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La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts has revealed its fall and winter lineup featuring Broadway performer Betty Buckley, the rock band Los Lobos, and productions including FRAGGLE ROCK: BACK TO THE ROCK LIVE and more.

Costume designer Susan Hilferty – who amassed a mantel-full of awards, including the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards, for the musical “Wicked,” being presented by Broadway In Boston at the Citizens Opera House through November 15 – got an early start on a career that so far includes 27 Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-nominated revivals of “Parade” (2023), “Funny Girl” (2022), and “Present Laughter” (2017) as well as 2005’s “Into the Woods” and 2006’s “Spring Awakening.”

BroadwayWorld chats with actor Jomar Tagatac about his latest project, 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' at San Francisco Playhouse September 26 thru November 28. He is enjoying the challenge of its slapstick humor, quite a change from his recent roles in Chekhov and Tennessee Williams classics.

The discourse surrounding reasons for reviving musicals on Broadway is a relatively recent phenomenon. These days, if a show is announced for a revival, a sentence that often follows is: “Why are they reviving it?” 

Roundabout Theatre Company's production of The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, translated by Doug Skinner, adapted by Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, with direction by Tony Award nominee Brandon J. Dirden is now on Broadway! Meet the cast here.

Vince Gill releases Stillwater Night, the 10th EP in his 50 Years From Home series, featuring a duet co-written with wife Amy Grant.

OK GO released a deluxe edition of its breakthrough album OH NO, featuring new tracks and covers, as the record earned RIAA Gold certification and its single went 2x Platinum.

The Kravis Center in West Palm Beach will open ticket sales for touring productions of DIRTY DANCING: THE MUSICAL, MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT and DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! THE MUSICAL.

The Kravis Center will present Dirty Dancing: The Musical, Monty Python's Spamalot and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, with individual tickets going on sale to the public in West Palm Beach.

Under the Radar has revealed highlights of its 22nd festival. Get a glimpse of the visions and perspectives from New York and around the world converging across the city for Under the Radar 2027.

Roundabout Theatre Company has just announced the complete cast and design team for the upcoming production of The Imaginary Invalid by Molière translated by Doug Skinner, adapted by Tony Award winner Bill Irwin (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) with direction by Tony Award nominee Brandon J. Dirden (Waiting for Godot) making his Broadway directorial debut.

The IndyFringe Festival will return to Downtown Indianapolis with 63 shows from more than 500 artists spanning drama, comedy, dance, puppetry, magic, drag, and LGBTQ+ theatre across six stages.

MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT, the Tony Award-winning musical comedy gallops into Atlanta’s Fox Theatre July 21st–26th. I caught up with Delaney Benson to talk about life on the road, and the family legacy that helped shape her own theatrical journey.

The Tony Award-winning MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT, based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, will play Kansas City's Starlight Theatre, featuring killer rabbits, French taunters, and 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.'

AGMP Concerts will present a series of performances at The Assembly in Leamington Spa to mark the venue's 100th anniversary, featuring Macy Gray, The Blockheads, Trevor Horn & His Band, Incognito, and The Ordinary Boys.

OFC Creations founder Eric Vaughn Johnson discusses the 2026-2027 Broadway in Brighton Series, a season of six musicals featuring rarely produced titles, a North American premiere of THE OSMONDS, and a New York State premiere of THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK.

Today’s subject Matt Di Carlo is currently living his theatre life as the International Associate Director for Moulin Rouge! The Musical. The North American Tour is currently playing and engagement in the Opera House at Kennedy Center through June 28th.

It's the end of an era on Broadway. As BroadwayWorld reported last month, the curtain has officially come down on Boneau/Bryan-Brown, the iconic Broadway press office founded by ATPAM-members Chris Boneau and Adrian Bryan-Brown, after more than three decades representing theatre on Broadway, Off-Broadway and around the world.

If you’re looking for a fun evening that will make you want to sing along and dance in the aisles, check out Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre’s production of All Shook Up! The storyline of this jukebox musical by Joe DiPietro is inspired by Shakespeare’s comedies.

Friendship is nearly always a side element in musicals. From the comic sidekick of the leading character to the backup pals who provide background vocals, friends are part of the fabric of many shows—but rarely are they the main event. 

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.

Astounding triple-threat talent is on display in big production numbers with attention-grabbing scenic elements by brilliant designers add to the artistic wonder of the entire production helmed by EWP Artistic Director Lily Tung Crystal, choreographed by Janelle Dote Portman, with music direction by Marc Macalintal.

For BroadwayWorld's Debut of the Month, we are featuring Esteban Andres Cruz, who is currently making their Broadway debut in Dog Day Afternoon, opposite Jon Berthal. Read the full interview with Esteban here!

Tony and Emmy Award-winner Billy Crystal will return to Broadway this fall in a new one-man show, 860, written and performed by Mr. Crystal and directed by Olivier Award-winner Scott Ellis. We have all of the details!

St. Louis is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Check out our top picks for St. Louis for Spring 2026.