Waiting for Godot 2024

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 18, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

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.

Ensemble Theatre Company will present a one-performance staged reading of KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER, starring Joe Spano, at the New Vic Theatre in Santa Barbara, followed by a post-show talk back.

It has been over 50 years since the Guthrie Theater has presented one of the crown jewels of the American theater, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, and what better way to kick off the 2026-2027 theatrical season?

Curious Theatre Branch and co-producers will present the long-running Chicago fringe festival across multiple venues, opening with a special afternoon edition of the FULL MOON VAUDEVILLE.

The King James Bible Play, a new exploration of the creation of the King James Bible, will make its world première at the Stratford Festival this season.

The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium will present Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME at Theatre Exile in Philadelphia as part of the Fringe Arts Festival, directed by Tina Ann Brock.

Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum will continue its 2026 season this August with an expansive lineup of discussions, interviews and special events, including Global Theatre Week, Readers and Writers Week, plus more.

This year's production at  Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Company will bring a bold new concept to the open-air stage: a gritty, stylized Roaring 20s gangster-themed version of William Shakespeare's early comedy, The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Company will present a Roaring 20s-themed staging of William Shakespeare's The Two Gentleman of Verona on the outdoor Comeau Property stage in Woodstock, New York, marking the festival's 31st season.

The Guthrie Theater has revealed the cast and creative team for Waiting for Godot, the groundbreaking play by Samuel Beckett, directed by Joseph Haj. The cast features David Strathairn and more.

David Threlfall will star as King Lear alongside Nadine Shah at the Royal Exchange Theatre, in a production adapted and directed by Matthew Dunster marking part of the venue's 50th anniversary season.

A wonderful production that provides a heavy dose of optimism that's needed now more than ever!

Three new productions are headed to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August. Campitalism: Three Gays Try to Fix the Economy, BIRDS, and MAN!FEST will each make their festival runs with stories that blend comedy, drag, satire, and contemporary social commentary, tackling everything from capitalism and climate anxiety to boy-band culture and toxic masculinity.

BroadwayWorld spoke to McCamus about playing two characters who represent humanity’s fears of stasis and obsolescence, but who themselves live in the present tense.

Good Company Theatre in Ogden, Utah, will present Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, directed by Mark Fossen, whose credits include Steppenwolf Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Tickets start at $18.

Arlekin has returned to Boston with Delirium, a new adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's Frenzy for Two, adapted and directed by Igor Golyak. See what the critics are saying about the production in BroadwayWorld's Review Roundup.

The Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum will present a lineup including The Brian Barlow Big Band performing Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder and a one-night-only reading of The Amateurs, a new TV series from the creators of Slings and Arrows.

Sophie Okonedo will lead the cast of A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY at the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Lyndsey Turner. The production is Brian Friel's reworking of Turgenev's classic play.

Artists from four of Portland's theater companies are coming together to mount a fully staged production of Samuel Beckett's seminal Waiting for Godot as a fundraiser for The Canon Shakespeare Company. 

Newsies, featuring music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein premiered on Broadway in 2012. BroadwayWorld is looking back at what the cast has been up to since the show first burst onto Broadway!

Young Gifted and Broadway (YGB) hosted its 3rd Annual Carter Awards Ceremony, featuring performers from The Lion King, Ragtime, MJ the Musical, and more. Check out photos here.

Australian absurdist comedy BIRDS, winner of Best Comedy at Melbourne Fringe Festival and championed by Hannah Gadsby, makes its Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut, performed by creators Alex Hines and Sarah Stafford.

The 2026 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland, which were presented at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow celebrated the breadth and depth of dramatic work produced in Scotland with no fewer than 10 different productions being recognised across the 11 different award categories this year.

ISHIDA DANCE had a world premiere with their presentation of waiting / REX at the Asia Society Texas Center. This program is an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Both are choreographed by the company’s artistic director.