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Tony Award-winning songwriting duo Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty will be honored with the Ockie Award at the Oscar Hammerstein Museum's Something Wonderful Gala, featuring a concert by Liz Callaway.

Over the years, Broadway has seen a number of family acts sharing the stage. It’s extra special when family members team up to write a Broadway show together. The Great White Way has seen many instances of this historically, in a variety of different situations. 

Following a critically acclaimed, award nominated, sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, An Ode to the Casting Director will return as a breakout solo show, heading back to Edinburgh Fringe 2026 with Assembly.

OPERA America announced $135,000 in commissioning grants to seven opera companies through its Opera Grants for Women Composers program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation since 2014.

Australian comedian Dan Rath will bring his new hour, HELP ME PLEASE, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, following his Director's Choice Award win at Melbourne International Comedy Festival and a viral Just For Laughs Montreal set.

Whether you are Team Black or Team Green, there is probably a stage veteran on your side. Like other HBO shows such as The Gilded Age and Julia, the Game of Thrones spin-off, House of the Dragon, is full of Broadway, West End, and stage alums. 

Park Theatre announced its Park90 autumn season, featuring four theatre productions and four comedy hours. THE REVLON GIRL returns with its original cast, and more. Learn more here.

FRIGID New York will present the 6th Annual Little Shakespeare Festival at UNDER St. Marks Theater in NYC, featuring a 'ShakesPUNK' theme with independent productions inspired by Shakespeare.

Limón Dance Company will present a program at The Joyce Theater in NYC featuring José Limón's 1958 work Mazurkas, performed in full for the first time since 1964, alongside Aszure Barton's 2025 commission Join.

GRAMMY Award-winning Pentatonix member Kirstin Maldonado is back on Broadway as Anne Boleyn in the Tony Award-winning musical SIX. In this interview, she reflects on returning to the stage after Kinky Boots, adapting to the show's demanding schedule, bringing her harmony-driven background to the score, and discovering her own take on one of musical theater's most beloved queens.

What’s happening Off-Broadway in July? BroadwayWorld is here to guide you through the top picks for theatre this season, including one-person shows by celebrities, world premiere plays, musical revivals and more.

Now running at The Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre is A Walk on the Moon. Inspired by the acclaimed 1999 film, A Walk on the Moon is directed by Tony Award nominee Sheryl Kaller and features a book and additional lyrics by original screenwriter Pamela Gray, music and lyrics by Tony Award and Grammy Award nominee AnnMarie Milazzo, and choreography by Josh Prince. In this interview, Talia Suskauer, who plays 'Pearl', reflects on the rehearsal process and the journey of the new musical so far.

Noah Mannion, Rafferty Smale, Spencer Collins, and William Gurney will share the title role in Billy Elliot the Musical's national tour and limited West End season, with original Olivier Award-winning Billy, Liam Mower, returning as 'Older Billy.'

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Young Conservatory has revealed the cast and creative team for the musical adaptation of Twelfth Night, a contemporary musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy.

Newsies, featuring music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein premiered on Broadway in 2012. BroadwayWorld is looking back at what the cast has been up to since the show first burst onto Broadway!

Arendelle has once again transformed Sacramento into a wintry wonderland, this time in the round at Broadway at Music Circus. Frozen the Broadway Musical is a dazzling stage adaptation of Disney's beloved 2013 animated film. It opened on Broadway in 2018 with additional songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and earned three Tony Award nominations: Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score. Director Glenn Casale has assembled a star-studded cast for this adaptation, and his signature touch elevates the joy and magic that Disney represents.                    

China Arts and Entertainment Group will present the New York premiere of MULAN, a China Dance Lotus Award-winning dance drama by China Ningbo Performance & Arts Group, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.

Three-time Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Luke James has joined the Broadway cast of  WANTED. James will star as Elijah, alongside Solea Pfeiffer as Mary Clarke, Liisi LaFontaine as Martha Clarke and Ledisi as Tallulah Clarke.

Reba McEntire just dropped two never-before-released songs from her legendary 2001 Broadway run in Annie Get Your Gun. Listen now!

'...today's musical theater performer kids are smart...they understand...that there is an innate honesty to the material, all the while inhabiting this kind of stylistic choice in allowing it to be bigger than life.'

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival kicks off its 35th anniversary season with MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, directed by Jim Helsinger and starring national tour veterans recreating the legendary 1956 Sun Records jam session at DeSales University.

Tony and Emmy Award-winner Billy Crystal’s new one-man show, 860 will play a limited run at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre, beginning in October of 2026. The complete creative team will be announced in the coming weeks. 

Several new cast members have joined the cast for the new Peaky Blinders sequel series, including Conleth Hill, Daniel Monks, Samuel Bottomley, Arturo Muselli, Eugene Collins,  Lucie Shorthouse, and Cal O’Driscoll.

Freckle Productions, in association with Rose Theatre, announced a partnership with The Rubens at the Palace for ZOG's return to Cadogan Hall, offering ticket holders a discounted Royal Afternoon Tea during Kids Week 2026.

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and actor Eisa Davis discusses her new play at the Vineyard, ||:GIRLS:||:CHANCE:||:MUSIC:||, as well as her other upcoming projects including a revival of Angela’s Mixtape and the new musical Warriors.