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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!

The Lion King will welcome back Cameron Pow as Zazu. Prior to Broadway, Pow also performed in the West End and North American touring companies. Pow takes over the role from Blakely Slaybaugh.

Shakespeare's Globe will present A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM from April 23 to August 29, 2026, directed by Emily Lim with a diverse cast including Audrey Brisson and Enyi Okoronkwo.

Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution at London County Hall will extend until 25 April 2027 taking the production, which opened in October 2017, into its tenth year. 

Everyone's favorite plus-sized civil rights crusader is on stage again in Columbus.

What did our critic think of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at 5-Star Theatricals?

The New York Shakespeare Awards has officially unveiled its list of winners for 2025, marking the sixth year of celebrating the most impactful contributions to the Bard's legacy.

Radical Evolution, Latinx Playwrights Circle, The Sol Project, and Boundless Theatre Company have revealed the cast and design team for their World Premiere of Canciones, a site-specific experience presented at a private home in Flatbush, Brooklyn.