Winner Take All 1976

Ntozake Shange's landmark choreopoem returns to Hoboken fifty years after its Broadway debut, directed by Daryl Stewart and featuring a cast including Zaria Monae, Lynn Irby Hill, and others.

The Jewish Plays Project will present a one-day festival featuring a virtual talk with Tony-winner Jonathan Spector and Rabbi Angela Buchdal about his off-Broadway play BIRTHRIGHT, plus a reading of the National Jewish Playwriting Contest-winning FLATBUSH LYSISTRATA.

Canadian blues-rock band TRIBZ released the nostalgic single Young Love, a pop-rock ballad drawn from guitarist Earl Johnson's real high school romance and musical origins.

THE THREE DEGREES will headline the open-air concert at Arley Hall in Cheshire, joined by THE REAL THING, ODYSSEY, 5 STAR, SOUL II SOUL's Rose Windross, and Junior Giscombe for a celebration of soul, disco, and funk.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is September 11, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

We're falling into fall with a great Broadway read! This season, Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 25 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's Fall 2026 reading list.

Playwrights Foundation named four playwrights, directors, and dramaturgs for the 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival, set for readings in San Francisco with on-demand recordings to follow.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is September 4, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

A posthumous duets album honoring Dan Seals features Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Tanya Tucker and Jamey Johnson, blending his archived vocals with new recordings produced by longtime collaborator Kyle Lehning.

The Florida Theatre has announced five upcoming performances, including a holiday concert with Sheena Easton and All-4-One, a Blue Öyster Cult anniversary show, and a Napoleon Dynamite live event.

Atlantic Theater Company has announced its 2026–2027 season, featuring four world premiere works and an Atlantic for Kids New York premiere musical. Learn more about the lineup here!

It's a very rare treat—particularly all the way here in Orange County, California—to hear Broadway songs and the stories behind them performed directly by the legendary composer himself, even for just a one-night-only event. But that is exactly the gift bestowed upon a rapt audience recently when the Irvine Barclay Theatre presented DEFYING GRAVITY: AN EVENING WITH STEPHEN SCHWARTZ & FRIENDS to a sold-out crowd on the evening of May 23, 2026.

Listening to SELECTED STORIES is a delight. The actors bring energy, nuance, intonation, inflection, and character to every aspect of the story they are telling. Having them do so live, in-person to a room full of enthusiastic audience member reactions made it even more so.

Peabo Bryson, the Grammy-winning R&B vocalist known for Disney hits 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'A Whole New World,' has died at the age of 75. His career spanned more than five decades across R&B, pop, and musical theater.

Manhattan Theatre Club will produce a new production of Clifford Odets’ landmark 1935 drama Awake and Sing!, led by Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht, and Jeremy Shamos. Learn more here!

The tenth edition of its Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance will include a retrospective of films by and about theater artist Robert Wilson. Learn more about the upcoming program and film lineup.

The Public Theater has announced the lineup for The Public’s Fall 2026 and Winter 2027 season. The season lineup will include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, plus works from James Ijames, Ryan J. Haddad, Richard Nelson, Taylor Mac, and more.

BroadwayWorld breaks down how and why The Rocky Horror Show callouts began and explains what you could expect before taking a jump to the left, a step to the right and joining Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Transsexual, Transylvania. 

Performances are now underway for Dog Day Afternoon, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis. Meet the cast of Dog Day Afternoon here!

At this time last year, the American Repertory Theater was premiering a stirring new dramatic adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey” by actor and playwright Kate Hamill, which moved back and forth between King Odysseus and Queen Penelope during a three-hour production with two intermissions.

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Broadway star Leslie Margherita took to Instagram to confirm that she, along with fellow Broadway performer Max Clayton, was in the audience for the new Muppet Show special, which was released this week.

On Saturday evening, executive producer and guest star Seth Rogen and The Muppets hosted a party to celebrate the return of The Muppet Show, held at The Hollywood Roosevelt in Los Angeles. Check out photos from the event here!

The Muppets are back! Check out a new sneak peek from the special episode of The Muppet Show, featuring Kermit the Frog and Scooter as they realize they have booked too many acts for their show.

It's time to meet Broadway's best on The Muppet Show tonight! With the new special now streaming, we have rounded up some of the best of Broadway talent during the show's original run.