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Austin Playhouse has expanded its 2025-26 Season lineup with three additional shows, including The Heart Sellers. Learn more about the season and see how to purchase tickets.

The Gilded Age is back for Season 3, and with it, a new and returning crop of Broadway talent. The New York-based costume drama is known for its vast array of theater actors, utilizing a total of 163 across its three seasons. Take a look here to see which of your favorite stars appear in the new season!

In the confident and craftsmanlike hands of Mr. Dudzick and director Joe Brancato, the audience is treated to a breezy look at familial relations that is smartly informed by the writer’s abiding sense of balance between lighthearted banter and matters of faith, ambition, tolerance and family secrets that surface and hit home with the force of a torpedo, shattering a lifetime of misbegotten beliefs. 

Nothing will get a mama more emotional than watching a child being wronged, and y’all, I was deep in my feels at THE PROM at Actors Theatre of Little Rock, which is running now through June 21. Directed by Caelon Colbert, this vibrant musical, with music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Chad Beguelin, and a book by Bob Martin and Beguelin, is based on an original concept by Jack Viertel.

Wilbury Theatre Group concludes its season with a powerful, spirited, heart-stopping production of “American Idiot,” a musical based on rock band Green Day’s concept album of the same name.

The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame will host a screening of a short comedy, drama, and thriller film block by West Babylon director Joe Pomarico. Learn more!

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.

Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit (Moulin Rouge), Emmy Award nominee Lea Michele (Funny Girl) and Nicholas Christopher (Sweeney Todd) will lead the first-ever Broadway revival of CHESS. We have all of the details on the production here, plus watch a promo video!

Few honors in entertainment are as coveted—or as rare—as achieving EGOT status. This elite distinction marks a career filled with versatility, longevity, and extraordinary talent across multiple mediums. What does it all mean? We're taking a closer look at the artists who have managed to join one of the industry’s most exclusive clubs.

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!

Miller Theatre has announced its 2025-26 season—a combination of new and early music, as seen through its core series Composer Portraits, Early Music, and Jazz, alongside community hits Morningside Lights and Pop-Up Concerts. 

Donald Margulies' Collected Stories, featuring acclaimed performers Grace Kiley and Christina Toth (Orange Is the New Black) is now playing at The East Village Basement. See photos of the production.

The Broadway Bound Awards of Central Arkansas, presented by Celebrity Attractions in partnership with Argenta Contemporary Theatre, is proud to honor the next generation of musical theatre stars with an opportunity of a lifetime. 

Broadway's Lea Michele recently joined the hit podcast Therapuss, hosted by Jake Shane, to discuss her multifaceted career, including her new tour, Glee, and her return to Broadway in Funny Girl. Check out the full conversation here.

Dance Umbrella has announced the second event for the 2025 festival. Change Tempo, which makes its debut at Barbican, is a double bill that introduces London audiences to two distinctive artists set to make their mark.

Lea Michele has revealed two of her favorite songs from her upcoming tour. Watch a video of her singing Billie Eilish's 'What Was I Made For?' from the Barbie film soundtrack, along with her original song, 'Run To You,' off her 2017 album 'Places.'

The newest musical from Royal City Musical Theatre (RCMT) has clocked in and is ready to work overtime to charm audiences with its humor and inspiring story. From April 25 to May 11, 9 to 5: The Musical will play at the Massey Theatre in New Westminster, BC. This high-energy production brings Dolly Parton’s catchy and infectious score and Patricia Resnick’s witty book to life. Filled with sass and sparkle topped off with a whole lot of soul, 9 to 5 takes audiences on a nostalgic ride. Being an adaptation of the classic 1980 film, 9 to 5 is a story of female empowerment, showing the resilience of women in the face of workplace sexism and inequality. 

A hootin’, hollerin’, good time as a heroic Germanic saga goes Texan.

NextStop Theatre Company has announced its 2025/26 season—the first fully programmed by Producing Artistic Director, Heather Lanza, who joined the company in the fall of 2024.

Steve Maun, President/CEO of The Nash announced that Joel Goldenthal, co-founder of The Nash, has stepped down as Executive Director and will continue to serve the organization as a sustainability specialist.

Austin Playhouse has announced the 2025-26 Main Stage Season will include an outlandishly fun classic tale of alter egos and mistaken identities; the return of Hercule Poirot in a regional premiere; an Austin premiere of a thought-provoking historical thriller; a Tony Award -winning musical with non-stop laughs and a unique and soaring score; and a fast-paced new comedy set in the kitchen serving up an Austin premiere.

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.

What a treat for the special woman in your life. Start off her Mother's Day with the ELLIE MARTIN QUARTET: MORNING GLORIES. This Mother's Day celebration welcomes all ages for some soulful jazz music while sharing a delicious brunch. 

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.

Next month, 54 BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. The lineup includes Tom Kitt featuring Ariana DeBose, plus more!