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With “Rudolf – The Last Kiss,” the Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein, in collaboration with Vereinigte Bühnen Wien, has achieved a masterstroke: the beloved musical, long absent from German-speaking stages, has been so thoroughly overhauled that it emerges stronger than ever before.

Directed magnificently by Elijah Green, with energetic choreography by Katie Powers-Faulk and musical direction by Miki Yokomizo, the totally entertaining and artistically brilliant production pulled me in from the moment it started.

Next month, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond for Women's History Month, including Linda Eder, Kate Baldwin, Jenn Colella and more. 

This December, keep your 2025 holiday season going strong with lots of fa – la – la – laughter as City Theatre Austin brings you the hit southern comedy A Tuna Christmas.

It’s a marvelously entertaining thriller that audiences are likely to flock to, because it has a sense of awe-inspired fun that you seldom find in the theater. It's high-tech Agatha Christie, and perfect for the Fall.  

Alison Arngrim, known for her role as Nellie Oleson in the hit series Little House on the Prairie, is scheduled for numerous sold out presentations of her critically acclaimed global sensation Confessions of a Prairie B*tch.

Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? at Everyman Theatre through April 20, 2025, directed by Vincent M. Lancisi presents a contentious couple who return from a faculty party that has lasted past midnight to spitefully host young guests for additional drinks in their campus-adjacent home. It's awful, funny, entertaining, perplexing and satisfying

LOS ANGELES RISING, a benefit comp for Los Angeles fire Victims has been released. The comp was crystallized and brought into being by a stellar team from the music community of LA.

An international company of multi-cultural fools from Italy, France, Ireland, Ukraine, Spain, USA, and Canada will come to Brighton this Christmas, as Slava’s SnowShow, the multi award-winning global phenomenon that recently celebrated 30 years enchanting people of all ages worldwide, returns to the UK after a seven-year hiatus.

A new collage-style devised work exploring the (potential) collapse of the Anthropocene. Driven by image, light, and sound rather than linear narrative, the work viscerally explores the grief and beauty, the horror and hope inherent in being alive in this very moment.

Dreamland: Relax & Imagine is the third family album from Boulder, Colorado’s award-winning singer-songwriter Jenn Cleary. Offering nine soothing and enchanting songs to help kids unwind, plus a special guided relaxation exercise, Dreamland: Relax & Imagine will be released on August 9, 2024.

 ONCE UPON A MATTRESS will open on Broadway this summer at The Hudson Theatre, starring Tony Award winner Sutton Foster! Foster will lead the Broadway cast, reprising her acclaimed performance as Winnifred the Woebegone.

The Decemberists have released a new single, “Oh No!” The track, which appears on their forthcoming new album is chock full of The Decemberists most defining characteristics - vibrant storytelling, rich musicality and a cleverness that’s become signature to Meloy’s lyricism. Listen to the single!

Discover the latest from The Decemberists as they announce their new album, AS IT EVER WAS, SO IT WILL BE AGAIN, and release a new song, JOAN IN THE GARDEN. The band has appeared on The Simpsons, collaborated with Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda, and released their own crowd-funded board game Illimat.

Shout! The Mod Musical” is more of a loose musical revue, than a musical play. It is costumed and set for London during the period I was emerging from my teenage cocoon years into young adulthood. I clearly remember the performers who introduced the music from this show into the canon.

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced that Giles Terera and Michael Benz join the cast of the European première of Paul Grellong's Power of Sail, directed by Dominic Dromgoole. Performances run 20 March – 12 May.

With Jeremy Strong making his Broadway return in An Enemy of the People this season, BroadwayWorld is exploring some of the others stars of the iconic series Succession, who have ties to the stage.

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced casting the European première of Paul Grellong’s Power of Sail. Performances run 20 March – 12 May.

With its critically acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures running at the venue, the Menier Chocolate Factory has announced the European première of Paul Grellong’s Power of Sail. Dominic Dromgoole returns to the company, after the success of last year’s Marjorie Prime, to direct.

Following the tremendous success of their recent EP ‘Metamorphosis', released on October 20, 2023 via Roc Nation, soft rock sibling band Infinity Song is making waves once again with their newly viral single 'Slow Burn.' The song, which has taken social media by storm, has now been accompanied by a beautiful live video out now.

Williamston Theatre kicks off 2024 with a romantic comedy. Tickets for Maytag Virgin are available now.

ArtsEmerson, Boston's leading presenter of contemporary world  theater and film and the professional presenting and producing organization of Emerson College, has announced its 8th annual World Alive! Celebration, which will take place on Saturday, October 21, 2023 at  5:00PM ET at the Revere Hotel in Boston, MA. 

Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, October 9, 2023.

Produced primarily by Timbaland and Danja, along with Nisan Stewart, Lester Mendez, Rick Nowels, and Furtado herself, the aptly named Loose bursts forth with an even-dozen winning tracks like the falsetto encouragement of “Do It,” the heavenly ballad “In God’s Hands,” and the touching “Te Busque,” featuring a guest vocal from Juanes.

Brenda Edwards, who has previously played “Motormouth” Maybelle in three tours of Hairspray will join the creative team alongside Paul Kerryson to direct a new production of Hairspray which will embark on a major national UK and Ireland tour in 2024. Learn more about the tour here!