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Paper Mill Playhouse opens their 2025-2026 Season with the exuberant musical, Bull Durham being performed through Sunday, November 2.

Performances are now underway for Beetlejuice the Musical’s third Broadway engagement at the Palace Theatre for a limited 13-week run through January 3, 2026. Meet the new cast of Beetlejuice here!

Steve Earle's 11th annual John Henry's Friends Benefit concert will take place in December. Learn more about the upcoming concert and see how to attend.

When David Henry Hwang’s 1988 play M. Butterfly premiered at the National Theater in Washington D.C. and then produced on Broadway, it was truly visionary, compelling, thought-provoking, and outright shocking. Revised in 2017 to incorporate information that was released after the original play was produced, more people’s acceptance of the LGBTQIA+ community, and China’s growth as a superpower.

Producers have announced full casting for Beetlejuice the Musical’s third Broadway engagement, set to begin performances October 8, 2025, at the Palace Theatre (160 W. 47th Street) for a limited 13-week run through January 3, 2026.

Heathers is currently playing to sold out crowds at New World Stages, the off-Broadway complex on 50th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. It’s a New York City return for the teen musical with a relatively short turn-around time since the original off-Broadway premiere of Heathers opened in 2014.

 In celebration of 92 years of Theatre By The Sea, owner and producer Bill Hanney is proud to present Heartbreak Hotel, the stage musical which celebrates the life and music of Elvis Presley. Heartbreak Hotel will be presented from August 20 – September 14, 2025.

The 2011 musical Hairspray, based on the 1988 film, tells the story of teen Tracy Turnblad, whose sole goal in life is to become a dancer on Baltimore’s Corny Collins Show. 

The GRAMMY® Award-winning band Deftones has detailed their sixth annual Dia De Los Deftones Festival, returning to Petco Park in San Diego, CA on Saturday, November 1, 2025.

Chess famously had an interesting road to Broadway in 1988 and has been through many changes since then. Learn about all of them, plus the historical context of the piece and the journey of its creators (Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus) in this documentary by Wait in the Wings. Watch in this video .

Renowned international music conservatory Manhattan School of Music has announced that acclaimed composer, conductor, and saxophonist Jim Saltzman has been appointed Dean of the School's prestigious Jazz Arts division, effective July 1, 2025.

This past weekend, Multi-platinum pop icons New Kids On The Block launched their highly anticipated debut Las Vegas residency, “THE RIGHT STUFF,” at Dolby Live at Park MGM, to a sold-out house and acclaim from fans and critics alike. Take a look at photos here!

The 9:30 pm performance of Broadway Bares: Come Out, Come Out is sold out and only a limited number of tickets remain for midnight as the annual burlesque spectacular unveils its Wizard of Oz-inspired spin .

Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 24 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's Summer 2025 reading list.

Internationally acclaimed pianist/composer Laszlo Gardony and his quartet perform at Regattabar, Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge on Friday, May 23.

Hollywood Records has released Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* Original Motion Picture Soundtrack with music by Academy Award®-nominated composers Son Lux. Listen to it now!

Broadway star Kay Cole, who portrayed Maggie in the original production of A Chorus Line, has joined the cast of The Wedding Singer at The Colony Theatre.

 In honor of Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day - Yiddishkayt Initiative will present a staged reading of Drama Desk Award-winner Jeff Cohen's (The Soap Myth) new play The Righteous. Learn how to attend.

The original cast recording of Broadway's Hamilton has been selected to join the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, joining a selection that also includes the original recordings of Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, and Sweeney Todd.

Steve Earle has announced his Fifty Years of Songs and Stories, a solo acoustic tour sprawling journey across over 50 cities in the U.S. and Canada. The tour will kick off on May 25 at the Princess Theater Centre for the Performing Arts in Decatur, AL.

Shack has announced their first tour since 2007, bringing their critically and fan-adored songbook back home with a first SOLD-OUT show at Liverpool’s 2,000-capacity Olympia Theatre on Fri 25 April 2025.

Proctors and Capital Repertory Theatre have announced 2025-26 seasons, featuring a mix of Broadway blockbusters, beloved classics, and bold new works. Learn more here!

The Spire Center for Performing Arts has announced four new shows. Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Steve Earle will perform on June 12, Grammy award-winner Chrisette Michele will take the stage on June 14, award-winning Boston musician Les Sampou will perform on June 26, and New England Museum Music Hall of Fame inductees The Fat City Band will play on June 28.

'Love Letters,' the timeless play by A.R. Gurney, will be presented for two dinner performances for Valentine's Day Weekend 2025, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday Feb. 14 and a matinee performance at 3 p.m. Sunday Feb. 16 on the Theatre at the Center stage at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road in Munster, Ind.

The 2025 Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has been awarded to Benjamin Velez. The 2025 Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre librettist has been awarded to Madeline Myers.