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The multi-award-winning Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience has extended its London run. With consistently sold-out dates and critical acclaim, the production will now run through September 2025.

It is all about just telling stories through this little world that we create together, and many of us just bring in many of our personal experiences as actors or even just through our lives. And the show really invited that openness, for sure, because LOVE BOMB or just love in general is a topic that can go so many different ways.

The Wooster Group will perform two productions this season at its home base, The Performing Garage. See upcoming programming for 2025 and learn how to purchase tickets.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Spongebob Squarepants songwriter and record producer Andy Paley has passed away at the age of 72. Read the full obituary for Andy Paley here.

Ira Glass will present 'Seven Things I've Learned' at the Carpenter Center on December 14, sharing insights and stories from his career in public radio.

East West Players has extended its revival of the acclaimed Tony-nominated musical Pacific Overtures. This production of Pacific Overtures continues the theater’s long-standing relationship with the work of Stephen Sondheim. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Hall of Mirrors. Self-referential. Meta. All of these terms might be used to supplement the general category of Thriller into which Deathtrap, Ira Levin’s 1978 Broadway hit currently being resurrected at Spotlighters, fits. Yes, the play is (as a thriller should be) about lethal relationships and scary surprises.

What did our critic think of SOJOURNERS at The Huntington?

Join pianist Conrad Tao and tap dancer Caleb Teicher for a 100-year celebration of RHAPSODY IN BLUE at Segerstrom Concert Hall on November 23, 2024, featuring classical selections and original compositions.

What did our critic think of Theatre Raleigh's CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS?

Read our interview with Brian Jucha of LOVE BOMB at Catastrophic Theatre.

This holiday season, the Ballet Theatre of Maryland will commemorate the 20th anniversary of Dianna Cuatto’s production of The Nutcracker with performances in Annapolis and Hampstead, MD.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this November with a full slate of nightly performances. Learn more about the November 2024 lineup, featuring a diverse array of performances from renowned jazz musicians and emerging artists.

​GREASE is the word, as the title song goes from the Blockbuster movie musical that had an all star cast including Olivia Newton John, John Travolta, and Stockard Channing. Next weekend  STARRING BUFFALO presents  the stage version in it's signature concert, semi staged style. And some of Broadway's newest rising stars  come to town for 3 performances of beloved 50's High School musical.

A sold out two-night engagement at Feinstein’s at the Nikko was a testament to the enduring draw power of veteran actor/director/song stylist Lucie Arnaz. Those in attendance were treated to a reprise of her well-crafted, autobiographical concert performed and recorded live at the Purple Room in Palm Springs last year.

Experience a reimagined holiday classic as Manual Cinema brings A CHRISTMAS CAROL to the Studebaker Theater from December 13-29.

The start of Sanaz Toossi’s Wish You Were Here sees girlies being girlies in 1978 Iran. While more protests keep breaking out around the country, five friends plan their lives between waxing each other’s legs and dreaming about their future husbands. Their youthful Iranian bliss is rudely interrupted by the escalation of the Islamic revolution of 1979.

How is it done? Wonderfully writes BroadwayWorld's critic.

Jobsite Theater once again dives headfirst into a world only they know how to portray. A world reveling in the strange, the unorthodox, and yet proving to be a masterclass of all things twisted and warped. This production which harkens back to their production of Shockheaded Peter, a few seasons back, once again dives into a little unfamiliar territory than we normally witness in the area, but an area so well known to Jobsite and its followers. Perfectly demented and, perfectly placed this deranged grouping of child-like tales have a bleak ending for most of the characters involved.

She's the Scottish actor, comedian and legendary panto queen who has entertained audiences in a 40-year stage and screen career. And now, Elaine C Smith is helping to pave the way for aspiring comedy actors to follow in her footsteps.

Jack Jones, the renowned American singer and actor best known for his smooth pop vocals and contributions to the Great American Songbook, passed away on October 23, 2024, at the age of 86. Jones's career spanned over six decades, during which he won two Grammy Awards and received a total of five nominations.

Tickets for the Boston engagement of THE WIZ are currently on sale.  THE WIZ returns “home” to stages across America in an all-new Broadway tour, the first one in 40 years. 

Structured as a non-stop song-and-dance revue without any dialogue, the Fats Waller tribute musical relies on its spunky live band and its crazy-good, five-person cast to sing a songbook filled with (mostly) joyful and (some) sorrowful jazz tunes. The show continues through Nov. 3, 2024 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach, CA.

Read our critics coverage of the first three shows in Toronto Fringe's annual curated festival.

Vanguard University's Department of Theatre Arts announced a production of GREASE, celebrating 1950s rock 'n' roll, at the Lyceum Theater from October 17 to November 3, 2024, directed by Susan K. Berkompas.