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While different tryout theaters have different relationships to the development of new shows, it’s worth looking at both which commercial rental theaters and which non-profit theaters have had the most Best Musical Tony Award winners come from their stages.

Award-winning vocal quintet Pentatonix has dropped their new holiday album, Christmas in the City, out now via Republic Records, marking their eighth holiday release. Listen to it here.

Bleak, yet hopeful, drama/dance hybrid gives food for thought

A classical music experience will come to a timeless setting. The Urban Orchestra is partnering with the historic Toronto venue, The Old Mill. Learn more here!

An exhilarating new satire on social media, class and how we live in unreal worlds bursts onto the Donmar stage in a frenzy of must-see vigour. Writer/director Kip Williams – who made his West End debut with Olivier and Tony award-winning The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Succession's Sarah Snook – returns with his bang up-to-date adaptation of Jean Genet's play based on sisters Christine and Lea Papin, who murdered their employer and her daughter in 1933.

Gawain and the Green Knight, a festive comic retelling of the Arthurian tale of Gawain reimagined at a modern-day office Christmas party is coming to Park Theatre this December.

Marianela Núñez said of La Fille mal gardée during a rehearsal that it was just what the world needed right now. This much loved Frederick Ashton classic has not been seen on the Covent Garden stage since 2016, we needed it back then and we certainly need it now more than ever.

In some ways, a crypt underneath an active cathedral is the perfect place for a concert of liturgical music. As always, though, Death of Classical brought a unique flair to the evening, on top of the already-impressive venue choice.

In June 2016, my mom and I went to New York during Tony Awards weekend. On the day of the telecast, we both walked all the way to the Beacon Theatre (where the ceremony was taking place) while rehearsal was going on

The French premiere of Dear Evan Hansen at the Théâtre de la Madeleine on 10 October 2025 marks an accomplished and thoughtful introduction of the Tony Award–winning musical to Parisian audiences.

Noah Fosse explains why education and authenticity drove the Verdon Fosse Legacy’s partnership with RWS Global and Holland America Line to launch Fosse and Verdon, The Duet That Changed Broadway, set to debut in November 2025 aboard Koningsdam.

John Lithgow leads an exciting cast, including Aya Cash, in GIANT on Broadway, starting March 11, 2026. Get your tickets now!

Kicking off my new series spotlighting families in Arkansas theatre, I sat down with backstage dynamo Billie Overstreet and her on-stage powerhouse daughter Belle (my very first profile in the series) just as The Rocky Horror Show struts into Actors Theatre of Little Rock, October 15–31.

How did the martyrs—those Christians and otherwise who have been put to death or endured great suffering defending their beliefs, principles, or causes—meet their ends? As told through Douglas AA Balliett’s MARTYRS & RELICS, which played a handful of performances this week as its world premiere in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it all depends on the source you use.

After nearly a decade lighting up the stage as part of the K-pop girl group, WJSN (Cosmic Girls), DaYoung is stepping into the spotlight alone, and she’s doing it with fire. Her debut single album, gonna love me, right?, led by the intoxicating title track, “body,” signals the start of a bold new chapter for the singer.

The Gay Men's Chorus of South Florida has unveiled its Season 16 Mainstage Concert Series, aptly themed 'INVINCIBLE: A Season of Strength, Sizzle & Song.'

IndieSpace has announced Brooklyn Art Haus, Dixon Place, Green Space, Inspiration Point, IRT Theater, New Perspectives Studio, Noosphere Arts (Noo Arts), QED Astoria, St. Lydia's, and The Little Victory Theatre as recipients of this year's The Little Venue That Could Program.

Mary Page Marlowe is an accountant from Ohio. She's led an ordinary life, making the difficult decisions we all face as we try to figure out who we really are and what we really want. As Tracy Letts brings us moments-both pivotal and mundane-from Mary's life, a portrait of a surprisingly complicated woman emerges. Intimate and moving, Mary Page Marlowe shows us how circumstance, impulse and time can combine to make us mysteries...even to ourselves. Susan Surandon makes her London stage debut, alongside Andrea Riseborough, who returns to the stage after 15 years.

​The Fall 2025 season has officially begun, and with it, comes new plays for theatre lovers of all kinds. Whether you live for intense dramas or would rather escape with zaney comedies, there's something for everyone both on and off-Broadway in October 2025.

Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl dropped on October 3rd, and it includes plenty of references—some explicit and some ambiguous—to real showgirls throughout history. Many of these women have a Broadway past worth exploring that adds new context to Swift’s songs.

As the fight for women to have equal rights and opportunities has evolved, so has the presence of plays telling these stories. When I wrote my book, Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy that the History Books Left Out, the first-ever book about female musical theatre writers, I researched many musicals that are in this genre as well.

New York Live Arts and Pick Up Performance Co. will present the world premiere of TIMES FOUR / David Gordon: 1975/2025, Wally Cardona and Molly Lieber’s reconceiving of Gordon and Valda Setterfield’s 1975 duet.

The true crime genre has already provided one bona fide London smash this year in the sublime Kenrex but Łukasz Twarkowski takes a very different approach with this four-hour-long opus.

Josh Groban has announced his new collection, Hidden Gems. To herald the announcement, he has shared the first offering from the upcoming project, a brand-new song, “The Constant,” which Groban wrote with EGOT winners Pasek and Paul. Listen to it here!

BroadwayWorld talks with Tony Award-winning Marissa Winokur and former Disney heartthrob Garrett Clayton, the director and co-star of the 5-Star Theatricals production of Hairspray in Thousand Oaks.