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City Parks Foundation has unveiled the 2026 season of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage, New York City’s outdoor performing arts festival in Central Park and 12 neighborhood parks across the five boroughs.

The Perelman Performing Arts Center has revealed programming for the fourth artistic season at the recently opened performing arts center at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.

City Park Jazz has announced the lineup for the 40th annual summer series and Celebration of Community! City Park Jazz is a “celebration of community” that began in 1986 featuring only local musicians.

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced two productions that will be a part of the company’s 2026-27 season, including the Broadway premiere of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. Learn more here!

The Jazz Power Initiative will honor WBGO President & CEO Steven A. Williams, saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, and Council Member Carmen De La Rosa at the Syncopated Celebration 2026. This event, set for May 14 at Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space in Manhattan, celebrates the historical and cultural impact of jazz. Williams will receive the Rothman Family Syncopated Partnership Award, recognizing his contributions to jazz and his leadership at WBGO. The celebration underscores the enduring inf

Michael Feinstein channels the golden age of New York nightclubs in a swinging Standard Time concert highlighted by dazzling big-band arrangements led by Tedd Firth.

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...? 

Grand Rapids Civic Theatre will present a special centennial season featuring a lineup of classic and contemporary shows, marking a century of theatrical excellence.

Renowned cellist Steven Isserlis will perform works by Beethoven, Schumann, and others at Shriver Hall, Baltimore, marking the end of the venue's 60th mainstage season.

Theater West End was wise to split Angels in America in the season as two separate performances, each with their own block in the schedule. Originally, I was concerned that the Part Two of it all might turn away prospective theatergoers. But upon watching both parts now, and bearing in mind my own familiarity for the characters, I can also see now how the original production’s 18-month gap would have also been enticing for an audience.

Carolyn Lucas was studying dance in college when a friend took her to see iconic postmodern dance choreographer Trisha Brown (1936–2017) and her eponymous company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The experience changed her life and launched her career, according to Lucas.

In 1986, Tamara Erickson was just nine years old when she appeared on the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres stage as Marta Von Trapp in The Sound of Music—the second child from the left, brimming with confidence and joy. At the time, no one could have predicted that this young performer would one day help lead the very theatre where her journey began.

This history gives context to the legacies of theatrical dynasties—considered to consist of at least three subsequent generations of theatre creators. In 2026, there is a stigma around any successful professional who follows a parent into their line of work, with this being seen as a pattern of nepotism.

A - She's Adorable. And she's back in New York to stake her claim.

While much of the dramatic weight of Angels in America undeniably stems from the specter of AIDS, it would do the play a huge disservice to reduce it to a story about disease alone. What Theater West End makes clear is that Kushner’s work is as much about identity, loss, and the human struggle to reconcile who we are deep down with who we present to the world.

HERE & NOW, presented by UK pop sensation, Steps, has announced that Coronation Street star Sally Ann Matthews will take over the role of Patricia from 23 January 2026.

Broadwayworld had the pleasure of interviewing Leonel Baizan about his background, career and Taquería Condesa. 

While different tryout theaters have different relationships to the development of new shows, it’s worth looking at both which commercial rental theaters and which non-profit theaters have had the most Best Musical Tony Award winners come from their stages.

The University of South Carolina's Betsy Blackmon Dance Company will present its Fall Concert the Koger Center for the Arts. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) Commissioner Laurie Cumbo have announced five new members of the city’s Cultural Institutions Group.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is September 25, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Perhaps no one is more surprised Steve Hackett is doing a retrospective on THE LAMB 50 years after the fact than the guitarist himself. THE LAMB was ranked in the top ten of Rolling Stone magazine’s top 50 progressive rock albums of all time. The BBC called it a “conceptual masterpiece.” Hackett has another word for it: an anomaly.

Colin Hay, who will perform an acoustic show Nov. 2 at the Southern Theatre (21 E. Main Street in downtown Columbus), disagrees with the assessment, but the former Men at Work frontman is a man of misperceptions. For example:

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Paloma Diamond, Chester Gregory, and many more! See the full lineup here.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that the 17th annual Jimmy Awards will take place on Monday, June 22, 2026 at 7:30pm at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre, 200 West 45th Street in Manhattan.