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Johann Strauss II’s beloved operetta Die Fledermaus brings Viennese waltzes, romantic intrigue, mistaken identities, and social satire to Theatro São Pedro, October 8–11, featuring the Academy of Opera and the theater’s Youth Orchestra.

Bastrop Opera House’s NEWSIES shines with exceptional young talent, strong vocals, athletic choreography, and heartfelt performances, bringing humor, energy, and plenty of charm to this intimate stage.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical will celebrate five years in the West End this autumn with a very special performance for the show's 'fan fan fans' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London.

Disney’s Newsies does not merely seize the day. It dances on it, vaults over it and occasionally executes a backflip before the day knows what struck it. It takes an 1899 historical event as a jumping off place and imagines the history as it might have been retold in a 1930’s Busby Berkeley movie substituting teenage newsboys for the 1930s dancing girls.  The show gets high marks for entertainment.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company will present a season of firsts in Memphis, including Love's Labor's Lost, a new Christmas cabaret, The Great Gatsby, a new play festival, and more.

Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage, remixed into a musical mash-up extravaganza. Directed by Tony Award winner Alex Timbers, MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL is a theatrical celebration of Truth, Beauty, Freedom and, above all, Love.

Newsies, featuring music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein premiered on Broadway in 2012. BroadwayWorld is looking back at what the cast has been up to since the show first burst onto Broadway!

The Pops Orchestra's 'It's the Pits!' summer camp will have middle and high school musicians perform as the live pit orchestra for the Manatee Performing Arts Center's production of Disney's NEWSIES JR. in Bradenton, FL.

Impact Arts has revealed cast and creatives for 22nd Season of Summer Stock Austin. The 2026 lineup includes the ultimate in family friendly theatre with Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella and Disney's Newsies: The Musical.

Disney's Newsies The Musical will be presented at at the Hylton Performing Arts Center's Gregory Family Theater, directed by Caroline Scarborough with a cast of nearly 30 performers.

Super Summer Theatre announced tickets are now on sale for its upcoming season, with NEWSIES leading a lineup that also includes 1776, THE ANDREWS BROTHERS, and COME FROM AWAY.

Main Street Theater has extended the run of its regional premiere of Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard. There have been only two U.S. productions of Leopoldstadt since its world premiere in London in 2020.

For me, the message of this play is that family is the most important thing. Having, keeping, and surviving those family ties and those memories.

TheatreSquared has announced its 2026–2027 Season 21 lineup, including FENCES, LITTLE WOMEN, EUREKA DAY, and THE 39 STEPS. The season also introduces a new Family Series with DISNEY’S NEWSIES JR. and A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD.

Main Street Theater will continue its 50th Season with its 20th Tom Stoppard production, the late playwright’s last play, Leopoldstadt. Learn more about the show here!

Symphony San Jose will present The Enigmatic Voice on March 7–8, 2026 at the California Theatre. The program features Handel’s Zadok the Priest, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations under conductor Grant Llewellyn.

As he enters his sixth season with the Abbey Theater of Dublin, director Joe Bishara is overseeing a lineup of shows that brings elementary school students, high school and college-aged performers, and senior citizens to the stage.

All new photos have been released from the first day of rehearsals for the revival of Jerome Kilty's adaptation Dear Liar at Jermyn Street Theatre. Check out the photos here!

Vermont Repertory Theatre will present a bold and traditional staging of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya this winter, with the production running February 28 through March 7, 2026 at the Black Box Theatre at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

With their revival of Orphans starting performances this week, Jermyn Street Theatre has announced full casting for Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar - adapted from the correspondence of George Bernard Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell.

What did our critic think of MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL at Orpheum Theatre? The appeal, based on the audience, is the acknowledgment of the song snippets – an “I know that song” reward. But the conceit grows thin and becomes one big cheat.

MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL at Broadway in Tucson casts a poignant spell over Centennial Hall this December 2-7. A transcendent spectacle, MOULIN ROUGE is a feast for the senses and will give audiences plenty to talk about.

Starring Wallis Currie-Wood, a new dramatisation of the life of Kate Chase will draw parallels between 19th and 21st century America, and the glass ceiling that's yet to be smashed in American politics.

The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts, in association with The American Tap Dance Foundation, will present Such Sweet Thunder on Friday, December 12 at 7:00 PM at Symphony Space’s Peter Jay Sharp Theatre.

Possum Point Players will debut their first-ever full-length film, Sherlock Holmes and the Angels of Vengeance, on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at Possum Hall in Georgetown, Delaware.