a summer slate of plays that explore the connections between Shakespeare classics and contemporary theatre. Added to the list of previously announced titles will be the Antoinette Nwandu's groundbreaking drama Pass Over, which thrilled audiences on Broadway in summer 2021.

American Shakespeare Center will present Henry V beginning in June 2021.

American Shakespeare Center presents Macbeth, beginning May 13, 2021.

Hope Summer Repertory Theatre opened the final production of their critically acclaimed 48th season this last last night with SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, and BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look!

Hope Summer Repertory Theatre opened its third MainStage production of their critically acclaimed 48th season this last weekend with the Magical and Innovative THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON, and BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look!

Hope Summer Repertory Theatre opens its season rep season tonight with West Side Story, and BroadwayWorld has your first look!

The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) Winter Season: The Actors' Renaissance began previews this past weekend of The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, Part 1.

To escape death, the extraordinary Rosalind, her brave cousin Celia, and one of Shakespeare's funniest fools flee into the woods. There, in the bewitching Forest of Arden, they discover shepherds and aristocrats, country folk and lovers - and, ultimately, life, love, joy, and freedom. Shakespeare's glorious and wise comedy As You Like It reminds us of everything it is to be alive.

The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) began its 30th Anniversary Artistic Year with the launch of the 2018 Summer/Fall Season and a performance of As You Like It on June 13. The 2018 Summer/Fall Season will also feature a world-premiere adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma by Emma Whipday, Richard III, and George Etherege's The Man of Mode.