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Tckets for the Portland, OR engagement of The Wiz will go on sale Monday, October 20 at 10 AM. Learn more about the Portland engagement and see how to purchase tickets here!

All new photos have been released from Katherine Moar’s Ragdoll at Jermyn Street Theatre. Check out the photos here and learn more about the production!

Láhppon/Lost has an extremely physical narrative, an echo of the Kautokeino rebellion told through ballet. Learn more about this upcoming production and how to get tickets here!

There are no musical numbers in the Fox Theatre’s 2025-2026 season opener. But that’s okay. Instead of a full-blown musical spectacle the company has opted for a moving production of The Life of Pi.

Studio Theatre in Washington, DC has appointed Jess Chayes as its new Associate Artistic Director. Chayes, an award-winning director and producer, brings a background in new play development and ensemble creation to the company.

New York Live Arts and Pick Up Performance Co. will present the world premiere of TIMES FOUR / David Gordon: 1975/2025, Wally Cardona and Molly Lieber’s reconceiving of Gordon and Valda Setterfield’s 1975 duet.

The benefit of a stage production means it will always be malleable to change, always willing to look at how a story written in the past can still be relevant in the present, and remain timeless for the future. What follows in this new production of The Wiz is a recontextualization of our favorite characters. While the structure of the story is faithful to the Baum novel and MGM film, it comes with small, but noticeable details that reframe this familiar story not just as a fantastical quest, but as a bildungsroman and revenge tale at the same time.

Check out production photos from WISH YOU WERE HERE, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company's Chicago premiere and the first production in its 30th anniversary season.

Drag culture in La Cage aux Folles isn’t just the “bold face” of the gay community; it’s a celebration of visibility itself, a way of inviting even those on the periphery to understand more deeply what it means to live authentically, unbothered, and unashamed.

​​​​​​​Cleveland Public Theatre will present Hallowed Owls, an interactive installation activated through intermingling of storytelling, poetry, instrumentals, voice and dance.

Deathtrap is definitely worth your time. Long hailed as Broadway’s longest-running comedy-thriller, Deathtrap masterfully blends sinister suspense with biting wit—truly “two-thirds a thriller and one-third a devilishly clever comedy” from Kansas City Actors Theatre+

Porgy and Bess is a famous 'folk opera' created by George Gershwin, with a libretto by DuBose Heyward and lyrics by DuBose and Ira Gershwin. The work chronicles the life of a Black community on Catfish Row in Charleston and is known for its fusion of operatic elements with American folk music, jazz, and blues. The story focuses on the love between Porgy, a disabled beggar, and Bess, a woman seeking a better life.

Chicago’s historic Fine Arts Building and Studebaker Theater just announced the return of Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol to the Studebaker for a limited run this holiday season, December 12–28, 2025.

Broadway currently boasts 41 theaters. This number has always been ever-changing—since even before the first time the word “Broadway” was used to describe professional theater in New York.

Now in its fifth year, the hit musical improv comedy show, Shitzprobe, is moving uptown to the historic Laurie Beechman Theatre. Learn more about the show and its new home!

Scream Factory, an output of boutique film label Shout Factory focusing on horror and sci-fi titles, will host an anniversary event at Vidiots in Los Angeles on Friday, September 19 in celebration of their 13th anniversary.

Hartford Stage Company Youth Theatre (HSCYT), a little-known endeavor in the 1970s and 1980s, propelled hundreds of Hartford at-risk youth to pursue professional careers in the performing and visual arts and to achieve local, national, and international fame.

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity has announced that Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo, the Montreal-based award-winning dancer, choreographer, and artistic director, is the recipient of the 2025 Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award.

When “Grease” premiered in 1971, the Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey musical about working-class teenagers at a Midwestern high school in the late 1950s was a gritty satire, first performed at a Chicago nightclub.

​Award-winning SF contemporary music group Ensemble for These Times has revealed their 18th Home Season, 'Women Crossing/Liminality,' the culmination of our two-year initiative plus more.

Dame Elaine Paige, who played Eva Perón in the original production of Evita on the West End, recently shared her thoughts about the revival, now running at London's Palladium Theatre. Watch her interview with the UK's This Morning here.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 8/7/2025 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 7/31/2025 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

The Fountain Theatre will present Bricolage Production Company’s staging of Protest, a two-person, one-act play by world-renowned dissident playwright and former Czech President Václav Havel. Learn more!

This August, Broadway fans can enjoy another month of summer streaming titles with highly anticipated new seasons of shows like Tim Burton's Wednesday to the first Peanuts musical in 37 years on Apple TV+. Check out the movies, television, and music coming to streaming this August!