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The African American Film Critics Association will present its fifth annual AAFCA Goes to Broadway Luncheon, recognizing Broadway artists and cultural leaders including André De Shields, Jasmine Cephas Jones and more.

Hannah Benitez's new American drama GRAY MARE will have a private industry reading featuring music by Grammy winner Lisa Gutkin and direction by Hannah Ryan, with a cast including John Ahlin and Kelly Lester.

Guthrie Theater director Joseph Haj discusses absurdism and the lasting resonance of Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT, now running on the Wurtele Thrust Stage.

The Royal Court Theatre and Nica Burns announced the full cast for the world premiere of THE AFRONAUTS, a Zambian space race epic by Ryan Calais Cameron, starring Lucian Msamati and Ama Qamata in her UK stage debut.

Lightning Rod Theater will soon present the world-premiere of Paul Hoan Zeidler's historical reimagining, Hamlet in the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the committee composing the Declaration of Independence wrote a nation into existence.  

Actor Bill Bruner makes his stage return in Bailey Theatre Company's production of EARLY ONE EVENING AT THE RAINBOW BAR AND GRILLE, playing bartender Shep, the role that launched his professional career decades ago.

Caryl Churchill's 15-minute political allegory will play at London's Almeida Theatre, directed by James Macdonald and featuring Tony Award nominee Matthew Beard and Emmy winner Kate O'Flynn.

Toronto-raised Noam Tomaschoff's shocking discovery of his true biological father and dozens of half-siblings around the world is told on-stage in Our Little Secret: A True New Musical at the CAA Theatre from November 3rd-22nd.

North Coast Repertory Theatre will present a reading of KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER. The production takes place in Solana Beach, California. Learn more here.

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.

The Guthrie's Waiting For Godot brings the laughs but also the emotion.

A profound and hilarious scattershot examination of AI and the end of the universe. Invigorating! Rejuvenating! Don't miss it!

Anthony Page, a pivotal British theatre director who helmed plays by Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee and directed multiple Broadway productions, has died at Denville Hall.

Troye Sivan drops 'Party,' a dance track sampling Madonna's 'Music,' with a video featuring Sir Ian McKellen's voice, from his album She's the Best.

In staging the west coast premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s modern verse translation, director Margaret Shigeko Starbuck and her cast are working their Helicanuses and Thaisas off to keep this lesser-staged romance punchy and relevant

If you’re looking to dig deeper into Broadway gossip, why not check some federal financial databases? Producers usually like to keep their private fundraising out of the spotlight. Still, on a website run by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), producers disclose how much money they’re raising for upcoming Broadway-bound shows, national tours, West End transfers, and more. But why are multi-million-dollar Broadway productions making financial data freely accessible to the public? And what information are producers sharing with (or obscuring from) the public under mysterious, theatre-lyric-themed LLC names?

The Clown School Company will present THE IDIOT'S PARADISE at The Stomping Ground, blending Dostoyevsky's novel with the film Les Enfants Du Paradis, featuring Ginger Geary as Foley artist.

Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, New York will present Samuel Beckett's HAPPY DAYS, directed by Matthew Earnest and starring Roxanne Fay as Winnie and Steven Patterson as Willie.

Alex Winter will lead an off-Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy next spring. Learn more about the upcoming production, directed by Kanika Asavari Vaish, here.

Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Company will continue its Roaring '20s gangster-themed staging of Shakespeare's romantic comedy on the outdoor Elizabethan stage at Woodstock's Comeau Property, with free admission.

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.