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CHICAGO will return to the North Charleston Performing Arts Center in winter 2026. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets to the national tour here!

The Den Theatre today announced upcoming October 2025 shows at the theatre's Wicker Park stages, including Alex Borstein, Janeane Garofalo and more. See the full lineup here!

Jason Graae (pronounced 'grah'or 'graw', but not 'gray' is an established American musical theater actor, best known for his musical theater performances but with a varied career spanning Broadway, opera, television and film. He has won four Bistro Awards, two Ovation Awards, two New York Nightlife Awards, the Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Actor in a Musical and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Joel Hirschhorn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival has announced its 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park, featuring William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona. See here for more details!

CHICAGO is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake. CHICAGO will play five performances at Chrysler Hall. Learn how to purchase tickets.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Dame Cleo Laine, the Tony-nominated performer and acclaimed jazz singer, has passed away at 97. She was predeceased by her husband and collaborator, John Dankworth, in 2010.

South African comedy icon Kurt Schoonraad will bring his latest one-man show, Funny Side Up, to Montecasino’s Studio Theatre from August 6 to 17, 2025.

For years, Broadway musicals have spawned multiple film adaptations, from the early days of cinema to Steven Spielberg's remake of West Side Story. Take a look at our list of 15 musicals that have danced their way to the screen more than once!

CHICAGO is BACK IN TOWN and is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake. Learn how to purchase tickets to Chicago at 5th Avenue Theatre here!

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival has announced that the 2025 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona will return this summer to Cupertino’s Memorial Park Amphitheater, performing Saturdays and Sundays at 6 pm, July 19 to August 3.

Greg Reiner will be the new Managing Director of Barrington Stage Company. Reiner, who most recently served as Director of Theater and Musical Theater at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), joins BSC as of August 4, 2025. 

The Horton, Epsom's unique arts venue, housed in the Grade II-listed building formerly Horton Chapel, will open its gardens for the first time this summer for a season of theatre, family events, and music.

Young Dancemakers Company will celebrate its landmark 30th season this summer with a spirited series of original works created and performed by the teens themselves.

Season 3 of the Palm Springs Cultural Center's always sold-out Broadway’s Best…In The West concert series, Executive Produced by Dr. Tom Truhe and presented by the Palm Springs Cultural Center now has tickets on sale. The popular series continues to bring Broadway's best and brightest stars to the desert, and this season is no exception. 

On Friday May 30, 2025, at 8 PM, the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra will present a concert at Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall conducted by Kenneth Kiesler featuring soloists Karen Slack, soprano, Goitsemang Lehobye, soprano, and Daniel Washington, bass.

The official trailer has just been released for Four Letters of Love, a new drama starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne. Watch it now!

The York Theatre has appointed Joseph Hayward as Producing Artistic Director. Learn more about Joseph Hayward and about the changes in the company here!

The full cast has been announced for the SJT’s 70th Birthday Party, hosted by Laura Doddington in July. Learn more about this upcoming event and how to attend here.

The new musical Goddess can currently be seen in its New York premiere production at the Public Theater on Lafayette Street. Directed by the Public’s associate artistic director and resident director Saheem Ali, who is currently Tony Award-nominated for directing Buena Vista Social Club, Goddess is playing at the Public’s largest space by capacity, the Newman Theatre.

Lake Tahoe Dance Collective will present the 13th Annual Lake Tahoe Dance Festival from July 22 - 25, 2025, featuring artists from New York City Ballet, Broadway, Boston Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and more.

Dorset Theatre Festival has announced film, television, and stage actors Marcia DeBonis, Eva Kaminsky, and Robbie Sublett will star in the upcoming 48th Main Stage Summer Season opener, Salvage by Lena Kaminsky (June 20 - July 5).

Life's greatest tragedy is the passage of time. It is a lesson we all must learn eventually. Within the proverbial circle of life, there is only a beginning and an end that occurs in the immediacy of our own lifetime. Yet, the cyclical nature of birth, death, and rebirth ensures that our spirit will carry on in legacy rather than in flesh. If we are loved, then we are remembered. And if we are remembered, then we live forever. Disney’s The Lion King transposes this message from screen to stage through an international collaboration of talent that supercedes the strength of the 1994 animated film from which it came.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA concludes the 2024/25 season with performances featuring highly acclaimed pianist Olga Kern on Saturday, May 31 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, June 1 at 3 p.m. at Skyview Concert Hall.

Playwright/Director, Stan Zimmerman has set his cast for a special one night performance of his suicide awareness play, Right Before I Go. Learn more about the show here!

One of this century's most influential voices in Latin popular culture, performer, composer, and producer, Natalia Lafourcade will take BAM's opera house stage on October 11, 2025 as part of its Next Wave season.