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The Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards has announced the nominees for the prestigious Empty Space…Peter Brook Award 2026. Learn more about the nominees here!

The Critics' Circle has announced the nominations for the 2026 Theatre Awards, highlighting outstanding theatrical achievements.

Hans Zimmer and Bleeding Fingers will compose a new score for the HBO Original Harry Potter series, debuting in 2027 on HBO and HBO Max. As a group, they will be the fifth group of songwriters to score the Harry Potter stories onscreen.

National Theatre Live has announced that the critically acclaimed production of All My Sons from Wessex Grove, Gavin Kalin Productions and Playful Productions is confirmed to join the 2026 cinema slate this spring.

The Ensemble Company, the repertory theatre company in residence at Imagine Performing Arts Center, will begin its eighth season with Lucy Prebble’s play, The Effect. 

This is Ivo van Hove’s triumphant return to the West End. He reunites with Bryan Cranston (whom he worked with on Network at the National theatre in 2017) for Arthur Miller’s All My Sons – famously, the playwright’s last attempt at writing a commercial success. Van Hove assembles a tremendous company (Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Paapa Essiedu, Tom Glynn-Carney, and Hayley Squires) to dissect the exploitative nature of the American Dream, giving a jarring picture of family and loyalty. This is, on the surface, quite the stylistic departure for van Hove. The director decided that less is more here and the result is astonishing.

All new photos have been released for Arthur Miller’s ALL MY SONS, directed by Ivo Van Hove, currently playing at Wyndham’s Theatre until Saturday 7 March 2026.

Get a first look inside rehearsals for Arthur Miller’s ALL MY SONS, directed by Ivo Van Hove and starring Bryan Cranston. See who is starring, and learn how to purchase tickets for the production here!

Warwick Davis has been cast as Professor Filius Flitwick in HBO's Harry Potter series, marking his homecoming to the wizarding world in a role he originated for the film series. The series has also cast several other roles, including Tony Award winner Bríd Brennan as Madam Poppy Pomfrey.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 22, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Open Door, the award-winning charity helping actors and behind the scenes creatives from low income backgrounds secure places at leading drama schools, has unveiled a string of new high profile ambassadors.

Stage actress Gracie Cochrane, who recently starred as Jemima Potts in the UK tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, has been tapped to play Ginny Weasley in HBO's Harry Potter series.

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

We are delighted to report that real fringe theatre is back. The invigorating, daring, challenging, form-subverting kind of venture that makes the stage its playground. We haven’t encountered anything like this since before Covid. There isn’t a lot of theatre with specifically scientific research as its core, either. Commercially, The Effect (Lucy Prebble’s play about a clinical trial) had a revival in 2023 with Jamie Lloyd at the helm and Caryl Churchill’s evergreen reflection on human-cloning, A Number, was on just the year before (curiously, both starred Paapa Essiedu). Looking away from the West End, it’s even harder to find something that sits firmly at the junction with science. Three Billion Letters swoops in at the rescue and begs you to think. Created by TAKDAJA, the piece is a heady mix of data and experimentalism. Does our DNA control more than our eye colour and predisposition to illness? How do we determine our identity? There’s so much gene-ius in it. 

With the Harry Potter show now in production in the UK, we have put together a guide to the stage performers assembled for this new series, from two-time Tony winner John Lithgow to Arabella Stanton.

The initial cast has been announced for Audible's Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions, which includes Hugh Laurie as Albus Dumbledore, Matthew Macfadyen as Lord Voldemort, and Riz Ahmed as Professor Snape.

Following several casting announcements, the HBO Original Harry Potter television series has officially begun production at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, UK. Take a look at a new photo of Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter.

Tom Glynn-Carney will play George Deever and Hayley Squires will play Ann Deever in Arthur Miller's ALL MY SONS, directed by Ivo Van Hove.

HBO has announced several new cast members for the upcoming Harry Potter television series, joining a robust cast that includes a growing list of Broadway and West End actors. 

Bertie Carvel, Olivier Award-winning performer of the stage and screen, has been tapped to play the role of Cornelius Fudge in the new Harry Potter series adaptation at HBO.