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BWW catches up with John P. McEneny, writer & tirector of The Bloody Ballad of Bette Davis to chat about bringing the show to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Carla Mendonça, known for Coronation Street and My Parents are Aliens, will join Rufus Hound and Susie Blake in the UK and Ireland tour of Torben Betts' comedy thriller THE OTHER SIDE OF MURDER.

Bristol Old Vic announced the full cast for its Christmas production CINDERELLA: A FAIRYTALE, led by Joëlle Brabban alongside Joseph Langdon and Bristol performer Dionne Draper, with local and UK-wide talent.

Griffin Theatre Company will present LACUNA by Eric Jiang, a new work following a jobless young woman hired by a Chinese underworld goddess to erase memories, at Downstairs Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre.

Pantochino Teen Theatre is set to to present the Broadway musical Lionel Bart’s “Oliver!” freely adapated from Charles Dickens novel “Oliver Twist” at Arts Hall on Audubon Street in New Haven. Co-producers Bert Bernardi and Jimmy Johansmeyer have announced three performances.

DAVIS GAINES to headline in the desert at Coachella Valley Repertory on 7/30/26 @ 7pm. DAVIS performed the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera over 2,000 times on Broadway, in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Subsequently, he was chosen by Hal Prince and Lloyd Webber to play the leading role in the World Premiere of Whistle Down the Wind. Other Broadway and National Tour credits include Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, Cornelius Hackl in Hello, Dolly! (with CAROL CHANNING), Camelot (with RICHARD BURTON) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (with ALEXIS SMITH). In Los Angeles, Gaines received Best Actor awards for his portrayals of Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha and Hannibal Lecter in SILENCE! The Musical. Film and television work includes Warlock: The Armageddon, Sweeney Todd, Desperate Housewives, Charmed, Chicago Hope, Veronica’s Closet, Bodies of Evidence and Murder, She Wrote. Additionally, Gaines has sung for six U.S. Presidents and with virtually every major symphony orchestra in North America, including the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl. A native of Orlando, he currently resides in Los Angeles and is a frequent singer of our National Anthem for the Los Angeles Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Dodgers.

Even in Los Angeles, in the midst of a spectacular live theater renaissance, there are few theaters in town doing musicals with as much deep excellence and sheer joy as Wisteria Theater.

Ahead of their run at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, the cast of Les Misérables The Arena Concert Spectacular will head to late-night television for a special performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week.

Bergen Performing Arts Center's Performing Arts School will present ANNIE as part of its 15th annual Summer Theater Program, with performances at the bergenPAC theater in Englewood, N.J.

Benjamin O'Mahony will star as Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich in Holy Fool, a new play about art and resistance under Stalin, at Park Theatre in London.

The 5th Avenue Theatre will present a new production of A CHORUS LINE, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, directed and choreographed by two-time Tony nominee Denis Jones.

Jazz legend Herbie Hancock will perform at New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Prudential Hall in Newark. The 14-time GRAMMY winner and 2025 Polar Music Prize recipient is set for a one-night-only appearance.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art will present ALEJANDRO T. ACIERTO: MODEL HOME, an installation-based exhibition addressing urban development, displacement, and environmental impact in the Phoenix metro area.

Apple TV has revealed first-look images and the season two premiere date for German-language dark comedy series “Where’s Wanda?” Take a look at the photos for the series, which stars International Emmy Award nominee Heike Makatsch.

ICTRep (Wichita Repertory Theater) is pleased to announce its 2026-27 season!

A special kind of magic fills The Theatre at Solaire as a major international tour arrives. Beyond the resort’s radiant lights, the lobby buzzes in eager anticipation, drawing together theater purists, chic weekenders, and families teeming with excitement.

Full casting announced for summer performances of OH, MARY! at London's Trafalgar Theatre, with Cole Escola, returning for filmed performances. Learn more about the cast here.

Matt Lucas will star as Fagin in Lionel Bart's iconic musical, Oliver!, for 6 weeks only at the Gielgud Theatre in London beginning in September. Learn more here!

OFC Creations founder Eric Vaughn Johnson discusses the 2026-2027 Broadway in Brighton Series, a season of six musicals featuring rarely produced titles, a North American premiere of THE OSMONDS, and a New York State premiere of THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts will present its upcoming Rosen House Concert Series, featuring 21 performances spanning classical, jazz, folk, and global music, plus a new Juilliard Extension collaboration.

The American premiere production of The Pass, written by John Donnelly and directed by Max Hunter, will open this summer. The production will star Matisse Ratron-Neal, Terry Bell, Ino Badanjak, and Oliver Rowland-Jones. Check out photos of the cast here!

The Fire Island Pines Arts Project has announced a one-night-only benefit reading of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart in August at Whyte Hall, Fire Island Pines. 

The Fire Island Pines Arts Project (FIPAP) just announced a one-night-only benefit reading of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, directed by Leigh Silverman, on Saturday, August 22, 2026, at Whyte Hall, Fire Island Pines. We have all of the details here!

Darren Criss added a matinee performance at London's Royal Albert Hall after his evening show sold out. The Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe winner will perform songs and stories from his stage and screen career.

Altadena Music Theatre will present GREASE, featuring Broadway's Ruby Lewis as Sandy and Bryce Ryness as Vince Fontaine, at the Mountain View Mausoleum in Altadena.