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Peggy Baker and Jera Wolfe will present a double bill of contemporary dance at Toronto's Deanne Taylor Theatre, placing audiences inches from the stage for five intimate performances.

Jazz legend Herbie Hancock will perform at New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Prudential Hall in Newark. The 14-time GRAMMY winner and 2025 Polar Music Prize recipient is set for a one-night-only appearance.

The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio will host its annual Open House, featuring pop-up performances, behind-the-scenes tours, and one-day-only ticket discounts.

San Francisco's Merola Opera Program, one of the world's most prestigious opera training programs, will close its 2026 Summer Festival with the annual Merola Grand Finale.

Susan Aston, acting coach to James Gandolfini and Director of MFA Acting at The Actors Studio Drama School, will direct THE CEILING, a new musical by Blake Allen, at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City.

Single tickets are now on sale for The Soraya's 2026-27 season, a 44-performance lineup featuring eight debuts, including Sutton Foster, Snarky Puppy, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Audra McDonald, and the National Symphony Orchestra.

Thunder Road and Watford Palace Theatre announced the return of THE VOID, a sci-fi horror production visiting 16 venues across England and Scotland, with nine stops new to the company's touring history.

Irvington Shakespeare Company will stage Acting Shakespeare: An American Odyssey, a one-person show featuring 35 roles and eight songs, on the back lawn of Irvington Presbyterian Church in New York.

A friendship lies at the heart of Nobel laureate Han Kang’s acclaimed 2021 novel We Do Not Part. Kyungha and Inseon are colleagues turned confidantes living in Korea.

The accumulation of trauma over generations doesn’t dissipate. It settles into the bodies of its inheritors.  In Camille de Toledo’s novel Thésée, Sa Vie Nouvelle, one person attempts to identify and, perhaps, emancipate themselves from the decades of accumulated terror and pain that have infiltrated the very water in their body.

BWW caught up with writer and performer Monique DeBose to chat about bringing Adding Up America to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Isabelle Barbier, the writer of Rip Her To Shreds to chat about bringing the show to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

As the saying goes, “Pai tū, pai hinga” whatever happens, meet it with courage and integrity - that’s the wairua of ka ora tonu. It is a reminder that no matter what challenges we face, we continue to stand, to create and to move forward together

TexArts turns up the volume with Rock of Ages, a hilarious, over-the-top celebration of '80s arena rock. Packed with iconic hits, outrageous comedy, and an energetic onstage band, this jukebox musical had much of the audience singing and dancing along. A fun, nostalgic night at the theatre from start to finish.

There are directors whose names immediately make me start checking my calendar, and then there's Taijee. At this point, I would happily follow Taijee around to any theatre because I know I'm in for an entertaining, thoughtfully crafted evening.

As one can expect with any Christopher Durang play, you can never predict what will happen next in BEYOND THERAPY. Set in a time when therapy was becoming accepted in popular culture, the play is a statement on both the need for good therapy and the perils of bad therapy. The play follows Bruce and Prudence as they search for that special someone with whom they can spend the rest of their lives.

This summer, Arms Wide Open returns live musical theatre to the Mt. Helix Amphitheatre with Tarzan: Beat of the Jungle, running July 17 through August 2, 2026. Directed and choreographed by Christopher Rubio, with musical direction by Terry Hendricks and production management by Yvonne Rubio, the production combines live percussion, dance, and a cast of 71 performers to tell the familiar story of Tarzan through a new artistic lens.

Miss Maybell & Her Ragtime Romeos celebrated the release of Under the Midnight Moon with an infectious set of newly unearthed ragtime, blues, and early jazz. Brilliant musicianship, irresistible energy, and forgotten songs made for a fabulous set.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced new casting for its West End production of Matilda The Musical. Matt Corner, Amy Ross, and Lucy St. Louis will join Jon Robyns, alongside a new company of adult and child performers.

Francesca Moody Productions announced its first full season of work at London's The Other Palace, marking a significant expansion for the production company.

Ms. Kander has set herself a high bar indeed, writing at a level to match one of the early Sketch Comedy era’s most famous duos, and she absolutely nails it.  It helps, too, that we have a perfect cast for this run: in the role of Elaine herself, Lori Vega is edgy, scalpel-sharp, and as proud and brassy as can be. As Mike, Riley Shanahan yields readily to Vega’s Elaine May; his initial awkwardness and cluelessness is endearing, and his return to May, years later, acknowledges the debt he owed to her.

This stylish 80-minute whodunnit brims with dark humour and top-notch performances.

Could it possibly be that events have finally confirmed just what the San Francisco Mime Troupe has been howling at the wind for 67 years! The troupe whose shows have been called whacko, conspiratorial, commie and alarmist now find themselves leading the pack when it comes to shining a bright light on social injustice.

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

It’s officially the summer of the cold sweet treat. Across New York, the froyo craze has taken over, with some shops feeling harder to get into than the city’s most exclusive clubs.