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Inside, you’ll find practical guidance for performers, timely conversations about safety, labor, and financial realities on Broadway, and a celebration of the often-unsung artists who keep shows running. We also look beyond New York to regional theaters rethinking their futures, another Kennedy Center cancellation, and an international announcement bringing a popular screen property to the London stage.

Mamdani is urging New Yorkers to stay home. We spoke with five artists with shows originally scheduled for today about deciding to cancel, and that decision's impact on them in terms of stress, anxiety, and lost time and money.

Broadway In Chicago has announced that single tickets for the North American tour of THE GREAT GATSBY will go on sale this week. The touring production of the Broadway musical will play a limited two-week engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre this spring.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is January 21, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Netflix has released the trailer for Glitter & Gold: Ice Dancing, a new high-stakes docu-series that explores the world of competitive ice dance. Check it out now.

The Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation has announced the Preliminary Round performances of the 2026 Gina Bachauer International Junior & Young Artists Piano Competitions.

After screenings across the country and film festival accolades in 2025, the documentary Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round (2024) will be available on Kinema from January 15 to January 20, 2026, during Martin Luther King JR. Day. 

Following the series finale of the megahit Stranger Things, Netflix will release 'One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5,' a documentary offering an inside look at the making of the final installment of the Duffer Brothers' generation-defining series. Watch the trailer now.

A rehearsal trailer has been released for Peter Pan Goes Wrong at Hale Center Theatre, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the comedy’s rehearsal process.

After the release of her sophomore EP, But What The Hell Do I Know, Alemeda is hitting the road for her tour in support of the EP. The tour will kick off in Atlanta, GA, on February 18 and wrap in Los Angeles on February 26.

Emma Wallace, in association with Burnet Go To, will present Home for the YALLidays, a one-night only holiday-themed cabaret at Burnet Go To.

Unicorn Theatre’s festive offering this season is a wonderfully eccentric Santa-based delight. How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? transforms Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen’s much loved picture book into a piece of bold physical theatre , which celebrates curiosity, imagination and joyful nonsense. In its first collaboration with Told by an Idiot, Unicorn Theatre delivers a Christmas show that feels mischievous inventive and refreshingly unpredictable.

The 2026 edition of HOLD ON LET GO will feature contemporary performance works curated by Maiko Yamamoto, Josh Martin, and Lisa Mariko Gelley. Events will include mainstage works, in-development sharings, and festival gatherings.

The Encore will welcome audiences to celebrate the season with A Merry Little Christmas, a festive and intimate cabaret starring Encore favorites Chris Joseph, Gayle E. Martin, and Ash Moran.

Merry Ol’ Missouri: A Family Christmas Spectacular returns to the Missouri Theatre in Columbia, Missouri on December 18-20, 2025. Last year’s sold-out, one night only show created such overwhelming demand that producers Melissa Bohon-Webel and Shelby Ringdahl Cox expanded the 2025 holiday spectacular to three performances. The very busy Shelby Ringdahl Cox graciously agreed to sit down with Broadway World and talk about creating Merry Ol’ Missouri: A Family Christmas Spectacular. Melissa and Shelby are the founders of Show Me Theatricals, the creative minds behind Merry Ol’ Missouri: A Family Christmas Spectacular, and the co-directors of the show. Both women grew up in Columbia, Missouri, graduated from Rockbridge High School, and went on to successful performing careers in New York and beyond.

Single tickets for the upcoming engagement of MAMMA MIA! in Vancouver at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre will go on sale. Since premiering in London in 1999 and on Broadway in 2001, the musical has captured the hearts of millions around the globe.

In a new featurette for Wicked: For Good, sound mixers Simon Hayes and Andy Nelson, sound designer John Marquis, and more delve into the world of sound as heard in the new film. Watch the video now.

The Kravis Center will soon welcome the acclaimed musical adaptation of The Notebook, featuring music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson and a book by Bekah Brunstetter.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey has revealed the cast of a seasonal scripts-in-hand presentation titled Merry, Merry Mischief: Holiday Classics, happening on Saturday, December 13th at 11:00 AM at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre.

xIndividual tickets for A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center will go on sale this week.

Single tickets for Some Like It Hot in Houston will go on sale. SOME LIKE IT HOT will play a limited one-week Houston engagement at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

Award-winning songwriter and playwright Steve Schalchlin will return to the New York stage on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, with a new concert event, Living in the Bonus Round.

Musical theater performer Corey Cott, most recently seen on Broadway in 2024's The Heart of Rock and Roll, is starring in the new Broadway-themed Hallmark movie The Snow Must Go On. Watch a sneak peek now.

Single tickets for Moulin Rouge! The Musical, winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical, will go on sale at Memorial Hermann Broadway at the Hobby Center.

Broadway Grand Rapids and Disney Theatrical Group will place tickets on sale for THE LION KING’s return to DeVos Performance Hall beginning November 24 at noon.