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Elton John - Live from the Rainbow Theatre with Ray Cooper will be released on July 25, both digitally and on CD for the first time, alongside a vinyl repress.

The musical parody Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch will return to Lowry, Salford for a five-week Christmas season. Learn more about the show here!

A week after she dropped her latest single, 'Manchild,' global superstar and Broadway alum Sabrina Carpenter has announced her new album, 'Man’s Best Friend,' coming later this year.

The Weidner has unveiled its 2025–2026 Broadway In Green Bay Series, featuring seven major touring productions direct from New York. The new season includes the winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Hadestown, the electrifying comeback story TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, the feel-good hit Kinky Boots, and more.

I grew up the son of a preacher. I spent pretty much every single day at church and that’s kind of how I found my way to music, theatre arts and dance. My parents had me in voice lessons, dance lessons, and acting classes at a really young age.

The six-time Tony Award–winning new romantic musical comedy, MAYBE HAPPY ENDING, will come to San Francisco as part of BroadwaySF's 2026/27 season. MAYBE HAPPY ENDING joins the previously announced DEATH BECOMES HER and THE OUTSIDERS as part of the 2026/27 season.

Donja R. Love’s SOFT drops the viewer into Mr. Isaiah’s classroom at a men’s correctional facility. Six men wrestle with their interpersonal dynamics while reckoning with the people and the situations that got them lock’d up!

Tickets are now on sale for the Appell Center for the Performing Arts’ 2025–26 Centennial Season, a year of live performance, Broadway blockbusters, and special celebrations.

Global superstar and Broadway alum Sabrina Carpenter has ushered in a new chapter with the release of her new single “Manchild,' written alongside Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff. Listen to it now.

The best of Broadway will take the stage at Radio City Music Hall for the 78th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo. Need a refresher on how to watch and when? We've got you covered!

The National Theatre announced that its sold-out, critically acclaimed production of The Importance of Being Earnest will transfer to the West End this autumn in a co-production with Sonia Friedman Productions.

“I have had a most rare vision. I had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was…” Like Nick Bottom (and the lovers), stepping out of the Bridge Theatre auditorium after a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream does feel like you are waking up from some kind of reverie. Even if you’ve been sat down instead of promenading, the performance space is designed so well that everyone feels immersed in the world of the play. Nicholas Hytner’s production of the Shakespeare classic was something of a revelation in 2019, and it feels just as bold six years on.

Production photos have been released from A Midsummer Night’s Dream ahead of the show’s official opening tonight. The immersive production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream is playing a limited run this summer until 20 August.

Country music superstar Jake Owen and American reggae rock band Dirty Heads are teaming for a four-date, long-weekend mini-tour. It will kick off in Jacksonville, Florida, on Thursday, October 23, 202,5 and conclude in Pinellas Park, FL, on Sunday, October 26.

2x GRAMMY® Award-winning artist Patty Griffin has set the release of her new full-length opus, Crown Of Roses, her 11th studio album and first in over six years. Listen to a new single, “Back At The Start,' available now.

In honor of Hamilton's upcoming 10th anniversary Tony performance, we're looking back on the careers of the original cast of Hamilton, and checking out everything they have been up to since!

Broadway’s 2024/2025 season set a box-office record at $1.89 billion, but after adjusting for inflation, real grosses fall short of the $1.83 billion ($2.25 billion in 2025 dollars) from 2018/2019. Attendance of 14.7 million was just under the 14.77 million record, and average ticket prices rose only 4 percent, trailing inflation’s 25 percent gain and lagging 30 percent wage growth.

BEETLEJUICE THE MUSICAL will return to Broadway for the 3rd time, when the First National Tour begins performances Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at The Palace Theatre. We have all of the details here!

Transforming homophobia into a defiant celebration of queer joy, Edu Diaz’s wordless A Drag Is Born blends clowning, lip-sync, and drag with a touch of audience interaction.

Award-winning singer/songwriter John Berry has announced the first dates for his 29th Annual ‘Christmas With John Berry’ Tour. The tour will kick off on November 28 in Sugar Hill, Georgia, and continue through the holiday season.

Maybe Happy Ending: Original Broadway Cast Recording is available on CD now! The album was released in streaming and digital formats earlier this season. Learn more here!

The past month represented the strongest May grosses in Broadway history, with each week being well over the $40 million mark for the second month in a row. These grosses were high enough to make the 2024-2025 Broadway season the highest grossing season in history, beating the 2018-2019 season.

This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe will see Andrew Doherty present his sophomore show, 'Sad Gay AIDS Play'. This follows a critically acclaimed debut run at the festival last year with 'Gay Witch Sex Cult'.

Everyone and his mother has seen JOSEPH – it’s an Andrew Lloyd Webber classic. I myself, have seen the show live five times – including school, community theatre, and professional productions (Never mind the Donny Osmond version that we hired on VHS when I was a little girl and which the show’s composer graciously made available to stream for free in 2020, when we were all bored out of our minds while COVID raged outside). Why then, after so much JOSEPH do you need to see this production?

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.