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If the Last Night is about waving Union Jacks until arms ache, the First Night had some of that feeling too — albeit a different flag. The Proms this time around will commemorate the 250th anniversary of United States declaring bye-bye to Blighty and plotting its own course into history. Before the strains of “Jerusalem” fade away for another year, the Royal Albert Hall will see both the LA Philharmonic and New York’s Met Orchestra take the stage and Marin Alsop will conduct a night of Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin. Yuja Wang gives Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto its first Proms outing on the Last Night, there are world premieres from Wynton Marsalis and Jessie Montgomery plus a centenary celebration of Miles Davis’ work.

A special benefit performance of I'M NOT A COMEDIAN… I'M LENNY BRUCE, starring Ronnie Marmo and directed by Joe Mantegna, will honor the memory of Kitty Bruce at Theatre 68 in North Hollywood, raising funds for the Lenny Bruce Memorial Foundation.

Shannon A. Mullen's one-woman play An Addition of One explores the true story behind Jamie Wyeth's controversial 1967 JFK portrait, with post-show Q&As featuring Wyeth and other artists at Pascal Hall in Rockport, Maine.

After runs in the UK and Australia and over fifty five-star reviews, Alex Hill is bringing Why I Stuck A Flare Up My Arse for England across the pond to New York City! The one-man play, directed by Sean Turner, follows Billy Kinley, a football fan who went viral during the 2020 Euros for sticking a flare up his bum, and explores themes like identity, loyalty, and belonging. Recently, we had the chance to speak with Hill about making his off-Broadway debut. We discussed his creative process for the show, what it has been like performing it for the past three years, and even what he hopes audiences will take away from it.

Sadler's Wells East, designed by O'Donnell + Tuomey and located on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, has received a RIBA National Award for Architecture, with judges calling it a 'hugely confident new arts facility.'

Reviews of DADS, Brava: A Cabaret of Devotions, and LADIES' DAY at the 2026 Toronto Fringe Festival

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis announced its 26/27 Steve Woolf Studio Series, featuring three productions at the Emerson Studio, as part of the company's 60th Anniversary Diamond Season.

The Driehaus Museum has revealed fall activation dates for Brendan Fernandes: In the Round, featuring dance, movement, sound, and sculptural installation in the Museum's 1926 Murphy Auditorium. Programs are free with reservations encouraged.

WE HAD FUN, a new drama on consent and truth written and performed by neurodivergent artists Emmeline Hartley and Jack Mullings, will make its world premiere at Edinburgh Fringe's Summerhall, directed by Olivier and Tony-nominated Carrie-Anne Ingrouille.

The stories about Francis Albert Sinatra are endless. Two decades before Beatlemania hit the States, thousands of girls queued around the block so they could see the short, skinny kid from Hoboken sing while they cried, screamed and fainted. He had a thick New Jersey accent and a thin skin, punching one critic in the back of the head and physically threatening other members of the press. His friendship with mob members and their goons supposedly helped him out of a recording contract and for decades the FBI kept a file on him running to thousands of pages. He was close friends with Marilyn Monroe and gifted her a dog; she named it “Maf”, short for Mafia Honey, just to wind him up. At the age of 48, he dated a teenage Mia Farrow and the two eventually married in 1966.

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

Catch of the Day is now playing at 59E59 Theatres [Theatre B]. Ireland, 1966. A skipper sails into Dingle bay with a very unusual catch. See what the critics are saying in BroadwayWorld's Review Roundup.

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!

We had the pleasure of interviewing Tommy James. He shared with us fascinating insights about his impressive career, exciting projects in the works, and his thoughts about the upcoming performance at the PNC Arts Center.

The North/South Chamber Orchestra will present a retrospective concert honoring late Cuban-American composer Aurelio De La Vega at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York, featuring five works spanning fifty years of his career.

Following a sell-out run at Theatre Royal Bath, David Hare's play, Grace Pervades, is a love letter to theatre, following the professional and personal partnership of legendary Victorian theatrical duo Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. Together they performed over 27 years, changing the face and status of theatre.

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.

The Boston Symphony Chamber Players will perform at the Casals Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico, marking the ensemble's first visit to the island. The program includes works by Carlos Simon, Samuel Barber, and Dvořák.

Today, exactly 114 years after RMS Titanic sank to to the bottom of the North Atlantic, Titanique arrives in New York City at last. The splash-hit musical comedy inspired by the 1997 film Titanic and powered by the songs of Céline Dion, officially opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. Check out what the critcis are saying about the production...

A first-ever nationwide activation will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1966 Sip-In at Julius' bar on April 21, 2026, with simultaneous gatherings across the U.S. and a virtual real-time celebration anchored in Greenwich Village.

Garden Party – Truman Capote’s Black and White Celebration will premiere in London. The immersive cabaret is inspired by Capote’s iconic Black and White Ball. Performances will take place at Canal Café Theatre.

Broadway has a long history of one-person shows, including many that have been added to the canon in this century.  Seeing one actor powerfully create a whole world on stage can be an exceptional experience. Of course, one handers are hardly one-person projects; while there may only be one actor on stage, they are collaborating with an entire team of creatives, designers, and behind-the-scenes personnel to bring a show to life. 

Following an award-winning run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, immersive true-crime cabaret Garden Party - Truman Capote's Black and White Celebration will make its London premiere at the Canal Café Theatre.

As the Trump administration works to erase trans people from public life (literally removing the 'T' from LGBT on the government's website about the Stonewall Uprising, a movement to which trans people were central), it becomes urgent to understand that these events don't happen in a vacuum. They are the culmination of years of effort, danger, and defiance by people whose names most of us never learn. 

Perth Youth Theatre - Scotland's first and longest-running theatre-based youth company - has announced a landmark programme of activity for its diamond anniversary year.