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The Broadway production of DOWNSTATE by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Bruce Norris postponed its initial preview performance due to company illness.

THE SIXTIES SHOW, an award-winning Off-Broadway production celebrating 1960s music and culture, features musicians who have toured with The Who, The Rascals, and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Avon Players will open its production of the classic American drama 12 ANGRY MEN, featuring a full cast in the courtroom thriller. Twelve Angry Men is rated PG for descriptions of violence.

The Raymond Gubbay Christmas Season will present concerts across London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow, featuring performances from Sir Karl Jenkins, King's College Choir, and orchestral celebrations of holiday classics and film scores.

Jonny Donahoe's satirical sequel follows Scrooge seven years after his redemption, exploring systemic wealth and the housing crisis through a Victorian-set comedy at Oxford's Old Fire Station.

The Unicorn Theatre announced full casting for the world premiere dance adaptation of SANTA'S FIRST CHRISTMAS, directed and choreographed by Olivier Award-winner James Cousins with music by Harry Blake.

Phoebe Potts' solo show TOO FAT FOR CHINA will launch Centenary Stage Company's annual Fringe Festival. The one-woman production combines live storytelling with hand-drawn comic strips to explore adoption.

Woolwich Works will present a holiday programme featuring drag performances, orchestral disco and festive nightlife events at its Royal Arsenal venue.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin announced a new mentorship program in partnership with Rolex designed to support early-career conductors through immersive training and podium opportunities with major orchestras.

Hillbarn Theatre will present the Broadway musical SCHOOL OF ROCK, featuring young performers who play their own instruments live. Phil Wong stars as Dewey Finn in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the hit film.

EggGen and Selene Mingyue Hu's movement piece examines institutional authority and normalised violence through three rat students navigating obedience, ballet and experimentation.

Rover Dramawerks will present Sean Grennan's dramedy about a family reunion on Thanksgiving 1980 at the Cox Playhouse in Plano, featuring Vivian Reed and Scott Straus as empty-nester parents.

Karen Agam Macarah's one-woman cabaret explores body image and family through Broadway songs in a sold-out production coming to Santa Monica's The Braid.

San Francisco Opera released production photos for Jules Massenet's romantic masterwork MANON, starring soprano Amina Edris and tenor Pene Pati, conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim at the War Memorial Opera House.

Emily Goglia will present a Halloween-themed cabaret at Green Room 42 at Hudson Local, featuring Broadway tunes, comedy, and special guest performers.

Guest Artist Imaginology will present a live puppet show featuring Bony Tony and special guest appearances, plus a screening of the animated film Big City Pizza. The adults-only event takes place at Great Arizona Puppet Theater in Phoenix.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is October 19, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.

Vangeline, founder of Vangeline Theater and New York Butoh Institute, appears in the new music video for A PERFECT CIRCLE's song TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. The band launches an extensive North American tour.

Thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining, with excellent ensemble acting and sharp satire. The gradual descent from polite discussion into spectacular chaos is handled brilliantly.

A two-man play explores a Jewish scholar's struggle with faith and survival during the Holocaust. The production runs at Moshava Art, featuring Harry Kaufman and Jeffrey Roth.

Alliance Theatre has shared a trailer for LIKE FATHER, a new coming-of-age musical about a family confronting its past after a true-crime podcast exposes their story. The production is now running at the Atlanta theatre.

San Diego JFest will present a dramatic play reading of BOLEK: THE STORY THAT SILENCE COVERED, based on author Alfredo Ratniewski's memoir about his father's survival during the Holocaust and a family's courageous efforts to hide him in Poland.

A radio-style drama featuring Indigenous writers Shane Hawk and Andrea L. Rogers will present stories rooted in Native American folklore, directed by Kyla Tucaya Garcia and Andre Bouchard with an all-Indigenous cast.

Wicked on Broadway's Keri René Fuller (Elphaba) and Emma Flynn (Glinda), stopped by The View, to perform 'For Good' from the show. Check out the video!

Dominique Morisseau's Pulitzer Prize-finalist play runs at Theater Wit in Chicago, directed by Malkia Stampley and featuring a cast including Ayanna Bria Bakari, Tiffany Renee Johnson, and others. See photos!