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What did our critic think of JERSEY BOYS at NAWANIKA PRODUCTION?

What happens when one of America's greatest songbooks meets Broadway? A BEAUTFIUFL NOISE delivers an emotional portrait of Neil Diamond, led by American Idol winner Nick Fradiani in a production that soars at Kansas City's Starlight Theatre.

GRAMMY Award-winning Pentatonix member Kirstin Maldonado is back on Broadway as Anne Boleyn in the Tony Award-winning musical SIX. In this interview, she reflects on returning to the stage after Kinky Boots, adapting to the show's demanding schedule, bringing her harmony-driven background to the score, and discovering her own take on one of musical theater's most beloved queens.

Following a successful on-sale earlier this month, demand for the Sydney season of A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL has prompted the release of additional performances.

Tony Danza returns to 54 Below with his Sinatra tribute show this July, joined by Linda Eder and a packed lineup of Broadway and cabaret stars.

Penguin Rep Theatre will present Lloyd Suh's THE HEART SELLERS, directed by Maria Mileaf, at its Stony Point, New York hay barn venue. The two-hander follows immigrant women from the Philippines and South Korea navigating new lives in 1973 America.

Backyard Renaissance Theatre's San Diego premiere of Jim Cartwright's “The Rise and Fall of Little Voice” is a curious blend of broad comedy and intimate drama. Anthony Methvin's production is elevated by a remarkable cast that finds genuine humanity beneath the script's extremes.

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.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts has announced an expanded lineup of community and family programming as part of its 2026 Summer Season. The offerings include interactive family concerts, wellness classes, immersive performances, house tours, culinary events, and outdoor activities across the historic estate.

MasterVoices announced its 85th anniversary season, featuring an all-Handel program at Carnegie Hall with soprano Erin Morley and countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, the return of VOX Opera Lab, and an Oscar Hammerstein II tribute at Lincoln Center.

Little Island has unveiled programming details for its 2026 summer season. This season includes concerts, world premieres, live radio shows, culinary events and parties in Little Island’s open-air performance spaces—The Amph and The Glade.

A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical hits Kansas City's Starlight Theatre July 7-12, starring American Idol winner Nick Fradiani. Tickets from under $19!

The Cape Playhouse announced full casting for INTO THE WOODS, led by Javier Muñoz as Baker, with Nick Adams, Alex Finke, Pearl Sun, and others in the Sondheim-Lapine classic. Learn more here!

A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL has added two weeks to its Melbourne season at the Princess Theatre following overwhelming ticket demand, with Broadway star Will Swenson leading the Australian cast.

What did our critic think of GUDEG NANIK: WUTAH at MIMIC THEATER?

A stellar cast led by Ann Hampton Callaway and Billy Stritch celebrated the songs of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, featuring Broadway favorites Nikki Renée Daniels, Brandon Victor Dixon, and Ali Stroker.

The Stage Managers' Association announced the upcoming 2026 Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management. No additional details from an attached press release were available in the submission.

What did our critic think of THE 4TH WITCH at Oz?

The Steven Feifke Trio playing at Birdland is always worth catching. Look for them next time around, and read a review of their jaunty, joyous May 24 set.

What did our critic think of ANDY WARHOL PRESENTS: THE COCAINE PLAY at Jackalope Theatre?

“It’s not a play,” Justin Weaks declares fairly early in his one-man “A Fine Madness” presented by the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. “But we gon’ play,” he adds.

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe will present MARVIN: A MARVIN GAYE REVUE, a new musical celebration of Marvin Gaye's catalog, directed by founder Nate Jacobs, featuring returning star Sheldon Rhoden at The Donelly Theatre in Sarasota.

The touring production of A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL, created in collaboration with Diamond himself, is set to play The Stranahan, telling the story of how the hitmaker became a star.

Funny and heartfelt, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' is a delightful reminder that sometimes the biggest victories have nothing to do with trophies—or correctly spelling 'schadenfreude.'

In the most delightful case of déjà vu, Stratford Festival audiences once again can take in Director/Choreographer Donna Feore’s masterful production of SOMETHING ROTTEN (last seen in 2024) at the Festival Theatre this season. For a production that is being repeated, it is ironically part of a lot of firsts! This is the first time (in my recollection) that a show has been brought back by popular demand, and it is also the first time Feore has both musicals on the Festival Theatre stage (with mostly the same company of actors between them). What is affectionately being called SOMETHING ROTTEN 2.0 opened to thunderous applause (and two mid-show ovations) Friday night and I've never been able to say with more certainty that it will be a hit!