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This summer, join Shakespeare's Globe for a season bursting with world-class artists, lesser-known classics, and much-loved plays, in two of the most iconic theatres in the world.

Headlong has announced details for their 2026 season including a brand-new production of August Wilson's Fences directed by Daniel Bailey (Red Pitch) in a co-production with Leeds Playhouse, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and HOME Manchester.

South Coast Repertory will open 2026 with a rotating repertory of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton.

With their revival of Orphans starting performances this week, Jermyn Street Theatre has announced full casting for Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar - adapted from the correspondence of George Bernard Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell.

RJ Theatre Company and The Actor Launchpad will present the world premiere of Daisy, a new play written and directed by Emma Tadmor, with a three-week run in Fall 2026.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report the passing of prolific playwright Tom Stoppard, who dies at his home in Dorset, England. He was 88 years old. The news was shared earlier today by United Agents:

Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library revealed the plays and playwrights for the fourth annual Reading Room Festival, a four-day festival of staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations.

Anna Ziegler's new play Evening All Afternoon will make its world première at the Donmar Warehouse next year. Diyan Zora, making her Donmar debut, directs Anastasia Hille and Erin Kellyman in this new play.

Joining Emmy and Tony Award-winner Billy Crudup and Olivier Award-winner Denise Gough are Billy Howle, Rosa Salazar, Simon Chandler, James Doherty, Misha Handley, Joshua Hill, Jonah Russell, Rebecca Lee and Tim Steed.

New York Shakespeare Exchange's ShakesBEER, NYC's Original Shakespearean Pub Crawl, is poised to return for its first outing since 2019.

The Metropolitan Opera will open a revival of Richard Strauss’s Arabella on November 10, 2025, marking soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen’s role debut in the title part and Tomasz Konieczny’s Met role debut as Mandryka.

Over the next few months, theatre is heading to Hollywood. To celebrate the release of movies like Blue Moon, Hedda, and more, BroadwayWorld has put together a guide to five new titles that are sure to appeal to Broadway fans. 

Playwright Jamie Gore Pawlik and Director, Derek Speedy, invite audiences to a one-night-only staged reading and presentation of her new play I EAT BOYS.

Chess is back on Broadway! Previews for Chess begin Wednesday, October 15 at the Imperial Theatre. The production officially opens Sunday, November 16. Meet the cast of Chess below!

With frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in the news due to actor Bruce Willis fighting the disease for several years, I decided to speak with playwright Jake Broder, an Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute, about his motivation to create Unravelled and his research on the disease.

Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl dropped on October 3rd, and it includes plenty of references—some explicit and some ambiguous—to real showgirls throughout history. Many of these women have a Broadway past worth exploring that adds new context to Swift’s songs.

LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE will present the second show of its 2025/2026 season with the rolling world premiere comedy, BESIDE MYSELF by Paul Slade Smith. Learn more!

What Will the Neighbors Say? Theatre Company has announced its tenth anniversary season, featuring the world premiere of Beauty Freak at the cell theatre, the co-production Moments After Ajax with Sanguine Theatre and Hamlet Isn’t Dead, a residency at the Goethe-Institut, and a full slate of community and education programs.

The Javaad Alipoor Company has announced that LJ Parkinson, Jennifer Jackson, Gabriella Schmidt, Sean Jackson and Tom Varey will star in the world premiere of its brand new stage production, Elmet.

Joanna Pickering's play Misty and Rover has been selected for The Spark Theater Festival, with a special performance on Sunday, September 21st at 5:00 PM at the Chain Theater in New York City.

Papatango and Park Theatre have announced full casting for the world première of 2024 Papatango New Writing Prize winner Hannah Doran's The Meat Kings! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights.

BroadwayWorld has just learned the complete cast for the first-ever Broadway revival of CHESS. Find out who will join previously announced Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit, Emmy Award nominee Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher. We have all of the details!

A longtime staple of New York and London stages, we are chronicling Elizabeth McGovern's theater roles ahead of the debut of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.

The Rochester School of Technology's School of Performing Arts (Rochester, NY) will join The Farm Theater's 2025-26 College Collaboration Project with playwright Gina Femia.

Danse Danse has announced five major events to mark the fall of this 28th season, starting with the famous JOAT Festival international de Street Dance from August 26 to September 1.