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Production photos have been released for THE RAT TRAP, Noël Coward’s first play, which will receive a centenary reimagining at Park Theatre in 2026. Presented by Troupe in association with Park Theatre, the production is reimagined by Bill Rosenfield and directed by Kirsty Patrick Ward.

What does it mean to ‘reimagine’ Noël Coward's relatively unknown play The Rat Trap?   First some context: To live in London with over one hundred theatres in the city is this former Drama Lit Major's dream come true. There are plays everywhere, not just in theatres but in pubs, in basements, in ‘found’ spaces, or warehouses. Plays of all shapes, sizes and quality. It's a theatre fanatic’s idea of heaven.

A new block of tickets was just released for Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s Tony Award®-winning global smash hit musical SIX. As of that time, tickets will be available through November 22, 2026. SIX celebrated its official Broadway opening night at the Lena Horne Theatre.

Kelsie Watts, who is currently starring as Jane Seymour in Six on Broadway, will play her final performance in the production. Six on Broadway recently unveiled new cast members set to join the show.

Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical, SIX, has found its new Queens! The cast will be led by Dylan Mulvaney, Abigail Barlow, Olivia Donalson, Abigail Barlow, and Anna Uzele.

Ma Rainey and her band return to The Goodman this spring in a major revival—and a reunion of two Chicago theater legends. Goodman Family Resident Director Chuck Smith directs August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom with Associate/Music Director Harry J. Lennix.

Cabaret star Maude Maggart thrilled with a beautiful, if short, annual New York appearance at a sold-out Birdland Jazz on December 29 with her newest show.

Troupe has announced the full cast and creative team for its forthcoming production of Noël Coward’s The Rat Trap, reimagined by Bill Rosenfield. Learn more here!

From November 14 - December 6, Different Stages offers an evening of classic mystery and refined theatrical craft in poresnting Mark Shanahan’s adaption of Agatha Christie’s THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD at The VORTEX Theatre in Austin.

While the large majority of plays that make it to Broadway were written in English, a small fraction of plays were originally penned in a different language and translated. 

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center (MACC) will present ACTIVATIONS: After Hours at the Gallery on Friday, November 21, 2025, from 5–8 p.m. in and around the Schaefer International Gallery.

For more than two decades, magician Steve Cohen, known as “the Millionaires’ Magician”, has performed Chamber Magic inside the the Lotte New York Palace. In this interview, Cohen shares how his work connects to New York’s historic lineage of magicians soon to be honored in the NYPL exhibition The Mystery and Wonder: A Legacy of Golden Age Magicians in New York City.

CHICAGO: QUEERLY ADAPTED FROM THE PLAY YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF THAT INSPIRED THE MUSICAL YOU CAN'T GET AWAY FROM at Redtwist Theatre released production photos of its world premiere.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 10/9/2025 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

International violinist Timothy Chooi has recently been honored with the loan of the Stradivarius 1714 “Dolphin” violin from the Nippon Music Foundation in Tokyo, Japan.

W Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife was written in 1926 and described as ‘a sparkling comedy of ill manners'. This wonderful new version of The Constant Wife is by Laura Wade, the Olivier Award winning writer of Home, I'm Darling,.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 9/18/2025 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

Redtwist Theatre will present a world premiere production replacing Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties by Jen Silverman. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

All three are razor-sharp comedies, set across a single day, inviting audiences into vivid, pressurised worlds, and investigating how we both understand and misunderstand each other.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 9/11/2025 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

Puerto Rican actor Josean Ortiz will perform Tite Curet Alonso: Lírica y Poesía at CROMA Space in Boston on October 4, 2025. The Spanish-language solo show honors the legendary salsa and bolero composer.

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will present the Carle Honors to honor those whose creative vision and long-term dedication have had a profound impact on picture books and the role they play in arts appreciation and early literacy.

Porgy and Bess is a famous 'folk opera' created by George Gershwin, with a libretto by DuBose Heyward and lyrics by DuBose and Ira Gershwin. The work chronicles the life of a Black community on Catfish Row in Charleston and is known for its fusion of operatic elements with American folk music, jazz, and blues. The story focuses on the love between Porgy, a disabled beggar, and Bess, a woman seeking a better life.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 9/4/2025 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

Broadway currently boasts 41 theaters. This number has always been ever-changing—since even before the first time the word “Broadway” was used to describe professional theater in New York.