In-Betweens - 1997 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 17

CHICAGO will return to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center in winter 2026. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets to the national tour here!

Two-time Academy Award nominee Bryan Buckley, producing team Academy Award winner Taika Waititi, international recording artist Rita Ora, Tony Award nominee Matthew Weaver and Hungry Man Productions just announced the development of FYRE FEST THE MUSICAL. We have all of the details!

With the world premiere of Debbie Isitt’s Military Wives – The Musical about to open, York Theatre Royal announced a major revival of the critically acclaimed Broadway hit The Secret Garden – The Musical with music by Lucy Simon and book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winner Marsha Norman.

What did our critic think of AMERICAN IDIOT at At Short North Stage? In Short North Stage’s production of AMERICAN IDIOT, everything isn’t meant to be okay. The characters are disappointed, disillusioned, and defiant, and their story is depressing, dark, and disturbing.

Emmy winning actor Kevin Spirtas has joined the cast in the role of Sir Simon, in The Group Rep’s haunting new musical romance, MY SPIRITS SOAR, a contemporary take on a beloved short story in the music style of Broadway-Pop, running September 26th through November 2nd at The Group Rep Theatre in North Hollywood, California.

Since the early 1970s, Penelope Wilton has established herself as a major player on the British stage, and we are taking a look back at her expansive theatrical career, just in time for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.

Singer, songwriter, and producer Erykah Badu has announced a celebration of the 25th anniversary of her second studio album, 'Mama's Gun,' with 'The Return of Automatic Slim Tour: Erykah Badu Mama's Gun '25.'

Elton John’s album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy will receive a 50th Anniversary Edition reissue, featuring the 2016 remaster of the original album, previously unreleased session demos, plus Elton’s live performance of tracks from the album, recorded during 2005 for the album’s 30th anniversary.

The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival proudly announces that its 2025 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona will return to downtown’s Sue Bierman Park.

The production features Peter Hargrave (Scar), David D’Lancy Wilson (Mufasa), Mukelisiwe Goba (Rafiki), Robert Creighton (Timon), Nick LaMedica (Zazu), Danny Grumich (Pumbaa), Gilbert Domally (Simba), and more.

Tony Award winning Laura Benanti, will make her London debut on Tuesday 2 September at Underbelly Boulevard Soho transferring direct from a sold-out run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival with her one-woman comedy show Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares. BroadwayWorld had a quick catch up with Laura ahead of the show.

The brilliance of the script is that, although first written in the 1950s, it still has so much relevance to our world today. The audience at the performance I saw was one of the most robust, vocally supportive and emotional audiences I have ever seen. 

Disney’s The Lion King musical is playing in Vancouver, BC for a limited four-week engagement at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre from August 20 to September 14.

Dorset Theatre Festival has announced a staged reading of the new play Bad Dates: End Game by Theresa Rebeck, directed by John Benjamin Hickey, starring Julie White. The performance will take place September 13, 2025 at the Dorset Playhouse. 

In celebration of World Princess Week and the historic 70th anniversary of Disneyland, Disney is releasing a special concert on YouTube and Disney+ featuring admired Disney Princess voice talent enchanting fans.

The cast has been set for the return of Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman's supernatural sensation Ghost Stories to the West End. Learn more about the upcoming show here!

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts will open its 2025-26 Composer Portraits series with Helmut Lachenmann, Complete String Quartets.

The Den Theatre today announced upcoming October 2025 shows at the theatre's Wicker Park stages, including Alex Borstein, Janeane Garofalo and more. See the full lineup here!

Speranza Scappucci will make her debut as Principal Guest Conductor of The Royal Opera with Verdi’s The Sicilian Vespers, opening on the Main Stage September 19 and running through October 6, 2025.

Heathers is currently playing to sold out crowds at New World Stages, the off-Broadway complex on 50th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. It’s a New York City return for the teen musical with a relatively short turn-around time since the original off-Broadway premiere of Heathers opened in 2014.

The North American tour of Disney’s The Lion King will welcome David D’Lancy Wilson as Mufasa and Gilbert Domally as Simba. Wilson and Domally will begin performances on Tuesday, September 23 in Portland, OR at Keller Auditorium.

The Royal Players and the historic Royal Theatre are excited to bring the chilling tale of the struggle between good and evil to life with the musical Jekyll & Hyde.

This fall, The Moth—the acclaimed global nonprofit dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling—presents a season devoted to the theme of DARING. Not the adrenaline-fueled variety, but the deeply human kind.

LaChanze, who voiced the role of Terpsichores in the Hercules movie musical, visited the West End stage adaptation. Watch a video of her greeting the Muses, including Robyn Marshall who plays Terpsichores, after the performance.

Twenty-three songs from the catalogue of the legendary composer and musician Duke Ellington creatively exploding with swinging energy or calming with mellow moods are enough to make one’s mind spin ---but combine this with a creative book by Cheryl L. West (the project was conceived by Sheldon Epps) that is based on playwright William Shakespeare’s famous comedy Twelfth Night, and you have hit the merriment mother lode courtesy of the Signature Theatre.