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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.

NYC's theatre district is full of amazing places for eating, drinking, and shopping, but if you are looking to see all you can in a short window of time, there are plenty of sights within walking distance of all 41 Broadway theatres. From outdoor pitstops to guided tours and museum visits, check out 13 activities to add to you midtown sight-seeing itinerary. ​

As a Yeshiva boy with Ashkenazi DNA, my reaction to PARADE may have been more visceral than that of people who dislike OUR TOWN staging, see no reason for Leo Frank's lynching to become a big musical, or simply don't have Jewish skin and blood in the game.

In honor of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's 55th anniversary, PBT artists will perform five classical and contemporary works in Spring Mix: 5 for 55. Learn more about the program here!

“Bring tissues,” said absolutely everyone when I told them I was seeing Parade at Mānoa Valley Theatre. I waved off their warnings, as I was already familiar with the show, as well as the true story of the contentious 1913 trial of Leo Frank on which the show is based. My hubris, however, was no match for this stunningly beautiful production, but my watery eyes were not the result of the tragedy of the protagonists, nor of the cruelty and bigotry at the forefront of the story.

The Finnish National Opera and Ballet has announced its 2025–2026 season which features new contemporary operas, romantic ballet gems, and pulsating street dance The Opera and Ballet season 2025–2026 is a celebration of emotions. We move from one extreme to another, from dark tones towards light and vice versa.

Liverpool’s much-loved Epstein Theatre is set to reopen after a deal was agreed to breathe new life into the historic city centre venue. The Hanover Street landmark is due to welcome audiences once again, with new leaseholders and a new management team.

The New York Landmarks Conservancy just announced the winners of the 2025 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards, the Conservancy's highest honors for excellence in preservation. The Award recipients demonstrate outstanding and challenging preservation projects that occur throughout the City. 

As a retrospective of its 55-year history, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT) will perform five  classical and contemporary works in Spring Mix: 5 for 55. Learn more here!

From now through Sunday, March 9th, the recent acclaimed revival of the Broadway musical Parade will be featured at the Fisher Theatre. Parade made its Broadway debut in 1998, originally winning Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical at the 1999 Tony Awards. Then, in 2023, Parade was revived on Broadway and won Best Revival of a Musical as well as Best Direction of a Musical. The production currently in Detroit is fresh from Broadway, with Detroit being one of the first engagements on their tour. 

The Wayne Agency (TWA) has announced franchising with Actors' Equity Association (Equity), providing an outlet for live theatre artists across the nation to find representation that is both inclusive and equitable with a long-standing and reputable talent agency.

Western Piedmont Symphony will present MASTERWORKS: THE RITE OF SPRING, on Saturday, January 25. This season, the regional professional orchestra celebrates 60 years of music in the foothills of western North Carolina with more than seventeen concerts.

Jason Robert Brown, one of America’s most celebrated composers and lyricists of this new millennium, is currently enjoying a resurgence with two of his finest musicals. THE LAST FIVE YEARS, an off-Broadway hit that was later adapted into a film starring Anna Kendrick, is making its return to Broadway this year starring Joe Jonas and Adrienne Warren. Meanwhile, PARADE, which originally debuted on Broadway in 1998, had a triumphant revival last year starring Ben Platt and won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

Max Lifchitz will perform a recital traversing one hundred fifty years of piano music at Manhattan's Klavierhaus. The program will feature Franz Liszt's prophetic Bagatelle Without Tonality. Learn how to attend the performance.

Playhouse on the Square will present Parade next month. With a book by Alfred Uhry, and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, the show was co-conceived and directed on Broadway by Harold Prince.

Due to an unforeseen family emergency, Gyasi Sheppy has had to step down from his role as the Prince in De Montfort Hall's family pantomime Snow White, and boy band star Antony Costa will step in.

The Gordon Parks Foundation will present Ralph Ellison: Photographer, an exhibition of photographs shot by Ellison held in The Gordon Parks Foundation's collection.

Western Piedmont Symphony will present the annual FOOTHILLS POPS: HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR featuring music of the season on Saturday, December 7, at 7:30 PM at J.E. Broyhill Civic Center in Lenoir, NC.