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Andrew Doherty has announced that next year will see a run of shows with his critically acclaimed hit show, ‘Sad Gay AIDS Play’. The tour announcement follows a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe earlier this year.

In his 10th anniversary season, Isaac Mizrahi will return to Cafe Carlyle with A.I. artificial isaac, an all-new show about current events and the passage of time. Learn more here!

Tony and Obie Award-winning actor, writer, and director John Cameron Mitchell will return to Broadway in the hit play Oh, Mary! for a limited 12-week engagement this winter. Learn more here!

Country music icon Randy Travis has extended his “More Life Tour” into spring 2026, featuring his original touring band and special guest vocalist James Dupré.

What did our critic think of AJR ACOUSTIC SET at Newport Music Hall?

 The American Theatre Guild will present HADESTOWN, the winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards including Best New Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Following the seventeenth West End and fifth Broadway extensions, the Tony Award® and double Olivier Award-winning musical OPERATION MINCEMEAT unveils the cast for the UK leg of its world tour.

8Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is December 8, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Single tickets to the Broadway touring productions of HADESTOWN and more are now on sale to the public as part of the 2025-2026 Broadway in Wichita series.

The Other Palace will welcome back MTFestUK 2026, featuring six musicals over three weeks. First introduced in 2019, MTFestUK has championed bold, original musical theatre, with many works reaching full productions in the UK and beyond.

New Perspectives Theatre Company will present a benefit reading of two short plays by Joanna Pickering, THE ENDGAME and DON’T HARM THE ANIMALS, in support of its Women’s Work Project.

Broadway in Columbus will welcome Hadestown, the winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards, to Columbus in 2026.

Live Nation and KOOL 108 present the legendary Trans-Siberian Orchestra, coming to Target Center on December 28 for two epic shows. The show will feature Minnesota native singer and song write Nate Amor. 

Junior Theater Festival Productions has unveiled programming and the lineup of performers who will take part in the 2026 Junior Theater Festival Atlanta & 2026 Junior Theater Festival West.

GRAMMY Award-winning artist Patty Griffin has announced a series of 2026 live shows, including headline performances and double bills with 5x GRAMMY Award-winning blues icon Taj Mahal and 2x GRAMMY Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones.

The North American tour of MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL will welcome new principal cast members this December. Gabriela Carrillo, Ryan Vasquez, and Adéa Michelle Sessoms will join the company beginning December 23 in San Francisco.

Last night, the 2025 winners of the prestigious 64th Rose d’Or Awards were revealed in a ceremony hosted in London by comedian Dara Ó Briain. The 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award went to the legendary Anne Reid.

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, and Music on Main will present the world premiere of Split Tooth. Learn more here!

Yorke Dance Project has carved a distinctive place in the UK dance landscape. Rooted in tradition while looking to the future, YDP will present immaculately reconstructed classics of contemporary dance and ballet.

What did our critic think of FUN HOME at The Huntington? A funeral home may seem an unlikely setting for a Broadway musical, but it turns out to be an ideal backdrop for the deeply moving “Fun Home.”

David Kwong loves words the way chefs love food: obsessively, indulgently and with a eagerness to serve ever more and more of their treasured discoveries. In The Enigmatist, his puzzle-box of a show, that affection becomes both the engine and the anchor.

54 BELOW will celebrate the happiest time of the year with an incredible lineup of performances by Tony winner Christine Ebersole with Billy Stritch, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star Darius de Haas, and more.

Amid achieving critical acclaim as Glinda in the two-part film of Wicked, Ariana Grande is eager to return to the stage. During a conversation with Nicole Kidman, the superstar shared that she would be open to appearing on Broadway again in the future.

The national tour of Hadestown will visit the Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend for a limited engagement from December 19–21, 2025. The production will launch the 25–26 Broadway in South Bend Series.

Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library revealed the plays and playwrights for the fourth annual Reading Room Festival, a four-day festival of staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations.