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A one-night-only concert, THEATRE ROYALTY DRURY LANE, hosted by Brian Conley, will bring together West End stars including Samantha Barks, John Owen-Jones, and Rachel Tucker at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Stages Performing Arts Academy will present CATCH ME WHEN I FALL, an original social justice docudrama drawn from 50 interviews with Washington County residents facing economic hardship, at Masonic Hall in Hillsboro.

Heathers The Musical is welcoming new cast members to the company! You can now get a first look at Lisa Ann Walter as Ms. Fleming and Veronica Sawyer's Mom, and Zan Berube as the new Heather Chandler.

Rising vocalist, songwriter and musician Willow Avalon will embark on a massive North American headline tour this year. The run will see stops at New York’s Webster Hall, Los Angeles’ The Fonda, Toronto’s Phoenix Theatre, Boston’s Royale, Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club and more.

On the industry and international fronts, American Dream mall in New Jersey prepares to open a 3,000-seat performing arts center ahead of the FIFA World Cup, UK theater organizations call for ticket resale price cap legislation ahead of the King's Speech, and the Royal Academy of Dance receives a two-year grant to fund bursaries for trainee dance teachers.

The final show of the 2025/26 Broadway season is now open! The world premiere of THE LOST BOYS opened tonight, Sunday, April 26, 2026, at Broadway’s Palace Theatre. Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Arden, the new musical features a book by  David Hornsby & Chris Hoch, music & lyrics by The  Rescues. Let's see what the critics are saying about the new musical...

Michael, the new biopic about Michael Jackson, grossed $12.6 million at the box office in preview showings on Wednesday and Thursday. This marks the highest previews in sales for a musical biopic to date.

The California-based rock band The Story So Far will embark on a 2026 North American fall tour, kicking off this October. Supporting them on this run of shows are The Starting Line and Ultra Q.

The Beatles' first manager flies too close to John Lennon's sun and falls to earth

Broadway In Chicago announced nominees for the 15th Annual Illinois High School Musical Theatre Awards, with 24 student finalists selected from a record 348 applicants across 95 schools statewide. Nominees will perform a number from LES MISÉRABLES.

The critics are weighing-in on the 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. Read the reviews and learn more about this new comedy now at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in our review roundup!

Boston Dance Theater will present THE CAROL KAYE PROJECT at the Strand Theatre in Rockland, Maine, featuring works by leading American women choreographers celebrating the legacy of pioneering bassist Carol Kaye.

Today, think tank Remuseum is launching The Vanguard, an award and accelerator for innovative arts leaders, in partnership with the Doris Duke Foundation.

A new revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is set to come to Broadway next year, directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold. Learn more here!

From Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater suspending operations and Central Works announcing its closure after 36 years, to Duluth Playhouse navigating a leadership transition, regional companies across the U.S. are grappling with the pressures of rising costs and uncertain funding. Across the Atlantic, the UK theatre sector is meeting similar headwinds head-on, with the government distributing £127.8 million to 130 cultural organizations, Stagetext securing funds to expand captioning access nationwide, and SOLT and UK Theatre sounding the alarm over strains on the touring ecosystem.

The Last Five Years is celebrating 25 years since its premiere  in Chicago. Composer Jason Robert Brown took to social media to share a video celebrating the show, and many of the cast members who have starred in it over the years.

If you like your theatre to be undeniably avant-garde, then trot along to Notting Hill's Coronet Theatre and see The Wooster Group's Nayatt School Redux. Baffling and bewildering – but never boring – this experimental, multi-media production from a New York company that's been going for over 50 years and has included the likes of Willem Dafoe could well be the most unusual stage experience you'll have this year.

Claybourne Elder lived in my imagination long before he stepped onstage at 54 Below. Years of seeing him in Company, Bonnie and Clyde, Passion, and Sunday in the Park with George had fixed him there as a particular kind of Broadway specimen: brooding, handsome, carved almost to the point of myth, all masculine voltage and clean theatrical authority.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 20, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.

Jim Parsons opens up about dressing in drag for Titanique on Broadway, playing Ruth, and why he'd never reboot The Big Bang Theory. Watch his View interview!

See what the critics are saying about Off the Record: Acts of Restorative Justice, now playing Off-Broadway at the HERE Mainstage. Read reviews in BroadwayWorld's Review Roundup!

Bobby Fox, Glaston Toft, Scott Johnston, and Stephen Mahy, the four original stars of JERSEY BOYS, will reunite at Melbourne's Palais Theatre for JERSEY FOREVER, a one-off live concert featuring hits from Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 17, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Grammy-nominated superstar Teddy Swims has announced his 2026 THE UGLY TOUR. The North America Arena Tour kicks off on September 22nd in Kansas City and wraps up in Los Angeles on November 18th. 

I'm playing the role of Lyons. Oh! And yeah, this is… this is, like, my second time playing it, and this is one of my favorite plays, so I'm very, very excited to be at the Alley with this one.