Ariana Grande, Jessie Buckley, Ethan Hawke, and more have received nominations for their performances in Wicked: For Good, Hamnet, and Blue Moon at SAG-AFTRA's 32nd Annual Actor Awards.
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is September 24, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
Penn Jillette and Piff The Magic Dragon will tour the UK together in 2026 with Piff & Pop’s Magic Shoppe. The nine-date tour, running September 10–21, marks Jillette’s first UK shows without Teller and Piff’s first UK shows in more than a decade.
Incredible as it seems, globally renowned magicians Penn & Teller have finally got around to their first residency in London’s theatre district. Now both in their seventies, this could well be their West End debut and farewell.
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) will present The Jokers of Magic, a night of irreverent comedy and jaw-dropping illusions, on Friday, January 9, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. in the Victoria Theater.
xIn the city where Houdini once extricated himself from a straitjacket while dangling upside down above Times Square, it’s surprising that we don’t get major magic acts on stage more often than we do in New York. This relative paucity is thrown into relief when magic, illusion, escape and the like actually do take up residence on New York stages, as is the case right now with Lord Nil extricating himself from threat of the Seven Deadly Sins at Stage 42 while just eight blocks uptown Jamie Allan is conjuring motorcycles and reams of playing cards at New World Stages with his show Amaze.
Pilobolus, the acclaimed dance group, will make a special appearance at the top of Penn & Teller's performance celebrating their 50th anniversary as a team at Radio City Music Hall. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!
Young & Strange, the renowned comedy illusion duo from London’s West End, require a massive 44-foot long tractor trailer to transport their elaborate magic and illusion setups to The Park Theatre in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
Due to overwhelming popular demand, the award-winning Off-Broadway comedy+magic show, Harrison Greenbaum: What Just Happened?, has now been extended through August at Asylum NYC.
Get all the scoop on I CAN SEE YOUR VOICE, airing on FOX on Thursday, June 6, 2024! Hosted by Ken Jeong, permanent panelists Cheryl Hines and Adrienne Bailon-Houghton and a rotating panel of guest celebrity detectives must help one contestant tell the difference between good and bad singers, without ever hearing them sing a note. Porsha Williams, Penn Jillette, and Chris Kirkpatrick serve as Celebrity Detectives.
Puddles Pity Party, the seven-foot sad clown celebrated for his golden voice reminiscent of iconic rock legends such as Tom Jones and Freddie Mercury, will perform his grandest UK performance yet at The London Palladium on Sunday, 21 July 2024.
Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer, creators of The Play That Goes Wrong and BBC TV’s The Goes Wrong Show, are heading back out on tour with Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle. Learn more about when and where to catch the show here!
Get ready for the West End premiere of Mischief's Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle, a mind-bending new comedy starring Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer. Don't miss this six-week season at the Apollo Theatre from March 14 to April 28, 2024.
What's happening off-Broadway? BroadwayWorld is helping you pick what to see next by rounding up our top recommended theatre each month. Coming up off-Broadway this January is a new Jason Robert Brown musical, a revival of a classic, and more.