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Playwrights Foundation will present a public reading of Driving the Girls, a new play by Resident Playwright Cat Brooks on Saturday, May 17, 2025 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

The new musical Goddess can currently be seen in its New York premiere production at the Public Theater on Lafayette Street. Directed by the Public’s associate artistic director and resident director Saheem Ali, who is currently Tony Award-nominated for directing Buena Vista Social Club, Goddess is playing at the Public’s largest space by capacity, the Newman Theatre.

Rainbow Zebra Productions LLC and the Magic Theatre have announced the Magic Classics Reading Series. In Magic Classics, talented casts will present staged readings of plays that originally premiered at the Magic Theatre.

Led by Palm Beach Symphony Music Director and Conductor Gerard Schwarz, “The Encore” concert will conclude the Symphony's 2024-2025 Masterworks Series.

Legendary New York Author, Journalist, and Social Observer Fran Lebowitz will make her Carnegie Hall debut on Friday, December 12 for an evening of witty and engaging conversation. 

What did our critic think of ON YOUR FEET! at St. Mark's Players?The absence of melody underneath them frequently gets these singers into intonation trouble, especially given the opening night technical problems with the sound.

BroadwayWorld recently caught up with Richard Green, director of a new documentary about stage and screen star Catherine Coulson. In the interview, Green talked about capturing Coulson's legacy in the film, her love of the stage, and working with the late David Lynch.

Aaron Tippin will be coming to The Alliance in July. Tickets go on sale next week. Learn more about the upcoming event and find out more about Aaron Tippin here!

NextStop Theatre Company has announced its 2025/26 season—the first fully programmed by Producing Artistic Director, Heather Lanza, who joined the company in the fall of 2024.

A salacious love triangle, secrets and intrigue haunt the modern American tragedy The Dying Gaul by Craig Lucas making its South Florida premiere at Island City Stage.

Stanley Gibbons Baldwin will present Medals and Militaria Auction at 399 Strand which will  take place on Wednesday 17 September 2025. Highlights of the auction include a very special collection of  items awarded to the late British composer and pianist John McCabe.

Betsy Morgan will take over the role of Dede in Adam Gwon’s musical All the World’s A Stage currently playing at Theatre Five in Theatre Row. Learn more about the show here!

Music Theatre International has acquired the rights to the “Hits Musicals Collection” from Lively McCabe Entertainment, the theatrical development company behind Clue and Mystic Pizza. Learn more!

The Tony Awards Administration Committee will present the 2025 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre to four contributors to the Broadway industry. Learn more here!

Real Women Have Curves is open on Broadway! It’s the summer of 1987, and Ana Garcia dreams of flying away from East Los Angeles. But when her family receives a make-or-break order for 200 dresses, Ana finds herself juggling her own ambitions, her mother’s expectations, and a community of women all trying to make it work against the odds. Let's see what the critics have to say...

You will meet Bastian (Nolan Matseur) as he reads about Arteyu’s (Rio Gonzalez) quest to save the Childlike Princess (Lorelei Drinkut) and all of Fantastica. You will meet some of your favorite characters like Artax (Lydia Miller) and Falkor (Andrew Matseur). DreamWrights created the many mythical characters with puppets. The scenic design and projections of Fantastica was by Jay Schmuck, and the Swamp of Sadness was designed by Allen Brenner. All the elements worked together to create a magical show.

Singer and actress Ute Lemper has returned to her artistic roots with Pirate Jenny, a bold electronic reimagining of classics from revolutionary composer Kurt Weill's songbook. Listen to it now!

TheatreZone has announced the talent for its summer production of Ghost: The Musical, running in June at the G&L Theatre in North Naples. Learn more about the show and cast here!

The Bushnell has announced that artist Tito Nieves will bring his blend of salsa, pop, and R&B influences to Hartford's Bushnell on Friday, October 17, 2025, at 8:00 PM.

Australian star Jason Donovan will be taking fans on a 35-year journey through all his hits when he graces Parr Hall's stage next year. Learn more about the performance here!

On Monday, Justina Machado joined TODAY to discuss some of her latest projects, among them her role in Broadway's Real Women Have Curves. Though this is her first time in the musical adaptation, her roots with the material go back several years.

This summer, the Mark Morris Dance Group will return to The Joyce Theater to usher in a milestone: the company’s 45th anniversary season. Learn more and see how to attend.

I'll tell you why I decided to do it; then I'll tell you about the toughness, but I read this about 1999, and just loved it. It made the hairs on my arms stand up, especially visualizing the very last scene with the entire cast swaying back and forth, and giving the illusion of them not swaying. You're not sure if they are or not.

12 years after Kristen Bell and Santino Fontana sang 'Love Is An Open Door' in Frozen, they have reunited to perform a song from the new Off-Broadway musical All the World's A Stage. Watch them sing 'Dinner' from Adam Gwon's musical in a new video!

Josefina López, the celebrated Mexican-American award-winning playwright and screenwriter best known for creating and authoring the play and co-authoring the film Real Women Have Curves, was an undocumented five-year-old immigrant when she migrated with her family from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, to the United States in 1974 to settle in Boyle Heights. And on April 27, she will be making her Broadway debut when Real Women Have Curves: The Musical opens on Broadway!