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Which Best Musical and Best Play nominees will take home the ultimate prize? BroadwayWorld has rounded up the winners of the Tony Awards, the Drama Desk Awards, the Drama League Awards and the Outer Critics Circle Awards for the last fifty years to compare winners year by year.

New Ballet, the institution that Silicon Valley looks to for excellence in the art of ballet, announced its 2025/2026 season. See here for more details on the upcoming season!

Maybe Happy Ending: Original Broadway Cast Recording is available on CD now! The album was released in streaming and digital formats earlier this season. Learn more here!

Forty of the nation's most talented high school vocalists, representing 13 states and 31 cities, have been chosen to participate in the 2025 season of The Songbook Academy.

Stepping into the director’s chair for the first time at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in over four decades, London-based writer, producer, and filmmaker Donald Rice brings his cinematic eye and deep reverence for rock opera to The REV’s production of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR.

Prescott Park Arts Festival has revealed its August concert lineup for the River House Restaurant Concert Series, with an exciting bonus July show just revealed. Learn more!

GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer, songwriter, actor, producer, and global superstar Joe Jonas has released his new solo album, Music For People Who Believe In Love. Listen to it here.

Today’s subject Francesca Zambello is currently living her theatre life as the Artistic Director of Washington National Opera (WNO). She has been in the position since 2012. Her production of Porgy and Bess begins performances this evening in the Opera House at Kennedy Center where it will play through May 31st.

This summer, a new exhibition at The Carle celebrates the wide-ranging career of author and illustrator Grace Lin at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Learn more!

Hatch Theatre Company and The Everyman in association with Once Off Productions are delighted to present the Irish premiere of Caryl Churchill’s ESCAPED ALONE, at the Everyman Cork.

​​​​​​​Those drawn to intimate, music-driven storytelling and powerful, personal theater take note of This Is Water, written and performed by a singer-songwriter Rain Perry, which makes its debut at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival. I decided to speak with Rain about the genesis of her show, her six-disc recording career, and how her own experience lends to taking an insightful look into her own history in the United States.

This past weekend, composer Kevin Puts’s BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT, based on the long, abundant correspondence of artist Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer/gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, had its long overdue New York premiere, with the New York Philharmonic under debuting conductor Brett Mitchell, and soprano Renee Fleming as O’Keeffe and baritone Rod Gilfry as Stieglitz, friends and lovers (marital and otherwise).

Prepare to be moved by movement at Dance Base this summer, as Scotland's National Centre for Dance announces its 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme. Learn more here!

In 2013 and 2019, Base Entertainment Asia previously presented Andrew Lloyd Webber’s acclaimed musical 'The Phantom of the Opera.' On May 13, 2025, this timeless masterpiece's haunting love story and hypnotizing musicality returned to a packed house in the 2,183-seat The Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands.

Actors’ Equity Association’s Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs has revealed the nominees for this season’s ACCA Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus. Learn more!

The UK premiere of Sing Street, a new musical based on the 2016 movie of the same name by John Carney will receive its UK premiere at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.  Producers have announced the cast.

Joan Chen (Twin Peaks, The Last Emperor) is set to star in the gripping psychological thriller The Evil Inside, co-written and directed by Lingo Hseih.

OSAKA COMIC CON 2025: Held annually during Japan’s Golden Week since 2023, OSAKA COMIC CON is the Osaka counterpart to TOKYO COMIC CON, which began in 2016. This major celebration of American comics, movies, and pop culture welcomed its third edition this year. A star-studded lineup of ten celebrities appeared, including Nicolas Cage (“Ghost Rider”), Mackenyu (“One Piece”), Edward Furlong (“Terminator 2”), Emily Rudd (“One Piece”), Sung Kang (“Fast & Furious” series), Mads Mikkelsen (“Mufasa: The Lion King”), Hugh Dancy (“Hannibal”), Daniel Logan (“Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones”), Christina Ricci (“The Addams Family” series), and Bill Skarsgård (“IT” series). Through stage events, autograph sessions, and photo ops, fans had the chance to interact with their favorite stars. The event’s PR ambassador was NMB48, and the main hosts were Yuichi Nakamaru and IMALU.

We took a look at which 2025 Tony nominees have won at least a Tony or two (or eight!) - amongst them, they've gathered a total 77 awards. Check out who'll be looking to add even more hardware to their Tony shelf at this year's ceremony.

Has there been a British comedy franchise as successful as Mischief’s since the days of the Carry On films? While The Play That Goes Wrong is still going strong in the West End and New York, their latest The Comedy About Spies rolls off the conveyor belt at the Noël Coward Theatre.

With two Tony nominations for his work in Maybe Happy Ending, Darren Criss visited CBS Mornings to discuss this honor and the critical acclaim the show has received since its debut in 2024. Watch the interview!

This past weekend, Tony-nominated performer Josh Groban celebrated the opening of Josh Groban: Gems — Exclusive Las Vegas Engagement at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Take a look at photos from the event here!

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs has announced its official partnership with WACO (Where Art Can Occur Theater Center), for the co-management and co-operation of the historic Vision Theatre, rebranded as the Vision Theatre Performing Arts Center (VISPAC), located in the vibrant South Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert Park.

The San Francisco Mime Troupe, founded in 1959, started with movement 'Events' with visual art elements and music, segued to commedia dell’arte, and now presents fully fledged outdoor political musical theatre with a decidedly “left” bent.

In a new featurette for the Tony-nominated musical Maybe Happy Ending, director Michael Arden, scenic designer Dane Laffrey, and more take viewers behind the scenes of the musical number 'Where You Belong.' Watch it now!