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Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute have announced that The New York Butoh Institute will be in Dance Parade New York on May 17, 2025. Over 10,000 dancers will take to the streets in a dazzling display of artistic expression and cultural celebration at the 19th Annual Dance Parade and Festival.

With the first Melbourne show officially SOLD OUT, and due to overwhelming demand, global music icon Ricky Martin has announced a second and final Melbourne performance for his highly anticipated Ricky Martin Live 2025 tour.

What the Constitution Means to Me at ZACH Theatre isn’t just a play — it’s a reckoning. With fierce performances, blistering honesty, and questions we can’t ignore, this production dares us to confront the systems we take for granted. Unmissable.

Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute will be performing at Quantum Physique at the Chocolate Factory. Learn more and see how to attend the performance!

BroadwayWorld chats with actor Brendan Looney about starring role in San Francisco Playhouse's production of Simon Stephens 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' running May 1 to June 21.

Chicago 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. Selections for May 2025 include Paramount Aurora's CATS and more.

Theatre for a New Audience has announced that OBIE Award-winning director Arin Arbus will be its next Artistic Director when Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz steps down on August 31, 2025.

Just last month, Stranger Things: The First Shadow opened at the Marquis Theatre, turning Broadway upside down for a season full of mystery, illusion, and of course, demogorgons. Burke Swanson is along for the ride as 'James Hopper Jr.', the teenage counterpart to the character made famous by David Harbour on the Netflix series. Burke just checked in with BroadwayWorld to tell us all about his new gig and why he is living out his dream in one of the most buzzed-about new shows on Broadway.

Since the earliest times, theatre that speaks to the state of the nation has always been a cultural mainstay, and plays that speak to the practise of politics seem to have enduring popularity – from David Hare’s The Absence of War to Alistair Beaton’s Feelgood, along with the works of Mike Bartlett, Peter Morgan, Jonathan Maitland and of course James Graham.

Nutley Little Theatre presents FOR PETER PAN ON HER 70TH BIRTHDAY, written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by lifelong Nutley resident, Gina Sarno. The production will run from June 13th through June 28th in Nutley, New Jersey.

London Theatre Company has announced full casting for A Midsummer Night's Dream, and has released all new artwork for the show. One of The Bridge's biggest hits, the immersive A Midsummer Night's Dream will return this summer for a limited run.

Inspired by conversations Rosenbaum had with Israeli violin maker Amnon Weinstein, the International City Theatre in Long Beach is presenting the American premiere of The Violin Maker, a new play based on the true story of how he gathered and restored ruined violins that survived the Holocaust to create the remarkable collection known throughout the world as the “Violins of Hope.” I decided to speak with playwrights Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum and Ronda Spinak (artistic director of The Braid) about the play’s creation and history, especially why it is so important to tell the Violins of Hope maker’s story.

Today’s subject Elizabeth Bruce is currently living her theatre life as the co-host and co-creator of the Creativists in Dialogue podcast. A series that covers a variety of topics as they relate to creativity. The series can be heard on Substack and Spotify.

Josefina López, the celebrated Mexican-American award-winning playwright and screenwriter best known for creating and authoring the play and co-authoring the film Real Women Have Curves, was an undocumented five-year-old immigrant when she migrated with her family from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, to the United States in 1974 to settle in Boyle Heights. And on April 27, she will be making her Broadway debut when Real Women Have Curves: The Musical opens on Broadway!

Creators Ethan Crystal & Garrett Poladian are mounting the show, a musical imagining Golem's legal battle to keep a Tropical Smoothie franchise, on 4/17, 4/19 and 4/20 as part of SoHo Playhouse's 2025 Lighthouse series

Today in our weeklong series Sister Act: Behind The Habit, you are going to meet another one of the performers to makes the show come alive eight performances a week. Please meet Joe Mallon who plays Eddie Souther.

Florida Repertory Theatre's PlayLab Festival of New Works will take place in the Historic Arcade Theatre. The 2025 PlayLab lineup includes five plays. See the lineup and learn how to take part.

The first national Broadway tour of & Juliet exemplifies an unmatched energy that keeps its audiences invested, rivaling the NYC Broadway company in quality. Rachel Simone Webb is a supernova as Juliet Capulet.

As The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical gets set to embark on a UK tour this autumn, the team behind the show have announced that they are holding open auditions as they look for their company of demigods for the UK tour.

Menier Chocolate Factory and Kindred Partners have announced that Anoushka Lucas' Elephant will run at the Menier in a reimagined new production for a limited season.

In Reservations for Two, veteran chanteuse Sue Matsuki and musical director/pianist Gregory Toroian celebrate an extraordinary 31-year artistic partnership with a performance brimming with polish, playfulness, and mutual respect.

Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company's first main stage production for 2025 is the world premiere of a new work, Thirst, written by Western Australian playwright, artist and academic Barbara Hostalek.

The Driehaus Museum and Chicago Symphony Orchestra has announced a partnership on a new three-part chamber concert series in the historic Murphy Auditorium. Learn more here!

ARCOS Presents: Short Form will be performed at CRASHBOX (5305 Bolm Rd Unit 12, Austin, TX 78721) Thursday-Saturday, April 17-19, 2025 at 7:30pm.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater will present a full slate of nightly performances all April long. See the full lineup, including Nicole Henry and more, and learn how to purchase tickets.