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Skylight Theatre Company has announced that Producing Artistic Director Gary Grossman will step down from his role after 40 years of leadership. Grossman will transition to full-time commercial producing.

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld UK / West End Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favourite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

New plays will ring in the new year at The Goodman when the popular annual New Stages Festival returns. This year’s line-up features the newest works by some of the country’s hottest playwrights.

I love when a school gets creative and develops a concept that truly spotlights the strengths of their students. This was absolutely the case with Joe T. Robinson High School’s theatre program as they presented The Robinson Comedy, directed by Caitlin Peterson. The Senator Stage Team not only studied a wide range of public-domain works but transformed them into a highly entertaining, cleverly cohesive performance that celebrated theatrical history and youthful creativity all at once. 

Headlong has released production images of their new production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream which is now playing at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Tosca in Italian with English surtitles, from £20 in January, is next on this stage

The Cultch has announced a holdover for Theatre Replacement’s East Van Panto: West Van Story at the York Theatre in Vancouver, extending its run through January 11, 2026.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Director Joe Discher about his career and 'It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' by ATG.

'For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.' It's a classic tale, one that has been told hundreds of thousands of times and one that theatre kids everywhere know well. But you likely have not seen Romeo and Juliet quite like this. The costumes are vibrant, the choreography is exhilirating, the voices are powerful, and the story... there is quite the twist in the story. 

The Royal Ballet has announced the retirement of Gary Avis from his position as Principal Character Artist and Senior Répétiteur. Learn more about Gary and his retirement here.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company will launch a newly reimagined 2026 version of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) on a major UK tour beginning February 18.

Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library revealed the plays and playwrights for the fourth annual Reading Room Festival, a four-day festival of staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has released first-look production photos for MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, directed by Selina Cadell and running through December 21 in the Jentes Family Courtyard Theater.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 20, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The national tour of “& Juliet” opened Tuesday night for a run through Sunday at the Kansas City Music Hall with enough voltage to transform the theater into a full-color pop arena.  “& Juliet” is a clever take and reimaging of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”  It is funny.  It is hip! It is hugely enjoyed by the audience!

The Public Theater has revealed its 2026 Shakespeare for the City season, including Free Shakespeare in the Park’s Romeo and Juliet, Mobile Unit and more.

The full cast and creative team has been revealed for Pasadena Playhouse's upcoming production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, directed by Tony Award-winner Darko Tresnjak.

I believe that Houston is the only company this year doing a Christmas Carol. We all did, Drunk Dracula, but Houston might be the only Christmas Carol.

Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe will star in Romeo & Juliet at the Harold Pinter Theatre next year, both making their West End debuts. Learn more about the upcoming production here!

There are terrible things going on in the world and specifically at the Kennedy Center, where the staff’s been decimated, attendance is way down, booked engagements have withdrawn, and others have been cancelled in a few weeks  to make way for activities related to the World Cup or maybe eventually the UFC.

Fort Salem Theater has announced casting for the final productions of its 2025 season: the world premiere staged reading of Good For You, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and the fifth anniversary edition of the holiday revue Snow Business.

Central Indiana Dance Ensemble will welcome Mark-David Bloodgood as their Cavalier for the 26th Annual production of The Nutcracker. A beloved classic, The Nutcracker is a magical holiday event.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County will present the South Florida premiere of & JULIET, playing a limited engagement in the Ziff Ballet Opera House.

On Thursday 6 November, theatre producers Fiery Angel celebrated their 25th anniversary.  The cabaret at the Bloomsbury Ballroom also raised £30,000 for the new charity Second Stage. 

Romeo a Juliet does not make any of its political points overtly, and this is an occasion where some things are better left unsaid, without cheap gimmicks. With nothing made explicit, the audience comes away reflecting on their own use of language and dialect in their daily life, as well as on how over 500 years later, new eyes on Shakespeare can still make desperately overdone texts feel brand new.