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Directed by Jon Brittain, Janine Harouni: This Is What You Waited For has had Harouni travelling around the world, landing in London with her longest stint at Soho Theatre

New Jewish Theatre has unveiled its 2026 season, featuring five productions. The line-up includes three new to St. Louis productions, a Tony Award–winning comedy, and one of Broadway's most beloved musicals. Learn more!

Located at 234 West 44th Street, the restaurant has been serving the Theater District community since 1921, bearing witness to the rise of true Broadway legends since before the Golden Age. The iconic venue is the setting for Blue Moon, in which lyricist Lorenz Hart takes a seat on opening night of Oklahoma! in 1943.  In this video, theatre historian Jennifer Ashley Tepper takes us inside the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to take a closer look.

What did our critic think of TICK, TICK...BOOM! at The Umbrella Arts Center?

As he wraps his freshman year as a cabaret performer, Macon Prickett reflects on the path that brought him to the nightclub stage, the terror of that first time, and the rewards that being a cabaret professional yields.

Caroline O'Connor, Silvie Paladino, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Georgia Wilkinson, Denis Walter and Claire Lyon are among the star-studded line-up set to perform at Hamer Hall as part of Arts Centre Melbourne’s 2026 Morning Melodies program.

We’re thrilled to have the chance to speak with composer Bob Kelly, one of the creators behind Confessions: A New Musical, which is set to have a private industry reading in New York City on October 20. The musical is based on Tom Rastrelli’s memoir Confessions of a Gay Priest and explores the powerful intersection of faith, sexuality, and identity through the eyes of a Catholic priest confronting his truth.

Gareth Gates will be baring all when he pays a steamy visit to Parr Hall next year. The singer, actor and heart-throb will be starring in Boyband in the Buff – a throwback to some of the biggest hits of the 90s and 00s with a naughty twist.

ROAM, a new musical directed by Rupert Hands (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Evita, London Palladium) with choreography by Olivier Award winner James Cousins  will perform a special one-night only concert.

A dependable haven for artists in isolation, Theater Resources Unlimited will present an upcoming town hall, Queery: Is Theater As Gay-Friendly As We Think?. Learn more and see how to attend.

With the holiday season just around the corner, BroadwayWorld caught up with Scott and Mark Hoying to discuss their new children's book Fa La La Family, its accompanying album, Dancing with the Stars, and more.

This All Hallows’ Eve, Masquerade is inviting guests deeper inside the world of the Phantom of the Opera than ever before with Le Bal Macabre, a Halloween Soirée following the holiday evening performance.

IndiGalleria’s exhibition ‘Rhythmic Sagas’, featuring the first-ever solo show in Delhi by internationally acclaimed Sri Lankan artist Raja Segar, was inaugurated on October 9th, 2025 and will be up for public viewing until October 18th, 2025.

Dreamgirls the Musical is a Broadway-licensed production featuring local talents, set at the venue of Glitz Inclusive, coming to Indonesia this year. Learn more about the show here!

The 10/22 show DREAMS DON'T COME TRUE IN PENNSYLVANIA is a revamped and revised encore of their sold-out March 2025 debut show. Read a conversation with the couple about this encore performance.

Under the Radar has unveiled the full lineup of over 30 productions for the festival’s 21st edition. See the full programming lineup here and see how to purchase tickets!

SoHo Playhouse has chosen Hungry Women, a new play by Melissa Maney and directed by Iris Dukatt, as a winner of its 2025 Lighthouse Series. The full-length piece will debut at the downtown venue for a six-week Off-Broadway run in May 2026.

Get ready for the return of London's most competitive night of new theatre. PRESSURE is back with its third edition: 'Time Is Running Out', at Playhouse East, Haggerston. Learn more!

Melting Pot and the Birmingham Rep will co-produce a brand-new staging of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, opening in Birmingham next September before embarking on a major UK tour

Threepenny Collective will present L'Indiscipline written by Michal Vojtech, Pierre Albert Ollivier, and Ariel de la Garza and featuring an ensemble cast of fresh voices, as part of the Voila! Theatre Festival in London. Learn more!

As the finale to their 2025 season, Belvoir will bring the house down with Shakespeare’s greatest play King Lear, starring multi-award-winning stage and screen legend Colin Friels,.

What did our critic think of BLACKBIRD at United Hope Church? Of course, there’s a lot to gasp about in Talk Is Free Theatre’s production of BLACKBIRD, an incredibly intimate staging of Scottish playwright David Harrower’s 2005 drama about a tense confrontation, years after the fact, between a man who had a sexual relationship with a middle schooler and the now grown woman who tracks him down. So it’s a good thing to have such unfettered access to that respiration.

Bob Dylan was commissioned to create custom artwork for Off-Broadway's Masquerade. The new gates are part of a new scene, telling The Phantom of the Opera's backstory.

Go ahead Nicole—tear our hearts out, make us fall in love, make us gasp and cry and scream, make us feel—and she did. As if the beauty and talent weren’t enough—she’s also charming, funny, and genuine…good lord, the woman is a unicorn

Rob Madge’s adapted version of Brandon Thomas’s Victorian farce proves both hilarious and unexpectedly timely, with standout performances and a contemporary edge that never sacrifices the original’s sparkle.