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BroadwayWorld talks with WICKED alumn Carmen Cusack, who will headline BACK TO OZ: From The Wonderful Wizard to The Wiz to Wicked at the Mark Taper Forum April 18–26.

The Orange Girls and St. Louis Actors’ Studio’s The Half-Life of Marie Curie is a beautiful work. The production brings together all the design elements of a play into an artistic expression of friendship and feminism through intelligent story telling. It is flawlessly directed, convincingly acted, and meticulously executed. Its originality, integrity, honesty, and impact would make any Nobel prize winning scientist proud.

MUSE/IQUE will present BACK TO OZ, tracing Oz from the 1939 MGM film to THE WIZ to WICKED, at the Mark Taper Forum in April 2026, led by Artistic Director Rachael Worby.

Park University International Center for Music will present pianist Behzod Abduraimov on May 1 at the 1900 Building in Mission Woods, Kan., closing its 2025-26 concert season. Tickets are $30 for the public and $10 for students.

Actors Theatre of Indiana has unveiled its 2026-2027 season featuring a variety of shows, starting with Never Can Say Goodbye: The 70's Beehive Musical on September 4. The season includes musicals, satire, and mystery.

Students from Park University's International Center for Music will perform at the 1900 Building in Mission Woods, Kan., showcasing a diverse program of string compositions.

Main Street Theater has extended the run of its regional premiere of Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard. There have been only two U.S. productions of Leopoldstadt since its world premiere in London in 2020.

Minha Estrela Dalva is not a conventional biography, but an imagined encounter between artist and muse. Onstage, Renato Borghi steps into the dressing room of legendary singer Dalva de Oliveira to fulfill a lifelong dream: inviting the “Queen of Radio” to perform the songs of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Blending memory and fantasy, the production—directed by Elias Andreato and Elcio Nogueira Seixas—brings together past and present in a poetic theatrical dialogue. Soraya Ravenle portrays Dalva at once as myth and woman, while Ivan Vellame embodies key figures from her personal life. With evocative music, movement, and striking visuals, the show reveals both the icon and the human story behind one of Brazil’s greatest voices.

For me, the message of this play is that family is the most important thing. Having, keeping, and surviving those family ties and those memories.

Park University's International Center for Music (ICM) will present its spring concert on April 17, featuring guest conductor Jason Seber. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel located on the university's Parkville Campus. While admission is free, attendees are encouraged to RSVP to ensure seating availability. This concert provides an opportunity for the community to experience a high-caliber orchestral performance in an academic setting.

Strange Fruit, directed by Venus Cuffs at Joe's Pub on 2/26, is a multimedia protest performance inspired by Billie Holiday's 1939 anti-lynching anthem. An all-LGBTQIA+ cast of Black artists explores resilience and resistance.

Opera Orlando will present THE SECRET RIVER March 6 and 7 at Mead Botanical Garden. The outdoor production features music by Stella Sung and a libretto by Mark Campbell, based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

Pleasantville theater company Arc Stages' Community Stage will present Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Set in 1900 Sweden, A Little Night Music explores the tangled web of affairs centered around actress Desirée Armfeldt, and the men who love her.

Hofstra University's Department of Drama and Dance will present A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, exploring a complex web of romantic entanglements in 1900 Sweden. Directed by Keith Michael Pinault, the production features a waltz-infused score and runs from March 6-14 at the Toni and Martin Sosnoff Theater.

When I think of Steppenwolf, I often think of family members crying, screaming at one another, or some combination of the two. So the sparring between spouses Alice and Captain Edgar in August Strindberg’s 1900 play THE DANCE OF DEATH feels right at home. In a surprisingly funny and sharp version from accomplished Irish playwright Conor McPherson and direction from Steppenwolf ensemble member Yasen Peyankov, Kathryn Erbe and Jeff Perry go toe-to-toe as a troubled married couple about to celebrate their silver anniversary. 

Amadeo Vives se reinventa en una versión actual que une la esencia de 1900 con las identidades LGTBIQ+ y el activismo joven.

This spring, The Citadel invites audiences to follow the Yellow Brick Road as it brings The Wizard of Oz to life in a magical new stage production at the Shoctor Theatre.

MidAmerica Productions will present its 43rd concert season at Carnegie Hall, featuring 11 world premieres and a mix of sacred and secular music from March to June 2026.

Entr'Acte Theatrix is set to stage THE WIZARD OF OZ at the William G. Skaff Center in West Palm Beach from February 26 to March 14. This production, based on the beloved 1939 film, features classic songs and timeless characters, offering a nostalgic experience for audiences.

The large majority of our 41 Broadway theaters were built to be Broadway theaters. Other than the Winter Garden, which was originally a horse exchange, the Nederlander, which was originally a carpenter’s shop, and the Broadway and Lunt-Fontanne which were originally movie theaters, every current Broadway house was intended from the beginning to present Broadway shows. As for off-Broadway? The opposite is true.

Christian Reif has been appointed the new General Music Director of Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester, starting his role in the 2027/28 season. Reif, a GRAMMY Award-winning conductor, will transition from his current positions in Sweden and Minnesota.

Nearly 50 years after its debut, Chico Buarque’s landmark musical returns in a vibrant new staging. Directed by Jorge Farjalla, Ópera do Malandro dives into Rio de Janeiro’s bohemian underworld to expose corruption, desire and hypocrisy with sharp humor and unforgettable songs. Inspired by Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera and infused with elements of Afro-Brazilian spirituality, the production blends satire, ritual and popular culture in an immersive, festive experience. Featuring a large, star-studded cast the show reaffirms the enduring power—and provocation—of one of Brazilian musical theatre’s most iconic works.

If the longevity of a Broadway classic is judged by its ability to reflect both its historical significance and its present existence in popular culture, this new revival of THE WIZ is somehow caught somewhere between reverence and reinvention.

In PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK: THE MUSICAL, Gold’s score makes it clear that this is not a mystery you simply watch. It’s a mystery you enter. The music becomes a kind of weather system that circles, shifts, and pulls the audience along.

It wasn’t until later on in theatre history that revivals began including shows that weren’t initially well received or financially successful in their initial engagements. As musical theatre continued to evolve, and more shows entered the canon, a consensus began to grow about shows being worthy of additional exploration even if they hadn’t been hits the first time around. What about musicals that had been ahead of their time, musicals that had fallen prey to circumstances, early works by writers who became successful later on, and of course, shows that found an audience after closing via their cast recordings?