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New subscribers can now reserve their seats for the 2025-26 Pavilion Performance Series Broadway shows! Next season's lineup includes both iconic stage performances and Sioux Falls debuts of new musicals.

A radical reimagining of the classic Elton John song, 'I'm Still Standing' has been released as the first single from Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical (Original Cast Recording). Check it out now!

The North American Tour of BACK TO THE FUTURE: The Musical, now heading into its second year on the road, will welcome former Broadway cast members David Josefsberg and Nathaniel Hackmann as Doc Brown and Biff Tannen.

May 20, 2025 will mark the 31st anniversary of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA) given to ten risk-taking, mid-career artists - experimenters - who are challenging and transforming art, their respective disciplines, and society.

The Estate of Whitney Houston, Park Avenue Artists and Primary Wave Music are bringing the only authorized Whitney Houston Symphonic show to the Fred Kavli Theatre. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will present Clue: On Stage, the side-splitting stage adaptation of the cult classic film and board game. This madcap mystery, directed by Segal Centre Artistic and Executive Director Lisa Rubin, runs from June 8 to 29, 2025 in the Sylvan Adams Theatre.

Laurence Olivier nominated actor, Frank Ferrante, will mark his 40th consecutive year in the role of comedy legend Groucho Marx with a staged performance of An Evening With Groucho at Chicago‘s Teatro ZinZanni.

Charles Strouse, 96, the celebrated and multi-award-winning American film, television, and Broadway musical composer, died at his home in New York City on May 15.

The Mabel Mercer Foundation will present Elegance & Legacy: Celebrating the Mabel Mercer Foundation, a one-night-only gala event. Learn more and see how to attend!

Suzanne Vega will perform a career-spanning show including favorites like “Tom’s Diner,” “Luka,” and many more, plus new material from her forthcoming album Flying with Angels (May 2025) at Town Hall.

The new musical Goddess can currently be seen in its New York premiere production at the Public Theater on Lafayette Street. Directed by the Public’s associate artistic director and resident director Saheem Ali, who is currently Tony Award-nominated for directing Buena Vista Social Club, Goddess is playing at the Public’s largest space by capacity, the Newman Theatre.

Clue is based off of the 1985 black comedy film of the same name, based on the Hasbro game also of the same name. Reimagined by Sandy Rustin, with the help of Hunter Foster and Eric Prince, Clue provided roughly an hour and twenty-five minutes of continuous entertainment. It was a joy to watch.

The programming has been announced for Pride Plays 2025 in Washington, D.C., collaborating with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Learn more about the shows here!

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. 

Following the sad news of the passing of much-loved impresario John Gale, West End theatres and Chichester Festival Theatre will dim their lights for 2 minutes at 7pm on Wednesday 14 May, in his memory. 

Brian Cox will talk The Craft of Acting live at St. Ann’s Warehouse this week. The episode will be available to stream exclusively on the Criterion Channel in July.

In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Claude-Michel Schönberg (Book & Music), Alain Boublil (Concept, Book & Original French Lyrics)  and Herbert Kretzmer (Lyrics) musical theatre adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel, LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR is a captivating, staged concert designed for large venues.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical CATS will be heading to Perth’s Crown Theatre in November as part of its 40th Anniversary Australian tour.

StoryBook Theatre will present the final production of its 48th Season, 'A Season to Belong,' with Once on This Island. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!

This June, the Hollywood Fringe Festival shines a light on the raw, darkly funny, and heartbreakingly human story of Dolores, a one-act play by Edward Allan Baker. Starring Davonna Dehay and DeeDee Woche, staged at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre.

bergenPAC has announced four new shows. Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery – The Trouble with Angels on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025 at 7 p.m.; VOYAGE – a Tribute to Journey on Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 at 8 p.m.; Appetite for Destruction – The premier tribute to Guns N' Roses on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025 at 8 p.m.; Colin Hay on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025 at 7 p.m.

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. 

Jerry Harrison doesn’t have too many regrets in his musical career. The Talking Heads’ keyboardist, who was in town to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s landmark film STOP MAKING SENSE May 4 at the Southern Theatre (21 E. Main Street in downtown Columbus), is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with his bandmates in 2002 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2021.

“I'll tell you what it is. It happens because of the audience,” Iris said in an interview with BroadwayWorld.com in April. “The audience is there with you, you know what I mean? The joy we give them, they give it back to us. We just keep going back and forth with them and it’s a wonderful thing. It really is.”

It’s such a joy to see familiar Peanuts characters some to life. Charlie Brown (Caleb Stiffler) is lovable as always. Linus (Ally Ferrer) has his important security blanket at all times. Lucy (Kristen Demers) is loud and opinionated. Sally Brown (Ruby Maghoney) is the opposite of her brother in every way. Snoopy (Skye Williams) is imaginative and loved by all. Schroeder (Mariah Banke) plays the piano and loves Beethoven. Marcie and Woodstock (Mirada Snyder) round out the list of characters.