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Broadway favorite Santino Fontana returned to his Minnesota roots this weekend with a lively and heartfelt concert at the Capri Theater in North Minneapolis.

Now presenting an even more over-the-top follow up compared to their first go-round in THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG staged here last February, the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment revisit the earnestly bumbling folks at the fictional Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society for yet another madcap, mishap-laden production of intense British-style slapstick and comical chaotic shenanigans in its high-flying 2013 'sequel' PETER PAN GOES WRONG which will continue to crack up audiences in the City of La Mirada through November 23, 2025. Amping up the laughs even more this time around, La Mirada's so-good-it-hurts production is this time joined by former Olympic gymnast and longtime 'Peter Pan' herself Cathy Rigby serving as its cheeky 'narrator.'

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 8, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Co-produced by Independent Shakespeare Company and Coin & Ghost, THE AARON PLAY will engage theater-goers and Bard-hounds as well as those who embrace stories with ideas.

The official trailer has been released for WORDS + MUSIC, a new music docuseries featuring Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, John Legend, and Alanis Morissette. Watch the trailer now.

Now on display at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is an exhibition highlighting the history of Black musical theater- Syncopated Stages: Black Disruptions to the Great White Way. Watch in this video as Curatorial Advisory Michael McElroy gives us a tour and some insight into how the exhibition came to be!

Black Theatre Troupe will present Langston Hughes’ celebrated song play, BLACK NATIVITY at the Helen K. Mason Performing Arts Center. The story weaves together the power of gospel music, dance, and spoken word.

Joining Emmy and Tony Award-winner Billy Crudup and Olivier Award-winner Denise Gough are Billy Howle, Rosa Salazar, Simon Chandler, James Doherty, Misha Handley, Joshua Hill, Jonah Russell, Rebecca Lee and Tim Steed.

The creative team of the 2016 production of Jesus Christ Superstar will reunite 10 years on to create a unique staging of their Olivier award-winning, worldwide smash-hit production.  Learn more here!

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, NY will celebrate the holiday season this December with a full lineup of programs, including An Amarcord Christmas on December 7, Holiday Rosen House Tours, Holiday Tea Musicales, a Holiday Gift Shop, and a Gingerbread Decorating Class for families.

On 23 November, ROAM A New Musical premiered in a staged concert production at the Shaftesbury Theatre. The show, with music and lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen and a book by Michael Dovid, tells the story of a nomadic clan and their familial relationships using a roc-pop-Romani fusion score. Recently, we had the chance to speak with Ramin Karimloo, who plays Yoska, and Diego Rodriguez, who plays his son, Pesha. We discussed what it has been like preparing for the one-night performance, what it is like performing in revivals versus new work and even get their thoughts on mirrors in a rehearsal room!

Barbra Streisand, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga, and more have been nominated for 2026 GRAMMYS. See the full list of nominations here!

Dance/USA revealed the newest 25 recipients of the Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists program, honoring dance and movement-based artists with sustained practices in art for social change.

A life coach and his struggling daughter embark on a journey to find their Irish roots. Each of them is running away from something. Joy, who is exceedingly against the idea of leaving for an unplanned trip with her father, is going through a bad breakup; Winston, overly chatty and intrusive, is trying to forget the lawsuit that threatens his so-called career. Nancy Farino’s debut play tries hard to be profound. It looks into how our need for connection is the answer to many of our problems, but – much like its characters – it doesn’t know how to communicate its ideas. Directed by Tessa Walker, Fatherland might as well be a pedestrian radio drama.

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Department of Theatre & Dance, Kennedy Theatre, and the Center for Philippine Studies (CPS) will present Dancing in the Diaspora, a dynamic new dance production directed by Dr. J. Lorenzo Perillo, running November 14–23 on the Kennedy Theatre Mainstage.

Fifty years after The Wiz premiered on Broadway, a new short film is revisiting the landmark musical through the voices of two of its original cast members: Director Samira Fuller-Farquhar’s If You Believe.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 6, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The Blues Room @ Bento's is more than a live music night - it's a cultural gathering and a warm, living room-style blues session where the city's stories rise up through melody and groove, held every second Saturday at 7 PM at Bento's Bar & Grill.

After the Wicked mania comes to an end, Ariana Grande is excited to return to her stage roots. The superstar, who plays Glinda in the two-part film, has shared that she will be appearing in a to-be-announced stage production. 

The internationally acclaimed stage production Far Gone is set to make its South African debut with a highly anticipated tour that will bring its gripping, thought-provoking story to local audiences.

The 2024 production earned seven Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, which I feel is an earned acknowledgment that speaks more to the craftsmanship, the ambition, and the emotional journey present in the show. The stage production’s direction, choreography, puppetry design, and ensemble synergy create moments of theatrical awe that are impossible to deny. What the songs lack in dramatic momentum, the production more than makes up for in its combination of narrative intimacy with large-scale visual storytelling.

New Perspectives Theatre Company (NPTC) will present the Sweet Noise Mini Fest of Readings, showcasing new plays developed through the company’s Women’s Work Full-Length LAB, running November 14–16, 2025, at New Perspectives Studio.

The Wood Brothers will bring their Puff of Smoke Tour with DUG to Paristown Hall. The Wood Brothers formed after brothers Chris and Oliver Wood pursued separate musical careers for 15 years.

Marc Anthony will perform his first-ever residency, “VEGAS… MY WAY!” exclusively at BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. The residency will feature 10 live performances throughout 2026, beginning in February.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis will shift Gypsy to a future season and present Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, a musical slated for the 60th anniversary season, in its place.