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Singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, who made her Broadway debut as Persephone in Hadestown in 2024, will hit the road for her Spirit Of Love tour, an extensive run of live performances for the spring and summer of 2026.

What did our critic think of JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Playhouse On The Square?

The large majority of our 41 Broadway theaters were built to be Broadway theaters. Other than the Winter Garden, which was originally a horse exchange, the Nederlander, which was originally a carpenter’s shop, and the Broadway and Lunt-Fontanne which were originally movie theaters, every current Broadway house was intended from the beginning to present Broadway shows. As for off-Broadway? The opposite is true.

Five Evenings Theater in association with New Wave Arts Theatre Collective and EventMuze present the New York premiere of BENEATH THE ICE OF THE VISTULA, a new play with music, beginning February 12 at West End Theater.

Trinity Irish Dance Company returns to The Auditorium for a one-night-only performance in Chicago. The mixed-repertory program includes a world premiere, Chicago premieres, and live music by the TIDC band.

Wallace Shawn will embark on a theatrical double venture this winter at the Greenwich House Theater: performing The Fever in repertory What We Did Before Our Moth Days.

The Broadway production of Ragtime was a glorious accomplishment, a riveting testament to the original American musical and to all that America itself could be. The show ran for 834 performances at the Ford Center, closing in the final year of the 20th century. It was nominated for 13 Tony Awards, taking home four.

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Sammy Hagar will return this summer with a special limited run of his acclaimed, top-grossing Best of All Worlds Tour, joined by rock musician Rick Springfield. Check out dates and locations.

22-time Grammy Award winner Vince Gill is set to embark on a summer tour beginning June 18 and including a six-night residency in Nashville at the historic Ryman Auditorium

It wasn’t until later on in theatre history that revivals began including shows that weren’t initially well received or financially successful in their initial engagements. As musical theatre continued to evolve, and more shows entered the canon, a consensus began to grow about shows being worthy of additional exploration even if they hadn’t been hits the first time around. What about musicals that had been ahead of their time, musicals that had fallen prey to circumstances, early works by writers who became successful later on, and of course, shows that found an audience after closing via their cast recordings?

Tickets for Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” the first North American touring production of the musical presented by Disney in over 25 years, at the Overture Center, will go on sale to the public on Friday, Dec. 12 at 11 a.m.

On Sunday, November 23rd, Jamie deRoy marked her 35th year hosting the entertaining variety show she created, aptly titled Jamie deRoy & Friends. See photos and a review of the night.

It's one of those dream shows, you know? From the second that I first encountered it, I saw myself in it, and it became an aspiration to be in that show, to tell that story. It's always had this pull to it.

Multi-platinum pop icons New Kids On The Block have added 16 new dates through 2026 for their debut Las Vegas residency, “THE RIGHT STUFF,” at Dolby Live at Park MGM.

San Francisco Opera has announced plans to present Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung in June and July 2028, conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim and staged by Francesca Zambello.

Join the celebration of The Grinch in theaters 2025! Experience the holiday classic starring Jim Carrey starting December 12.

Glamour has unveiled the U.S. 2025 Women of the Year honorees and covers. The U.S 2025 Women of the Year include Broadway and film star Rachel Zegler. Learn more here!

Whether indie films like “Waitress,” coming-of-age dramas like “The Outsiders,” or comedies like “Beetlejuice,” film-to-stage adaptations most often take the form of Broadway musicals, including Hollywood classics such as “Sweet Smell of Success,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” and more.

While different tryout theaters have different relationships to the development of new shows, it’s worth looking at both which commercial rental theaters and which non-profit theaters have had the most Best Musical Tony Award winners come from their stages.

Six-time GRAMMY Award-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart has revealed his 2025-2026 season, highlighted by his first public performance of Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade with National Philharmonic, the world premiere of a new work, and more.

BroadwayWorld is here with your fall 2025 guide to all the shows lighting up New York’s stages. From world premieres to long-awaited revivals, this season’s Off-Broadway lineup delivers something for every kind of theater fan!

In honor of Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday this December, Fathom Entertainment will release a brand-new film, Dick Van Dyke: 100th Celebration, in theaters on December 13 and 14.

A longtime staple of New York and London stages, we are chronicling Elizabeth McGovern's theater roles ahead of the debut of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.

Celebrating 35 years on the road, The Saw Doctors will return to the U.S. this July for five concert dates, including a headline performance at SummerStage in Central Park on July 26.

Vincent Lancisi, Founding Artistic Director of Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, Md, and executive at the professional equity theatre company since 1990, has announced plans to retire in June 2026.