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FRIGID New York will present the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival at UNDER St. Marks, wild project and the Chain Theatre. Learn more about the programming and see how to purchase tickets.

9 TO 5 at Toby’s is a treat for all your senses, with color-saturated visuals, harmonious, heartwarming songs created especially for the show and strong characters you’ll adore. It’s just the thing to relieve winter ‘blahs’ and get your toes tapping. Experienced performers have snappy timing, and dramatic lighting fosters swift set changes to retain the rapid pacing. The buffet is ample, the service is speedy and Toby's devotion to a quality experience is unparallelled.

Looking for unique audition songs for kids? Explore our expert list of 20 songs that offer young performers a chance to shine with less common selections in musical theatre. From simple melodies to challenging pieces, find options suitable for different voice types and ages.

Goerke will be doing just that in “Die Tote Stadt” (“The Dead City”) – composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s poignant opera about the struggle with haunting memories of a lost loved one, that captures the final chapter of the Romantic era – which will be presented by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) on January 30 and February 1 at Symphony Hall.

Acclaimed Canadian rock band Silverstein have shared their brand new single “Don’t Let Me Get Too Low”. The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming album Antibloom, the first part of their prolific double album. Listen to it now.

With the release of her latest single, the soulful and sensual romance “You Know What It’s Like,” Brenda Russell makes a triumphant return to the refined classic blend of adult contemporary R&B and urban jazz. Listen to the new single from The Color Purple songwriter now.

Janet Eilber was a high school senior at Michigan’s Interlochen School for the Arts when she first crossed paths with modern dance legend Martha Graham (1894–1991). After auditioning for Graham, the dancer and actor attended the Juilliard School at Graham’s recommendation, and subsequently joined the doyenne’s eponymous dance company where she became a soloist at age 21, dancing many of the roles made famous by Graham.

The romantic comedy is alive and well on Broadway in the charming new play, Left On Tenth. The dramedy, starring Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher, is an adaptation of the 2022 memoir from novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and rom-com icon, Delia Ephron. Read our interview with the playwright here!

Academy Award nominee José Rivera brings his new play Your Name Means Dream to New Jersey Repertory Company (NJ Rep) for a limited run from October 31st to November 24th.  Rivera also directs the show.  His play examines how we live, die, and form our sense of self in a world that’s increasingly saturated with technology.

Kelli O’Hara says there’ll be some surprises in store when she plays Groton Hill Music Center on November 2. 'My music director and pianist, Dan Lipton, and I won’t finalize the set list until we get there. We like to arrive at a venue, get a feel for the space, and then set the list. I always include my favorite pieces, but I might change the order or make additions or subtractions based on the feeling I get.'

I had the privilege to speak with Darnell Abraham about his background and his role as Mufasa in the upcoming Broadway Across Canada presentation of Disney’s The Lion King, including some insight into the preparation that goes into such a physical role, favourite scenes, and the timelessness of the musical's themes.

The latest entry into Kennedy Center’s Broadway Center Stage series is the crowd pleasing quirky musical by William Finn (Music and Lyrics) and Rachel Sheinkin (Book) known as The 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee. The 2005 musical also features additional material by Jay Reiss. See what our critic had to say.

To mark the 20th anniversary of U2’s critically-acclaimed eight-time Grammy-winning album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, Interscope Records has announced the release of a shadow album titled How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb, which includes new, unreleased songs discovered in the archive of the original album recording sessions.

We had the opportunity to chat with Gavin Lee, who returns to the role of Monsieur Thénardier after playing him on Broadway from March 2015 to May 2016 in the most recent revival. We discussed how Lee first got into the world of theatre and what it has been like to return to the role of Thénardier nearly a decade later!

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is transported to the vibrant battleground of New York City’s West Side in the 1950s as two young, idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs, the 'American' Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks.

The new production of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is set to open on Broadway this fall, featuring a fresh cast and innovative stage design. Get a sneak peek of what to expect from this iconic show.

Jersey Boys is an electric musical that follows the story of The Four Seasons. Tickets are almost sold out to catch this show at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, so get your tickets now!

An interview with LA’s infamous drag queen 'Clair Voyance,' who will be performing with her fellow “Broadway Divas”— along with a full dance ensemble — for the fifth installment of the popular Broadway Divas Drag Brunch at the Segerstrom Center for the Art’s Samueli Theater Aug. 18.  

BWW caught up with Mo Fry Pasic about bringing Worse Than You to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

OFC Creations Theatre Center will present McIver Ewing, well known for playing Waldo in THE LITTLE RASCALS and as Derek in FULL HOUSE as Peter Allen in OFC’s 2024-2025 season opener, The Boy From Oz.

BroadwayWorld sat down with Clarence Maclin along with writer/producer Clint Bentley and producer Monique Walton to discuss the film and the power of art, beauty, and healing that is on display in Sing Sing.

With the very successful run in progress of Reefer Madness: The Musical at the Whitney, the original stars of the 2005 movie Reefer Madness, Kristen Bell and Christian Campbell will reunite onstage July 30, 2024, for Reefer Madness: The Musical 25th Anniversary Concert in celebration of their new Los Angeles revival being extended through August 18th at The Whitley. Christian graciously took some time from his multi-tasking duties for Reefer to answer a few of my queries.

When I Think Of Christmas, a treasury of seasonal songs from Vince Gill and Amy Grant, captures the spirit of their much-loved “Christmas at the Ryman” concerts. To be released September 13, the album contains remastered versions of nine of the duo's Yuletide favorites, plus two new recordings.

The eponymous thigh-highs in “Kinky Boots” are just one of the many statement-making fashion elements in the musical, which will be at The Company Theatre (TCT) in Norwell, July 26 to August 18.

National Sawdust will open its momentous 10th anniversary season with the world premiere production of Paola Prestini and Royce Vavrek's sensual and poetic new opera Silent Light from September 26-29.