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Director MacQueen keeps the action moving along at a steady pace, a much-needed component of a 2.5 hour play offering so much information to absorb about the history of women's suffrage. Highly recommended.

Direct from Broadway, the Tony Award-winning musical SUFFS charges into San Diego with fire, wit, and a powerhouse cast determined to make history sing again.

Wigmore Hall will devote an entire day to the music of violist and composer Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979), celebrating one of the most important yet long-overlooked British composers of the twentieth century and marking the centenary of her major 1925 recital at the Hall.

Dear Readers, lately it feels like our most basic and dearly held civil liberties are being stripped away. And so, it’s good for us to recall how we got some of those rights. Along comes “Suffs”, a new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Shaina Taub, all about the Women’s suffrage movement, and if you weren’t motivated to demand more from our government before seeing the show, you will be after.

Most theatregoers only know George Bernard Shaw’s popular play, PYGMALION, through the Broadway musical classic, MY FAIR LADY. But Kechi Playhouse owner/producer/director Misty Maynard takes Shaw’s 1913 classic and smartly transforms it into a 1940s radio drama set in war-ravaged London during World War II.

Young Texas Artists is launching its 2025-26 performing arts season, including a kickoff party with special musical guests, the 41st annual Young Texas Artists Music Competition. Learn more!

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is offering one child between the ages of 4 - 11 the chance to design the official BBFC Black Card for Wicked: For Good. The winning design will be shown before every UK cinema screening of Wicked: For Good.

In two clicks of a mouse, a theatregoer can find a summary of Leo Frank's story; Parade, which tells it, isn't merely based on a true story, it IS a true story. So outlining the plot would be, by definition, a spoiler.

Today’s subject Talia Suskauer is currently living her theatre life on tour playing the role of Lucille Frank in the Jason Robert Brown/Alfred Uhry modern day musical theatre masterwork Parade. The tour will make it’s final stop in the Eisenhower Theater at Kennedy Center from August 19th to September 7th.

Led by two powerful performers and a stunning directorial vision, PARADE marches us into the past to better understand our present.

Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills will present the world premiere of All These Women, a new historical drama written and directed by longtime company artist Melanie MacQueen. Performances will run from September 18 to October 19, 2025, at Theatre 40’s home in the Mary Levin Cutler Theatre on the campus of Beverly Hills High School.

PARADE asks a lot of its audience. There are moments when a song is so rousing and well-sung, but then you realize the material is uncomfortable, and you wonder if you should cheer or stay absolutely quiet.

It's a true story. It's a dramatization about a man who moves to Marietta, Georgia, and is falsely convicted of murder. It's his journey of trying to prove his innocence, while simultaneously we see and follow this love story between him and his wife, Lucille.

The strength of this production is unquestionably the superior musical treatments, including an excellent orchestra of twenty conducted by     Matt Richardson. Each of the leading characters is about as musically strong as it gets.

Theatre 40, the professional nonprofit theatre company based in Beverly Hills, has announced its 2025–26 season, offering a diverse lineup of six productions ranging from world premieres to classic mysteries and beloved romantic comedies.

Sarah Snook has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.

The Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival has revealed programming for its 2025 edition, Perseverance. Learn more and see how to attend.

The National Council of Actors' Equity Association, the union representing more than 51,000 professional performers and stage managers working in live theatre across the country, has voted unanimously to authorize a strike for the workers of The Second City in Chicago at the discretion of their lead negotiator.

Roundtable Theatre Company is presenting the Tony-award winning musical PARADE, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, and book by Alfred Uhry.

The trailer has been released for Playing the Palace, a new feature documentary chronicling the history and recent transformation of Broadway’s Palace Theatre. The documentary features interviews with Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey, Heather Headley, Ben Platt, and more.

Western Piedmont Symphony, the professional orchestra of the western foothills of North Carolina, will present the FOOTHILLS POPS: WHAT's GOIN' ON - THE MUSIC OF DISCO AND MOTOWN featuring music of the season. Learn how to attend.

Dear Readers, we live in divisive times. That’s no news to anyone. Our society is extremely polarized with many basing beliefs on fear, misinformation, and xenophobia while those in charge propagate that division by spreading lies. Sadly, this kind of behavior has been around forever, but if we can look at stories of this ilk, then maybe we can learn to rise above them. And that’s where shows like “Parade”, currently performing at the 5th Avenue Theatre, come into play.

The original cast recording of Broadway's Hamilton has been selected to join the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, joining a selection that also includes the original recordings of Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, and Sweeney Todd.

Blackfriars Theatre has announced its 2025-2026 Season, commemorating 76 years of locally-produced theatre in downtown Rochester, NY. Learn more about the lineup here!

The Tony Award winning musical revival PARADE is now playing at The Fox Theatre through April 6th. BWW caught up with Jack Roden who plays Frankie Epps in this production and discussed his experience.