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54 Below will present performers from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and entertainment, including artists in October, including Jenn Colella, Ali Ewoldt, Christine Ebersole and more.

Lightning Rod Theater will soon present the world-premiere of Paul Hoan Zeidler's historical reimagining, Hamlet in the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the committee composing the Declaration of Independence wrote a nation into existence.  

Performances are now underway for Other Desert Cities, which will play a 16-week limited engagement at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre. Meet the cast of Other Desert Cities here!

BroadwayWorld has your official fall 2026 Off-Broadway preview, a complete guide to everything opening Off-Broadway! See West End transfers, stars in play revivals, multiple world premieres and more.

The Gift Theatre will present the world premiere of Netta Walker's HAYWARD, a reimagining of Hamlet and Electra centered on a family confronting their father's death and military service in the Gulf War.

This Halloween, The Green Room 42 will present the premiere of SHOW NO FEAR, a new real-world horror play from writer-director Aaron Mark. Learn more here!

The Gold Fringe Award-winning eco-hijacking of Hamlet, created by Mary Higgins and Ell Potter's Hotter Project, will play a limited engagement at London's Soho Theatre.

All new production photos have been released from HAM, now playing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Learn more about the show and check out the photos here!

Lincoln Center Theater has announced the full cast and creative team for August Wilson's SEVEN GUITARS, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.

Smoking Mirror Theatre Company, an emerging Shakespeare troupe, is set to present 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T/New York Theatres, 502 West 53rd Street. Co-directors John Gordon and Ruby Rich to stage the production.

The Emma Rice Company has announced full casting for Rice's adaptation of Tristan & Yseult, which will embark on a UK tour, with previews at Theatre Royal Bath. Learn more here.

Austin artists reunited for a benefit staged reading of Casey Wimpee's The Brutes, directed by Devin Finn, to support Finn's upcoming film The Vice of Kings. The evening celebrated a remarkable play while introducing the next chapter in its journey from stage to screen.

Deaf West Theatre will present The 35th Anniversary Gala – One Night in New York at Joe’s Pub. Marking Deaf West’s first-ever New York City gala, the event will celebrate 35 years of innovation, collaboration, education, and social change.

After 23 years as Artistic Director of The Public Theater, Oskar Eustis will step down when his current contract concludes in 2028, at the end of The Public Theater's 60th anniversary season.

Karen Campion's drama, set in a women's prison cosmetology classroom, will receive a full festival production at the Gene Frankel Theatre with an Equity cast, co-directed by Nick Luis and Sabrina Zara.

Speakerphone Productions and Soho Theatre will present HAM, Hotter Project's eco-reimagining of Hamlet, with a London preview, an Edinburgh Festival Fringe run at Summerhall Arts, and a one-night-only Birmingham date.

The Actors' Gang will present Two Gentlebots of Verona, a free, family-friendly adaptation of William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, from August 1–30, 2026 in Culver City and Burbank as part of its annual Free Shakespeare in the Park for Families series.

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.

King Hamlet, the documentary that follows Oscar Isaac during the 2017 production of Hamlet at The Public Theater, will be available to rent for a limited time from July 1 to July 31 as part of the 'Unreleased Gems' collection on Letterboxd Video Store.

The Everyman is delighted to announce the appointment of eight new members to its Board of Directors following a recent public recruitment process. learn more here!

Three-time Tony Award-winning stage and screen star Glenn Close will be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with an Academy Honorary Award for her body of work in film.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames directs August Wilson's The Piano Lesson at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, marking the company's 35th anniversary season at DeSales University's Schubert Theatre.

Concert Theatre Works' theatrical concert COPLAND & TWAIN, directed by Bill Barclay, will blend Aaron Copland's incidental music with Mark Twain's writings at Open Jar Studios, conducted by Ken-David Masur.

Speakerphone Productions and Soho Theatre will present HAM, a new work by Hotter Project that reimagines Shakespeare's Hamlet through a vegan lens, previewing at Soho Theatre before its run at Summerhall Arts during Edinburgh Festival Fringe.