Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 21, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
Wrapping up The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park season is The Winter's Tale, now running at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
Night Side Songs – the cast album, will be released in streaming and digital formats.
BAM has revealed the complete cast for The Ford/Hill Project, a Waterwell production created by Elizabeth Marvel and multi-Obie winner Lee Sunday Evans, who also directs.
Concord Theatricals has acquired exclusive worldwide licensing rights to a newly reworked version of Broadway’s Almost Famous: The Musical, a dazzling, semi-autobiographical show from Cameron Crowe and Tom Kitt.
Classic Stage Company will present a one-night-only benefit concert performance of Rags, featuring a book by Jospeh Stein, music by Charles Strouse, and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.
Tony Award-winner Ali Stroker will play Rona Lisa Peretti, and Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez will play Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Windows, a new play written by Tawni O'Dell, will be presented for two performances at Arizona Theatre Company at the Temple of Music and Art, featuring Bryan Batt, Rachel York and more.
Concord Music Publishing has signed Tony and GRAMMY Award-nominated theatrical songwriting duo Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, known for co-writing the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Death Becomes Her.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Paul Rudd, and Hillary Clinton will be hosting a special karaoke fundraiser for Latino Victory Project and Onward Together.
BroadwayWorld has your exclusive first listen to Lena Hall singing Lay Your Head from This Ain’t No Disco: World Premiere Recording – Songs from the Musical.
You can now get a first look inside rehearsals for Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, the new musical with music & lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award-winner Duncan Sheik and book by Leah Nanako Winkler.
Roundabout Theatre Company announced the complete cast and design team for THE HEART, featuring Joaquina Kalukango and Heidi Blickenstaff, at the Laura Pels Theatre.
You can now get a first look at production photos of Jinkx Monsoon starring in the Olivier and Tony Award-winning hit comedy OH, MARY! at the Trafalgar Theatre.
The full cast has been revealed for the 2026–27 National Tour of Oh, Mary!, including Wesley Taylor, Pooya Mohseni and Michael Lepore joining Alaska Thunderf*ck as “Mary Todd Lincoln” and Tony Award winner J.
Previews are now underway for PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, which began Broadway performances on Friday, August 14, 2026, and officially opens Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at the August Wilson Theatre for a strictly limited, 20-week run.
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 20, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
Open submissions are now being accepted for Manhattan Concert Productions' THE PRINCE OF EGYPT in concert at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, directed by Sammi Cannold.
Dance/NYC named Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles, Tony-winning co-choreographers of CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL, as recipients of its NEW YORKERS FOR DANCE Award, honoring their work in ballroom culture.
Hillary Clinton attended the first preview of The Real Ivanov on Monday, August 17, 2026, where she met members of the cast and creative team including the play’s star Sam Underwood.
Shirley MacLaine has made a rare appearance in a new video discussing Sweet Charity and its poor performance at the box office.
Cast members from the Broadway and first National Tour company of Operation Mincemeat, raised over $4,000 for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights Aids in benefit concert “Mission Recast” at Greenroom 42.
Next up at Roundabout Theatre Company is The Imaginary Invalid by Molière translated by Doug Skinner, adapted by Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, with direction by Tony Award nominee Brandon J.
Kathryn Hahn, who is taking on the role of Mother Gothel in the live action adaptation of Tangled, currently in production, has shared an update about the process!
“A Celebration of Rodgers & Hart” presented at Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall will include performances by Darren Criss, Elizabeth Gillies, Lizzy McAlpine and more.
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