As Is

Simon & Schuster Audio will release the 1993 Broadway benefit reading of Larry Kramer's THE NORMAL HEART on digital audio for the first time, featuring Kevin Bacon, Stockard Channing, Harry Hamlin, and a rare stage appearance by Barbra Streisand.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is concluding its 50th Anniversary Season with the Chicago premiere of Mia Chung’s Catch as Catch Can, directed by ensemble member Amy Morton. Get a first look at photos!

There’s not much to critique here; CLUE is just fun. If you love the game or the movie, you know what you are in for ahead of time. It’s an hour and twenty minutes that flies by, leaves you laughing, and lets you forget the world for a bit.

The North/South Chamber Orchestra will conclude its 46th consecutive season with a free concert featuring works by composers from France, the Czech Republic, and the United States at Christ & St. Stephen's Church in New York.

The national tour of BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL has arrived at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City with style and electrifying spectacle. Your heart will be racing 88 miles per hour as the DeLorean speeds through the streets right in front of your eyes.  It’s an experience no BACK TO THE FUTURE fan wants to miss. 

The first highlights have been revealed for the 25th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), an anniversary edition celebrating 25 years of championing the filmmakers, stars, and cinematic movements that have shaped the future of Asian cinema

CLUE, the murder mystery comedy inspired by the Hasbro board game and 1985 Paramount film, will visit Memphis' Orpheum Theatre as the opening production of the 2026-2027 Broadway season, with tickets available via Ticketmaster.

Roger Bart is scheduled to open the tour at the Bristol Hippodrome (8 October – 21 November 2026) as well as playing the Edinburgh Playhouse (2 December 2026 – 2 January 2027). 

Tony Award winner Roger Bart will reprise his role as Doc Brown alongside Australian actor Axel Duffy as Marty McFly in the first-ever UK tour of BACK TO THE FUTURE THE MUSICAL.

Hill Country Community Theatre announced details for an upcoming season of productions, with performances set to take place at its Texas venue.

The Philadelphia Orchestra honored bassist Nathaniel West with the 2026 C. Hartman Kuhn Award, while three retiring musicians with 115 combined years of service and two 50-year veterans were also recognized.

Brand Associates and Brand Library & Art Center will present Brand 54, a national juried exhibition of works on paper selected from over 1,350 submissions, with a free public opening reception in Glendale, CA.

Centenary Stage Company will present THE WEDDING SINGER at the Sitnik Theatre in Hackettstown, NJ, featuring a cast led by Matt Steen and Megan Schmeidhauser in the 1980s-set musical based on the Adam Sandler film.

Broadway San Jose launched its run of Back to the Future: The Musical before an enthusiastic Opening Night audience, and judging by the gasps, applause, laughter and the standing ovation, Hill Valley has nost none of its power to delight. While many audience members undoubtedly arrived carrying fond memories of the beloved 1985 hit film, they left talkabout about something else entirely: the astonishing theatrical wizardry unfolding before their eyes.

Broadway in Portland will present Back to the Future: The Musical at Keller Auditorium, closing out the 2025-26 Broadway season. The Olivier Award-winning production features music by Alan Silvestri.

Listening to SELECTED STORIES is a delight. The actors bring energy, nuance, intonation, inflection, and character to every aspect of the story they are telling. Having them do so live, in-person to a room full of enthusiastic audience member reactions made it even more so.

Voices of Ascension announced its 37th season, The Radiant Depths, featuring programs spanning Renaissance masterworks to newly commissioned works, including a Nico Muhly commission written for organist James McVinnie.

The Alliance for Canadian Musicals will present 13 musical theatre productions in a free matinee preview at Scadding Court Community Centre's Flavours of the Game event in Toronto ahead of the Toronto Fringe Festival.

The 79th Annual Tony Awards are this Sunday, June 7, 2026. It's the biggest awards show of the Broadway season and it closes out a long awards season for Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals and plays. Which Best Musical and Best Play nominees will take home the ultimate prize?

Shoshana Bean, who is nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in The Lost Boys, recently received her iconic portrait at Sardi's. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out photos from the unveiling here!

The Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown announced its summer concert lineup, featuring performers including The Stray Cats, Derek Hough, and Abbott Elementary's Janelle James, plus free outdoor events.

Deep Flight Productions will present an encore engagement of WHO WE BECOME, a program of rarely produced Lanford Wilson one-acts, at Factory Series at the Chain Studio Theatre in New York.

The Shaw Festival's production of ONE FOR THE POT, directed by Chris Abraham, reunites the creative team behind One Man, Two Guvnors. Peter Fernandes leads the cast in Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton's comedy of mistaken identities at the Festival Theatre.

Jay Sefton's autobiographical solo play UNRECONCILED will perform at Northampton's Academy of Music, followed by a post-show conversation with trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky.

Told through a series of vignettes, Crossing Delancey examines Bubbie's belief in the old-world Jewish family custom of all young women needing to find a husband as soon as possible to settle down and raise a family against those of Isabel, a modern 1980s Jewish woman in New York City learning to stand on her own two feet. I spoke with Holly Sidell who is portraying Isabel in the current production at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills through June 21.