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August: Osage County will return to London's West End in 2027, starring Lesley Manville as Violet Weston, and Anna Maxwell Martin as Barbara Fordham. Learn more here!

San Francisco Playhouse has released production photos from Hairspray, now on stage through September 12. Directed by Bill English, the production stars Ella Ruth Francis as Tracy Turnblad and Trevor March as Link Larkin.

Emmy Award winner Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) visited the Tony Award winning Best Musical Schmigadoon! this week. Check out photos of Hannah with the company.

We caught up with Elle showrunners Laura Kittrell and Caroline Dries, who offered insights into the writing process, creating backstory for the beloved character of Elle Woods and landing on a tone for the prequel series.

Newsies, featuring music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein premiered on Broadway in 2012. BroadwayWorld is looking back at what the cast has been up to since the show first burst onto Broadway!

Tampa Repertory Theatre has announced the cast for its upcoming production of Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Ken Ludwig’s heartfelt romantic comedy inspired by the true story of his parents’ courtship during World War II.

In celebration of the upcoming launch of the prequel series Elle and the 25th anniversary of Legally Blonde, New York's Hall des Lumières will be reimagined as “Elle World” on June 20.

Much has been written about the proliferation of pop singer-songwriters writing new musicals for Broadway and off-Broadway. Less covered is the trend of pop singers performing on Broadway, which has made for a number of memorable appearances in current and recent seasons. 

The 79th Annual Tony Awards are this Sunday, June 7, 2026. It's the biggest awards show of the Broadway season and it closes out a long awards season for Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals and plays. Which Best Musical and Best Play nominees will take home the ultimate prize?

Hudson Valley Shakespeare's Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center is officially open, following a ribbon cutting ceremony this morning in Garrison, NY, which marked the completion of a six-year-long project. See photos!

The 2026 Tony nominees are already winners... literally. For some, this marks their first nomination, but others have already won Tony Awards in seasons past. We took a look at which nominees have won at least a Tony or two (or four!) - amongst them, they've gathered a total 64 awards.

Marking the first West End transfer for The Bridge, the multi-award-winning production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into The Woods will run in the West End this Autumn.

Composer, singer, and performer Sara Bareilles has signed with Creative Artists Agency. Learn more about Bareilles and CAA, as well as their new partnership, here!

Two decades after Spring Awakening first premiered on Broadway, BroadwayWorld is taking a look back at what the cast of this era-defining musical, including Lea Michele, Jonathan Groff, and more has been up to.

Production is now underway in Dublin for the second season of the original drama series Lynley from BritBox. Leo Suter will return as DI Tommy Lynley, starring alongside Sofia Barclay as DS Barbara Havers.

Laura Bell Bundy – who brings “Songs & Stories with Laura Bell Bundy” to Foxborough’s Marilyn Rodman Performing Arts Center on February 22 – has been a performer since she was just nine years old and made her stage debut in the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall.

Olly Alexander and Iz Hesketh will join Vanessa Williams and Matt Henry in a UK reading of Stan Zimmerman's suicide awareness play, RIGHT BEFORE I GO, at London's Soho Theatre.

Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT) has announced that West End sensation and homegrown talent Nathania Ong will star as Elle Woods in a bold, reimagined production of 'Legally Blonde, The Musical,' opening at the Esplanade Theatre on July 29, 2026.

Elle, the highly anticipated Legally Blonde prequel series from Hello Sunshine and Amazon MGM Studios, will premiere on Prime Video on July 1. A second season of the series is already on the way.

The Octagon Theatre, Bolton has announced that its Christmas show for 2026-27 will be Cinderella: A Fairy Tale, opening on Friday 20 November 2026. Learn more here!

The cult BBC comedy series The High Life comes to Scottish stages as a brand-new musical, with Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson teaming up with writer Johnny McKnight and director Andrew Panton.

Director Will Bonfiglio, Music Director Larry D. Pry, Choreogrpaher Jo Palisoc, and the entire company deserve a lot of credit for their all in committed, peppy, and high-spirited production of a marginal show that is staged as a pet project far too often. There are thousands of musical theater assets that have arguably better books and scores that are rarely produced. Legally Blonde the Musical is like a pink piece of bubblegum. At first it sounds appealing, but the flavor does not last long.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is December 11, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

With special elements designed to enhance the theatergoing experience, South Coast Repertory celebrates 45 years of bringing Orange County the timeless tale of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

The Ringwald Theatre will present the Michigan premiere of Silver Foxes, a new comedy by James Berg and Stan Zimmerman, running October 3–27, 2025 at The Ringwald inside Affirmations Community Center in downtown Ferndale.