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Wilmington Drama League has mounted a joyous and exuberant Hairspray, a dazzling production before a sold-out audience. A joker smile was plastered on my face from first note to last. Post show, it took 2 double vodka tonics to look normal.

As we gear up for the 2025 Tony Awards, BroadwayWorld has the info on where you can catch one of this year's Tony-nominated shows in a city near you! Learn more here!

This season, six choreographers receive recognition for their outstanding work on Broadway. Meet the Tony-nominated choreographers of 2025 and check out their work onstage in these videos.

The 1962 feature film “Light in the Piazza” was shot on location at the Piazza della Signoria and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and the Via Veneto and Roma Ostiense railway station in Rome, making its technicolor splendor a hard act to follow when the story, based on a 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer, was developed for the stage in 2003.

This, the 24th season and third full season in the renovated and renamed Ray Charles Stage at the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center, celebrates stories of resilience and friendship: tales of grit, growth, and the powerful joy that comes from facing life’s challenges together.

May 20, 2025 will mark the 31st anniversary of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA) given to ten risk-taking, mid-career artists - experimenters - who are challenging and transforming art, their respective disciplines, and society.

Few honors in entertainment are as coveted—or as rare—as achieving EGOT status. This elite distinction marks a career filled with versatility, longevity, and extraordinary talent across multiple mediums. What does it all mean? We're taking a closer look at the artists who have managed to join one of the industry’s most exclusive clubs.

Connie Francis’ 1962 song “Pretty Little Baby” has become a viral sensation 63 years after it was first released, with millions of TikTokers lip-synching to the track.

The Public Theater’s Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham announced the line-up for The Public’s 2025-26 Season at their landmark Astor Place home. We have the full season details here!

Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award nominated Best Musical, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical is launching a globe-spanning World Tour. Learn more about the tour here!

Irónica, autocrítica, con un dominio del lenguaje poético que cruza toda su obra, pero también viva y muy vigente: así ha descrito Sara Uribe a Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974), a quien dedicó su último libro, Rosario Castellanos. Materia que arde (2023), el cual se presentará el próximo jueves 15 de mayo, a las 19 horas, en el Centro de Creación Literaria Xavier Villaurrutia (CCLXV), recinto del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL).

Jiehae Park’s World Premiere of her memory play the aves is gorgeously presented with a remarkable scenic design by visual artist Marsha Ginsberg. That the setting, and some fanciful avian puppetry by Erik Sanko becomes the focal point of the play is problematic. The story, set in a number of vignettes, involves two elders (Bill Buell, Mia Katigbak), apparently partners for fifty years, sitting on a park bench having a mundane conversation about pigeons and the weather.

This June, InterAct Theatre Company and Theatre in the X will present the world premiere of ON MY DEEN, a new play written by Antu Yacob and directed by Amina Robinson in collaboration with Philadelphia's Black Muslim community.

Which Sondheim show is best? While the answer to that question is entirely subjective, it is perhaps easier to investigate which Sondheim shows have the best track records. We're breaking it down show by show, as they were created chronologically...

Broadway may be confined to New York City's theatre district, but there's even more going on uptown. One of the word's premiere arts centers, Lincoln Center, is located just a few blocks north, and we're unpacking all that it has to offer...

Theatre By The Sea owner and producer Bill Hanney has announced the opening of the box office for ticket sales for the 2025 Summer Season. Beginning on Friday, May 2 (online only) and Sunday, May 4 (in person) patrons may purchase tickets to Theatre By The Sea's Children's Festival.

Broadway's Tony Award-Winning Musical Hairspray is set to take the Uptown Music Theater stage this summer in Highland Park, IL. Learn more about the show here!

This time, the reader question was: There are only three states in America without known Broadway musicals set within their borders. Can you guess which three? WE're breaking it down state by state.

Craft Recordings will reissue six records from Original Jazz Classics, including newly remastered editions of Bill Evans’ Interplay and Moon Beams, Lee Morgan’s Here’s Lee Morgan, and more.

Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? at Everyman Theatre through April 20, 2025, directed by Vincent M. Lancisi presents a contentious couple who return from a faculty party that has lasted past midnight to spitefully host young guests for additional drinks in their campus-adjacent home. It's awful, funny, entertaining, perplexing and satisfying

What did our critic think of NIGHT SIDE SONGS at American Repertory Theater?

Starring Miguel Falabella, the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (Uma Coisa Engraçada Aconteceu a Caminho do Forum, in portuguese) is a huge success that is getting a Brazilian production for the first time.

The Royal Ballet and Opera launches its 2025/26 Season, unveiling an unforgettable programme of new commissions, world premieres and much-loved revivals alongside the first annual festival connecting the worlds of opera and technology. 

San Francisco Playhouse has revealed its 23rd season, which will be presented September 2025 to September 2026. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets.

In the summer of 2025, New Paradigm Theatre (NPT) will produce the lively musical Hairspray. Check here for more information about the production.