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McCarter Theatre Center will conclude its 2024–2025 season with Primary Trust, the tender and widely acclaimed play by Eboni Booth, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The STAGES St. Louis season opens at the end of May with the hilarious musical whodunit Murder for Two. A famed novelist is killed at his surprise birthday party and everyone attending is a suspect. A small-town police detective, piano playing Marcus Moscowitz, arrives to investigate and question all 12 suspects. The 12 suspects are all played by one piano playing actor. The zany music-filled murder mystery unfolds as Detective Moscowitz interviews the eccentric party guests.   STAGES St. Louis artistic director Gayle Seay knew she had to find the perfect team to lead this madcap comedic thriller. Casting two actors who are piano playing virtuosos, plus standby actors for each role was hard enough, but she immediately knew who she wanted to direct. Enter Michael Kostroff.  

Center Theatre Group has revealed full slate of eleven productions for the 2025/26 Season, including Here Lies Love, Mamma Mia and more. See the full lineup here!

I’ve been a student for basically my entire life. I have not always known what lay ahead for me but I always had classes and homework to keep me busy and keep me grounded. Now, however, having just graduated with my master’s degree, I took my proverbial final bow for this era of my life. In this second act, I’ll keep being a student. My show will and must go on… because it's only too late if we tell ourselves it is.

The past month represented the strongest April grosses in Broadway history, with each week being well over the $40 million mark, and Easter week peaking at over $50 million. Several shows opened, bringing the total number conncurrently running shows on Broadway to 40, the highest mark since 2018. As ever, some of those 40 are doing much better than others. 

As the wildly popular Beetlejuice National Tour makes its way to Birmingham, BroadwayWorld caught up with local talent Lexie Dorsett Sharp, who plays swing and covers multiple fan-favorite roles. A Mountain Brook native and graduate of the prestigious University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), Lexie shares what it's like to return home with a show that's winning over audiences across the country.

La Silber and La Lansbury are a match made in heaven.

A wonderfully varied evening of jazz.

New York Theatre Workshop has announced that due to popular demand, Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole has extended its run for an additional two weeks.

Just last month, Stranger Things: The First Shadow opened at the Marquis Theatre, turning Broadway upside down for a season full of mystery, illusion, and of course, demogorgons. Burke Swanson is along for the ride as 'James Hopper Jr.', the teenage counterpart to the character made famous by David Harbour on the Netflix series. Burke just checked in with BroadwayWorld to tell us all about his new gig and why he is living out his dream in one of the most buzzed-about new shows on Broadway.

Tonys time is here at last! The nominations for the 78th Annual Tony Awards were announced this morning by Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce. Follow us throughout the day, as we'll bring you Tony nominee reactions, exclusive reports, surprises, behind the scenes coverage and oh, so much more!

A Broadway debut is a special moment for any performer. Making it alongside your identical twin brother is something else entirely. For Lakota and McKinley Knuckle, the one thing sweeter than living the dream, is getting the chance to do it together. Broadway World had the opportunity to chat with both performers about their journey from small town Canada to being Swings in hit new Broadway musical, DEATH BECOMES HER.

On Thursday, April 24, 2025, over 550 guests gathered at The Glasshouse in Manhattan for the Children's Museum of Manhattan's (CMOM) 2025 Annual Gala, Giant Steps.

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.

​​​​​​​In today’s culture, it is hard to find anyone who doesn’t have some experience with the story of Peter Pan. For many, their first exposure to the “boy who refused to grow up” was through Walt Disney’s classic 1953 animated film. Others first journeyed off to Neverland with Peter and Wendy by reading the original 1904 play by J.M. Barrie. And in between (and beyond) have come many different iterations of this timeless adventure. But for musical theatre fans, there is just one PETER PAN – the classic 1954 stage musical which starred Mary Martin and was captured for posterity through a 1955 NBC broadcast. So how does one take a story with its beautiful score but also some troublesome stereotypes and bring it to an audience in 2025? That is just what Larissa FastHorse and the team bringing PETER PAN to life on the stage at the fabulous Fox Theatre have done – taken a classic and updated it for a new generation. And in the role of Tiger Lily, Bailey Frankenberg has a front row seat to what makes this story so magical. I had the chance to catch up with Bailey and hear all about her career and what it is like to play an iconic (but updated) heroine as well as serve as Fight and Flight captain for the show.

bergenPAC (Bergen Performing Arts Center) will present the final concert date of entertainment icon Johnny Mathis' 'The Voice Of Romance' Tour and celebrates the 70-year career of his timeless music. Learn more!

The 2025 Next Step Festival will launch this spring at the Gural Theatre with a weeklong lineup of boundary-pushing performances designed to spotlight emerging artists and urgent contemporary storytelling. Learn more!

Step inside novelle at Mohegan Sun’s Casino of the Sky and enter a sophisticated lounge experience with a modern and trendy interior. Comfy suede and leather chairs paired with small tables dot the room while the large, circular illuminated bar sits front and center across from the intimate stage.

Greetings from Paradise, an original play by June Thomson Morris, is premiering at the Miracle Theatre on Miracle Mile on April 29, 2025 as the centerpiece of the Coral Gables Grand Centennial Gala Celebration.

Poignant, hopeful, sardonic, jubilant, and hilariously wicked, YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE END OF THE WORLD! is a brilliant new World Premiere play that revels in its eccentricity yet, thankfully, doesn't quite shield you from genuine, gut-wrenching emotions that tug at your heart strings. Buoyed by a terrific ensemble cast and magical theatricality, Keiko Green’s bold and emotionally resonant new theatrical work is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining. The play continues at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa through May 3, 2025.

Isa Briones and AnnaSophia Robb will join the cast of All Nighter for its final weeks off-Broadway beginning Wednesday, April 30, 2025. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

New titles have been added to the 2025-26 Broadway in Hollywood season at Hollywood Pantages Theatre, including The Phantom of the Opera, Moulin Rouge!, Les Miserables and more.

The JLCO is back on 4/25 and 4/26 with a thrilling ride through new works composed and orchestrated by composers and big band leaders of today, including newly commissioned works by notable composers in the space.

At a time when the world can feel increasingly divided, the little village at the gateway to the Mizen, is preparing once again to light up with joy, music, circus, creativity, and connection.

Arena Stage Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif and Executive Producer Edgar Dobie have just announced the company’s diamond anniversary season. We have all of the details here!