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Top stories: Learn more about what's coming to Broadway in Summer/Fall 2023, plus read our interview with New York, New York star Clyde Alves, and more!

Moonstone Theatre Company’s production of THE NERD is a riotous fun time thanks to swift direction and the cast’s ability to execute on slapstick comedy with impeccable timing. Director Gary Wayne Barker juices ever last laugh from the script. His vision and blocking extracts performances of sharp physical comedy from each of his actors. His brisk pacing makes the 2-hour fly by in a flash, but it is the fearless performances of his cast, especially Ryan Lawson-Maeske (Rick) and Greg Johnson (Warnock) that make this comedy succeed.

Reviews of THE FOURTH R, HERMAPHRODITUS, and HYMNS AND HEARSE

Chicago diet punk band Guardrail dropped Content, out now. Featuring recent singles “Silhouette” and “Joke’s On Me”, Content shows an evolution to the band’s sound and writing style. Listen to the new album, or purchase a physical copy. Guardrail is Kevin Andrew (vocals), Ken Ugel (guitar), Alyssa Laessig (bass, vocals), Doug Brand (drums) and Xack Brame (guitar).

Starring Georgina Onuorah as Dorothy, award-winning comedian and musical theatre star Jason Manford as The Cowardly Lion, Diversity star Ashley Banjo as The Tin Man in his West End musical debut and The London Palladium legend Gary Wilmot as The Wizard and Professor Marvel, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Wizard of Oz has now opened at the London Palladium.

After closing the curtains for nearly two years, Lewis Family Playhouse reopened in 2022 to multiple sold-out performances for our 15th season. The 2023-2024 line up is packed with live music, comedy, memorable musicals, classic awe-inspiring dance, magic, family favorites, and more!

Familiar and safe it may be, but the show delivers spectacle and entertainment as only theatre can

BWW caught up with Lachlan Werner to chat about bringing Voices of Evil to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Hilario Durán brings the full scope of his artistry, the depth of knowledge of musical genres in the perfect storm of big artistry on Cry Me A River. The nine works on this recording are born of Durán’s Afro-Caribbean cultural topography but are also informed by his gifts for bending tradition and infusing his arrangements with improvisation.

Critically-acclaimed The FABBA Show will be bringing its highly-anticipated Summer Tour 2023 to the Newmark Theatre on Saturday, July 22 at 8:00 pm.. Direct from the U.K., The FABBA Show is the sensational, authentic and truly magical tribute to Abba. 

Indianapolis-based folk-pop duo Lily & Madeleine will release their enchanting fifth studio album Nite Swim, available to pre-order now. Alongside the announcement, the band share the soothing official first taste of the project, the track and video, 'Windowless Bedroom' out everywhere now.

Stefanie Jones is wonderful as Mary Poppins.

There are plenty of riveting reflections, from the science versus belief argumentation, to how the awareness of mortality plagues our race, pushing us to research a more significant meaning to make sense of it.

SLUGish Ensemble’s third recording In Solitude. Led by composer and multi-reedist Steven Lugerner, In Solitude brings the chemistry of the band’s 2022 album, Live At Sam First, under the hood of Oakland’s venerable 25th Street Recording studio, extending the signature SLUGish minimalistic math-jazz to Lugerner’s inspired original compositions.

Hosted by Ted Allen, each episode of the tournament features four chefs from one of the four regions of the country. The chefs are challenged to utilize the basket of mystery ingredients and create dishes to a panel of judges- Eric Adjepong, Scott Conant, Cassidee Dabney, Amanda Freitag, Gregory Gourdet, Alex Guarnaschelli and Geoffrey Zakarian.

The band’s cross-continental founders Bernie Gelman (Bay Area) and Jojo Brandel (Japan) are thrilled to unveil their high octane lead single “Hi-Elixir” alongside an official video created by Cyote and Jeff Liu.

Talent like Blaine’s only comes along once in a generation. It is a privilege to bear witness to such a star as he catapults into a solar system that can only hope to be ready for him.

Two English-language Short Shakespeare Productions: Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing with a special 10 minute bonus pre-performance of Romeo and Juliet performed in Arabic. Part of the Prague Shakespeare Company 2023 Summer Shakespeare intensive featuring emerging talent from across the world and PSC Associate Artists and SSI faculty.

BWW catches up with Dennis Trainor Jr to chat about bringing Manifest Destiny's Child to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

In FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN, Will Power investigates the friendship as a fascinating dual study in individual character and cultural identity. Under Debbie Allen’s rocking direction at the Douglas, the play is as exciting as it is thoughtful.  THE BEAR’s Edwin Lee Gibson and Ray Fisher act the daylights out of it.