Company Revival (1987 Off-Broadway)

Chicago is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for September 2026 include Come From Away and more.

Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

With some ingenuity, determination and good old fashioned research, Buffalo United Artists has unearthed the  seldom performed  musical,  GULP!  THE GAY BEACH MUSICAL . And it looks like Western New York audiences may be only the fourth  theatre company ever to see performances of this 1977 Off Broadway musical that has all but been forgotten. 

What did our critic think of RHINOCEROS at American Repertory Theater?

First Stage will present the bilingual musical GO DOG GO! / VE PERRO ¡VE! at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, opening its 40th anniversary season with a stage adaptation of P.D. Eastman's children's book.

Theater for the New City will present an archival exhibit marking 55 years of its Summer Street Theater, featuring photos, recordings, costumes and props at its gallery in New York City.

Theater Alliance will open its first full season in a new permanent Southwest DC home with three mainstage productions and the return of its Hothouse New Works Block Party.

Alicia Graf Mack will lead the company's holiday engagement, featuring a world premiere by Jamar Roberts honoring Luther Vandross alongside new works and revived classics.

Classic Stage Company will present a one-night-only benefit concert performance of Rags, featuring a book by Jospeh Stein, music by Charles Strouse, and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.

Some theatrical characters are so deeply embedded in our cultural imagination that audiences arrive already knowing something about them. Cyrano de Bergerac is certainly one of those: the brilliant poet, dazzling swordsman and hopeless romantic whose wit can fill a room, even as his insecurity about his appearance keeps him from believing he can be loved.

What did our critic think of ROCK OF AGES at Bill Hanney's North Shore Music Theatre?

On Sunday, August 9, LES MISÉRABLES: THE ARENA CONCERT SPECTACULAR closed out its two-year global tour in epic fashion at Radio City Music Hall. Produced by Cameron Mackintosh, Nick Grace Management, and presented locally by The Bowery Presents, the 22-performance engagement sold 117,000 tickets, drawing audiences from all 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and across 58 different countries. The engagement capped off a global tour that welcomed over 1.3 million fans to the barricade across 34 cities internationally.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that stage and screen actor Jon Cypher, who starred opposite Julie Andrews in Cinderella and had several Broadway and off-Broadway credits, has died. Read his obituary here.

What does it feel like when doves cry? Broadway is about to find out! As BroadwayWorld previously reported, 42 years to the day since Prince’s legendary film premiered, and three weeks since the album re-entered the Billboard 200, the stage adaptation of Purple Rain will arrive on Broadway later this season. While we await its arrival, catch up on everything there is to know so far!

The SUPER TROOPERS 3 soundtrack, scored by Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson, is now streaming on Apple Music, Amazon, and Spotify.

The two-hour play (presented with one 15-minute intermission) has earned widespread praise for its raw emotional depth, humor, and tender romance. This is due in large part to McNally’s brilliant script, a virtual symphony of words and human emotion

Cesear's Forum will present Yasmina Reza's CONVERSATIONS AFTER A BURIAL at Kennedy's Down Under, Playhouse Square, exploring family tensions following a patriarch's funeral.

Sir Cameron Mackintosh has teased that something big is headed to New York - though he's not the producer behind it. Some fans are speculating this could be an immersive presentation, similar to what Masquerade off-Broadway has done with Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.

One of the greatest joys of experiencing live theater comes from the ability to revisit a past show through a new lens. When shows are revived or a new company mounts their own production, this allows newer voices to put their stamp on timeless material. The hallmark of any timeless story is its ability to transform and adapt with the changing times. Part and parcel with this is a willingness to step out of one’s comfort zone in order to provide a new emotional truth to material that is both familiar and unknown.

Tickets are on sale for the world premiere production, part of The Rep's 2026 golden SummerStage season in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Reviews are in for Les Misérables: The Arena Concert Spectacular, now playing at Radio City Music Hall through August 9. Check out photos from the production below!

Let's go crazy! BroadwayWorld has just learned that 42 years to the day since Prince’s legendary film premiered, and three weeks since the album re-entered the Billboard 200, the stage adaptation of PURPLE RAIN will arrive on Broadway. PURPLE RAIN will premiere next spring at the Majestic Theatre, beginning previews on  Friday, March 12, 2027, and officially opening on Monday, April 12, 2027. We have all of the details here!

Laurie Woolery will direct the first post-Broadway production of Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, playing at Pasadena Playhouse in spring 2027 as the 3rd Mainstage offering of the theatre's 2026-2027 season.

Complicité co-founder Annabel Arden will play Nell in Flabbergast Theatre's Edinburgh Fringe production of Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME, joining artistic director Henry Maynard, Simon Gleave, and Derek Elwood at the 375-seat Lomond venue.

OFC Creations founder Eric Vaughn Johnson discusses the 2026-2027 Broadway in Brighton Series, a season of six musicals featuring rarely produced titles, a North American premiere of THE OSMONDS, and a New York State premiere of THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK.