The Special

The first highlights have been revealed for the 25th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), an anniversary edition celebrating 25 years of championing the filmmakers, stars, and cinematic movements that have shaped the future of Asian cinema

Roger Bart is scheduled to open the tour at the Bristol Hippodrome (8 October – 21 November 2026) as well as playing the Edinburgh Playhouse (2 December 2026 – 2 January 2027). 

Tony Award winner Roger Bart will reprise his role as Doc Brown alongside Australian actor Axel Duffy as Marty McFly in the first-ever UK tour of BACK TO THE FUTURE THE MUSICAL.

Listening to SELECTED STORIES is a delight. The actors bring energy, nuance, intonation, inflection, and character to every aspect of the story they are telling. Having them do so live, in-person to a room full of enthusiastic audience member reactions made it even more so.

Voices of Ascension announced its 37th season, The Radiant Depths, featuring programs spanning Renaissance masterworks to newly commissioned works, including a Nico Muhly commission written for organist James McVinnie.

The Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown announced its summer concert lineup, featuring performers including The Stray Cats, Derek Hough, and Abbott Elementary's Janelle James, plus free outdoor events.

Jay Sefton's autobiographical solo play UNRECONCILED will perform at Northampton's Academy of Music, followed by a post-show conversation with trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky.

Told through a series of vignettes, Crossing Delancey examines Bubbie's belief in the old-world Jewish family custom of all young women needing to find a husband as soon as possible to settle down and raise a family against those of Isabel, a modern 1980s Jewish woman in New York City learning to stand on her own two feet. I spoke with Holly Sidell who is portraying Isabel in the current production at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills through June 21.

Vassar College has announced the lineup for the 40th Powerhouse Theater Season. The artists that join the lineup in 2026 include Drew Droege, Will Roland, and more.

Philadelphia Theatre Company will present a free one-night-only concert reading of LA GUAGUA 47: A PHILADELPHIA MUSICAL, a new work by Alba Martínez, directed by Laurie Woolery, ahead of a planned full production.

The Mississippi Museum of Art will present Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, featuring approximately 150 works by over 100 artists, including Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems, and Dawoud Bey, organized by the National Gallery of Art.

Parsons Dance wowed the opening night audience at The Joyce Theater’s Tino & Rajika Puri Auditorium on Wednesday 4/29.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is May 1, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

On Friday April 24, the audience at Pangea joined jazz pianist and Broadway veteran Ron Drotos for a fun-filled night titled Ron Drotos and Friends. See photos from the night below snapped by photographer Conor Weiss.

BACK TO OZ is an exhilarating trip through history and down the Yellow Brick Road

Penfold Theatre Company revealed its 19th season, featuring Clue, Steel Magnolias, Always... Patsy Cline and more, alongside year-round classes in Round Rock, TX.

Reviews are rolling in for the Broadway production of Beaches, a new musical based on the classic film, celebrating the power of female friendship. Did critics have a day at the beach at Beaches? Find out in our review roundup! 

Ruth Eckerd Hall announced the return of YACHT ROCK SUMMER, featuring Pablo Cruise, Orleans, and David Pack, former lead singer of Ambrosia, at the Clearwater venue. Tickets start at $43.75.

Middlebury Community Players will stage NUNSENSE at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, VT, running April 24 through May 3.

Willie Nelson will perform at the BayCare Sound at Coachman Park in downtown Clearwater on May 17. Tickets go on sale April 10 at 10 AM. Learn more here!

Critically acclaimed actress, singer, and television personality Marie Osmond will join her late, former collaborator Dan Seals for “You Still Move Me,” arriving April 10. 

Stage and screen actress, and three-time Tony Award nominee Mary Beth Hurt, has passed away at age 79. Learn more about Hurt's life and career on BroadwayWorld.

Center Theatre Group has revealed twelve productions for the 2026/27 Season. The eight-show One CTG subscription package includes plays and musicals at the Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson Theatre, including The Turning world premiere and more.

RiverEdge will present a lineup featuring The Beach Boys, Cheap Trick, and other artists as part of its summer concert series, along with $3 concerts and a Movie in the Parks series.

This April, there are plenty of new titles for theater buffs to watch, including the film version of Merrily We Roll Along, the Michael Jackson biopic, Anne Hathaway's turn as a pop diva in Mother Mary, and more.