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Next month, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond for Women's History Month, including Linda Eder, Kate Baldwin, Jenn Colella and more. 

Sheffield Theatres has revealed details of the 2026/27 season. An ambitious season of classics alongside five world premieres will welcome audiences across the Sheffield Theatres stages.

To finish out February, the month of LOVE, I invited you to give a shoutout to the people who make your world of theatre a better place to be — the mentors, friends, directors, teachers, business leaders, family members, and fellow artists who lifted you up, believed in you, and helped turn rehearsal rooms into places that feel like home.

Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting the world premiere of safronia, a landmark musical composition commissioned from Chicago’s first Poet Laureate, the interdisciplinary artist avery r. young.

MAC to School 2025, MAC's 10th annual educational symposium, took place 9/27–28 in NYC. The two-day event featured master classes, panels, and showcases. MAC's 40th Annual Awards follow at Symphony Space on March 23, 2026.

Performances are now underway for Dog Day Afternoon, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis. Meet the cast of Dog Day Afternoon here!

Producer Mark Michelson opens up about the development of Children of Eden, Broadway’s economic barriers, the Chicago staged reading, casting the concert, and plans to rethink theatre’s financial future.

To mark the arrival of spring, there are plenty of new things for Broadway fans to watch, including the theater series American Classic, Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! and the streaming debuts of Wicked: For Good and Hamnet.

Methika Jiranorraphat, more widely known as Jane Yeh, has spent the past decade expanding the scope of what she can do on screen. The actress and singer began her career in 2015 and quickly moved from supporting roles to leading performances across both television and film.

Chance Theater will present THE MESSENGER, a new play by Jenny Connell Davis, exploring themes of memory and resistance, from March 27 to April 19, 2026.

As part of their self-ascribed “year of world premieres,” Olney Theatre Center is debuting the profoundly peppy, wonderfully messy, coming-of-age celebration Little Miss Perfect, written by Joriah Kwamé. The musical has been in development for more than five years, originally based on the catchy song of the same title written by Kwamé, which found stardom in the 2020 Write Out Loud contest. 

Death of a Salesman is back on Broadway! Arthur Miller’s American drama will star three-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, two-time Tony Award winner Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott and Ben Ahlers. Meet the cast of Death of a Salesman here!

Swap glass slippers for basketball high-tops and join South Coast Repertory (Artistic Director David Ivers and Managing Director Suzanne Appel) for Cinderella: A Salsa Fairy Tale.

TRU is in its sixth year of non-stop weekly Community Gatherings, and celebrating its 300th consecutive conversation. Up next is Designs for a Living: How Clothes Make the Character.

The Grainger Academy of The Joffrey Ballet will present five world premieres in the culmination of Joffrey's national call for emerging artists to submit applications for the Winning Works Choreographic Competition.

It’s… Hairspray! BroadwayWorld is taking a look back at what the cast of this beloved musical has been up to since the show first graced the Broadway stage!

Ruth Eckerd Hall will host the 4th Annual Clearwater Smooth Jazz Jam on May 30 and 31, featuring top jazz artists. Tickets for the event will go on sale this Friday.

This week’s newsletter brings together stories of accountability, advocacy, and adaptation across the theatre world. We cover artists and organizations responding to public scrutiny, including Lauren Gunderson’s statement following her appearance in the Epstein files and the Washington Post’s elimination of its chief theater critic role. Elsewhere, new initiatives and events push forward, from Broadway Bares gearing up for its next benefit and Katharine Quinn launching a Broadway-focused marketing agency to Broadway showtunes finding new life on the ice. The issue also examines ongoing debates over access, transparency, and infrastructure, from Equity’s dispute with Spotlight in the UK to closed-door discussions about Portland’s Keller Auditorium.

A new musical is in development based on the best-selling novel by Alice Hoffman and the cult-classic WarnerBros. Motion Picture, Practical Magic, with an original score by Grammy Award-winners Norah Jones and Gregg Wattenberg.

Live at Yours opens its 2026 season with an artistic gesture that is both culturally resonant and architecturally bold: immersive concerts presented inside two heritage-listed architectural masterpieces.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is February 9, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.

Bristol Old Vic's executive partnership of Artistic Director NANCY MEDINA and newly appointed Executive Director Rebecca Dawson has outlined the ways Bristol Old Vic is delivering on the organisation's commitment to support theatre-makers of the future, and champion stories from the South West in a string of announcements that coincide with the Theatre's 260th anniversary year.

 Lyric Opera of Chicago will Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz’s El último sueño de Frida y Diego. What unfolds is a dreamlike journey through memory, passion, and everything they created together — both on canvas and in life.

Lorna Dallas, one of cabaret's most acclaimed and cherished artists and the recipient of a 2020 Bistro Award for “Consummate Cabaret Artistry,” returns to Chelsea Table + Stage.

Four of Broadway’s ten longest running musicals are currently on the boards: Chicago, The Lion King, Wicked, and The Book of Mormon. One, The Phantom of the Opera, closed in 2023 after attaining the title of longest running Broadway show of all time.  But what about Broadway’s longest running plays?