The City and the Town - 2023 - West End Articles Page 1

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Grammy and Emmy winner Will Roland, Tony winner Norm Lewis and more. 

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is May 26, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.

In another world, Jimmy Cliff’s ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’ would have made a barnstorming musical theatre ‘I Want’ song. This musical adaptation of the late reggae pioneer's 1972 film – which premiered here in Stratford in 2005, and was reworked in New York in 2023 – makes that world a reality.

Battery Dance will present its 45th Annual Festival at Wagner Park, featuring a week of free nightly performances, community workshops, and a one-night commemorative show marking the U.S. semi-quincentennial.

Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Susan V. Booth and Executive Director John Collins have revealed the 2026/2027 Season line-up, beginning this fall. With 12 productions—five world or Chicago premieres, a reinvestigated classic and more.

Birdland Jazz Club will present an encore of HOT COMBINATION, featuring Bryce Edwards and Mike Davis honoring 1920s jazz duo Red Nichols and Cliff Edwards, backed by an all-star traditional jazz band.

All new photos have been released from the double bill of new musicals, Gunfight at the Not‑So‑OK Saloon and Does Not Compute. Check out the photos and learn more here!

Liverpool Everyman will present Attachment, a new play written by Young Writers' Programme graduate Julia Cranney and directed by Kate Treadell, exploring adoption, parenthood, and love.

xThe LA Phil has unveiled the 2026 season at The Ford, its hillside open-air venue, running from May 8 to October 31. The 2026 season brings together a multidisciplinary mix of music, dance, film, theater, comedy and spoken word.

BAM Rose Cinemas will present FILMAFRICA 2026, a showcase of contemporary and classic Pan-African cinema curated by the New York African Film Festival, featuring world, US, and North American premieres from Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, and beyond.

Avalon announced its Edinburgh Festival Fringe theatre programme, featuring Bryony Kimmings' BOG WITCH, Flo & Joan's ONE MAN MUSICAL, and the UK debut of new musical THE REAL KYLE McCARREN.

Singer-songwriters Dylan Gossett and Charles Wesley Godwin are set to embark on a 2026 co-headline U.S. tour, coming together for a run of highly anticipated dates this fall. 

Judy Collins has added new dates and special guests to her “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes” farewell tour, which spans cities across North America and beyond through winter 2027.

Prospect Musicals announced the full line-up for its 2026 Gala & Muse Awards at The Edison Ballroom, honoring LaChanze, Ken Davenport, Lindsay Mendez, Ryan Scott Oliver, and Jose Antonio Vargas.

Writer and performer, and star of Titanique on Broadway, Marla Mindelle, will host the 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards. Learn more about the ceremony here!

Matt and Ross Duffer will be honored with the Visionary Tribute for Netflix’s global phenomenon Stranger Things at the Third Annual Gotham Television Awards.

Broadway in Austin generated more than $40 million in economic impact during the 2023–2024 season. The figure is part of a $5.7 billion national total from touring Broadway productions.

Following its 2023 production at 59e59 Theatres and productions around the country, the Penguin Rep Theatre production of SMALL, written by and starring Robert Montano, will return to New York City for a limited engagement.

Elaine Cassidy and Katherine Pearce will be joining the cast of Rory Mullarkey’s original play EVEN THESE THINGS, which will have its World Premiere at The Royal Exchange Theatre as part of the 50th anniversary season under the theme ‘A Homecoming’. 

Next week, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Sondheim Unplugged: The Final Season, Olivia Katz, and many more!

Five For Fighting (aka John Ondrasik) will bring his Five For Fighting String Quartet Tour back out on the road this September and October, featuring several Broadway musicians.

The Billy Barnes Review was the music-comedy ensemble that launched Jackie Joseph’s career on stage in the late 1950s but she returns the favor at the Billy Barnes’s Bash 4/22/26 Doors open at 7:00pm Show time 8:30pm paid parking garage or street parking.

Out of the knights, I knew the least about Monty Python, so I had a lot of catching up to do. I was building the plane as I was flying it, but they were so gracious in helping me learn about the style of comedy that it is.

See HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOBBY: DARIN AT 90! on May 14 at the Midtown Manhattan hotspot with singer Jonathan Poretz. Read a conversation about the show and Darin's influence.

Marcos Morau and the Ballet Nacional de España bring Afanador to Paris — a hypnotic fusion of flamenco, contemporary dance, photography, and queer aesthetics. A work of ravishing strangeness, formal brilliance, and emotional generosity