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Emmy Award Winner Derek Hough will be delivering Chicago’s opening monologue on Broadway. A post-performance talk back with Mark Ballas will follow the performance. 

Looking to escape from the hot sun? Why not check out one of the many intriguing offerings at greater Boston venues where this summer’s vibrant theater scene boasts pre-Broadway productions, national tours, and summer-stock productions of everything from Shakespeare to classic and contemporary plays, musicals, and concerts. Bay State audiences have much to look forward to, including:

The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Jersey Boys will return to Midland Center for the Arts for five performances as part of a multi-city North American Tour marking its 20th Anniversary.

Award-winning comedy icons, writers, actors, and drag queen powerhouses BenDeLaCreme & Jinkx Monsoon are coming back to town for the ninth year of their internationally acclaimed, The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show.

Nonesuch Records is set to release Natalie Merchant’s Cabinet of Wonder, a digital collection of seventeen songs and accompanying videos from the singer-songwriter’s collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and Chicago Children’s Theatre (CCT).

A 25th anniversary tour is currently underway for Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a live celebration of the cult movie musical from John Cameron Mitchell. A slew of new dates have been added since its original announcement, including stops in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and a November date at the Beacon Theatre.

NCCAkron and MoBBallet has announced the Dancing Lab: MoBBallet Writing Workshop, gathering eight dance writers and editors in Akron, OH to examine the evolving role of dance criticism and storytelling.

Limón Dance Company will present a program at The Joyce Theater in NYC featuring José Limón's 1958 work Mazurkas, performed in full for the first time since 1964, alongside Aszure Barton's 2025 commission Join.

Betty Buckley has released her new single, “On the 4th of July,” written by six-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter James Taylor. The track is the second single from Buckley’s forthcoming album, Enough. Listen now!

John Donnelly's THE PASS, directed by Max Hunter, will make its American premiere at La MaMa in a five-week limited run starring Matisse Ratron-Neal, Terry Bell, Ino Badanjak, and Oliver Rowland-Jones.

Vangeline Theater will present Unforgotten: Butoh for 9/11, a free 60-minute ensemble Butoh dance piece commemorating 9/11 victims in Times Square, with live cello accompaniment by Katinka Kleijn.

West End and Broadway star Ruthie Henshall will release her new memoir, The Showgirl and the Prince, detailed her secret relationship with Prince Edward in the 1980s. Learn more here.

Newsies, featuring music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein premiered on Broadway in 2012. BroadwayWorld is looking back at what the cast has been up to since the show first burst onto Broadway!

Rapper and songwriter Isaiah Rashad has set Lil Sunny’s Awful Road Trip, a highly anticipated 29-date North American headline tour supporting his critically acclaimed third studio album, It’s Been Awful, released May 1.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is  June 16, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: 

Bleachers have partnered with The Ally Coalition to host local LGBTQ Youth and Leaders at the Bleachers show at Madison Square Garden on June 23rd. To make the show even more accessible to all fans, the band is offering a limited number of tickets to the MSG show for $30, inclusive of all fees. 

Indie-pop singer-songwriter-pianist Andrew McMahon has unveiled his 18-date, intimate,  solo fall tour, “An Evening with Andrew McMahon and His Piano,' which is set to launch October 9th in Boston with the first of two nights at City Winery.

The Carbonell Awards announced it is seeking nominations for up to eight Special Awards to be presented at its 49th annual ceremony in Boca Raton, with a submission deadline in early July.

The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS will bring its 20th Anniversary North American Tour to Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, with casting to be announced at a later date.

Gary Schweikhart, president of the Carbonell Awards, announced that “South Florida’s Theater & Arts Honors” is seeking nominations for up to eight additional Special Awards that will be presented at the 49th annual Carbonell Awards Ceremony on Monday, November 16, at 7:30 p.m. at FAU’s University Theatre in Boca Raton.

Seattle Opera named composer Laura Kaminsky and librettist Deborah Brevoort as Creative Directors of the Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab, a new-works incubator cultivating emerging Pacific Northwest opera composers and librettists.

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. 

Bucks County Playhouse will present SOUTH PACIFIC, a production with deep local roots — Oscar Hammerstein wrote the lyrics while living nearby, and the show is based on the work of Bucks County resident James Michener.

Queen Latifah has joined the first-ever Board of Advisors at BET Media Group alongside BET Founder Bob Johnson, Grammy Award-winning artist LL COOL J, National Football League's Executive Vice President of Football Operations, Troy Vincent, and more.

BroadwayWorld Chicago has named Rachel Weinberg Co-Lead Editor and Theater Critic, formalizing a shared editorial leadership structure alongside Misha Davenport.