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Center Theatre Group has revealed twelve productions for the 2026/27 Season. The eight-show One CTG subscription package includes plays and musicals at the Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson Theatre, including The Turning world premiere and more.

Raven Theatre in Chicago has appointed Jonathan Berry as its new Executive Artistic Director, following the departure of Sarah Slight to Goodman Theatre. Berry will lead the theatre into its 44th season.

BroadwayWorld's March 2026 Debut of the Month interview features Rachael Stirling in Giant on Broadway. BroadwayWorld interviewed Stirling about bringing the play to Broadway, starring opposite John Lithgow and much more.

The New York Times critic's pick production of Bubba Weiler's Well, I'll Let You Go will return for seven-weeks only for a strictly limited engagement at Studio Seaview.

What did our critic think of THE NEIGHBOURS at Tarragon Theatre?

Performances are now underway for the Broadway run of the Olivier Award-winning hit play Giant, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Nicholas Hytner and written by Mark Rosenblatt. Meet the cast here!

La Jolla Playhouse has announced full programming for the 2026 WOW Festival of immersive, interactive and site-inspired work, presented in partnership with UC San Diego. The WOW Festival will take place April 23 – 26 on the UC San Diego campus.

Many of us have, at some point in our lives, operated on the basic assumptions that our chosen communities, particularly those aligned by basic ideology, had our best interests at heart and would look out for each other.

“What a thing to have a mother!” That’s how Anna Ziegler’s new play ends. Studies show that it takes two to five years for a blended family to become a cohesive unit, and when Jennifer marries John, his daughter Delilah refuses to cooperate. Jennifer badly wants to be in Delilah’s life. In her fifties, she’s never been married nor had any romantic liaisons before, but the young woman struggles to reconcile her devotion to her late mother with the recent addition to her world. Ziegler introduces two women who struggle with change. They’re extremely different, but, unsurprisingly, very much the same. 

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.

A telephone, a key, and a carefully timed call. DIAL M FOR MURDER wastes no time laying out its stakes. At the Stanley BFL Canada Stage, the Arts Club Theatre Company presents Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of the classic thriller, directed by Jillian Keiley and running February 5 to March 8. In partnership with Theatre Calgary, the production pulls the audience into a polished 1950s London flat where each gesture feels deliberate and even the quiet moments heighten the tension. 

Here's my interview with director Guillermo Cienfuegos and Richard III star Ann Noble about their vision for the production.

It’s… Hairspray! BroadwayWorld is taking a look back at what the cast of this beloved musical has been up to since the show first graced the Broadway stage!

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is February 2, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.

FRIGID New York will present the 19th annual New York City Fringe Festival across multiple venues in New York City. The festival will feature a diverse array of performances with all box office proceeds directly benefiting the artists.

The popular literary event, Letters Live, will return to the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 22 April, in support of climate charity Greenpeace. Learn more here!

When the Tony Award-winning musical HADESTOWN arrives at the Saenger Theatre this weekend, audiences will witness Nickolaus Colón embody one of Greek mythology’s most formidable figures.

If “& Juliet” works at all, it’s because it commits to the premise without apology: a Shakespearean remix told through the lens of pop music, meta-theatre, and a general belief that stories never really die, they just get re-written. This touring production of the still-running Broadway musical leaned into this ethos with a cast that understood the assignment – treating the material with enough sincerity to make it land, but enough wryness to make it feel like commentary.

Interview with playwright, performer, and Riot Productions co-founder Sarah Alida LeClair to talk about 'Audition Sides,” a razor-sharp short play about two actors trapped together in an uncomfortably romantic callback that refuses to end.

Tosca in Italian with English surtitles, from £20 in January, is next on this stage

All four actors as well as director Mirai are to be commended for keeping the action moving and characters deeply present in their own truths. Given the small and up-close staging in the black box theatre, every audience member will feel like a fly on the fence in Jessie’s backyard while seated on all four sides of the center stage playing area. Each in their own ways creates a portrait of parenthood that is by turns raw, hilarious, joyful, and profoundly moving.

Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library revealed the plays and playwrights for the fourth annual Reading Room Festival, a four-day festival of staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations.

After nearly a decade, the hit Netflix television series, Stranger Things, will be coming to a close with Season Five. But fear not, fans - there is still the stage version, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, running in the West End. The play is a prequel to the events on screen, showing some of the older characters in high school and exploring the origins of the show’s main villain, Vecna. Recently, we had the chance to speak with Jack Christou, who plays the role of Henry Creel. We discussed what it is like to be part of the stage adaptation of such a popular television series, how he prepared for the role and even what he hopes audiences take away from the show as a whole.

Joining Emmy and Tony Award-winner Billy Crudup and Olivier Award-winner Denise Gough are Billy Howle, Rosa Salazar, Simon Chandler, James Doherty, Misha Handley, Joshua Hill, Jonah Russell, Rebecca Lee and Tim Steed.

When it's right, it's right, and Cassi Mikat is just right.