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A two-week extension will be presented for Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot, now running in Seaview’s new Off-Broadway home. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Shakespeare Theatre Company has shared casting for its holiday presentation of Guys and Dolls. In addition to previously announced Broadway stars, the cast includes both local favorites and fresh talents to the STC stage.

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater will present the World Premiere of Paul and Émile, by Kai Maristed. Paul and Émile is directed by Sasha Brätt. Learn more here!

After a critically acclaimed summer run of William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Parts 1 & 2, Atlas Shakespeare Company returns to the stage with the sequel: Henry VI, Part 3.

Emma, the well-intentioned matchmaker from Jane Austen’s first published novel is brought to life on the stage as the closing show for the 2025 Summer Repertory Sanborn Park Series. Kate Hamill’s fresh adaptation retains all the classic features of the story while using humor and physical comedy to pull out every morsel of satire from Austen’s voice. The rules of etiquette in proper society and the limited roles for women outside of marriage are Hamill’s favorite punching bags, and she packs a pretty strong punch.

ArtsWest will present THE ROOMMATE by Jen Silverman, directed by Kathryn Van Meter. The cast features Mari Nelson and Sarah Harlett who have previously been featured together in BRING DOWN THE HOUSE & RICHARD III.

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Chichester Festival Theatre and the Roald Dahl Story Company, have announced further casting for The BFG.   Learn more here!

SoHo Playhouse will present the world premiere of its 2024 Lighthouse Series winner, Ali Keller’s (un)conditional, directed by Ivey Lowe. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here!

With Chiara Atik’s Poor Clare having come to a close and Strindberg’s Creditors preparing to take to the stage, Orange Tree Theatre has announced the full cast for Tanika Gupta’s Hedda.

UTA Theatre Arts and Dance begins the fall semester with two contemporary plays presented in repertory in the Studio Theatre. Will Powers 2018 play, Seize the King, is a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III seen through an Afrofuturist lens. Guest director Jiles King is excited for the challenges this play will bring to UTA Acting students, particularly the plays ' combination of contemporary and poetic language.' Seize the King opens September 19th in the Studio Theatre, running for four performances.

The Stage Debut Awards have announced the nominees for 2025. The winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony next month. Check out the full list of nominations here!

The full cast has been announced for Synergy Theatre Project’s production of Evan Placey’s new play Lifers at Southwark Playhouse. Learn more about the show here!

Simon & Schuster will publish a major new biography this fall spotlighting the life and work of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony-, Grammy-, and Pulitzer Prize–winning creator of Hamilton and In the Heights. BroadwayWorld has just learned that Miranda's friend and colleague Javier Muñoz, who replaced him in both Hamilton and In the Heights, will voice the audiobook. 

Black Theatre Troupe will open its 2025–2026 season with GRACE & GLORIE a warm and incisive two-character play by Tom Ziegler, directed by Chanel Bragg. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Alex Winter, who has starred on the stage and screen over the last four decades, has joined the producing team for the New York premiere of Slaughter City by the award-winning playwright Naomi Wallace. Learn more!

The full company for the first-ever stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s internationally acclaimed book The Hunger Games and Lionsgate’s hit motion picture of the same name has been revealed.

HighTide and Pentabus have announced the cast for the upcoming tour of Even More… Ghost Stories by Candlelight, which will travel across the East of England, and for the first time, the West of England, before a London run at Battersea Arts Centre.

'The Zoo Story' is a searing one-act revival that stars three-time Emmy Award winner Christian Jules Le Blanc and acclaimed Off-Broadway actor Matt de Rogatis.

The Michigan Shakespeare Festival has announced it will return in 2026 with its previously planned 2025 season, including Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, and a world premiere adaptation of The Beaux’ Stratagem. A recovery plan is now in place, beginning with a September 27 kickoff event at the Hilberry Gateway in Detroit. Tickets at wsushows.com.

Silicon Valley Shakespeare has released production photos for its new staging of Richard III, featuring an all-female and nonbinary cast. Directed by Doll Piccotto.

For its 35th production, Promethean Theatre Ensemble will honor the people who preserved Shakespeare’s work for the ages, with Lauren Gunderson’s THE BOOK OF WILL. Learn more!

The world premiere production of Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot will be presented in Seaview’s new Off-Broadway home this fall. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets!

The full cast has been revealed for the RSC’s forthcoming production of William Shakespeare’s razor-sharp thriller of hypocrisy and corruption, Measure for Measure. See who is starring and learn more!

Full casting has been announced for Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts. Led by the previously announced Tom Chambers. Learn more about the UK tour here!

Actor Michael Blake has passed away.  Mr. Blake was a member of the Stratford Festival company for 10 seasons. Learn more about Blake's life and career here.