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After sold-out shows and rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe, Six Chick Flicks will make its West Coast premiere at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Learn more!

54 BELOW will ring in the New Year with Broadway rising star Joy Woods. Learn more about the performance and see how to purchase tickets to the New Year's Eve show here!

THE NOTEBOOK, a new musical based on the best-selling novel that inspired the iconic film, will play Seattle’s Paramount Theatre in March. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!

Experience The Notebook at The Fabulous Fox, November 4-16. Join Allie and Noah in this timeless tale of love and memory.

The National Tour of THE NOTEBOOK is now underway! The tour launched on September 6, 2025, at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH. Read the reviews here!

The highly anticipated Original Cast Recording of Gavin Creel’s acclaimed  theatrical production of Walk on Through: Confessions of a Museum Novice, will be  released on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, on all major digital streaming platforms under the title Walk on Through: Live at MCC. 

The North American tour for The Notebook has officially kicked off in Cleveland, OH! See the video here of the cast on opening night at Playhouse Square. 

You can now get a first look at production photos of THE NOTEBOOK North American Tour, ahead of tonight's official opening. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

The 1/52 Project, the financial grant program founded by Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt, revealed the twelve early-career designer recipients selected for the 2025 cycle to benefit from $165,000.00 in grants.

Get a first look as the cast of THE NOTEBOOK on tour, which kicks off this week in Cleveland, hears the orchestra for the first time at the theater. 

It is bad for the state if Broadway falters. Broadway will falter if investment dries up. It is as simple as that. (I’m not sure how the “backfill” idea is in keeping with the idea that the credit is designed to stimulate investment, as that investment will have already occurred, but I also see the argument that folks who decided to invest in shows opening later in the fall were expecting the credit, and they may not invest in the future if they feel they were shafted this go round.)

Following last month's announcement of the forthcoming concept album, the London cast and creative team have been set for the world premiere of Beautiful Little Fool, opening at Southwark Playhouse Borough.

​Broadway In Chicago is inviting high schools across the State of Illinois to participate in the 15th Annual Illinois High School Musical Theatre Awards. Learn how to apply!

The North American Tour of THE NOTEBOOK is getting ready to kick off from Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH, before continuing to 30+ cities in its first year, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Watch in this video as the cast gives a special sneak peek of 'Time,' 'If This Is Love,' 'Kiss Me,' and 'Coda' and chat more about getting ready to hit the road.

The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg, best known for their collaboration on the score of “The Wizard of Oz” in 1939.

A brand-new musical, Beautiful Little Fool, with music and lyrics by Hannah Corneau and a book by Mona Mansour, directed by Michael Greif, will release its concept album in October. Watch Jessie Mueller perform 'So Alive' here!

At the inaugural LIMEHOF Music Documentary Film Festival this month, Tony Award nominee Will Chase won the Best Short Film Award for his film, Coming Home: The Guggenheim Grotto Back in Ireland. Check out the full list of awards here.

The Notebook, a new musical based on the best-selling novel and iconic film, will play eight performances at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre from October 7–12, 2025, as part of the Five Star Bank Broadway Season.

The full cast and 2025-26 tour route have been announced for the upcoming tour of THE NOTEBOOK, which kicks off this September. Learn more about the show here!

Producers Kevin McCollum and Kurt Deutsch, along with The Bushnell, have announced that THE NOTEBOOK, a new musical based on the best-selling novel that inspired the iconic film, will play the Hartford venue.

The Orpheum Theatre Group has announced that THE NOTEBOOK, the acclaimed new musical based on Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling novel, will play a limited engagement in Memphis from October 28 to November 2, 2025.

Single tickets for THE NOTEBOOK, the new Broadway musical based on the best-selling novel that inspired the hit film, will go on sale to the public on Friday, July 18 at 10 a.m. ET.

Just In Time’s origin story as well as overall conceit has much in common with one of Broadway’s very first jukebox musicals, which was ahead of its time. In 1985, Leader of the Pack, telling the story of pop singer-songwriter Ellie Greenwich, opened at the Ambassador on Broadway. Learn all about pop music bio-musicals here!

Watch Joy Woods and Darren Criss rock out to 'Suddenly, Seymour' from Little Shop of Horrors during the Maybe Happy Endings star's recent concert! See the video now.

Tickets are now on sale for performances of The Notebook, a new Broadway musical based on the bestselling Nicholas Sparks novel that inspired the iconic film, coming to Playhouse Square.