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Check out footage from Silent Night, which opened at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on November 15 and runs through November 18, before moving to Fort Lauderdale through December 6.

You’d be hard pressed to find a more striking opening outfit in a play than #FATKARY: The Corrido of a Tragic Ex-Fat Woman. Performer and writer Caridad Gómez dons a fat suit exaggerated to comical absurdity, her face mostly covered in the manner of a lucha libre fighter and her body obscured by what looks like layers upon layers of Cath Kidston cushions. Clad in something so cartoonish, Gómez encourages us to see her not quite as a real person, but as a caricature or a bogeyman, who can’t quite connect with her audience directly.

Diane Keaton made her Broadway debut in the original Broadway production of Hair at the age of 22. The landmark musical started out at the Public Theater off-Broadway in 1967 before transferring to the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway in 1968. Keaton joined the cast for the Broadway run, originating her track in the show.

GRAMMY® Award-winning, global superstar Michael Bublé is celebrating two decades of his multi-platinum second full-length offering, It’s Time, with the release of the brand new 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Listen to it here.

SUGAR SKULL! A Día de Muertos Musical Adventure is a touring bilingual/bicultural musical for young audiences and families that uses traditional regional music and dance from Mexico to tell the story of twelve-year-old Vita Flores.

Broadway and the West End may be the global capitals of musical theatre, but some of the best musicals have also come from outside the boundaries of New York City and London. France has produced revolutionary rock operas like Starmania and La Révolution Française to international blockbusters like Les Misérables, Notre-Dame de Paris, and Roméo et Juliette, captivating audiences around the world for decades. 

Alternative rock band Cartel has teamed up with VEEPS to livestream their upcoming hometown show from Masquerade (Heaven) in Atlanta, taking place on October 25th.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that screen icon Robert Redford, with several Broadway credits to his name, has died at age 89. Read his obituary here.

BroadwayWorld is here with your fall 2025 guide to all the shows lighting up New York’s stages. From world premieres to long-awaited revivals, this season’s Off-Broadway lineup delivers something for every kind of theater fan!

The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival proudly announces that its 2025 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona will return to downtown’s Sue Bierman Park.

Rock band Fall Out Boy will celebrate two decades of their 5x-Platinum breakthrough album, From Under The Cork Tree, with a new 20TH Anniversary Edition out October 17, 2025. Listen to a new single now.

Mamma Mia! is back on Broadway! As we celebrate the homecoming of this iconic Broadway staple, we're taking a look back on some of the notable stars who have appeared in various productions of Mamma Mia! around the world!

With the Harry Potter show now in production in the UK, we have put together a guide to the stage performers assembled for this new series, from two-time Tony winner John Lithgow to Arabella Stanton.

Michael Bublé will celebrate two decades of his multiplatinum second full-length offering, It’s Time, with a brand new 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition out September 12, 2025. Listen to a previously unreleased single now.

After over a decade away, Mamma Mia! is back on Broadway where it belongs! The show begins previews later this week at the Winter Garden Theatre, and while we await the Dynamos' first return performance, it's the perfect time to recap the music that inspired the show and how it keeps the story going.  ​

GRAMMY award-winning singer-songwriters Mike Reid and Joe Henry have confirmed their new collaborative album, Life & Time, set for release September 5. Check out a new single now.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report the death of Broadway veteran Michael James Leslie.

CJ ENM is adapting the hit 2012 film Dancing Queen into a stage musical with Tony-winning Broadway creatives, planning a 2027 premiere in Korea ahead of international expansion.

​Four performances of Wharton Center's 2025-2026 season are all on sale now to the public, including World Ballet Company's The Great Gatsby and more! See the full lineup here!

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will return to the New York stage this fall.  The musical will begin previews on November 7, with opening night set for November 17, 2025. The show is now teasing its cast via Instagram. Can you guess the spellers from these emojis?

This past season contained a higher than usual amount of Broadway shows involving death; in fact, Operation Mincemeat and Dead Outlaw both specifically revolved around transporting a corpse! And Death Becomes Her leans into the hilarity as two women become gorgeous living corpses before our very eyes, thanks to a touch of magic. But plays and musicals about death and its attendant macabre topics have been a part of the theatre landscape for many decades...

The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Wicked has just received its 4X Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. In celebration, Decca Broadway will release its first-ever 2-LP picture disc release of the album.

Acclaimed director Mark Brokaw, whose visionary work spanned Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theaters across the United States and abroad, has passed away after a battle with cancer. 

The official Wicked Instagram account has posted a new video, teasing a special edition re-release of the original Broadway cast recording featuring Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel.

20 years after the first season debuted in 2005, and 10 years after season two, HBO has announced the original comedy series The Comeback, from Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow, will return again for a third and final season.