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Innovations Contemporary Dance Platform (Innovations) - which showcases the best in new work from choreographers and dance artists working across Scotland and beyond - is back at The Studio at Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, for two nights only.

Ariana Grande has shared a behind-the-scenes video featuring her and Cynthia Erivo rehearsing Glinda's iconic 'Popular' from the film, complete with choreography. Check it out here and see if you can learn along.

Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl dropped on October 3rd, and it includes plenty of references—some explicit and some ambiguous—to real showgirls throughout history. Many of these women have a Broadway past worth exploring that adds new context to Swift’s songs.

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As the fight for women to have equal rights and opportunities has evolved, so has the presence of plays telling these stories. When I wrote my book, Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy that the History Books Left Out, the first-ever book about female musical theatre writers, I researched many musicals that are in this genre as well.

Liz Callaway isn’t only a Tony Award-nominated actress and singer, she’s also an Emmy Award-winning television talk-show host.

SIX the Musical is celebrating the show’s 4th anniversary on Broadway this weekend with a special talkback, sweepstakes, and more. Learn more about the special events here!

Will Swenson, who originated the role of ‘Neil Diamond’ on Broadway, will lead the cast of the smash-hit musical A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical in Australia.

Steve Earle's 11th annual John Henry's Friends Benefit concert will take place in December. Learn more about the upcoming concert and see how to attend.

Sadler's Wells has announced the cast for Ebony Scrooge as well as the creatives behind the production. This is the first ever Christmas show at Sadler's Wells East, as well as the first Christmas show from Zoonation: The Kate Pirnce Company.

West End actress Lara Denning will take over the role of Caz in the UK and Ireland tour of HERE & NOW. Rebecca Lock who currently plays Caz will leave the production on Sunday 9 November.

The Tony Award-Winning electrifying musical phenomenon SIX by Tony Award-winners Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss returns to Bass Concert Hall. Learn more here!

The North American Tour of SUFFS, the empowering and acclaimed Tony Award-winning musical, is now underway! Read the reviews as they come in here and learn more about the show.

Performances are now underway for Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Ragtime at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Meet the cast of Ragtime here and learn all about the starry cast and talented ensemble's bio and credits!

Perhaps no one is more surprised Steve Hackett is doing a retrospective on THE LAMB 50 years after the fact than the guitarist himself. THE LAMB was ranked in the top ten of Rolling Stone magazine’s top 50 progressive rock albums of all time. The BBC called it a “conceptual masterpiece.” Hackett has another word for it: an anomaly.

Dear Readers, lately it feels like our most basic and dearly held civil liberties are being stripped away. And so, it’s good for us to recall how we got some of those rights. Along comes “Suffs”, a new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Shaina Taub, all about the Women’s suffrage movement, and if you weren’t motivated to demand more from our government before seeing the show, you will be after.

We're falling into fall with a great Broadway read! This season, Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 25 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's Fall 2025 reading list.

Rock icons Queen will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their monumental multi-platinum 1975 album A Night At The Opera and Diamond-certified single Bohemian Rhapsody with new vinyl reissues.

Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (AGE) has announced Lee Cataluna, Denmo Ibrahim, and Anya Pearson as the recipients of the 2025 AGE Legacy Playwright (ALP) grants.

The National Tour of THE NOTEBOOK is now underway! The tour launched on September 6, 2025, at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH. Read the reviews here!

To mark the release of David Gilmour's live film LIVE AT THE CIRCUS MAXIMUS, ROME, a new full-song preview has been unveiled of the track ‘Between Two Points’, from the 2024 UK number one album ‘Luck and Strange’. Watch it now!

Fresh off its sit-down engagement at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre, the new(-ish) 2022 Broadway jukebox musical & JULIET is finally making its long-awaited pit-stop an hour south of L.A. at OC's Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa through September 21, 2025. Unabashedly gleeful and quite a broad crowd-pleaser, this fun, empowering, and infectiously giddy musical is, simply put, such an endearing, delightful surprise. Featuring thrilling visuals, a uniformly talented, likable cast, a wonderfully silly yet still aspirational premise, and a long list of ear worm bops that weave seamlessly into its organized mayhem, this entertaining tongue-in-cheek stage show is, hands down, this reviewer’s favorite touring direct-from-Broadway production of 2025 so far by a mile.

Next week, 54 BELOW will presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including WRITE OUT LOUD, FEAT. TAYLOR IMAN JONES, JULIA KNITEL, plus more. See the full lineup here!

many shows struggled this summer, particularly long running shows that tend to do well with international tourists. International tourists in previous seasons have made up about 21% of Broadway ticket buyers, but that number is poised to decrease this year.

The Mirror Stage is a powerful new theatre show created with, and inspired by people who have lived through the symptoms of psychosis. Learn more about the show here!