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Curve theatre in Leicester has released production images from its staging of Willy Russell's EDUCATING RITA, starring Alexandra Mardell and Dominic Mafham and directed by Cara Nolan.

The Verdi Chorus opens its 43rd season with a concert featuring operatic sequences from Verdi's works alongside selections from Leoncavallo and Puccini at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica.

54 Below will present performers from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and entertainment, including artists in October, including Jenn Colella, Ali Ewoldt, Christine Ebersole and more.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre and The Ira & Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund launched a new granting program providing $2,000 to $5,000 to member organizations developing musicals from existing songs, stories and cultural touchstones.

Bill Kenwright’s Blood Brothers has embarked on its Autumn 2026 tour and has released new production images. Check out the new photos and learn more about the show here!

Before We Are History, featuring four plays created during or in response to the AIDS crisis, will run October 23 through November 8 at Open Space Arts.

Belongó will present its second annual benefit featuring Arturo O'Farrill & the AFRO LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE BLUES BROTHERS members, and BALLET HISPÁNICO to support music education programs in NYC public schools and Casa Belongó.

Bill Kenwright's touring production of BLOOD BROTHERS will run at Storyhouse in Chester from October 13-17, 2026, with Vivienne Carlyle starring as Mrs Johnstone.

Blood Brothers has announced cast for the upcoming Autumn tour. It also announces further dates for the 2027 Spring tour. Learn more about the production here.

What did our critic think of THE OUTSIDERS at Broadway In Louisville At Kentucky Performing Arts?

RAVEN will begin the second European leg of its "Can't Take Away The Fire" 2026 tour September 3 in Belgrade, with stops including Zagreb, Essen, Den Haag, Tilburg, Stuttgart and Diest through September 13.

The Finnish National Theatre will present Lyle Kessler's Orvot, the Finnish-language production of The Orphans, in August. Learn more about the performance here.

Alexandra Mardell and Dominic Mafham will lead Curve's new production of Willy Russell's EDUCATING RITA, directed by Associate Director Cara Nolan in Leicester.

Morgan Wallen concluded the Still the Problem Tour with a sold-out finale in Philadelphia, capping 23 stadium shows across 12 cities as his album I'm the Problem returned to number one on the Billboard 200.

Over the years, Broadway has seen a number of family acts sharing the stage. It’s extra special when family members team up to write a Broadway show together. The Great White Way has seen many instances of this historically, in a variety of different situations. While last week’s column focused on spouses penning shows together, this week is all about blood relatives partnering to write work. 

In 'Dances to American Music' at the Joyce Theatre, Morris pays tribute to regional American music.

The Outsiders’ Canadian debut, presented with Mirvish Productions, is a seamless, multi-sensory delight that evokes strong reactions from traditionally quiet Toronto audiences. 

Curve Theatre in Leicester will stage a new production of Willy Russell's EDUCATING RITA, directed by Associate Director Cara Nolan, following Susan 'Rita' White's journey of self-discovery through an unlikely Open University friendship.

Trading Places, the Broadway-bound new musical based on the Paramount motion picture written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod, will have workshop presentations in New York City.

There appeared to be a serious breach of theatre etiquette in the March 17 production of THE OUTSIDERS at Ohio Theatre (37 E. State Street in downtown Columbus).

Our 41 Broadway theaters provide a home for every production that hits the Great White Way. From our oldest continually operating Broadway house, the Lyceum, to our newest reopened and functioning Broadway house, the Hudson, the Broadway theaters are all located in midtown Manhattan. Who are all of our current Broadway houses named for...? 

More of a drama with sung interludes than a full-blown musical, The Outsiders is an outstanding production. Relying on a minimalist stage, dark lighting, and choreography, the ensemble is given a wide berth to perform.

Jermyn Street Theatre will present Orphans by Lyle Kessler in January 2026, starring Forbes Masson, Chris Walley, and Fred Woodley Evans. See photos of the production.

Lyle Kessler’s Orphans was first performed in 1983, but you wouldn’t know that from this production. The tiny stage feels overcome by Sarah Beaton’s design, retro but not too retro, a space immune to the passing decades.

The year, 1967, the place, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and its central narrative came from the scrawlings of a 16-year-old named Susan Eloise Hinton, and the rest as we know it is solidified into literary history. History so much, that it has sparked a re-birth with a new generation and with the new stage adaptation of Hinton’s subliminal novel, a pandemonium and cultural phenomenon was created.