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San Francisco Playhouse has revealed the full cast and creative team for Hairspray, the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical featuring songs including “You Can’t Stop the Beat” and “Good Morning Baltimore.”

Main Street Theater will present Houston theater veteran Tamara Siler in SINNERS & SAINTS, a cabaret show featuring songs from Gospel to Broadway alongside stories from her 42-year Houston stage career.

Porchlight Music Theatre announced Klaus Peter Schuller as its new executive director and Michael Weber as The Elaine Cohen and Arlen Rubin Artistic Director, with Schuller set to join the Chicago company later this year.

Martin Short has his sights set on returning to Broadway, and he may be bringing Meryl Streep with him! In a new interview, Short teased that he and his Only Murders in the Building co-star Streep are working on a Broadway show together.

In most, if not all, other mountings of “Hairspray: The Broadway Musical,” Tracy Turnblad is tucked under her bedcovers when audiences first see the young heroine, ready to show off her high-teased bouffant and let loose with the first notes of the rousing opener, “Good Morning, Baltimore.”

It’s been two years since Marisha Wallace surprised her mother, Rowshell Wallace, with a new home in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

This May, there are plenty of new titles for Broadway fans to watch, including the film recording of Suffs, the series adaptation of Amadeus, Aleshea Harris's Is God Is film, and more.

I & You: The Musical, premiering at Olney Theatre Center, is ambitious. It’s full of tremendous verve, emotion and promise. But it’s not without flaws.

Beck Center for the Arts announced its 94th professional theater season, featuring a world premiere comedy by Cleveland playwright Eric Coble, regional premiere musicals, and a collaboration with Oberlin College & Conservatory Music Theater Program.

Today’s subject Lauren M. Gunderson is a prime example of an artist living her theatre life to the absolute fullest. She has had the honor of being the most produced playwright in this country three times and shows so signs of letting up with her always superb creative output. One of her latest projects is the world premiere of  I And You The Musical which is in performance at Olney Theatre Center through May 24th. The show is based on her play of the same name, which was part of a Rolling world premiere that played at Olney Theatre Center in 2015.

BroadwayWorld is taking a look back at what the original cast of Heathers: The Musical, including Barrett Wilbert Weed, Ryan McCartan, Jessica Keenan Wynn, and more have been up to since its Off-Broadway debut!

Center Theatre Group has added ten new members to its Board of Directors: Stephen Cheung, Nancy Dennis, Sutton Foster, Jennifer Lewis, and more, bringing the number up to 56.

For BroadwayWorld's Debut of the Month, we are featuring Esteban Andres Cruz, who is currently making their Broadway debut in Dog Day Afternoon, opposite Jon Berthal. Read the full interview with Esteban here!

Ten years ago, we introduced the world to a two-foot puppet made of cloth at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe. Little did we know that Fred would take us to over 145 cities across 20 countries and three continents, seen by 25,000 people. Not bad for a scrap of fabric with something to say.

Tony and Emmy Award-winner Billy Crystal will return to Broadway this fall in a new one-man show, 860, written and performed by Mr. Crystal and directed by Olivier Award-winner Scott Ellis. We have all of the details!

Learn more Darnell Abraham as he shares his experience as a performer on the National and International Tours of Hamilton, as well as the National Tour of The Lion King. Additionally, learn about his new work as a Voice and Speech Professor at Manhattanville University.

Rubén Carbajal (who played John Laurens/Philip in Hamilton on Broadway) talks to BroadwayWorld about playing Usnavi in Musical Theatre West's production of IN THE HEIGHTS, running April 10–26 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.

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.

Broadwayworld had the pleasure of interviewing Jeremy about his background, career, and Barrel Oak Winery.

Performances are now underway for Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of The Balusters, a new play by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon. Meet the cast of The Balusters here!

Country music fans across the Natural State will want to mark their calendars, because one of Arkansas’s biggest nights in music is tuning up for an unforgettable celebration.

Aladdin is celebrating its 12th anniversary at the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 20th, 2026. As it plays performance 4,349 tonight, Aladdin has welcomed more than 7.2M guests to the New Amsterdam Theatre.

Performances are now underway  for Lindsey Ferrentino’s new play, The Fear of 13, starring  two-time Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and Golden Globe Award nominee Tessa Thompson. Meet the cast here!

Michael James Scott, Aladdin’s longest-running Genie and an original cast member, will play his final performance Sunday, May 3. Learn more about Scott and Aladdin here!

Skylight Music Theatre has revealed the cast, musicians, and creative team for the professional world premiere production of A ROCKIN’ Midsummer Night’s Dream, conceived and directed by Artistic Director Michael Unger.