First Down - 2022 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 16

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 27, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The Pitch Perfect franchise, which currently consists of three films and a television series, will receive a new spin-off series from writer and actor Joel Kim Booster.

GRAMMY®-winning Icelandic-Chinese artist, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey has premiered “Lover Girl,” the latest single from her highly anticipated forthcoming album.

​The Den Theatre has revealed upcoming August 2025 shows at the theatre's Wicker Park stages. Learn more about the August lineup here and see how to purchase tickets.

Rock legend Billy Idol is set for the release of new vinyl re-pressings of three classic albums: Charmed Life, Whiplash Smile, and his first-ever solo release, the Don’t Stop EP, are all due August 15.

Just In Time’s origin story as well as overall conceit has much in common with one of Broadway’s very first jukebox musicals, which was ahead of its time. In 1985, Leader of the Pack, telling the story of pop singer-songwriter Ellie Greenwich, opened at the Ambassador on Broadway. Learn all about pop music bio-musicals here!

The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs written by Iman Qureshi, and directed by Hannah Hauer-King, is now playing at Kiln Theatre. Read the reviews for the production here!

Leeds Playhouse has revealed a medley of productions running from Autumn/Winter 2025-26 including a striking new production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Mr. Jacobs Will Perform J. S. Bach's Seldom-Heard The Art Of Fugue at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, and more. Learn more about the upcoming performances.

Palm Beach Symphony has revealed the 2025-2026 Masterworks Concert Series led by Music Director Gerard Schwarz. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!

Next Gen SoCal rock band Sun Room have announced their North American Fall headline THE JACKKNIFE TOUR. They have also released their first-ever acoustic track, “OSLO, PARIS, LA,” available to stream here.

To kick off the official start of its 2025 season, one of the world's most iconic venues, the Hollywood Bowl, welcomed more than 10,000 guests on the evening of June 7, 2025 for its opening night concert 'An Evening With Hugh Jackman,' featuring the celebrated Australian-born stage-and-screen star performing high-energy numbers accompanied by the lush, grandiose sounds of the Hollywood Bowl orchestra under the direction of Principal Conductor Thomas Wilkins, as well as the Senior graduating musicians of the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (YOLA) who joined them on select numbers. A rousing display of talent and energy, Jackman's concert proved once again why this award-winning star is quite a 'showman.'

Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 24 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's Summer 2025 reading list.

There's nothing like summer in the city! Summer 2025 in New York City will bring with it plenty of new Broadway, off-Broadway, and outdoor productions to take in this June, July, and August. Let BroadwayWorld be your guide!

Honens announced the 10 pianists who have advanced to the Semifinals rounds of the 2025 Honens International Piano Competition. The pianists, aged 24 to 30, come from eight countries.

Somewhere in a massive warehouse in Deptford, a collection is being made of every digital artifact since the birth of the internet in 1983. Every blog, every tweet, every DM. This archive called Storehouse is, unsurprisingly, reaching bursting point. A proposed solution called The Great Aggregregation has instead turned into “an epic fail”. We, the audience, are being asked to help resolve this critical situation.

Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute, in collaboration with The Brick, will present the ninth annual Queer Butoh from Wednesday, June 25 - Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 8pm at The Brick Theater, 579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn. Tickets start at $25 and are available for purchase here.

Following the misadventures of performers and real-life couple Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody, Seasoned is a hilarious comedy of errors that highlights the importance of appreciating the small things in life.

This show is a Houston summer tradition, and it is the Catastrophic Theatre's version of A Christmas Carol at the Alley or The Nutcracker at the Houston Ballet. Except every year, this one's a new script and a new ball of crazy to enjoy.

Battersea Arts Centre has announced its 2025/6 season. The programme will see artists from all over the world – including France, Portugal, Belgium, Australia, Rwanda and the UK – come together on Lavender Hill this autumn.

Grammy-winning and RIAA Platinum-certified singer-songwriter Sabrina Claudio has released her fifth studio album, Fall in Love with Her. Listen to it here.

The physical CD edition of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Death Becomes Her is available now! The 24-track album was released on digital platforms for streaming earlier this spring

A new video of Rachel Zegler singing 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina' outside of the London Palladium has surfaced, with the Snow White star in blonde hair, with a camera recording her from the side.

Santigold's run of North American live dates is set to kick off on June 8th in Long Beach. All created and curated by Santi, her live shows are renowned for their adventurous setlists and integration of choreography, costuming, and other visual elements.

Close to the end of last school year, my friend Harper gave me a ride home from a late-night tech rehearsal. We were talking about season planning stuff since everyone was waiting to hear what UCSD was programming for the 24-25 year, and I said at one point, “what’s stopping them from producing a big musical? What's stopping them from putting up Sweeney Todd?” And she replied along the lines of “because it’s BORING.” Not Sweeney Todd itself, but the idea of it being done by the department. I’ve learned over the course of my final year that she’s 1000% right.