Enemy of the People - 2017 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 1

Joy Machine Records announced the release of PENELOPE: Live at Joe's Pub, a chamber musical starring Broadway's Grace McLean, as the one-woman show prepares to run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Whether you are Team Black or Team Green, there is probably a stage veteran on your side. Like other HBO shows such as The Gilded Age and Julia, the Game of Thrones spin-off, House of the Dragon, is full of Broadway, West End, and stage alums. 

James Norton will play the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, conceived and directed by Thomas Ostermeier in the West End in Autumn 2027. Learn more here.

Berkshire Opera Festival announced a new production of Donizetti's LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, conducted by Brian Garman and directed by Jonathon Loy, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, MA.

2026 is halfway over, which means that the 2026/27 Broadway season has just begun! Now that the 79th Annual Tony Awards have concluded, all eyes are already on the lineup for the new Broadway season and many Broadway productions have already revealed full details of their upcoming engagements.

Classical Theatre Company announced its upcoming 2026-2027 Mainstage Season. Full details on productions and scheduling are available from the Houston-based company.

The Muny announced the principal cast for HAIRSPRAY, opening its 108th season at Forest Park. Katy Geraghty and Richard Kind lead the production, which marks the show's return to the St. Louis stage for the first time since 2015.

Two decades after Spring Awakening first premiered on Broadway, BroadwayWorld is taking a look back at what the cast of this era-defining musical, including Lea Michele, Jonathan Groff, and more has been up to.

Performances are now underway for Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of The Balusters, a new play by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon. Meet the cast of The Balusters here!

The Broadway Women's Fund revealed its 2026 Women to Watch on Broadway list, the seventh list from the fund spotlighting women in leadership in theater.

The Atlanta Opera will present a dynamic 2026-2027 season with seven productions, including classic and contemporary operas and musical theatre, before relocating to a new venue.

Though the revival of Merrily We Roll Along ended its limited Broadway run in 2024, the show will live on in the form of the new filmed version, now in theaters. To celebrate the release of the hit Stephen Sondheim musical, we are taking a look back at the storied careers of its three leading stars, including Tony Award-winner Jonathan Groff.

Yale Repertory Theatre is presenting Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, the final production staged by James Bundy as the organization’s Artistic Director, after 23 years of leadership at Yale (where he has also served as Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean of David Geffen School of Drama). Check out photos of the production.

The Olivier Award-winning Oedipus, an adaptation created and directed by Robert Icke, will begin performances on Broadway on Thursday, October 30, 2025. Meet the cast of Oedipus here!

Walter Artistic Director Susan V. Booth and Executive Director John Collins celebrate success of the first month of The Goodman’s Centennial Season, and welcome new leaders to the helm. Learn more!

Yale Repertory Theatre will present Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, the final production staged by James Bundy as the organization’s Artistic Director, after 23 years of leadership at Yale. Learn more!

RORY SCOVEL: KNOW YOUR ENEMY TOUR is coming to Boulder Theater this winter. Learn more about Scovell and the tour and see how to purchase tickets here!

WaterTower Music has released the official soundtrack for Season 3 of The Gilded Age, featuring original music by acclaimed composers Harry and Rupert Gregson-Williams. Listen to it now!

Paul Hilton will take on the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in Matthew Warchus’ A Christmas Carol, adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne at The Old Vic. Learn more about the production here!

The 20th Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival has revealed its September 2025 program. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here!

Paul Libin, a towering figure in the American theater whose near seven-decade career included producing more than 250 Broadway, Off Broadway and touring productions, leading Circle in the Square Theatre for 62 years, serving as Executive Vice President and Producing Director of Jujamcyn Theaters for 28 years, and presiding as President of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS for 24 years, died on June 27 in New York City after a brief illness. He was 94 years old.

Yale Repertory Theatre has revealed its 2025–26 season of five productions. The season opens with the world premiere of Zora Neale Hurston’s Spunk, a play with music, adapted by Hurston from her own short story in 1935. Learn more!

Three of this season’s plays and two of this season’s musicals are already getting revived for the second or third time this century! Twenty-five years into the 21st century and Broadway has already seen multiple revivals of Glengarry Glen Ross, Our Town, Romeo and Juliet, Gypsy, and Sunset Boulevard. 

The play centers around three generations of women who meet upstate over President’s Day weekend to decide the fate of their family farm and its matriarch.

This time, the reader question was: How Often Do Broadway Musicals Tackle the Topic of War? There are actually many musicals about war in the canon. The rare feat of Operation Mincemeat lies in its tone. The show is a fast-paced, zany, comedic take on a mission that used a dead body to mislead the Axis forces, leading to the successful Allied invasion of Sicily.