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PAGLIACCI, THE MAGIC FLUTE & More Set for Seattle Opera 2024/25 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 10, 2024


Seattle Opera has unveiled its 2024/25 season. Learn about the productions and see how to purchase tickets!

Audience of One Productions' ANASTASIA Takes Audiences On a Journey to the Past
by Jeffrey Ellis - Dec 5, 2023


Audience of One Productions’ stunning Anastasia, now onstage through December 10, is the perfect gateway: Beautifully directed with professionalism and a cinematic flair by Angie Dee, the romantic and historical musical is strikingly performed, emphatically sung and lyrically danced.

Review Roundup: HARMONY Opens On Broadway! See What the Critics Are Saying!
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 13, 2023


The new Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman musical Harmony opens on Broadway tonight. Read the reviews!

Album Review: Out Of The Past Comes Rose Marie's 1st Ever CD Collection For Her 100th Birthday on ROSE MARIE SINGS
by Bobby Patrick - Aug 28, 2023


For those of us for whom she represents more than kitsch, this album is an essential.

Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin And The Philadelphia Orchestra Announce 2023-24 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 26, 2023


The GRAMMY Award–winning Philadelphia Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin have announced a musical journey of discovery, beauty, and inspiration: the 2023–24 season.

Feature: Ben Stevenson's Dracula, presented by the Nevada Ballet Theatre, to Bring Gothic Grandness
by Debbie Hall - Sep 30, 2022


Ben Stevenson’s Dracula, presented by the Nevada Ballet Theatre, will fill the stage with all the eerie, Gothic grandness to begin the Halloween season. Haunting performances will be presented at The Smith Center Oct. 6-9.

Sunday Morning Michael Dale: Alison Fraser Thrillingly Reinvents Cat On A Hot Tin Roof's Big Mama
by Michael Dale - Jul 31, 2022


A popular stage actor best known for being quirkily funny in musicals (Off-Broadway in March Of The Falsettos, on Broadway in Romance, Romance, The Secret Garden and Gypsy), Fraser reinvents a classic character and turns in a performance that thrills with its gutsy power masked by her character's well-rehearsed elegance.

BWW Review: Tony Award-winning Revival of RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN'S OKLAHOMA! Plays Nashville This Week
by Jeffrey Ellis - May 4, 2022


Yet perhaps at no time during its vaunted and venerated history has Oklahoma! been so polarizing as it has become now, thanks to the 2019 Broadway revival directed by Daniel Fish which is touring the provinces. Read our critic's review.

This Week's New Classifieds on BWW - 4/7/2022
by - Apr 7, 2022


This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 4/7/2022 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

25 Theater Books for Your Winter 2022 Reading List
by Team BWW - Jan 29, 2022


Winter is here and what better time of year to stay in and snuggle up with a great book? You're in luck, because this year, Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 25 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's winter reading list.

Birdland Announces February 2022 Schedule
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 19, 2022


Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this February with a full slate of nightly performances! 

BWW Interview: Gerri Weagraff of ANASTASIA at Hennepin Theatre Trust
by Kristen Hirsch Montag - Dec 16, 2021


Russian-set musicals figure highly in this actor's nontraditional path to the tour stage. ANASTASIA, the new Broadway musical, and its Dowager Empress are on the Orpheum's stage till Dec. 19.

Haunted Houses: The Untold Ghost Stories of Broadway with Jennifer Ashley Tepper!
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 23, 2021


When you think 'haunted houses' you probably don't picture the inside of a theatre. But with an over 100 year history, many of Broadway's most famous houses are positively teeming with reports of the supernatural.

CARNEGIE HALL SELECTS Online Series to Continue With VOICES OF HOPE Festival, BERLIN IN LIGHTS and More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 18, 2021


From this Friday, August 20 through October 1, Carnegie Hall will continue to offer weekly free full-length historic concert streams via carnegiehall.org, featuring legendary classical musicians in inspirational performances from some of the finest concert halls around the world. T

Mamie Parris, Bobby Conte Thornton and More Join AUSTEN'S PRIDE Highlight Concert at the 2021 Cape Playhouse Gala
by Stephi Wild - Jul 28, 2021


As part of the Gala celebration, the evening will feature musical selections from the new musical Austen's Pride performed by Broadway's Mamie Parris (School of Rock) and Bobby Conte Thornton (Company), along with Olivia Hernandez, who was seen in the production at The 5th Avenue Theatre.

Looking for a Broadway Job? Check Out This Week's New Positions - 7/1/2021
by - Jul 1, 2021


This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 7/1/2021 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

Theater Resources Unlimited Announces Upcoming TRU Community Gathering Via Zoom
by Stephi Wild - Jun 4, 2021


A dependable haven for artists in isolation, Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is now into its second year of non-stop weekly Community Gatherings this Friday, having offered to date over 52 conversations and unlimited camaraderie since April 17, 2020. 

The Ohio Theatre Lima Gets Its Second Act
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 6, 2020


129 Musicals & Shows You Can Stream From Home in 2021
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Nov 21, 2020


BroadwayWorld put together a list of all the live action musicals you can stream on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, BroadwayHD, and Disney Plus. Are you looking for something to get your mind off… all of this? So are we. Because everyone needs some escape,

BWW Exclusive: In Honor of Gay Pride - THE 101 GREATEST LGBTQ SONGS/ANTHEMS OF ALL TIME - from Judy Garland to Lady Gaga, from Gloria Gaynor to Frank Ocean
by Peter Nason - Jun 24, 2020


Happy Gay Pride! BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the 101 greatest LGBTQ songs and anthems from 1920-2020. See if your favorite songs or artists made the grade!

Opera San Jose Announces Free Live Stream Of Mozart April 18-May 18
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 6, 2020


While it will not be opening The Magic Flute in April due to COVID-19 restrictions, Opera San José has announced something all opera patrons can enjoy at home instead: the FREE live stream viewing of its breathtaking 2011 production of Mozart's first dramatic masterpiece, the rarely produced Idomeneo: ré di Creta.

The 101 Greatest Showtunes from 1920-2020
by Peter Nason - Mar 19, 2020


How do we make a list of the 101 greatest show tunes from the past 100 years? Well, we did the near-impossible task.  Check out our full list here! 

130+ Musicals That You Can Stream Now!
by Team BWW - Apr 4, 2021


Visit our list of the best musicals & shows you can watch from home! We've got you covered with all the must-sees on streaming sites.

Kimbra, JACK Quartet and More at National Sawdust in March
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 6, 2020


See what's on the schedule at National Sawdust in March! Kimbra, Little Kruta, JACK Quartet, Metropolis Ensemble and more...

BWW Review: You'll Love Life in OUR TOWN at Bellevue Little Theatre
by Christine Swerczek - Nov 17, 2019


Thornton Wilder's OUR TOWN just went into my books as one of the most heartfelt plays I've seen. Bellevue Little Theatre outdid themselves with this deceptively simple, meta-theatrical three-act production.

The Second Act FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What productions of The Second Act have there been?
The Second Act has had 1 productions including Broadway which opened in 1927.

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