The Show-Off

Let's go crazy! BroadwayWorld has just learned that 42 years to the day since Prince’s legendary film premiered, and three weeks since the album re-entered the Billboard 200, the stage adaptation of PURPLE RAIN will arrive on Broadway. PURPLE RAIN will premiere next spring at the Majestic Theatre, beginning previews on  Friday, March 12, 2027, and officially opening on Monday, April 12, 2027. We have all of the details here!

Peninsula Players Theatre will present RING OF FIRE: THE MUSIC OF JOHNNY CASH, a theatrical tribute featuring hits like 'Folsom Prison Blues' and 'I Walk the Line,' directed by Dan Kazemi in his debut at the theater.

Shakespeare & Company will present Shake It Up: The Remix, a mash-up of modern music and Shakespeare's verse, for its third run at the Tina Packer Playhouse in the Berkshires, featuring new songs and an expanded cast.

Trafalgar Releasing and Rhino Entertainment will present the 1991 Giants Stadium concert in select cinemas worldwide, featuring the full June 17 show with bonus content and an introduction by Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux.

Cleveland’s Ohio Contemporary Ballet (OCB) will open the 52nd Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival this weekend at Akron, Ohio’s Forest Lodge Park with a stylistically diverse mixed repertory program including a tango-inspired world premiere.

American Ballet Theatre revealed its upcoming seasons at the David H. Koch Theater, featuring a world premiere by Brady Farrar and company premieres of Helen Pickett's Petal, and more.

The Lady knows cabaret and the proof is in the performance.

What did our critic think of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY at Emerson Colonial Theatre?

AGMP Concerts will present a series of performances at The Assembly in Leamington Spa to mark the venue's 100th anniversary, featuring Macy Gray, The Blockheads, Trevor Horn & His Band, Incognito, and The Ordinary Boys.

Cyril Nri will take on the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN at the Liverpool Everyman, directed by Olivier Award-winning Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu.

Stewart Copeland is harnessed in COPELAND, weaving a web of whimsical opportunities that he expertly spun into reality. With a knack for saying yes to outlandish ideas and running with them, he has transformed his dreams into tangible achievements.

Sarah Silverman demonstrates two of her celebrity impressions in an exclusive clip from an upcoming episode of PBS' The Drawing Room with Mo Welch. Watch the sneak peek now.

Over the years, Broadway has seen a number of family acts sharing the stage. It’s extra special when family members team up to write a Broadway show together. The Great White Way has seen many instances of this historically, in a variety of different situations. 

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that stage and screen performer Louise Lasser, who was best known for playing the title role in the TV series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, has passed away at the age of 87.

The 1983 Broadway musical 'La Cage aux Folles' was almost a project titled 'The Queen of Basin Street,' with music by Maury Yeston and direction by Mike Nichols.

Pacific Symphony will perform Alan Silvestri's score live in sync with BACK TO THE FUTURE at Great Park Live in Irvine, including approximately 20 minutes of new music added by Silvestri for live orchestra presentations.

If the summer heat has you at wit’s end, there is no better way to stay cool than Theatre By The Sea’s stylish, energetic, remarkably entertaining production of “Grease,” the Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey musical that premiered on Broadway in 1972 and spawned the now classic 1978 movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.

The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame awarded $10,000 in scholarships to ten graduating high school seniors across Long Island, with an additional Pat DeRosa Memorial Scholarship presented for the fourth consecutive year.

Fontainebleau Las Vegas invites audiences to experience the impossible as internationally acclaimed mentalist duo MIND2MIND performs their exclusive residency at the resort's intimate Azul lounge.

'What Suffs does is drive home the message that there is no action that is too small that won't make an impact.'

Less Orientalism, and less passion too, but the music sustains

Tony Award-winning actor Jak Malone will return to NYC's Laurie Beechman Theatre with a new solo cabaret, MISS YOU, MISS YOU, REALLY WANT TO KISS YOU, following a sold-out debut at the venue.

92NY's Harkness Dance Center announced its 2026/27 Harkness Mainstage Series, featuring Trisha Brown Dance Company, Doug Varone and Dancers, and an inaugural Dance on Film Festival.

Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson will play Teen Angel in Secret Cinema's GREASE: THE IMMERSIVE MOVIE MUSICAL, returning to Evolution London in Battersea Park for a limited run this summer.

Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts announced a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, featuring original 'Magenta' actress Patricia Quinn, with a live shadow cast, costume contest, and VIP meet-and-greet available.