Tom Cruise News

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 18, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Earlier this week, President Trump unveiled the 2025 class of Kennedy Center honorees. Missing from that list was actor Tom Cruise, who reportedly was offered the honor but turned down the invitation due to 'scheduling conflicts.'

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Tony Award-nominee Debbie Allen, Tom Cruise, and Wynn Thomas will be honored with Academy Honorary Awards. Additionally, Dolly Parton will be presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Time to turn that frown upside down: London Clown Festival returns in its typically rambunctious style.

This August, Nora, Dora and Kat - the team behind such anarchic hits as WE ARE IAN (2017), TRICKY SECOND ALBUM (2019), and PRIME_TIME (2021) - present their first fringe show in six years: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD.

Brian Wilson, musical genius and founder of the Beach Boys, died today (Wednesday, June 11, 2025), so in honor of him, here is an article of the 40 greatest Beach Boys songs that I wrote for Broadway World two years ago.  Love & Mercy, Brian!

The 2024-25 Broadway season is officially complete and awards season has begun. Catch up on all the latest from the week ending May 30, 2025 with videos from Chess, Smash, and more!

Operation Mincemeat have taken a break from the awards season shuffle to debut their newest creation, “Tom Cruise: The Crusical” released ahead of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning’s movie release. Watch video of their hilarious new musical.

The Royal Albert Hall will be giving the Films in Concert treatment to one of the Star Wars sequels for the first time, with a screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Concert.

Anna Lapwood has been named as the first ever official ‘Organist of the Royal Albert Hall’. The classical phenomenon will continue to use the Hall’s famous Grand Organ to increase national access to organ and choral music.

Ahead of the release of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, only in cinemas May 21, Paramount Pictures UK and Priority are bringing fans closer to the action with an exclusive in-store experience. 

During a career-spanning conversation at the British Film Institute, Tom Cruise revealed that he would like to star in more musical projects in the future.

Rock of Ages, Chris D'Arienzo’s jukebox musical which runs from May 2-18 at the Axelrod Theater, has had many incarnations since its 2005 Los Angeles premiere, including Broadway, the West End, and a brilliant 2012 film starring Tom Cruise.

Melinda (Mel) Maddox is a true industry vet with over two decades of experience in bar and hospitality management, including a decade of distillery operations and production management.

Tanglewood will kick off its summer activities with Top Gun: Maverick in Concert in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. The Boston Pops will perform the score live to picture, conducted by Constantine Kitsopoulous on Friday, June 20 at 8 p.m.

Tong Luo sees his work in film as the art of emotional tethering, the transference of the experiences of others to an audience through the characters and stories of his productions. Even this explanation is overly simplistic for what he is able to achieve. As producer, editor, and director of In Your Brain, he took audiences into an emotional space that most of us won’t even dare to conside

Tom Cruise is back in the new trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the eighth installment in the fan-favorite action franchise. Watch it now!

It may have lacked the star power seen in previous shows but the Royal Albert Hall’s latest entry in their Films In Concert events was a night punctuated by laughter, tears and raw emotion. 

Qawwali music pioneers Rushil Ranjan and Abi Sampa have been announced as the Royal Albert Hall's new associate artists. The composers and performers sold out the Hall with their groundbreaking Orchestral Qawwali Project last year.

Following sold-out shows around the world, multi award-winning magician Ben Hart will return to the UK with a brand-new mind-bending theatrical experience.