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FSCJ Artist Series Broadway in Jacksonville announced a Season Kick Off event featuring food trucks, prizes, and a live performance by a Broadway cast member from an upcoming show.

What did our critic think of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at Gaslight-Baker Theatre?

Create lasting memories for audiences of all ages with breathtaking choreography and unforgettable storytelling.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 17, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Bravo! This Reviewer was enchanted with the vocals of Lisa Yaeger. Taking a trip to the Jersey side of the river was worth the ride. The July 15 concert celebrated the release of Yaeger's JERSEY GIRL album.

Another exposure as Cleveland Heights’s Cain Park outstanding production directed by Victoria Bussert the present Director of Oberlin College’s Musical Theater program, which featured Gregg Violand, who will be featured, later this season, in Porthouse’s BRIGADOON.

Inflation is rising and hitting New York City especially hard. In May 2026, inflation reached 4.2%, its highest level in over three years. While national inflation cooled slightly in June, NYC-area consumer prices stayed high, with local prices up 4.1% compared to the year before. So, if your pocketbook is feeling squeezed this summer, the numbers back up your economic instinct. But how does inflation affect Broadway? Across the board, everyone is grappling with the economic impacts, from artists and fans to the Broadway productions themselves.

Broadway alum Analise Scarpaci is starring in Not My Dog, a new indie family film from director Danny LeGare. We caught up with the Mrs. Doubtfire star, who spoke about writing a new song for the project, reuniting with her Christmas Story co-star, and why she looks to Sara Bareilles as an artistic inspiration.

In a candid conversation with BroadwayWorld, beloved actor Aaron Lazar discusses the progression of his ALS diagnosis and says his purpose ‘feels more exciting to me than dying.’

Obsession took the cinematic box office by storm earlier this year, becoming one of the only movies to ever gross over $400 million against a budget of less than $1 million. This follows the success of another similarly low-budget film, Backrooms, which similarly grossed over $350 milli

It has been over twenty years since Mary Zimmerman directed a show off or on Broadway. In our new interview, she discusses her return off-Broadway, directing Jennifer Nettles’ Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo.

What does home mean to you? Is it the place, the people, the bricks and mortar? Liz Richardson's autobiographical one-woman show is a gentle look at what home means to your identity and how the environment of your childhood can influence your later life.

It’s officially the summer of the cold sweet treat. Across New York, the froyo craze has taken over, with some shops feeling harder to get into than the city’s most exclusive clubs.

See some of the top outdoor concerts across NYC's five boroughs this week with the Afro-Latino Festival NYC, Lincoln Center's Chinese Arts Week, jazz, a celebration of Black DJs, and more!

The Roundtable with Robert Bannon is hitting the road! In this special BroadwayWorld Exclusive, East Coast Correspondent Adrienne Garzillo heads to the heart of New York City's Theater District for one of Broadway's most beloved annual traditions—Broadway Barks in historic Shubert Alley! Watch in this video.

Every great road trip deserves a great soundtrack, and who better to provide it than Broadway? We've rounded up show tunes inspired by cities, states, countries, and all the adventures in between, so whether you're driving across the country or just across town, your next trip is about to get a whole lot more theatrical. Go on your very own Broadway road trip this summer!

Broadway says goodbye to Proof, which closes at the Booth Theatre, following 15 previews and 109 regular performances. The next tenant for the venue has not yet been announced.

Theater camps like Stagedoor Manor and French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts have some incredibly famous alumni. BroadwayWorld looks at a handful of former campers who eventually made their way to Broadway.

Tony ® Award-winning stage and screen legend Betty Buckley today releases her new live album, Enough, via Palmetto Records. Recorded during her acclaimed 2025 residency at Joe's Pub in 2025, the 13-track collection is now available on all major streaming and digital platforms

Since The Lost Boys took Broadway by storm this spring, there has been much chatter about the “vampire curse” on Broadway being lifted. In the early 2000s, Broadway received a string of three vampire musicals, which all closed relatively quickly. Dance of the Vampires (2002), Dracula (2004), and Lestat (2006) each received attention in their own right, but they also received attention as a group, since it was remarkable that they came along in such quick succession. But the early 21st century wasn’t the first time vampires thirsted on Broadway. The play adaptation of Dracula was a hit all the way back in 1927 and an even bigger hit in a 1977 revival. And there have been vampires lurking in the theatre district in all sorts of other projects too…

Here are a few top picks to consider this week including free outdoor concerts, Who’s the Boss and Taxi star Tony Danza celebrating Frank Sinatra, an improvised so with Chris Turner (Cirque du Soleil, America’s Got Talent, Stephen Colbert) and more.