The Comedy of Errors

Alden Ehrenreich took home the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for Becky Shaw. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, he checked in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to share his initial reaction!

Toronto Fringe announced programming for its 38th annual festival, with 123 shows across 27 venues including musicals, clown, improv, puppetry, and six KidsFest productions spread throughout the city.

THEATER 2020 has announced its run of Shakespeare’s “A Comedy of Errors,” in a fast paced 75 minute version adapted and directed by NYIT Award nominee David Fuller, and running 8 performances in Brooklyn.

Alden Ehrenreich has won the 2026 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for BECKY SHAW.

Shakespeare's Globe announced the full cast for LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, directed by Indiana Lown-Collins in her Globe directorial debut, featuring flamenco dancers and a singer alongside a 14-member cast.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced its 2027 season, featuring nine productions including HAMLET, A DOLL'S HOUSE, SHREK THE MUSICAL, and a world premiere, running throughout the year in Ashland, OR.

The cast has been revealed for Nightsweat, a new farce by Natalie Symons, set to open at The SigPro Studio in The Villages, Florida, marking the venue's first-ever summer production.

Melanie Santos Cordero, a core company member of The American Mime Theatre, has joined the cast of A SKETCH OF NEW YORK at The Producers' Club Theaters in Manhattan's Theater District.

Storyhouse has announced full casting for its Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre season, featuring two world premieres: OUTLAWS: A ROBIN HOOD STORY and LET THE SUN SHINE!, alongside a company of ten actors and four trainees.

Obie Award-winning Harlem9 announced six playwrights, including Kermit Frazier, Kristen Adele Calhoun, and Naomi Lorrain, for 48HOURS IN…HARLEM®, marking 15 years of the festival with a tribute to the late Woodie King Jr.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Aleta Mitchell, who appeared in the original Broadway cast of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson, passed away on April 14, 2026. She was 74 years old.

Independent Shakespeare Co. will bring its annual Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival to Los Angeles this summer, offering free outdoor performances for audiences.

Melanie Santos Cordero will perform at the American Mime Theatre's Mime Cabaret showcase, including a foundational archival duet, Music Box, at the world's oldest continually operating mime company in New York City.

Duluth Playhouse will present Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at the NorShor Theatre, featuring Twin Ports-area performers alongside Great Lakes Theater company member James Alexander Rankin in a modern reimagining of the classic slapstick comedy.

Pippa Nixon and Ken Nwosu will lead Shakespeare's Globe's production of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING as Beatrice and Benedick, directed by Chelsea Walker. Learn more here!

The League of Improv today has revealed a a Summer season of bright, sharp, and ridiculously funny comedy, with three shows, each featuring a high profile stand-up star as Special Guest. 

Chicago's Shattered Globe Theatre announced three new Ensemble Members—Ellie Fey, Kotryna Hilko and Jeff Rodriguez—along with five new Artistic Associates, as the company celebrates its 35th year.

Pittsburgh Opera revealed its 2026-27 season, its 88th, featuring five productions across four venues, including a world premiere, and classic works by Verdi, Handel, Gluck, and Gounod.

WYO PLAY’s Ye Olde Bronc Players will present THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at the Early Building Auditorium at Sheridan Junior High School in Sheridan, Wyoming. The student production is scheduled for April 9 and 10 at 7:00 p.m.

We had the opportunity to interview Will Blum about his background, career, and the upcoming show at Paper Mill Playhouse.

The Alliance for Canadian Musicals will present eight new Canadian musicals at Theatre Passe Muraille during the 2026 Toronto Fringe Festival, taking place from June 30 to July 12, 2026.

Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced that Siobhán Redmond will star in a new production of Samuel Beckett’s surreal masterpiece Happy Days. Learn more here!

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for Lindsay Posner's major revival of Peter Shaffer's Equus, in its co-production with Theatre Royal Bath Productions.

All new rehearsal photos have been released from the Watermill Theatre's world premiere of Victoria: A Queen Unbound, a new play by Daisy Goodwin, creator of ITV’s Victoria. 

First casting has been announced for the West End premiere of Beetlejuice The Musical.  Olivier-nominated actor David Fynn will take on the title role of Beetlejuice. Learn more here!