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Trainspotting the Musical has shared a casting update for the role of Renton. The previously announced Robbie Scott is stepping down from the role due to an injury he sustained during rehearsals.

Spiderbait announced local openers for all dates on their Ivy & the Big Apples 30th Anniversary Tour, featuring female and gender diverse artists across Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, and Newcastle.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that longtime stage and screen performer Tom Ligon, known for his screen roles in projects like Paint Your Wagon and The Young and the Restless, passed away at 85 years old on June 26, 2026.

Kathryn Haggis performs her solo show LIFEGUARD: The Only Job AI Can't Do at the Toronto Fringe Festival, directed by Tracey Erin Smith and dramaturged by playwright Judith Thompson.

It's the end of an era on Broadway. As BroadwayWorld reported last month, the curtain has officially come down on Boneau/Bryan-Brown, the iconic Broadway press office founded by ATPAM-members Chris Boneau and Adrian Bryan-Brown, after more than three decades representing theatre on Broadway, Off-Broadway and around the world.

Director David Valdez guides a wonderful production of this famous but flawed musical.

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?

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Grammy and Emmy winner Will Roland, Tony winner Norm Lewis and more. 

Even These Things, written by Rory Mullarkey, recently had its world premiere at the Royal Exchange Theatre. The play takes a look at three different years - 1846, 1996 and 2026 - and explores both Manchester and Ireland, with the final performance taking place on the 30th anniversary of the devastating IRA bomb in the heart of Manchester.

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 NOTEBOOK The Musical was a charming chamber piece when I first read Bekah Brunstetter's adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' breakout bestseller. But the touring version is now playing to bigger houses than either its original Chicago premiere or its New York engagement. With Broadway-extravaganza pretensions. Call me back when a local company decides to mount this musical at an appropriate scale.

The annual League Awards were held during The Broadway League’s 2026 Spring Road Conference as esteemed members and partners were honored for their achievements in support of Touring Broadway.

Lincoln Center announced Wynton Marsalis as its 2026-2027 Visionary Artist, honoring the trumpeter, composer, and Jazz at Lincoln Center co-founder in his final year as Artistic Director with free concerts, talks, and performances.

Origin Theatre Company will present an Off-Broadway revival of Enda Walsh's MISTERMAN, starring Broadway's Daniel Marconi, as the centerpiece of its 18th annual Origin Irish Theatre Festival at Theater Row in New York.

Triple Espresso: A Highly Caffeinated Comedy will return to Minneapolis' Luminary Arts Center for a three-week limited engagement following its 30th Anniversary national tour, with tickets starting at $32.

Signature Theatre has revealed its 2026-2027 Season. The 37th season features six musicals and two plays, including a world premiere musical, a regional premiere musical, and a DC premiere play.

Olney Theatre Center has revealed its 2026-27 season featuring a production of La Cage aux Folles directed by Artistic Director Jason Loewith, Les Misérables, directed by Stephen Brackett and more.

Elaine Cassidy and Katherine Pearce will be joining the cast of Rory Mullarkey’s original play EVEN THESE THINGS, which will have its World Premiere at The Royal Exchange Theatre as part of the 50th anniversary season under the theme ‘A Homecoming’. 

Few performers are born into the circus—and even fewer transform that legacy into mastery on one of the most dangerous apparatuses in live performance. Rodrigo Gomez is one of them. His journey growing up under the big top to performing on international stages is a story of discipline, risk, and a relentless pursuit of precision.

San Francisco Playhouse has revealed its 24th season, which will be presented August 2026 to September 2027. The season will feature three musicals and four plays.

We had the opportunity to interview Music Director Robert W. Butts about his career, The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, and the upcoming performance at The Growing Stage.

Today, exactly 114 years after RMS Titanic sank to to the bottom of the North Atlantic, Titanique arrives in New York City at last. The splash-hit musical comedy inspired by the 1997 film Titanic and powered by the songs of Céline Dion, officially opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. Check out what the critcis are saying about the production...

April brings Caribbean history, spoken word, and Latin jazz performances to the Bronx Music Hall (BMH) amid National Jazz Appreciation Month. The event lineup's highlights include April 11's 'Bronx Rising!: Joseph Chatoyer, the Garifuna Resistance, and the US: A Musical Tribute' event, presented in partnership with Casa Yurumein as part of Carnegie Hall's citywide festival United in Sound: America at 250 festival.

Netflix and the American Film Institute (AFI) will premiere the televised special, The 51st AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute To Eddie Murphy, on the streamer on May 31, 2026.

A second batch of shows for this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been announced, bringing the current total number on sale for 2026 to 2,083. Learn more here!