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The StageCrafts will present eleven live productions and horror short films at The Hobgoblin Playhouse in Los Angeles, featuring ghost stories, vampire comedies, Shakespeare adaptations, and a noir musical.

Hannah Waddingham will receive the Crystal Award for Advocacy in TV at the 2026 WIF Honors, celebrating her impact both on screen and off.

Comedian, actor, musician and five-time Grammy & Emmy Award-nominee Margaret Cho will join Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show as the “Narrator” making her Broadway debut.

It is certainly fitting that Vertigo Theatre’s 50th anniversary season is kicking off with the world premier of a show inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 film. THE LODGER addresses social inequity and gender discrimination as hindrances to safety.

One of the most important things Jim did was suggest that the show should be called The Rocky Horror Show. Richard had been working on a rock-and-roll musical based on Frankenstein called They Came from Denton High. Jim felt that title did not quite evoke what they were creating.

Sometimes the person who understands exactly what you're going through is the person you've only just met. Virginia Stage Company continues its 48th season with The Heart Sellers, Lloyd Suh's funny and heartfelt play about two immigrant women who meet by chance on Thanksgiving Day and discover an unexpected connection. The production runs October 14–25, 2026, at the historic Wells Theatre.

The acclaimed female vocal trio will release HYSTERÆ, exploring archetypal representations of the feminine through world music traditions, original compositions, and works by women composers.

Legendary composer and producer Haruomi Hosono released his new album YOURS SINCERELY via Ghostly International. The album explores themes of maternal compassion across folk and avant-pop arrangements.

CAP UCLA will present four international dance performances this fall, including Akram Khan Company's final touring production THIKRA: NIGHT OF REMEMBERING, Victoria Marks' world premiere A DEER WALKS INTO A DANCE, and Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan's BLUE HOUR/BECKONING.

What did our critic think of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Monumental Theatre?

Metrograph will present new 2K restorations of six Anja Breien features, including the WIVES trilogy, marking their US premieres in honor of the late Norwegian filmmaker.

It is press night for I’m Every Woman: The Chaka Khan Musical at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, where one of music’s most influential voices is celebrated in a vibrant biographical production exploring 'the fame, the fire and the fight' behind an extraordinary career.

The over-arching message Lloyd Suh effectively communicates through his skillful writing and thematic development is that, as great as our homeland is in so many ways, the American dream is not necessarily the American reality for immigrants in ways that those of us born here are not privy to, and so cannot – or choose not to – sympathize with.

What a treat to return to one of my favorite theaters. Whenever I visit Penguin Rep, I know I can expect a production that is thoughtful, engaging and impeccably staged. Their seasons are consistently filled with fresh, compelling works, making every visit a rewarding theatrical experience. 

The Tony Awards Administration Committee presented the 2026 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre to four outstanding contributors to the Broadway industry - 1/52 Project, Jake Bell, Kenn Lubin, and Loren Plotkin. Watch their acceptance speeches here!

Deep Flight Productions will present an encore engagement of WHO WE BECOME, a program of rarely produced Lanford Wilson one-acts, at Factory Series at the Chain Studio Theatre in New York.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is May 20, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The 2026 Tony nominees are already winners... literally. For some, this marks their first nomination, but others have already won Tony Awards in seasons past. We took a look at which nominees have won at least a Tony or two (or four!) - amongst them, they've gathered a total 64 awards.

The world premiere production of John Patrick Shanley's THE PUSHOVER, directed by Kirk Gostkowski, recently closed after extending its limited run to May 2. Check out photos of the cast taking their final bows here!

The Mississippi Museum of Art will present Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, featuring approximately 150 works by over 100 artists, including Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems, and Dawoud Bey, organized by the National Gallery of Art.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at CUNY will present WORLD VOICES, a four-day festival featuring staged readings of new plays in translation by playwrights from Tuscarora/Canada, Austria, France, Senegal, and Germany.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee will present the 2026 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre to four outstanding contributors to the Broadway industry - 1/52 Project, Jake Bell, Kenn Lubin, and Loren Plotkin.

Due to popular demand, a new block of tickets for Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show directed by Tony Award-winner Sam Pinkleton, is now on sale. Performances continue through this summer.

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for Lindsay Posner's major revival of Peter Shaffer's Equus, in its co-production with Theatre Royal Bath Productions.

Premiered in February in Akron, Ohio Contemporary Ballet’s Ballet Unbound now moves to Cleveland at Playhouse Square’s Mimi Ohio Theatre on March 28, 2026. The diverse mixed repertory program of works by Paul Taylor, Heinz Poll, and Nycole Ray will now include the world premiere of Gordon Peirce Schmidt’s timely “From the Street.”