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We spoke with Peter Rothstein about Asolo Rep's upcoming season lineup! The season includes Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (November 13, 2024 –  January 5, 2025), Ken Ludwig’s Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (January 17 – February 8, 2025), Anna in the Tropics (February 19 – March 13, 2025), Dancing in Lughnasa (March 19 – April 29, 2025), Good Night, Oscar (April 2 – April 27, 2025), Jesus Christ Superstar (May 14 – June 15, 2025) and All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 (December 4 – 25, 2024). 

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, June 17, 2024.

Today’s subject Salar Nader is currently living his theatre life as the Tabla Artist in the national tour of The Kite Runner. The show will conclude it’s tour in the Eisenhower Theater at Kennedy Center starting on June 25th and playing through June 30th.

The 77th Annual Tony Awards have officially begun! As winners take the stage this evening, stay tuned to BroadwayWorld as we bring you full text of all of the acceptance speeches; from the emotional to the humorous, and everything in between.

The 2024 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 eight!) - amongst them, they've gathered a total 47 awards!

VOICES: A SACRED SISTERSCAPE, an interdisciplinary performance art project, is now available digitally. The project highlights Black women's stories through a unique blend of art and narrative.

Approaching its landmark 100th album, the Grammy Award-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) led by conductor Gil Rose releases Vijay Iyer: Trouble on its eponymous label, BMOP/sound. Marking his debut recording as an orchestral composer, polymath Vijay Iyer showcases his high-minded yet emotionally expressive approach to music-making with this collection of bustling textures, surprising forms, and pulsating rhythms. Listen to the album now!

Westport Country Playhouse presents a Script in Hand playreading of the political satire THE OUTSIDER on Monday, June 10.

The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Houston will present RUDDIGORE at Cullen Performance Hall on July 20, 21, 27, and 28. Enjoy this classic operetta filled with humor, romance, and supernatural elements.

The Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) has announced Lyndee Hansen, Producer of the Grand Theatre, as the 2024 recipient of the Mallory Gilbert Leadership Award, recognizing her outstanding administrative and managerial leadership within the Canadian Theatre Community.

BMOP/sound will release Vijay Iyer's debut orchestral recording, 'Trouble,' conducted by Gil Rose with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and soloist Jennifer Koh. Learn when you can purchase the album!

Renowned comedian and entertainment pioneer, Ellen Degeneres, has announced her highly-anticipated farewell tour, Ellen's Last Stand… Up, including a stop at DPAC in Durham, NC, on August 7, 2024.

At the beginning of May, a brand new audio version of David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face debuted on Audible, which features a starry cast that includes Daniel Dae Kim, Benedict Wong, Ashley Park, and Jane Krakoswki. BroadwayWorld sat down with Hwang to discuss this new way of experiencing his play and how he approached the material 17 years later.

Alberta Cross has announced the upcoming release of their reworked 2007 debut ‘The Thief and The Heartbreaker’ due later this year. Each of the original seven songs and one bonus track will feature surprise guest artists, drawn from the array of stellar friends and musicians the band has known and worked with throughout their career.

Symphony Space has revealed details of An Evening with Maltby & Shire and Friends. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

Explore the rich history and legacy of Chicano graphic artists at the Frist Art Museum.

Acclaimed playwright Joanna Murray-Smith has been appointed Sydney Theatre Company’s next Patrick White Fellow - a year-long engagement that includes writing a new work for the 2025 season and mentorship of STC’s Watershed: Writers.

Get a first look at Cleveland Play House's production of In The Heights now through June 9, 2024 in the Allen Theatre. Check out the video!

The Barbican has announced the winner of the 2024 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award, Finn Beames & Company. The new work, Quiet Songs, is a piece of music theatre for a single actor, a string quartet and an armoury of swords, and will receive its world premiere in The Pit as part of the arts centre's autumn season.  

Tony Award-winning, stage and screen icon Betty Buckley played six live concerts at Joe's Pub in New York City on May 16-18, 2024. See photos!

Based on Disney’s 1994 animated film musical of the same name, The Lion King tells the story of Simba, a young lion who is supposed to succeed his father, Mufasa, as King of Pride Rock. But when Simba's uncle, Scar, kills Mufasa, Simba runs away from home after being tricked into thinking that he was responsible. As he comes of age, Simba learns some valuable perspective to go back and take his rightful place as King.

Masterworks Theater Company and Theater555, in association with the George Street Playhouse’s “The Next Dramatist Program”, will present a staged reading presentation of *“Closet Writer,” inspired by the reflections of Tawana Smith, by Antu Jacob. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Playing with Poe’s works and diving into the realm of devising for the first time was a real growth experience for my peers and I. Using experimentation to create a formal script was foreign to all of us, but we ended up creating a piece we were all proud of!

Nocturne Theatre’s production of Beauty and the Beast hits all the right notes. Fans of the original story will be delighted with the stellar performances of their favorite songs, while fans of Meyer2Meyer’s macabre touch will relish the costumes and the overall ambiance of the Nocturne Theatre itself

Broadwayworld had the pleasure of interviewing the director of 'Seussical,' Timothy Maureen Cole about her career and the upcoming show at Wharton Arts in Berkeley Heights.