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Producers Daryl Roth, Eva Price and Rachel Sussman took home the Tony Award for Best Play for Liberation. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, they checked in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to share their initial reaction!

Earlier tonight at the 79th Annual Tony Awards, Bess Wohl took home a Tony Award for Best Play for Liberation. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, she checked in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to share her initial reaction!

The GRAMMY Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra revealed its 2026/27 season, featuring Carnegie Hall programs, a European and Japan tour with Branford Marsalis, and collaborations with Isata Kanneh-Mason, Anthony McGill, and Garrick Ohlsson.

Deep Flight Productions will present an encore engagement of WHO WE BECOME, a program of rarely produced Lanford Wilson one-acts, at Factory Series at the Chain Studio Theatre in New York.

xBroadway’s current theater capacity rules have not always been how they are now. The distinctions between Broadway, off-Broadway, and other types of venues have changed over the decades as the industry has evolved. 

CASA 0101 Theater will present the world premiere of SOUL SACRIFICE, written by Consuelo G. Flores and directed by Kenneth Castillo, at the Gloria Molina Auditorium in Los Angeles.

While harmonizing to perfection, Katis rules the piano with the sensitivity necessary to realistically perform King’s songs of self-awareness and the longing to find your place in the world, while Clews’ finger-picking expertise on guitar adds a real sense of introspective musical magic to Taylor’s.

Emmy Award-winning actress Penny Fuller will appear at Bucks County Playhouse for a one-night-only event featuring personal stories and songs from her six-decade career alongside music director Bruce Barnes.

Stephen Sondheim’s powerful emotional musical about love, marriage, and being the last single person in a group of married friends, COMPANY, has been brought to life by director Rick Grossman at Manes Studio Theatre. First performed on Broadway in 1970, this groundbreaking show won 6 Tony awards and broke the mold for how musicals were structured.

English National Opera has announced its 2026/27 Season across London and Greater Manchester, featuring nine operas, with six new productions, four operas by contemporary female composers and opportunities for the next generation of opera makers.

The Charleston Gaillard Center announced its 2026–2027 season featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and a world premiere from Beeple and Sō Percussion.

The new musical DELTA BLUE, produced by Tamara Tunie and directed by Kent Gash, will present an invite-only industry showing in New York featuring Donald Webber Jr., Nkeki Obi-Melekwe, and NaTasha Yvette Williams.

Countertenor John Holiday announced his debut album, Over My Head, on PENTATONE, blending spirituals, art song, and world premiere recordings by Theo Morrison and Carlos Simon, with pianist Kevin Miller.

Director Kathryn Bentley has built an infectious production of Colin McLaughlin and Ryan Marquez’s new groove heavy musical. She inspired and evoked vibrant performances from a high-octane cast who enthrall the audience with lively storytelling. Bentley delivers Eleventh Hour Radio’s ‘save the world’ message by entertaining instead of preachy bludgeoning. Eleventh Hour Radio is a head nodding, toe-tapping, irresistible bop. It is simply a fun time

After a one-year hiatus, HARLEM9 will present 48HOURS IN…HARLEM®, honoring the late Woodie King Jr. and New Federal Theatre, with six new 10-minute plays inspired by NFT's catalog.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Purpose, is now available at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT).

Theater West End has once again delivered a hit with this production of COMPANY. Opening night was practically sold out, and the energy in the room reflected it – an audience eager to see how this beloved musical would unfold on the intimate Sanford stage.

Bechdel Project announced SANDY RUSTIN as the 2026 ROO Resident, where she will develop a farce based on the 1970 Ladies' Home Journal Sit-In, highlighting feminist activism and narrative reclamation.

Watch a first look video of SLEUTH at Guthrie Theater, the Tony Award-winning play by Anthony Shaffer running through May 10, 2026.

Geffen Playhouse has unveiled five productions that will make up its 2026/2027 season lineup from Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney. The lineup will feature a mix of world, West Coast and Los Angeles premieres.

A highlight of enjoying any mystery is trying to figure out the endgame before you reach it to see if your powers of perception are good enough to beat the detective to the punch. Well, take that plan and throw it in the nearest garbage because Sleuth, the Guthrie’s newest production, is a mystery that will have you guessing until the final moment. Even then, you will be wrong.

Six prominent debuts will be among the 40-plus performances to be featured in the The Soraya's 2026-27 Season, highlighting the performing arts center's ongoing commitment to the breadth and excellence of its programs.

In celebration of SWAN Day, NPTC will present a Concert Reading to Benefit our On Her Shoulders Program on Friday, March 27th at 7:00pm. Learn more here!

Next month, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond for Women's History Month, including Linda Eder, Kate Baldwin, Jenn Colella and more. 

Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting the world premiere of safronia, a landmark musical composition commissioned from Chicago’s first Poet Laureate, the interdisciplinary artist avery r. young.