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It’s Tony Award season and all the pre- and post-show gatherings are happening in real time, celebrating an amazing Broadway season. Among the who's who events of the season was the Black Broadway Nominee Soirée, held on Friday, June 5, hosted by three-time Tony Award-winning producer Lamar Richardson and his wife, Zaire Julion-Richardson.

Actor John Anthony Gorman brings THE WOODCUTTER to Edinburgh Fringe, a one-man show drawn from his real life, recounting memories of his parents and their Glasgow pub, The Woodcutter, which they ran for half a century.

A riveting production of Nick Payne's Constellations at the Baxter Theatre Studio. Director Jay Pather and performers Mwenya Kabwe and Mark Elderkin deliver a technically precise, emotionally devastating exploration of love across infinite possibilities.

What did our critic think of The Scottish Ballet's Mary, Queen of Scots Trusts Its Audience at David H. Koch Theater At Lincoln Center?

What did our critic think of Trinity Rep's NEXT TO NORMAL at Trinity Rep?

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills revealed its 2026-2027 season, opening in the Bram Goldsmith Theater in September with the Joshua Redman Quartet, plus more.

'I say it a lot. Our situation would not work for everybody, for all couples, but somehow, someway, what proves to us that we’re meant for each other is that we are together all the time.'

Celebrating its 20th birthday this year, Camden Fringe has announced a programme of more than 400 shows playing across over 30 venues this summer. Learn more here!

El musical de culto, viralizado en redes sociales, llega a la Ciudad de México con un elenco que brilla por su monumental talento tanto performativo como vocal.

Sometimes a freshman can enter the costume closet knowing nothing and leave as a senior with the full history of so many pieces of the clubs history as part of their being.

Playwright Peter Fenton will bring two new plays to two New York City venues this summer, Coronation and Blue Skies Yonder, with both exploring queerness and marginalization through genre comedy.

May 19's ESCAPE: THE MUSIC OF RUPERT HOLMES at AMT Theater was a cabaret with the songwriter himself in attendance, on-stage, and in good spirits, along with some cast members from the hosting J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company

The Rogue Theater Festival returns to The Flea Theater in Tribeca for its 8th season, presenting 37 original productions in partnership with Abingdon Theatre Company, including fully staged plays, staged readings, and digital streaming performances.

Joey Dardano (Stamptown Wild ‘n Out, Netflix Is A Joke Festival) brings his special, Another Direction, to Joe’s Pub in NYC on 6/7. We sat down with the standup and discussed how he first got started in comedy, building a show, and more.

Legendary Broadway producer Manny Azenberg, 92, talks ticket prices, the loss of playwrights to screens, the rise of investor 'producers,' and whether theater can reclaim its cultural footing.

Theatre Prometheus announced a summer production of THE ROARING GIRL, a Jacobean comedy adapted from the 1611 Dekker and Middleton play, set to run at Spooky Action Theater in Washington, DC.

Monty Python’s Spamalot is a jubilant and genuinely hilarious touring rendition of the 2023 Broadway revival. If you’re looking for hearty laughs and a winning combo of slapstick humor,witty pop culture, and musical theater references, Spamalot’s got it in spades.

FRIGID New York will present the 12th annual Queerly Festival at UNDER St. Marks in New York City, featuring in-person and livestream performances themed around queer identity across time.

PEPPA PIG'S BIG FAMILY SHOW, produced by Fierylight in collaboration with Hasbro, will return to Theatre Royal Haymarket in London this festive season, featuring baby Evie's live stage debut.

Death Becomes Her announced they will be closing on Broadway on June 28 due to poor sales. This announcement comes as a relative surprise; had you asked anyone six months ago, they would have told you Death Becomes Her was more likely than not to have an extended run on Broadway. 

An utterly convincing rollercoaster of life, death, and the world around us. See what our critic had to say.

What did our critic think of BLOOD SUCKING LEECH at Noah Lift Opera Center?

Psychic medium and Meet The Frasers star Matt Fraser will present two live shows at NJPAC's Prudential Hall in Newark, NJ, offering audience readings connecting them with loved ones in the afterlife.

A certain kind of loneliness comes from staying in one place, and Kenneth, the main character in Eboni Booth's PRIMARY TRUST, knows it well. He has lived his whole life in Cranberry, New York, shaped by childhood loss and the comfort of routine. He runs his bookshop, meets his friend Bert at the tiki restaurant every night and lives in a world where nothing ever changes.

Comedian and author Olaf Falafel will present his 15th and 16th Edinburgh Fringe shows, including a kids' comedy hour and an adult stand-up show shortlisted for the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Best Show Award.