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Putting on something which is so sexy, sensuous and deeply erotic in the middle of a heatwave could be asking for trouble, yet this production of Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis justifies the gamble, turning the Barbican’s The Pit into a crucible of raw, mythological desire.

Woodhouse&Roderick will present In His Words at The Bread and Roses Theatre. In His Words is written by Heather Woodhouse, and directed by TJ Roderick, and will play in August.

This week's newsletter is a big one for BroadwayWorld — we've launched a fully redesigned website and new On Demand TV apps, bringing our content to over 700 million televisions worldwide. On Broadway, Maybe Happy Ending is on track to become the longest-running show in Belasco Theatre history, while the 17th Annual Jimmy Awards crowned Jake James and Samia Posadas as its top performers at the Minskoff.

The 1975 Bollywood classic SHOLAY will receive its Films in Concert world premiere at London's Royal Albert Hall, with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra performing R. D. Burman's score live to screen.

New rehearsal photos have been released from the European premiere of Dog Man: The Musical as the company prepare to embark on a major UK tour. Check out the photos here!

Carly Ozard's ETHEL MERMAN DISCO ALBUM PROJECT was a lively show from a live-wire performer (to say the least)! Ozard's big, belting voice was a perfect match for Merman's material.

What did our critic think of TEDXNASHVILE MIXTAPE at Analog?

Tickets for the Tony Award-winning musical SIX, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, go on sale at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore for a limited eight-performance engagement.

The award-winning hip-hop musical MEXODUS, written and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, will play a limited run at Chicago's historic Studebaker Theater, presented by P3 Productions and Audible.

Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced ten recipients for their 2026 Science and Technology New Play Commissions, continuing a 25-year program that has developed over 300 plays exploring science.

Broadway In Chicago announced THE UNAUTHORIZED HALLMARK(ISH) PARODY MUSICAL will make its Chicago debut this holiday season at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, following a sold-out world premiere in Toronto.

The world premiere musical JEREMY WORRIED ABOUT THE WIND has extended its Hollywood Fringe Festival run due to popular demand, adding a final matinee at the Hobgoblin Playhouse in Los Angeles.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is launching its 51st Season with Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Topdog/Underdog. Ensemble members Glenn Davis and Namir Smallwood star in the production.

The Bear Season 5 final soundtrack drops June 26 with 17 original tracks by Christian Lundberg, produced by Hans Zimmer. See the full track listing here!

After over seven years of playing Chris Bean in The Play That Goes Wrong off-Broadway, Chris Lanceley is hanging up the mustache. We had the chance to speak with the actor before leaving the show, discussing how he first got started with The Play That Goes Wrong, what it’s been like playing multiple characters, and why the show will always be a place for him to come home to.

Celebrating its milestone 40th anniversary season, BATS Improv will present the return of its most celebrated educational tradition, August Intensives, a month-long series of immersive workshops.

A week before their Tony performance, the candelabra that Amber Gray holds during the Rocky Horror set sat on a counter in Brooklyn for repair. You’ve seen the shimmering pink vial in the hands of Megan Hilty and plastered across Playbills and pole banners in the theater district, or maybe you’ve seen the light-up “Handbook For The Recently Deceased” on the Beetlejuice tour in Sarasota, Florida. Wherever they are now, those props were born in a small, unassuming workshop on the intersection of Meeker Ave. and Apollo Street. 

Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Carnegie Hall has added to the 2026–2027 season with the launch of a new five-year initiative presenting classic American musicals in concert. The orchestra will perform Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town.

What goes into crafting the words that make up our favorite Broadway shows? How do Broadway playwrights and book writers make our favorite characters shine and our favorite scenes come alive? BroadwayWorld is finding out with Notes on a Script. In this video, watch as Stephen Brown-Fried and Orville Mendoza break down the scene in the newest episode of BroadwayWorld's Notes on a Script.

New Diorama Theatre has announced its upcoming Autumn Season, unveiling three productions, The First Year (of the Gaza Genocide in the Media), STUFFED, and Orlando: A Pornobiography. Learn more about the season here.

Monkey Baa Theatre Company's stage adaptation of Judy Horacek and Mem Fox's WHERE IS THE GREEN SHEEP? will play Arts Centre Melbourne's Playhouse as part of an 80-venue national tour, blending puppetry and animation for young audiences.

Alston Alika Albarado was named the May winner of the Go Try PlayWrite contest, co-sponsored by Kumu Kahua Theatre and Bamboo Ridge Press, for his piece Deafening the Megaphone. The monthly contest is open to Hawaii playwrights.

Stages St. Louis has announced the cast and creative team for its upcoming production of Guys & Dolls. Directed by James Monroe Iglehart, the classic musical will run July 24 through August 23 at The Ross Family Theatre.

Portland State University will host the Global Improvisation Symposium, featuring Tony Award winner Anthony Veneziale and 50+ sessions on theatrical improv, healthcare, and peacebuilding at Lincoln Hall.

The stories about Francis Albert Sinatra are endless. Two decades before Beatlemania hit the States, thousands of girls queued around the block so they could see the short, skinny kid from Hoboken sing while they cried, screamed and fainted. He had a thick New Jersey accent and a thin skin, punching one critic in the back of the head and physically threatening other members of the press. His friendship with mob members and their goons supposedly helped him out of a recording contract and for decades the FBI kept a file on him running to thousands of pages. He was close friends with Marilyn Monroe and gifted her a dog; she named it “Maf”, short for Mafia Honey, just to wind him up. At the age of 48, he dated a teenage Mia Farrow and the two eventually married in 1966.