Democracy

The acting in this production of Assassins is phenomenal, giving the audience the unsettling experience of relating to these characters as they plot and execute their assassination attempts. Assassins is a musical that will speak to many today.

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels and L'Alliance New York will present upcoming performances of You're the one we love/and when we change the landscape... by Leïla Ka/Robyn Orlin with the Choreographic Ensemble of the Paris Conservatoire.

The String Cheese Incident has announced their Just Keep Spinning Tour, a 33-date cross-country tour that kicks off on May 28 in San Antonio, TX. General ticket on-sale will take place Friday, February 13 at 10:00AM local.

Playwright, producer, and actor Michael Wanzie will return to the stage for the first time in more than three years in A Deloris Scrud Christmas, opening Saturday, December 6, 2025, in the Starlite Room at SAVOY Orlando.

BroadwayWorld chats with pioneering lesbian playwright and performer Terry Baum about her latest show 'Lesbo Solo: My Gay History Play' running at The Marsh Berkeley through October 12th. Her hilarious and deeply moving piece won 'Best of Fringe' at the San Francisco Fringe Festival.

Greg Reiner will be the new Managing Director of Barrington Stage Company. Reiner, who most recently served as Director of Theater and Musical Theater at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), joins BSC as of August 4, 2025. 

The Public Theater’s Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham announced the line-up for The Public’s 2025-26 Season at their landmark Astor Place home. We have the full season details here!

The birth of western civilization and democracy takes form in the Greek epic Hellas, told in verse, mask, rhythm, dance, and stage combat. I decided to speak with writer/director Christopher William Johnson about his epic creation process and challenges of presenting the complete saga at the Broadwater Main Stage theater through May 11.

The Oratorio Society of New York (OSNY) under Maestro Kent Tritle brings the world premiere performance of ALL SHALL RISE, by composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell, to Carnegie Hall on May 5. It concludes their American Voices trilogy of choral works—this one about the history of voting rights in the US.

It’s back, and we were in the Room Where It Happened. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s HAMILTON is running here in Austin through April 6th. Inspired by Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton, the musical premiered Off-Broadway in 2015 at The Public Theater before transferring to Broadway later that year, where it became a cultural phenomenon. Can you believe it? TEN years ago? 

NYU Skirball will present Award-winning actress Isabelle Huppert in a tour de force performance of Mary Said What She Said at NYU Skirball. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, November 11, 2024.

Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, November 4, 2024.

While most Americans report that politics feels divisive and exhaustive, it is possible to structure curious and rewarding conversations about politics. This is the inspiration for Middlebury College’s Good Talks 2024 event series – and the November 12th Election Reflection talk, hosted at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater.

Explore the new NORMAN LEAR exhibit at the National Comedy Center, celebrating the legendary TV producer's groundbreaking work and influence on American comedy. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre will present FOWL PLAY: CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS at La MaMa from November 21 to December 8, exploring themes of unity and transformation through puppetry.

The theatre and television industries gathered on Thursday, October 10 to celebrate 12-time Tony Award-winning producer Robert L. Boyett as he received the honor of a caricature on the hallowed walls of Sardi’s Restaurant. See photos from the event!

Robert L. Boyett, one of Broadway’s most prolific and beloved producers and a creator, writer, and producer of some of the best loved television programs of all time, will receive the honor of a caricature on the wall of Sardi’s Restaurant. Learn more about Boyett's career!

SPQR Stage Company, the Jersey Shore's “Original” theater company, has announced a combined performance of two one-acts, “Molly Pitcher—Revolutionary Girl Power” and the world premiere of “Richard Somers—Anatomy of a Hero,” both written and directed by Bill Sterritt, SPQR's artistic director.

On Sunday, May 5 at 6:30p.m., experience Compagnia de'Colombari's Whitman on Walls! (WoW!) Harlem at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park inside the Robert Frederick Smith Center for Performing Arts (679 Riverside Drive at 145th Street in Harlem).

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present a live benefit reading of Sarah Ruhl's Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again.

Experience the Philadelphia premiere of OLD STOCK: A REFUGEE LOVE STORY, presented by Curio Theatre Company from April 24-May 11.

Compagnia de' Colombari is celebrating 20 years of generating spectacle, disrupting and reconstructing texts and spaces under the direction of Karin Coonrod with a robust Anniversary Season throughout 2024.

MY LOST FREEDOM is George Takei’s story about his years growing up in those camps. It is about how his parents kept the family safe in their new “homes”—the Santa Anita racetrack, swampy Camp Rohwer, and desolate Tule Lake. Takei entered the camps at the age of five and would remain there until the conclusion of the war three years later, in 1945.

Robert L. Boyett, one of Broadway’s most prolific and beloved producers and a creator, writer, and producer of some of the best loved television programs of all time, will receive the honor of a caricature on the hallowed walls of Sardi’s Restaurant. Learn more about Boyett here!