Meredith Willson News

Don Bluth Front Row Theatre's production of THE RAINMAKER is a heartfelt and intimate production that highlights the story’s enduring themes of self-worth and hope.

The Lied Center for Performing Arts has announced its 2025-2026 Glenn Korff Broadway Series. The season will kick off with Disney's Frozen and continue with Suffs, The Music Man, A Christmas Story, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. 

This time, the reader question was: How often do Broadway musicals change their titles after Broadway? We're unpacking the history of shows that have been renamed.

Des Moines Performing Arts announced new engagements headed to the Des Moines Civic Center as part of the 2025 - 26 Willis Broadway Series. Learn more about the season lineup here!

Discover the 2025-26 Washington Pavilion Broadway Series featuring classics like MOULIN ROUGE! and BACK TO THE FUTURE, MRS. DOUBTFIRE THE MUSICAL, CLUE, and more.

What did our critic think of RIVER CITY MEN'S CHORUS at St. James UMC In Little Rock?

Winners have been announced for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards! The 2024 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

En el marco del programa Música INBAL en el Munal, que organiza la Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera (CNMO) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), con el propósito de brindar en este espacio museístico alternativas musicales y de esparcimiento a los visitantes, se ofrecerá el Recital de Navidad, integrado por una serie de fragmentos de óperas destacadas y piezas de la temporada decembrina. 

Celebrating the songwriters behind the latest trending tinsel tunes and cherished seasonal standards alike, ASCAP has the Top 10 ASCAP New Classic Holiday Songs and the Top 25 ASCAP Holiday Songs for 2024. 

Find out which of your favorite Christmas and holiday songs were penned by Broadway composers!

Olney Theatre Center announced the three collaborative projects it will develop with week-long workshops as part of its Vanguard Arts Fund (VAF) during the 24-25 season.

The Music Man Foundation awarded $2.7 million to 15 nonprofits using music to enhance wellbeing and announced a 2025 grant opportunity for organizations aiming to create lasting change through music.

Surflight Theatre is continuing their 2024 Season with their Christmas show, Miracle on 34th Street. Single mother, Doris Walker, doesn't want her six-year-old Susan's head filled with romantic notions.

Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse is presenting the long-awaited return of a seasonal favorite in MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET: THE MUSICAL. See photos from the production.

Randolph High School Drama Club received a grant to stage the revised version of THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN, highlighting Molly Brown's activism and resilience during the Progressive Era. Learn more!

The Musical Theatre Project's next live program, 1962 ON STAGE AND SCREEN, is to be presented at 3:00 pm on Sunday, November 10, 2024.

Meredith Willson’s THE MUSIC MAN opened this week at The White Theatre to an almost full house standing ovation. THE MUSIC MAN is a tribute to small town America around the turn of the twentieth century. The location is River City, Iowa on the Iowa/Illinois border in 1912.

The winners have been announced for the 2024 Joseph Jefferson Equity Awards, more commonly known as the Equity Jeff Awards. These awards are given for theatre arts produced in the Chicago area.

City Springs Theatre Company will present THE MUSIC MAN in September. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

54 BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond in September. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.