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Tony Danza returns to 54 Below with his Sinatra tribute show this July, joined by Linda Eder and a packed lineup of Broadway and cabaret stars.

Giuliana Mancini's one-woman show STAR VEHICLE, directed by Declan Zhang, is set to make its fully staged world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, marking Small Boat Productions' first original development.

Freelancers Make Theatre Work secured new funding, including £150,000 from Arts Council England, to expand support for the UK performing arts freelance workforce, which makes up around 70% of the sector.

If The Golden Girls and Steel Magnolias had a theatrical love child, it would be The Hallelujah Girls, now playing at Twin Lakes Playhouse in Mountain Home through Sunday, June 28. Written by Jones Hope Wooten and directed by Dianne Pankau, this laugh-out-loud Southern comedy celebrates friendship, second chances, and the realization that life doesn't stop because you've reached a certain age. Packed with colorful personalities and quick wit, it is the kind of show that will have you laughing through the whole show.

On March 14, 2026, Indonesian Musical Company’s Winter Class staged MET LIEFDE – DR. VENESSA. Held in Gedung Kesenian Miss Tjitjih, this production served as a showcase of everything the students had learned: acting, dancing, and theater tech. Being a backstory for one of the characters in one of their previous shows, LEGACY, this show was written by Bryan Edward and directed by Cornelius Kenta Raya. The team from Broadwayworld Indonesia came to watch the first show, and here’s our review. 

PrideArts has announced its 2026-27 season of six productions of plays and special showcases, to be performed in the company’s resident space – the Hoover Leppen Theatre in Center on Halsted. In a change from previous seasons, all evening performances will have a curtain time of 7:00 pm. 

Hull FireFly, the South Shore's live storytelling event modeled after NPR's The Moth Radio Hour, will mark more than a decade of community storytelling at The Company Theatre in Norwell, MA.

What does it take to act in a new musical? Most actors are accustomed to performing in existing works, the kinds of shows with cast recordings and locked scripts that don’t change the night before the performance. But in New York City, actors can set foot into a thriving new works scene, where original shows are getting written and performed every day on stages large and small.

Teatro Audaz San Antonio announced its 10th anniversary season, featuring a new residency partnership with SAY Sí, three mainstage productions, and an SNL-inspired comedy series celebrating a decade of Latinx storytelling.

What did our critic think of THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Rialto Community Theatre?

At a time when stories are being challenged, erased, and reimagined in real time, the communities most impacted are often cared for the least, with few industry spaces designed specifically for their support. In 2020, three powerhouse theater artists and Tony Award nominees, Amber Iman, Jocelyn Bioh, and Danielle Brooks, set out to change that. What began as a desire to celebrate Black women working in theater has grown into Black Women on Broadway (BWOB), a thriving community dedicated to mentorship, recognition, wellness, and professional development for Black women working both onstage and behind the scenes.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is  June 16, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: 

The Great Clown Bank Show skewers capitalist America with razor-toothed humor, exposing a world where wealth is the greatest magic trick of all — and everyone outside the ring is paying for it. I spoke with creator/director Hank Jacobs about the social commentary in his new play.

The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of South Australia will present YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN at The Arts Theatre in Adelaide, with Lindsay Prodea as Charlie Brown and Brady Lloyd as Snoopy.

Death, it turns out, is an excellent alibi for a party, even one being held in your honour. Legendary magician, beloved family man and complete fiction Dieter Roterburg has sadly died and his wake is being held nightly in the tunnels beneath Waterloo train station.

Recently, we had the chance to speak with both Karimloo and Meow Meow about bringing Sweeney Todd to Birmingham Rep. We discussed what made both of them want to be a part of this production, what it takes to balance the humour and darkness of Sondheim and even some historical context from the 18th century!

It's the end of an era on Broadway. As BroadwayWorld reported last month, the curtain has officially come down on Boneau/Bryan-Brown, the iconic Broadway press office founded by ATPAM-members Chris Boneau and Adrian Bryan-Brown, after more than three decades representing theatre on Broadway, Off-Broadway and around the world.

Duces Wild will present the second edition of EDFEST, a festival of Edinburgh Fringe preview performances at Brooklyn Art Haus in Brooklyn, featuring 15 selected shows across genres including comedy, drag, and musical theater.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 10, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

I got into acting really early. I went to a small school. I kind of started in choir first, so I came in with a singing lens. As a kid, I used to tell people I wanted to be Mariah Carey, so I loved singing.

Dito van Reigersberg, co-founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of Pig Iron Theatre Company and the performer behind drag persona Martha Graham Cracker, has died at 53 following complications from a bone marrow transplant.

Booth’s deeply sympathetic rendering of a good man navigating a life of crises is 95 minutes of sublimity. And in the role of Kenneth, actor Petey McGee delivers a performance that is as throat lump-inducing as it is uplifting.

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Grammy and Emmy winner Will Roland, Tony winner Norm Lewis and more. 

I have been writing student blogs for BroadwayWorld for 6 months now. I feel very blessed to have been able to write for a website I love and respect so much talking about the thing I love most in the world, performing. 

Francesca Moody Productions and Shedinburgh announced five recipients of the 2026 Shedload-of-Future Fund, a bursary supporting early-career artists taking work to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time.