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Arts Bonita Actors Theatre will present the Tony Award-winning musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN at the Hinman Auditorium in Bonita Springs. The production follows a 17-year-old boy struggling with social anxiety who becomes caught in a web of lies after the death of a classmate.

Oscar Valdes' political drama imagines intimate White House conversations between President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania during the July 2018 Helsinki summit crisis.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is September 29, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

What did our critic think of MAJESTY AND GLORY WITH RIVER CITY MEN'S CHORUS at St. James UMC In Little Rock?

Westport Country Playhouse will present the Off-Broadway comedy RENT CONTROL, written by and starring Evan Zes. Based on Zes's true story, the play follows an aspiring actor whose moneymaking scheme involving a rent-controlled apartment spirals out of control.

THE INTERRUPTERS will headline the Extreme Thing Sports & Music Festival in Las Vegas, marking the event's 25th anniversary with multiple stages, Freakshow Wrestling, and a local band competition.

Brooklyn rap group DELIVERY BOYS released collaborative single WAR AND PEACE with Houston legend Paul Wall via Broke Records. The track blends East Coast lyricism with Southern flow following the group's viral momentum and U.S. tour.

It’s been more than 17 years since the hit Fox musical series 'Glee' premiered in May 2009. BroadwayWorld looks back on the show, which ran for six seasons from 2009 to 2015.

Freeform's annual Halloween programming event will return with the premiere of supernatural drama COVEN ACADEMY alongside a lineup including Tim Burton's THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and CASPER.

Lil' Kim will add a second orchestral performance of HARD CORE with Thee Phantom & The Illharmonic Orchestra at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn after the first show sold out in four days.

LAIKA released the first full trailer for WILDWOOD, a handcrafted stop-motion adventure directed by Travis Knight and set to open in theaters across the United States.

The Tank will present the New York premiere of VERY BLUE LIGHT by Daphne Silbiger, following two women reuniting with a childhood friend in Marfa, Texas amid shifting politics and technology.

Mickey White is about to realize one of his career dreams – playing the title role in “Dear Evan Hansen,” the 2016 Tony Award winner for Best Musical.

Producer and artist Matt Lange announced RECOVERY, a 13-track album blending original songs and reimaginations. The project marks a new chapter for the electronic music artist.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 24, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

This play had been a powerful emotional experience, one I would have delightedly seen again, even before I’d mastered the fact pattern.

As Harry Potter and the Cursed Child celebrates its landmark 10th anniversary in the West End, BroadwayWorld caught up with three of the primary actors to celebrate the era and the wonder. The magic which first captivated audiences in 2016 shows no sign of fading.

The Tank NYC announced its fall season lineup, featuring four new plays including world premieres of SHOW TRIAL and LEGERDEMAIN, alongside New York premieres of VERY BLUE LIGHT and FALLS FOR JODIE.

A new play about the Macedonian teens who sparked a global fake news crisis in 2016 is set to debut at Edinburgh Fringe, co-created and performed by Isabella Heaver, who is herself half Macedonian.

Austin Playhouse’s Seared, directed by Lara Toner Haddock, serves up a grounded, well-paced production with strong ensemble work and a working kitchen that adds real texture. The staging feels alive, even when Theresa Rebeck’s script leans preachy and predictable.

What did our critic think of THE View UPSTAIRS at Barbershop Theatre? Street Theatre Company opened their final show of their 20th season. Max Vernon’s play was inspired by the 1973 attack at the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans.

Along with the impeccable acting and Diana Wyenn's brilliant direction, the most striking element of the production is Randy Wong-Westbrooke’s scenic design which features a half-dome representation of a rocket engine.

Imagine a rustic musical episode of The Waltons merged with The Twilight Zone.

Caryl Churchill meets ‘il dolce far niente’ in this reimagined production of her 2016 play Escaped Alone. Italian companies lacasadargilla and Piccolo Teatro present a timid adaptation written by Monica Capuani and directed by Lisa Ferlazzo Natoli and Alessandro Ferroni. It’s a pity that the quintessentially bleak English approach of Churchill’s four ageing women as they spend their summer between tea and gossip fails to translate. Caught between the shackling boredom of retirement and a desire to maintain their identities, they reminisce and dig up the past, unearthing a few uncomfortable truths. In all this, Mrs. Jarrett slips into apocalyptic speeches that detail environmental disaster and societal collapse.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at CUNY will present WORLD VOICES, a four-day festival featuring staged readings of new plays in translation by playwrights from Tuscarora/Canada, Austria, France, Senegal, and Germany.