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First-look photos have been released for the second season of Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross, the Roku Original series featuring the award-winning actress as she embarks on solo travels around the world. Check out the new photos now.

San Francisco Playhouse will begin its 2026-27 season with the rolling World Premiere of R.O.I. (Return on Investment), commissioned by the Playhouse and written by Playhouse resident playwright Aaron Loeb.

The national tour of A Beautiful Noise rocks into town this week, bringing enough sequins to light up all of Toledo. As the final engagement of Broadway in Toledo’s 2025–2026 season, this musical offers a closer look at the life of Neil Diamond while delivering a thoroughly entertaining evening of music and storytelling. It’s a beautiful celebration of Diamond’s catalog and a rare glimpse into the man behind the legend. Filled with iconic hits, a stellar cast, and an emotionally resonant story, A Beautiful Noise is a memorable theatrical experience.

Kat Kramer's Films That Change the World will present a 70mm Ultra-Panavision screening of Stanley Kramer's 1963 classic at Fine Arts Theatre Beverly Hills, with Barrie Chase, Jeff Garlin, and a book signing in attendance.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the reimagined Broadway touring musical, is a truly magical experience at Centennial Hall. This touring production, which features new musical arrangements and choreography, is largely a success. The production mostly stays faithful to the music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and book by Linda Woolverton.

When it comes to experimental theatre in North America, few have a legacy as long, dedicated, and influential as Richard Foreman. When Foreman died in 2025, he left an archive of over 50 years of work from his Ontological-Hysteric Theatre company, founded in 1968. Foreman’s theatrical explorations prioritized immediacy and the present over a fixed sense of narrative, focusing on the process of the play’s creation and the audience’s interpretation.

Pop-rock artist Cami Clune has shared details of her forthcoming seven-track album, should be sleeping, which will be released on Friday, July 10. The project fuses pop, rock, and country influences along with theatrical storytelling.

Prescott Park Arts Festival and Seacoast Jazz Society will present the 43rd Annual Seacoast Jazz Festival, a full day of jazz on Portsmouth's waterfront featuring bebop, New Orleans brass, Latin swing, and more.

The When Voices Rise Songwriting Contest revealed the winners and finalists of its inaugural national competition, recognizing original songs that confront urgent social issues while celebrating music’s enduring ability to inspire action.

Red Bull Theater has revealed the cast for their annual Short New Play Festival 2026 to be held at Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Peter Norton Symphony Space in June.

Have you ever wondered what really goes on in cemeteries when memories are shared with those seen and unseen at grave sites?  Then head on over to see two, funny and life-affirming plays in this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, bundled together as Amazing Graves, produced by Amanda Lynne for Neo Ensemble Theatre.

Many of us have less-than-fond memories of high school, and can relate to the idea that “high school is hell” – enough so that a musical about a high school literally at the mouth of hell, overrun by demons and evildoing feels fairly apropos.

Summer is here and there is no better time of year to soak up the sun and dive into a new book. You're in luck, because Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 22 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's Summer 2026 reading list.

At a time when stories are being challenged, erased, and reimagined in real time, the communities most impacted are often cared for the least, with few industry spaces designed specifically for their support. In 2020, three powerhouse theater artists and Tony Award nominees, Amber Iman, Jocelyn Bioh, and Danielle Brooks, set out to change that. What began as a desire to celebrate Black women working in theater has grown into Black Women on Broadway (BWOB), a thriving community dedicated to mentorship, recognition, wellness, and professional development for Black women working both onstage and behind the scenes.

About to world premiere Jennifer Nettles’ new musical, Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo, Andrew Kober reflects on the rehearsal process, his 10 Broadway shows starting with the beloved Hair revival, and performing in five musical productions—from The Queen of Versailles to The Wild Party—in one NYC season.

In this vivid piece, the company explores the condition of young life in the age of social media, where individuality is constantly performed, consumed, imitated, and discarded.

Broadway says goodbye to three productions. Chess takes its final bow at the Imperial Theatre following 34 previews and 249 regular performances; The Balusters concludes its limited run at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre after 22 previews and 72 regular performances; and Celebrity Autobiography concludes its run at the Shubert Theatre after 3 previews and 39 regular performances. The theatres will soon be home to 860, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, and Galileo respectively.

With Edwards and Davis, a night out combines fine entertainment with a side of education - but no quizzes!

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.

2026 is halfway over, which means that the 2026/27 Broadway season has just begun! Now that the 79th Annual Tony Awards have concluded, all eyes are already on the lineup for the new Broadway season and many Broadway productions have already revealed full details of their upcoming engagements.

Much has been written about the proliferation of pop singer-songwriters writing new musicals for Broadway and off-Broadway. Less covered is the trend of pop singers performing on Broadway, which has made for a number of memorable appearances in current and recent seasons.