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The Irish dance phenomenon Riverdance is currently on a world tour, celebrating 30 years since their debut. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the group visited Good Morning America to treat viewers to a special performance. Watch it now!

Clueless is a new musical comedy based on the Paramount Pictures classic film. The modern spin on Jane Austen’s Emma gets another timeless makeover from the original film’s writer-director alongside a majorly acclaimed creative team.

This evening, or rather last evening, during their “Final Preview,” I was once again regaled to my seat with baited breath as I waited for the lights to fall on McDonagh’s masterpiece and, forthrightly, my favorite play, The Pillowman.

Ensemble Arts Philly will present the new anniversary production of the international Irish dance phenomenon Riverdance with Riverdance 30 - The New Generation at the Miller Theater. Learn how to purchase tickets.

This time, the reader question was: The Last 5 Years makes its Broadway debut this spring… but everyone you know already has the show memorized. How did that happen? Tepper unpacks the history of the beloved show.

curious directive, City of London Sinfonia and Norwich Theatre have announced THE EXOPLANETS, which will have its world premiere at Norwich Theatre Royal in September.

Gateways Music Festival in association with Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester celebrates the transformative power of Black classical artistry with Spring Festival 2025 in Rochester, NY (April 21–24) and New York City (April 24–27).

Tangled Feet and Revoluton Arts in collaboration with Pirates of the Carabina will present Rave New World. A site-specific, outdoor spectacle with music and aerial theatre rejoicing in Luton's activist rave history.

Euripides Laskaridis and OSMOSIS present Euripides Laskaridis in RELIC, running Wednesday 2 - Saturday 5 April.

Frank Hartenstein, a stage manager whose body of work included collaborating with some of Broadway's most celebrated luminaries over the last 50 years, died on Friday, February 21. Learn more about Hartenstein's life and career.

hile many of them are original concepts or based on plays, 14 are already films or series that you can watch from home now. If you are seeing any of the below productions in 2025, check out how you can study up beforehand or unpack afterwards!

Philadelphia-based physical theater company Pig Iron Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Franklin’s Key, written by Dan Rothenberg and Robert Quillen Camp.

The internationally acclaimed, award-winning Philadelphia based physical theater company Pig Iron Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Franklin's  Key, written by Dan Rothenberg and Robert Quillen Camp.

Cypress Hill celebrates his storied career with Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall, a three-day theatrical event and live album both immortalizing the hip-hop icons’ collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Bear McCreary has shared two previously unreleased B-sides from his epic concept album, The Singularity. “Escape from the Machines (1995 Demo)” – recorded when McCreary was just 15 years old – and “Supermassive Spiral” are available now. Listen to them here!

Among the most popular destination for locals and tourists this time of year is the Tuacahn spring concert series, featuring a wide range of musical and comedic performers — a little something for everyone.

Asolo Repertory Theatre has announced complete casting for the Olivier and Tony Award-winning memory play Dancing at Lughnasa, which begins previews on March 19, 2025.  

What did our critic think of RENT at CM Performing Arts Center?

Broadway In Chicago has announced that individual tickets for RIVERDANCE 30 – THE NEW GENERATION will go on sale this week. Learn more about the show here!

OPERA America has revealed the eight recipients of the 2025 Discovery Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program. Learn more about the program and the awardees.

Discover the star-studded cast of Broadway's OTHELLO as previews launch tonight, February 24, 2025, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Premiere set for March 23.

Previews are now underway for The Jonathan Larson Project and fans who have checked out the new musical already have intel on the more than 20 undiscovered songs, as audiences are treated to a brief breakdown as they leave the Orpheum Theatre. BroadwayWorld is excited to share an exclusive, in-depth version of the story behind each song, courtesy of the show's conceiver, Jennifer Ashley Tepper.

With its engaging and sentimental tale of “forbidden-love-that-could-of-been,” Robert James Walker’s 1992 best-selling novel, The Bridges of Madison County, was made into a 1995 successful movie of the same title starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. After the success of that motion picture, book writer Marsha Norman teamed up with composer Jason Robert Brown to create the 2014 Broadway musical.  Wichita audiences now have the opportunity to hear that luscious score performed once more.

In honor of Valentine’s Day, the legendary Brenda Lee’s long out-of-print 1963 early career collection, aptly titled Love You!, is now available as an expanded digital Deluxe Edition with 20 incredibly rare tracks making their streaming debuts. Listen to it now!

Broadway's master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to Mayo Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 14 at 8 pm.