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Playwright Bob Bartlett brings a new stage adaptation exploring George A. Romero's horror classic and late-1960s America to Washington, DC.

The Smith Center will present major Broadway productions including PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (October 21–November 1), ELF THE MUSICAL (November 24–29), and OH, MARY! (October 6–11), with tickets on sale now.

Vagabond Players will present Stephen Sondheim's SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET in Baltimore, with co-directors TJ Lukacsina and Stephen Foreman bringing an intimate approach to the musical masterpiece.

A comedy magician, stand-up comedian, and ventriloquist will bring a variety show to the Richey Suncoast Theatre in New Port Richey, Florida.

Matthew McConaughey addressed the long-running rumor that he and Woody Harrelson are secretly brothers and discussed his new show Brothers during a visit to THE TONIGHT SHOW.

Beetlejuice the Musical will be the final 2026 summer touring performance of the 2026 Broadway series at Starlight Threatre.  As a special treat, Broadway World was delighted to speak with Leianna Weaver who plays Lydia in this whole new original take on the Beetlejuice saga.

Apple TV will release the third episode of SLOW HORSES season six, the Emmy and BAFTA-winning espionage drama starring Sir Gary Oldman. The episode follows ex-Slow Horses returning to the fold as assassins close in.

Janis Siegel, 10x Grammy-winning founder of THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER, released her new album THE ART OF VOCALESE on Origin Records, featuring jazz musicians including pianist John Di Martino, bassist Lonnie Plaxico, and vocalists Lea DeLaria and Raul Midón.

Bill Maher and panel guests Andrew Huberman, Jonathan Swan and James Kirchick dig into bipartisan cooperation and health trends, with Huberman breaking down which wellness habits actually hold up to science.

Bring your kids to the theatre and let them fall in love with the tale as old as time, as well as with theatre at all.

What did our critic think of SOCIAL CLIMBERS BY STAGECRAFT at Gryphon Theatre?

It was a night of shock, awe, surprise, and enormous talent as Randy Roberts brought a star-studded Laurie Beechman Theatre to its feet several times with a brilliant display of singing, comedy, acting, and female impersonation.

There is surely no event more certain in the dance calendar than an English National Ballet mixed bill at Sadler’s Wells. What creative offerings do they have for us this time?

Hulu shared a new KING OF THE HILL clip revisiting Dale Gribble's history of conspiracy theories, framing the character as ahead of the curve on paranoid thinking long before it became mainstream.

Director Loren Latarro’s production is smooth and lovely, ablaze in song and possessed of some choice bites of visual dazzle that give the production its dreaminess.

Modern updated version which will be appreciates by both old and new Grease-fans. Few people have likely missed the 1978 film starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta as Sandy and Danny. It is packed with songs that most people can sing along to, and it is a great choice to keep the songs in English while performing the dialogue in Swedish for this modernized version. Klas Wiljergård’s translation is both fresh and fun.

There are 115 disabled actors in Phamaly Theatre Company’s upcoming production of Tiny Beautiful Things. On any given night, only one will perform live. Actors Jessica Erin Swanson and Adrienne Asterita alternate in the role of Sugar, the anonymous advice columnist created by Cheryl Strayed. The other 113 performers appear in prerecorded videos as the people whose letters Sugar answers.

What did our critic think of SOME LIKE IT HOT at Olney Theatre Center? Traditionally, I would start with some kind of introduction that would quickly preview Olney Theatre Center’s regional premiere of SOME LIKE IT HOT. I’d like to do something different and start by pulling focus to the fact that this is the long-standing theatre’s first production in the “radically renovated” Bernard Family Theatre.

Single tickets are on sale now for the return of MAMMA MIA!, back by popular demand, and the 2025 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, MAYBE HAPPY ENDING.

Patrick Page, a Tony Award nominee and Grammy Award winner, will perform a solo exploration of Shakespeare's most notorious villains at the Emerson Paramount Center in Boston.

What did our critic think of JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Great Canadian Theatre Company?

What did our critic think of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center? Little Shop of Horrors, whose star is a bloodthirsty flora, plants its roots at the New Conservatory for the opening of its 26-27 season and it’s an energetic, darkly comic, gender bending allegory for all that wrong with our current state of affairs. Seymour, an orphaned, awkward florist shop worker discovers an exotic plant that flourishes when fed human blood. In a Faustian pact, Seymour must feed the plant victims and in return reap the fame and riches of his discovery.

The Redneck Castaway Band will perform a tribute to Kenny Chesney at Jaffrey's Park Theatre on Saturday, October 3, at 7:30 p.m. The concert takes place in the theatre's award-winning 330-seat Eppes Auditorium.

Don't miss Here's to Life, the new, uplifting show by Tony-nominated singer-songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway. With her award-winning trio, Callaway dazzles us with a night of gorgeous songs that celebrate life's richness, despite our challenges and because of them. She breathes wisdom and passion into Arlen, Porter, Rodgers, and the Bergmans, as well as contemporary writers and her own originals. Come and see why Christopher Loudon of Jazz Times calls her the “…superbly intelligent, singularly creative pop-jazz stylist who can stand shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Streisand, Ronstadt, Shirley Horn, and Dianne Reeves…”