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Success in aerial performance should be viewed not only as impressive but also as a sustainable career. Abigail Hill is an artist turned coach who began in gymnastics in the UK and has since evolved into an elite acrobatics coach, aerial captain, and international cruise entertainment professional, working across globally recognized productions and performance companies.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company will conclude its 50th Anniversary Season with the Chicago premiere of Mia Chung’s theatrical tour-de-force Catch as Catch Can, starring Gary Cole.

Forty high school vocalists from 13 states and 29 cities have been chosen for the 2026 SONGBOOK ACADEMY, a weeklong summer intensive in Carmel, Indiana, featuring masterclasses and performances with Broadway stars including Mandy Gonzalez.

Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre and North Carolina Black Repertory Company will present the New York premiere of BLOOMING IN DRY SEASON, a Caribbean family drama by Eljon Wardally, directed by Jackie Alexander, at WP Theater on Broadway.

Hamlet is now playing at BAM’s Harvey Theater in Brooklyn. The National Theatre production stars Hiran Abeysekera and is directed by Robert Hastie. Critics are weighing in on the contemporary staging of Shakespeare’s tragedy.

Director Celia Mandela Rivera shares her background in theatre, what drew her to directing this play, her vision for the characters and staging it in Little Fish's intimate new space and why she thinks its exploration of love, fidelity, and friendship remains as fresh and provocative today as when it first premiered.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) has announced the cast and creative team for Brokeback Mountain, the North American premiere production of Ashley Robinson’s adaptation of the novella by Annie Proulx that inspired the Academy Award-winning film.

Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis has released the first trailer for its upcoming production of THE WIZARD OF OZ, offering an early look at the classic story on stage.

Every discipline within the performing arts has a moment when a practitioner stops inheriting tradition and starts building something new. For Xin Dong, a principal aerial trapeze performer and coach with over two decades of professional experience, that moment came not on a stage but in a training room, where he began dismantling the assumptions that had long governed how high-speed aerial rotation was taught.

McFly drummer Harry Judd will play Coach Bolton in the London transfer of Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, taking over the role from Jason Donovan following a Salford run.

Rehearsal images have been released for Peter Quilter’s END OF THE RAINBOW, which will play Soho Theatre Walthamstow, starring Jinkx Monsoon as Judy Garland, alongside Jacob Dudman as Mickey and Adam Filipe as Anthony.

Stratford East announced full casting for THE HARDER THEY COME, the reggae musical adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks, returning for a new run with Natey Jones reprising his role as Ivan.

The PG Exploration Festival will present an industry reading of COPPÉLIA AT THE ANIMATRONIC PIZZA ARCADE, a new musical inspired by the 19th-century French ballet, set in a 1985 Chuck E. Cheese-style pizza arcade.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 30, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of THE BALUSTERS, the Drama League and Outer Critics Circle-nominated play by David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by Kenny Leon, has extended its run at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

On April 15, Quintessence Theatre concludes its 16th season with French playwright Molière’s final play, The Hypochondriac, featuring a world premiere of a new translation by renowned British  playwright and translator Sir Ranjit Bolt. Check out photos of the production.

Alchemy Theatre will present Ken Ludwig's stage adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express at the Virginia De Land Theatre in Yorba Linda, CA, featuring Abel Miramontes as Hercule Poirot.

For its 13th free summer production, Midsommer Flight will present one of Shakespeare’s  AS YOU LIKE IT. True to the comedy’s famous line – “All the World’s a Stage” – Midsommer Flight will again be creating natural stages in six Chicago parks over six summer weekends.

KayCee Stroh, who played Martha Cox in the High School Musical movie franchise, will star in Disney’s HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL as Ms Darbus, joining Jason Donovan, Tobias Turley, Leonor Correia, Caitlin Tipping and Luke Bayer.

The Tanglewood Learning Institute announced additions to its 2026 Spotlight Series, including bassist Christian McBride in conversation with Catherine Burns and a musical theater talk with Jason Robert Brown and Georgia Stitt.

Clubbed Thumb has announced initial casting for its 2026 SUMMERWORKS festival. The annual festival of new plays will take place at the wild project in New York City. The lineup will include three productions running throughout the summer.

THE OUTSIDERS, winner of four 2024 Tony Awards including Best Musical, will play The Kentucky Center in Louisville for a limited engagement presented by PNC Broadway in Louisville.

The Public Theater's revitalized Delacorte Theater will reopen this summer with PUBLIC FORUM and PUBLIC STORIES programming, featuring Amy Sherald, Michael Sandel, Anna Deavere Smith, and DC 37 union members as civic storytellers.

Henry Winkler has seen enormous onscreen success over the years, but his first Broadway outing was far from pleasant. Watch him reflect on the experience during an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Broadway performer Joomin Hwang, currently appearing in & JULIET, has released The Rule of Five Journal, a daily practice system rooted in neuroscience and positive psychology designed to build clarity and resilience.