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​On your marks, get set... go! The New York City Marathon is coming up this Sunday, November 2, bringing together runners from all over the world for one epic day spread across the five boroughs. In 2024, 55,642 runners completed the marathon, with an average finish time of 4:31:31. This year, some of them will be people you know from Broadway!

Coronation Street's Daniel Brocklebank will be taking over the role of Dr Frederick Frankstein in their production of Mel Brooks' YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN THE MUSICAL when it transfers to Liverpool Playhouse for a limited 5-week run.

Happy Halloween, BroadwayWorld! It is October 31, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The Alliance Theatre and Writers Theatre have announced the national tour of The Birthday of the World, an original, multi-sensory theatrical experience created for 0-5 year-olds and their families.

Today, Ben Forster’s album, Musicals Greatest Hits, is released. The album has songs from shows that Forster has starred in, like “Gethsemane” from Jesus Christ Superstar and “Music Of The Night” from The Phantom of the Opera, as well as others like “The Winner Takes It All” from Mamma Mia! and Wicked’s “For Good.”

This past week the DC theatre community lost one of its visionaries with the passing of Artistic Director/Director/Performer/Mentor Jerry B. Whiddon at age 77. For twenty years Jerry served as the Producing Artistic Director Of Round House Theatre. The company was born out of Street 70 which Jerry helped start in 1970.

 Barcelona will celebrate the centennial of visionary Catalonian architect Antoni Gaudí's passing, with the world premiere of Boston-based Catalan composer Olivia Pérez-Collellmir's Seven Dreams of Gaudí at the Palau de la Música Catalana.

Theatrical Rights Worldwide has announced that BOOP! THE MUSICAL is now available for licensing in select countries, with full availability to follow. Learn more about how to license BOOP! THE MUSICAL here.

Villanova Theatre will present Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D'Amour's play Detroit, directed by Edward Sobel. Learn more about the upcoming production here!

For decades, Miss Saigon has occupied contested terrain within the musical theater canon—championed by some as an essential work, scrutinized by others for perpetuating orientalist narratives and reductive stereotypes.

Over the next few months, theatre is heading to Hollywood. To celebrate the release of movies like Blue Moon, Hedda, and more, BroadwayWorld has put together a guide to five new titles that are sure to appeal to Broadway fans. 

With the holiday season just around the corner, BroadwayWorld caught up with Scott and Mark Hoying to discuss their new children's book Fa La La Family, its accompanying album, Dancing with the Stars, and more.

Schmigadoon has found its leading players! Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice) and Sara Chase (The Great Gatsby) will reprise their roles of Josh Skinner and Melissa Gimble in the Broadway production of Schmigadoon! Brightman and Chase originated the roles in The Kennedy Center production earlier this year.

Letters from the late Herbert Kretzmer, recently donated to Cambridge University Library, reveal that the writer, who famously wrote the English-language lyrics for Les Miserables, felt he didn't receive enough credit for his work on the musical masterpiece.

In a recent video segment, CBS Mornings Plus co-anchor Adriana Diaz sat down with Buena Vista Social Club co-choreographers Justin Peck and Patricia Delgado, a husband-and-wife duo whose personal story is deeply tied to the music.

Chess is back on Broadway! Previews for Chess begin Wednesday, October 15 at the Imperial Theatre. The production officially opens Sunday, November 16. Meet the cast of Chess below!

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is October 14, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

I Was Born This Way, a new documentary exploring the life and legacy of Archbishop Carl Bean, has set its theatrical release. The movie made its world debut earlier this year at the Tribeca Festival.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is commending Lady Gaga after attending a recent performance of her Mayhem Ball tour, acknowledging her tribute to the Phantom of the Opera while singing her A Star Is Born smash hit, 'Shallow.'

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.

Mosaic Theater Company will present the DC premiere of A Case for the Existence of God, a deeply moving and critically acclaimed play by MacArthur Genius Samuel D. Hunter. Directed by Danilo Gambini.

Performances are now underway for the Broadway premiere of The Queen of Versailles. Previews begin on October 8. Meet the cast of The Queen of Versailles here and read bios of the show's stars and cast!

Oscar-nominated actor Stephen Rea will narrate Ocean Child at the Irish Cultural Centre this November - the flagship event in the Irish Cultural Centre's 30th anniversary programme.

NEA Jazz Master and bass virtuoso Ron Carter will return to Birdland Jazz Club, the Jazz Corner of the World, this October for his popular annual residency. Learn more here!

Rachel Zegler was joined by Andrew Lloyd Webber during her first-ever solo concert at The London Palladium. Watch videos of her singing from Les Misérables, The Wizard of Oz, Funny Girl, and Sunday in the Park With George with Ramin Karimloo.