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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.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 23, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson is currently starring as the legendary Truman Capote in a new revival of the one-man play Tru. But, during his off time, the Tony-winner admits that he needs a break. Watch Ferguson's recent Tonight Show appearance now.

Music industry executive, criminal justice reform advocate, and CEO of Lava Media, Jason Flom, has officially joined the team of The Fear of 13 as co-producer. Learn more here!

AstonRep Productions will present the U.S. premiere of a new adaptation of UNCLE VANYA by Liisa Repo-Martell. Directed by Derek Bertelsen, the production will run at Edge Off-Broadway Theatre in Chicago.

THE VERDICT, adapted by Margaret May Hobbs from Barry Reed’s novel, will be presented at Vertigo Theatre. The production follows a lawyer taking on a high-stakes malpractice case.

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater will present SECOND ACT: STORIES OF RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE, a free afternoon of original monologues crafted by participants in a community-based recovery program using theater to support those healing from substance use disorders.

The U.S. premiere of GUT, a psychological drama by Scottish playwright Frances Poet, will be staged at The Hive Collaborative in St. Paul, directed by Julie K. Phillips.

Actor and Coach, Spencer Glass, talks about how to handle rejection, and center in mindfulness to keep the no's from defining you as an artist. Here are three ways to handle it that actually keep you steady...