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Café Carlyle is getting ready to welcome back Tony and Grammy Award nominee Megan Hilty for a special residency this summer. She just checked in with BroadwayWorld to tell us all about the upcoming gig!

What did our critic think of THE View UPSTAIRS at Barbershop Theatre? Street Theatre Company opened their final show of their 20th season. Max Vernon’s play was inspired by the 1973 attack at the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first musical In the Heights takes standard Broadway fare and moves it slightly more uptown - to 183rd Street, to be specific.  Lawrenceville's Aurora Theatre has its patrons do the same, moving a little further north outside the Perimeter to see their own new production of this Tony Award-winning musical.

Broadwayworld had the pleasure of interviewing playwright, Jack Canfora about his career and The Vienna Lessons.  He shared with us very interesting insights.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is  June 11, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS will bring its 20th Anniversary North American Tour to Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, with casting to be announced at a later date.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow will extend for a final time, completing its run at the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End on December 27, 2026 and at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway on January 3, 2027.  

English Touring Theatre announced a season of five plays, including world premieres of APPLICATION 39, LANNY, and PERICLES, alongside a new production of ROMEO AND JULIET, touring venues across the UK.

Theatre Raleigh’s Dear Evan Hansen pairs a standout cast with inventive staging and powerful performances to deliver a deeply engaging evening of theatre. While the musical’s central themes feel more complicated with time, this production finds genuine heart in its exploration of loneliness, grief, and the desire to belong.

Much has been written about the proliferation of pop singer-songwriters writing new musicals for Broadway and off-Broadway. Less covered is the trend of pop singers performing on Broadway, which has made for a number of memorable appearances in current and recent seasons. 

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?

Grab a tissue — these Tony Awards speeches may make you teary-eyed!

Laura Benanti is in for a busy Tony weekend. The popular performer will join Tituss Burgess to co-host “The Tony Awards: Act One,” a live pre-show, which will include the presentation of the first round of this year’s Tony Awards, airing free on Pluto TV.

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.

The Tony Award-winning Best Musical HADESTOWN is set to kick off Starlight's 75th Broadway season as part of the AdventHealth Broadway Series in Kansas City.

X is not the type of show you sit back and enjoy. It will put you on edge, drag you into dark places, and leave you thinking for days. If you're the kind of theatergoer who considers that a feature rather than a bug, this one's for you.

There is exactly one joke in Peter Shaffer's 1965 farce: when the lights come on, the characters are in the dark. Everything else — the borrowed furniture, the hapless sculptor, the stern colonel, the ex-girlfriend arriving at the worst possible moment — is just escalation.

NJPAC revealed the lineup for the 15th annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival in Newark, featuring an Ben Vereen 80th birthday celebration, and performances by Gregory Porter, Charles Lloyd, and Christian McBride.

After a two-year run, Country Music Hall of Fame legend Randy Travis will conclude the More Life Tour this fall with stops in Georgia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, New England, Texas, and beyond.

Ed Harris has revealed that he will be returning to the stage this year, starring alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Allison Janney in a production of Jon Robin Baitz's family drama, Other Desert Cities.

Fake Escape will present SAVING BRITNEY at Edinburgh Fringe, a solo show by Shereen Roushbaiani exploring celebrity obsession, the #FreeBritney movement, and sexual identity through one millennial's parallel journey with Britney Spears.

Pentabus is seeking an emerging playwright for its 2027 Jerwood Writer in Residence programme, offering a £12,000 bursary and up to a year at its base in Ludlow, South Shropshire, supported by the Jerwood Foundation.

Executive Director Chad Bauman on Milwaukee Rep's expansion, new play development, and why he sees this moment in American theater as 'a call to purpose.'

Fake Escape will present the world premiere of DAY OF THE LOCUST at Pleasance Courtyard, a solo show with live music adapting Nathanael West's classic novel through the lens of 2025's anti-ICE protests in LA.

The Unknown Artists will present ON THE LINE, a psychological thriller set at a 1984 Seattle crisis call center, loosely inspired by Ann Rule's real-life experience with Ted Bundy, at the Broadwater Second Stage in Los Angeles.