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54 Below is celebrating Pride Month with Coming Out, the Musical! Join the all-LGBTQIA+ cast and creative team for an evening filled with heartwarming ballads and queer joy!

“The great thing about this character is she's so positive. She really has such a great outlook on life, much, much better than I have in real life. I can learn a lot from the way she's written.” Carolee Carmello on her character Kimberly Akimbo

The producers of the brand new musical HERE & NOW, presented by UK pop sensation, Steps, have announced the principal cast for the UK & Ireland tour.

In the midst of a breakthrough year, 19-year-old singer-songwriter and producer sombr made his T.V. debut last night on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” with a performance of his global smash hit “back to friends.' Watch it here!

British girl group FLO brought their Access All Areas Tour to Vancouver, BC on Sunday night lighting up the Commodore Ballroom with a performance charged with anticipation and energy. Hailed as the biggest British girl group to tour the U.S. since the Spice Girls, the trio is riding high on the success of their 2024 debut album of the same name taking the stage with undeniable confidence and charisma. This stop was more than just another date on the itinerary; it was a powerful showcase of their star power. In front of a packed Canadian crowd, FLO delivered a statement performance that reaffirmed their meteoric rise in an ever-evolving global music scene.

Check out new photos of Ore Oduba in the world premiere tour of Picture You Dead. Adapted from the UK’s number one crime writer Peter James’ bestselling novel about Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, Picture You Dead is touring major UK theatres until 26 July 2025.

Dying crops, a community in distress, scandals, affairs, Shucked was hailed as the pinnacle of musical comedy when it premiered in 2022. With a book by Robert Horn (writer of Tootsie and the stage adaptation of Disney’s Hercules, to mention a few credits), plus music and lyrics by country songwriters Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, Jack O’Brien’s production lands in Regent’s Park for its UK premiere after a handful of wins and a Grammy nod too. The show might be an easy giggle, ready to charm with puns galore and a corny score, but it's shuckingly mid. Every inch is tropey and formulaic, with quips that are either the low-hanging cob or the most extravagant sexual innuendo, missing the sophistication of well-calibred humour altogether. It has plenty of moments of brilliance and the company is overwhelmingly excellent, but the material isn’t as dazzling.

Theater makers have a “show must go on” spirit. So it is no surprise that the vast majority of the over forty artistic leaders I spoke to in the last two weeks believed they would find a way to survive even without promised National Endowment for the Arts funding. But it won’t be easy.

The North American tour of & Juliet will make a stop at BroadwaySF’s Orpheum Theatre this summer. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets!

Canada's National Arts Centre has revealed that Alexander Shelley will end his tenure as Music Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra after 11 highly successful seasons.

Chair Robert Khan and the board of the King's Head Theatre in Islington have announced the appointment of Sofi Berenger to the position of Executive Producer and CEO, effective immediately.

Casting has been announced for the three Heathers, in the off-Broadway return of Heathers: The Musical! The show begins performances next month and wll play a limited engagement through at New World Stages, Stage I.

Miller Theatre has announced its 2025-26 season—a combination of new and early music, as seen through its core series Composer Portraits, Early Music, and Jazz, alongside community hits Morningside Lights and Pop-Up Concerts. 

Craig Finn has announced a new headline tour, which gets underway October 9 at Millersville, PA’s Phantom Power and then travels through a tour finale at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge on October 25.

Broadway may have first met her with a long blonde wig in the hit revival of Into the Woods, but Houston audiences are falling in love with her all over again—this time with hoop earrings, bold dreams, and sky-high heels.

Teatro Paraguas will host seven women poets for a poetry reading to benefit two important non-profit organizations in Santa Fe:  Santa Fe Dreamers Project and Solace Sexual Assault Services.

The Broadway Bound Awards of Central Arkansas, presented by Celebrity Attractions in partnership with Argenta Contemporary Theatre, is proud to honor the next generation of musical theatre stars with an opportunity of a lifetime. 

Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee, writer, broadcaster and stand-up Glenn Moore has announced a brand-new show, Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some Moore?.

A production to remember.

The movie, Some Like It Hot, has long been a favorite of mine. As a kid growing up in Dayton and then Cincinnati, Ohio, I loved seeing Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon don women’s clothing, outrun the bad guys, and the line that Lemmon says, ‘now look what you did – you tore off one of my chests!’ struck me then and now as hilarious.

The Off-Broadway return of Heathers the Musical will be led by Lorna Courtney and Casey Likes. Courtney, known for her breakout performance in & Juliet, will play Veronica Sawyer, with Likes as J.D.

Mojisola Adebayo's STARS: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey will return to London following outstanding 5-star responses to its premiere at the ICA in 2023, for which it won the Off West End Theatre (Offie) Award.

The Episcopal Actors' Guild has announced that the Barbour Playwrights Award will return for its eighteenth year this June. Learn more about the upcoming festival here!

Three of this season’s plays and two of this season’s musicals are already getting revived for the second or third time this century! Twenty-five years into the 21st century and Broadway has already seen multiple revivals of Glengarry Glen Ross, Our Town, Romeo and Juliet, Gypsy, and Sunset Boulevard. 

Center Theatre Group has revealed full slate of eleven productions for the 2025/26 Season, including Here Lies Love, Mamma Mia and more. See the full lineup here!