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Funny Girl is set to close on September 3, and Lea Michele is already planning her Broadway return! 

James Aymon, Grant Jackson, James Lowrie, Christian Lunn, Billy J Vale, Dereck Walker, Santino Zapico, James Aymon, Grant Jackson, James Lowrie, Christian Lunn, Billy J Vale, Dereck Walker and Santino Zapico have been announced as the cast for the new production of 'Grindr: The Opera', which puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera.

With The Tempest about to open this year's Salisbury International Arts Festival, Wiltshire Creative has announced full programming for their Autumn 2023 season.

Not Your Average Theatre Company will present George F. Walker’s Featuring Loretta at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. One of Walker’s six suburban motel plays, Featuring Loretta offers a special insight into the lives of some of the down (though not necessarily out) people of the world. It presents us with a hilarious snapshot of their lives, seen through the window of their temporary environment: a generic and run-down motel room.

The PHILHARMONIC OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY (PSNJ) has announced that conductor James Allen Anderson has been appointed Music Director beginning with the 2023-2024 season. His appointment concludes a three-year search process that included seventy-five applicants from across the country. 

It seems like only a few weeks ago that Palm Canyon Theatre (PCT) began their 26th Season with the magnificent Titanic.  Now that season is coming to an end with a delightful little jewel box called She Loves Me. Canyon Theatre?

On Thursday, the nominees met the press and BroadwayWorld's Jennifer Broski was on hand to capture portraits of each of them on their big day!

Watch BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge as he meets with the cast of Spamalot at the Kennedy Center!

The Harmony Program will present its 15th Anniversary Gala on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, at Sony Hall (235 W 46th Street New York, NY) beginning at 6:30pm ET. 

It is near impossible to pinpoint what exactly the essence of ‘British music’ is. It is far too varied to be distilled into a single type or genre. Indeed, it spans centuries.

What is it about juicy backstage drama that so intrigues audiences? For decades, people have flocked to films and plays portraying the exciting events that happen behind the curtain. Arguably, the most famous musical on this topic was written by the God of musical theatre: Stephen Sondheim. It’s title: Follies.

Ivo van Hove, the Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge, is making a major Met debut with Mozart’s Don Giovanni (May 5–June 2), re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the work’s dark corners. Read what the critics have to say!

The final production in First Stage's 2022/23 season is THE GRACIOUS SISTERS, freely adapted from Aeschylus' The Eumenides by noted playwright/ filmmaker and First Stage Resident Playwright Alice Austen, currently running through May 21st. Check out photos from the production here!

The Belmont Theatre presents HOLES, a play by Louis Sachar, based on his award winning novel of the same name.

On Tuesday, May 23, nearly 100 elementary students from Pittsburgh will have the extraordinary opportunity to sing and dance on the Byham Theater (located at 101 6th Street) stage as the result of a grant awarded to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's education department by Disney Theatrical Group (DTG).

Produced once again by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, Sweet Western Sound reunites the award-winning trio following the release of Tanya’s landmark 2019 album, While I’m Livin’. Her first new album in 17 years, While I’m Livin’ reintroduced Tanya to a new generation and went on to win the GRAMMY for Best Country Album.

Mosaic Theater Company presents the DC premiere of award-winning playwright Donja R. Love with one in two, the “exceptional” and “defiantly life-embracing” (The New York Times) new play inspired by his own HIV diagnosis, on stage June 1-25 and coinciding with Pride Month.

Society of London Theatre have announced the appointment of their incoming President, Kash Bennett.  She will be serving as Vice President until 2024, when she will then take over from current President, Eleanor Lloyd.

​​​​​​​ The New Real, a world-leading and Edinburgh-based AI research hub, premieres its leading international AI Art award and commission that brings together the foremost institutions in both the AI and the arts, and announces UK and Netherlands-based Polish artist Kasia Molga as the winner of The New Real 2023 AI Art Commission: Uncanny Machines.

Get a sneak peek at Ivo van Hove's debut at the Met Opera with his production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, featuring Peter Mattei and an exceptional cast.