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The 79th Annual Tony Awards are this Sunday, June 7, 2026. It's the biggest awards show of the Broadway season and it closes out a long awards season for Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals and plays. Which Best Musical and Best Play nominees will take home the ultimate prize?

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Grammy and Emmy winner Will Roland, Tony winner Norm Lewis and more. 

Patchogue Theatre announced WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS - AN EVENING WITH EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER, combining archival Royal Albert Hall footage of Emerson and Lake with Carl Palmer and his ELP Legacy band performing live in sync.

Patchogue Theatre will present Welcome Back My Friends - An Evening with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, combining archival Royal Albert Hall footage of Emerson and Lake with Carl Palmer and his ELP Legacy band performing live in sync.

Tron Theatre Company announced a revival of MY ROMANTIC HISTORY, D.C. Jackson's Scotsman Fringe First-winning romantic comedy, directed by Johnny McKnight, with a community tour across eight Glasgow venues.

Next week, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Sondheim Unplugged: The Final Season, Olivia Katz, and many more!

There’s a moment in almost every conversation about the 1980s when someone stops mid-sentence, smiles to themselves, and suddenly looks a little misty. That pause isn’t accidental - it’s memory doing its thing. And if For The Record: Teen Beat Live has anything to say about it, audiences are about to experience that feeling on a visceral level inside CineVita’s glittering Spiegeltent at Hollywood Park.

The best kind of group therapy, TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS at Stages Houston

A polished NT Live filming of All My Sons arrives on screen as a compelling highlight of the National Theatre Live season on 16 April 2026, combining strong performances with assured direction. Led by Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste, the play recording delivers emotional depth and tension layered in morality, which resonates far beyond the stage.

In 2010, Spamalot was first performed in Sweden and now it's time again. On September 25th, it will premiere at the Nöjesteatern in Malmö. Remaining from the original Swedish production are musical veterans Kim Sulocki as the valet Patsy and Anki Albertsson who will once again play Lady of the Lake. Otherwise, a completely new ensemble where Samuel Fröler portrays King Arthur and 'Ankan' Johansson takes on Sir Robin.

In April, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Marilyn Maye, Claybourne Elder and many more. 

Broadway has a long history of one-person shows, including many that have been added to the canon in this century.  Seeing one actor powerfully create a whole world on stage can be an exceptional experience. Of course, one handers are hardly one-person projects; while there may only be one actor on stage, they are collaborating with an entire team of creatives, designers, and behind-the-scenes personnel to bring a show to life. 

Many fellowship programs help emerging leaders learn the craft and business of theater, in both nonprofit and commercial spaces. For this article, I spoke with several fellows about five things Broadway leaders don’t often say but that we learned as fellows.

The Broadway Women's Fund revealed its 2026 Women to Watch on Broadway list, the seventh list from the fund spotlighting women in leadership in theater.

Next week, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Paulo Szot, Kate Baldwin and many more.

For Knight, this represents her first chance to be the original aggressor rather than the avenging victim, and it’s wild to see her twist her narrative. She is stunning and statue-esque, and Olivia whiplashes between actress and countess with skill.

Next month, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond for Women's History Month, including Linda Eder, Kate Baldwin, Jenn Colella and more. 

Performances are now underway for the Broadway premiere of Every Brilliant Thing. Tony Award winner Daniel Radcliffe is back on Broadway in this one-person production. Meet the cast of Every Brilliant Thing here!

Current star of Masquerade Telly Leung discusses with Jennifer Ashley Tepper playing the Phantom in the immersive production, the full circle from Rent fan to Rent actor, Gavin Creel’s leadership during a production that never was, and much more. 

It’s… Hairspray! BroadwayWorld is taking a look back at what the cast of this beloved musical has been up to since the show first graced the Broadway stage!

From Anthony Ramos to Ben Platt, take a look at all the Broadway stars to look out for when you tune in to Ryan Murphy's new series, The Beauty. All episodes of the series are now streaming on Hulu.

Theatre has to work extra hard in January to get people away from cosy duvets and into venues. Thankfully, Dante or Die’s I Do (created by Daphna Attias and Terry O’Donovan) has a doozie of a premise.

Take a look at our guide to find out where you might have seen Stranger Things stars like Gaten Matarazzo and Sadie Sink on the stage and how the cast has appeared on Broadway.

One of the most effective things the musical gains by moving from page to screen to stage is permission to reframe the story without betraying it. By leaning harder into the Curtis brothers as the emotional spine, the musical clarifies a distinction that’s always been present in the text but rarely foregrounded this explicitly: Darry, Soda, and Ponyboy are family by blood, bound by obligation and grief; while the Greasers are family by choice, bound by loyalty and survival.

There are many museums dedicated to disaster, but only Britain could create one in which the exhibits are victims of its own fiscal policies. Museum of Austerity, revived at the Young Vic, is a cool, technologically-slick indictment, a moral subpoena served directly to your eyeballs through augmented-reality headsets. Grimmer than a midwinter funeral, the show is misnamed and flawed but serves as a salient reminder of how man’s inhumanity to man never ceases to beggar the imagination.