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​​​​​​​A high-energy kids' show, The Alphabet of Awesome Science rockets through 26 words, each sparking a wild, messy, and often explosive experiment.

Salford’s Lowry is to host an Open Day and Auditions for young dancers aged 11-16 from across the North West for the 2025 autumn intake for the Lowry Centre for Advanced dance Training (Lowry CAT).

St Helens Theatre Royal is inviting young theatregoers to follow the Yellow Brick Road and enjoy some fantastic family-friendly fun this October. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets to The Wizard of Oz!

Which Best Musical and Best Play nominees will take home the ultimate prize? BroadwayWorld has rounded up the winners of the Tony Awards, the Drama Desk Awards, the Drama League Awards and the Outer Critics Circle Awards for the last fifty years to compare winners year by year.

Maybe Happy Ending: Original Broadway Cast Recording is available on CD now! The album was released in streaming and digital formats earlier this season. Learn more here!

Next month, 54 BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Tracie Thoms, Jenn Colella and more. See the full lineup here!

“The great thing about this character is she's so positive. She really has such a great outlook on life, much, much better than I have in real life. I can learn a lot from the way she's written.” Carolee Carmello on her character Kimberly Akimbo

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand playreading of “The Shark Is Broken,” based on true events during the making of the film “Jaws.'

The new musical Goddess can currently be seen in its New York premiere production at the Public Theater on Lafayette Street. Directed by the Public’s associate artistic director and resident director Saheem Ali, who is currently Tony Award-nominated for directing Buena Vista Social Club, Goddess is playing at the Public’s largest space by capacity, the Newman Theatre.

The annual League Awards were held today during The Broadway League’s 2025 Spring Road Conference as esteemed members and partners were honored for their outstanding achievements in support of Touring Broadway.

Redhouse Arts Center will present the multi-Tony award winning musical, Fun Home, with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Lisa Kron. This musical is based on the highly awarded and New York Times best-selling graphic novel of the same name by Alison Bechdel.

With about a month left of its Hollywood run, BroadwayWorld sat down with John Skelley, who plays the adult Harry Potter in the show, to try and get the scoop on the show's secrets.

44: The Obama Musical is returning for second terms at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City from May 2 – June 22, 2025, and then at The Studebaker Theater in the historic Fine Arts Building in Chicago from August 23 – September 21, 2025.

Jenny Connell Davis is a playwright, screenwriter, and performer whose work explores identity, justice, and human connection. Her plays, including DRAGON PLAY, SCIENTIFIC METHOD, and END OF SHIFT, have been developed by theaters across the country, from the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference to ACT in Seattle. Also an accomplished screenwriter, her work has been featured at SXSW and the Toronto International Film Festival. Originally from Maine, Jenny now lives and writes in Austin, Texas.

From June 26 to August 3, the San Francisco Symphony's summer season includes three classical programs with violinist Blake Pouliot, Grammy Award-winning ensemble Time for Three, and violin duo TwoSet Violin; two film concerts with the Orchestra playing the scores of How to Train Your Dragon and The Princess Bride live-to-picture; and a program celebrating the movie music of Hans Zimmer.

Casting is complete and rehearsals are now underway for Theater Latté Da's production of PASSION, the Tony Award-winning dark romance with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, based on the film Passione d'Amore directed by Ettore Scola.

Theatre World Awards Board of Directors has just announced the Honorees for Theatre World Award for an Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production. We have the full list of honorees!

The American Theatre Guild has announced the 25–26 Season for The Buddy Holly Hall. Performances will begin in January with Water For Elephants. Learn more about the season here!

The Fabulous Fox has revealed a second date is scheduled for comedian and St. Louis native Nikki Glaser’s “Alive and Unwell Tour”. Learn more about Glaser and the tour and see how to attend

Nutley Little Theatre presents FOR PETER PAN ON HER 70TH BIRTHDAY, written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by lifelong Nutley resident, Gina Sarno. The production will run from June 13th through June 28th in Nutley, New Jersey.

Comedian and St. Louis native Nikki Glaser will bring her “Alive and Unwell Tour” to The Fabulous Fox this fall. Learn more about Glaser and the tour and see how to purchase tickets.

Yeomans is currently starring as Cady Heron in the 2nd National Tour of MEAN GIRLS, running April 22-27, 2025 at Salle Wilfred-Pelletier, Place des Arts, Montreal! MEAN GIRLS features a book by nine-time Emmy Award® winner Tina Fey, based on her screenplay for the film; music by three-time Emmy Award® winner Jeff Richmond; lyrics by two-time Tony Award® nominee Nell Benjamin; and original direction and choreography by two-time Tony Award® winner Casey Nicholaw.

Josefina López, the celebrated Mexican-American award-winning playwright and screenwriter best known for creating and authoring the play and co-authoring the film Real Women Have Curves, was an undocumented five-year-old immigrant when she migrated with her family from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, to the United States in 1974 to settle in Boyle Heights. And on April 27, she will be making her Broadway debut when Real Women Have Curves: The Musical opens on Broadway!

Dobama, Cleveland's Off-Broadway Theatre has revealed its 2025/26 Season; a line-up of five extraordinary new plays that are all Cleveland and Regional premieres. Learn more!

Would you spend over seven hours with a hundred other people in the same room playing and watching a video game where donkeys attempt to overthrow their employers? Presented as part of London Games Festival‘s side events programme, asses.masses is an unusual experience that could well hold the key to theatre’s future.