The Big Voice: God or Merman? - 2006 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 17

The YMCA of Greater New York’s 50th annual Heroes of New York Gala took place earlier this week at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring a special performance by Tony Award-winner Ruthie Ann Miles. Check out photos from the event now.

Impact Arts has revealed cast and creatives for 22nd Season of Summer Stock Austin. The 2026 lineup includes the ultimate in family friendly theatre with Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella and Disney's Newsies: The Musical.

The Tony Award-winning Best Musical Maybe Happy Ending, directed by Michael Arden, will launch its North American Tour at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, with original Broadway cast members Steven Huynh and Claire Kwon starring.

Comedian Brandon Collins will bring Drunk Black History back to the Bell House in Brooklyn for a Juneteenth celebration featuring Rah Digga, TaTa Sherise, and more comedians, podcasters, and experts.

Lea and Drew Lachey have revealed the digital rush policy for Label•less, a new musical experience, playing Off-Broadway this summer. Tickets for the digital rush will be $33.

Heathers The Musical and the Rosevale Cocktail Room will host a Tony Awards watch party sponsored by CIVILIAN Hotel on Sunday, June 8, hosted by cast members of Heathers The Musical.

Following a sold-out acoustic show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Thursday night, Phoebe Bridgers has revealed details of The Lost Tour for 2026.

The Columbus Symphony and Chorus, led by Music Director Rossen Milanov, will perform a free concert at Columbus Commons as part of America250-Ohio's Homecoming & Picnic, featuring Broadway star Tamika Lawrence and a fireworks display.

Overall, according to our Tony Nominations grosses analysis, none of the new musicals this season are in the upper half of the theoretical monthly average across the industry. Last year, there were six new musicals in that upper half, four of which were nominees for Best Musical. Luckily, this weekend’s Tony Awards is set to potentially change all of that! But in an era where even the most viewed Tony Awards are viewed less than they were pre-2020, what effect do they have on the grosses at this point? 

Good Guy With a Gun!, a satirical musical concept album featuring Chris Sullivan, Kimiko Glenn, Anthony Rapp, Jason Alexander, and Yvette Nicole Brown, has released its' first single, 'Liberal Love,' now available.

Jeff Goldblum has released ‘Night Blooms' a new album that features Goldblum's longtime band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra and collaborations with Wicked co-stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Listen to it now.

Outside In Theatre has extended its world-premiere production of O: A Rhapsody In Divorce following sold-out performances at its Highland Park black box. Playwright Jami Brandli will also lead a free writing workshop during the run.

Nominees for Best Play are: The Balusters (David Lindsay-Abaire), Giant (Mark Rosenblatt), Liberation (Bess Wohl), Little Bear Ridge Road (Samuel D. Hunter). Nominees for Best Book of a Musical are: The Lost Boys (David Hornsby and Chris Hoch), Schmigadoon! (Cinco Paul), Titaníque, (Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli and Tye Blue), and Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Jim Barne and Kit Buchan).

In celebration of the upcoming launch of the prequel series Elle and the 25th anniversary of Legally Blonde, New York's Hall des Lumières will be reimagined as “Elle World” on June 20.

Watch as we chat with: Jim Barne and Kit Buchan (Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)), Brian Usifer (Chess), Steve Bargonetti (Joe Turner's Come and Gone), The Rescues (The Lost Boys), and Trevor Holder and Doug Schadt (Cats: The Jellicle Ball).

Rapid Lemon Productions will close its 15th season with the regional premiere of Arlene Hutton's Drama Desk-nominated play BLOOD OF THE LAMB, directed by Jalice Ortiz-Corral at Baltimore's Strand Theater.

This June and July, Piper Theatre Productions will open one of its most ambitious summer seasons to date: a lineup of world premieres, new voices, and an internationally bound musical headed from Brooklyn to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Spotlight Kidz launched their 2026 summer season with the Spotlight KIDZ CABARET 'Anything Goes' theme held recently at Don't Tell Mama. Learn more and check out photos here!

SALT LIFE will make its world premiere at Brooklyn Art Haus. Playwright and director Neka Cecillia Knowles brings forth a lesbian pirate romance for the party gworls with difficult attachment styles.

On Friday, Sting and Shaggy took the Good Morning America stage to perform a medley from Sting's musical The Last Ship. Watch the duo sing 'All This Time' and 'The Last Ship'.

Rapid Lemon Productions will present Variations on Silence, Baltimore's annual ten-minute play festival featuring 12 world premiere short plays by local writers, performed live at Strand Theater.

BroadwayWorld will be live on the Tony Awards red carpet on Sunday with special guest co-host Michael James Scott! The Aladdin alum, who will also be performing with The Book of Mormon, will join Richie Ridge on the red carpet.

Country music songwriter Mac McAnally is set to perform in Sioux Falls. The guitarist and vocalist, known for his work with Jimmy Buffett, will bring his live show to the area.

Watch in this video as 2026 Tony nominee Mark Strong chats more about the joys of putting a fresh stamp on a classic, why live theatre is more important than ever, and so much more.

Peter Fenton's dark comedy CORONATION, a teen satire about power and privilege, will receive a staged reading at Manhattan's Chain Theatre as part of the Spotlight New Works Fest.