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This week’s stories highlight a theater landscape in motion, with notable leadership shifts, community celebrations, and major institutional changes shaping the field. Helen Shaw’s appointment as Chief Theater Critic at The New York Times marks a significant moment in arts journalism, while audiences worldwide engage with the newly opened voting for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards. Onstage, Broadway prepares for star-studded fundraising at Red Bucket Follies, and regional companies navigate both exciting transitions and unexpected setbacks. Internationally, major UK institutions confront financial challenges and ambitious renovations, reflecting a moment of both reckoning and renewal across the global arts community.

Following the seventeenth West End and fifth Broadway extensions, the Tony Award® and double Olivier Award-winning musical OPERATION MINCEMEAT unveils the cast for the UK leg of its world tour.

Following the final performance of Punch at the Apollo Theatre on 29 November 2025, profits from the West End run will be used to create a new version of Punch to be toured into schools.

Based on Michael Curtiz’ 1954 Academy Award nomination film musical of the same name. Irving Berlin’s White Christmas follows veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis who have formed a successful song-and-dance act after World War II.

Created in the mind behind last year's winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Play, Mrs Christmas will light up the holidays in Southern California with a world premiere from Tom Jacobson at The Aurora Theatre.

Get a first look at all-new video of Wicked in Riyadh. The hit musical's non-replica production will run at the King Fahad Cultural Centre from December 3, 2025 through January 3, 2026.

In a new featurette for Wicked: For Good, visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman offers viewers a look into the VFX work on display in the newest film. Check out the video to see behind-the-scenes special effects shots from the movie.

Republic Records has released the official score album for Wicked: For Good, containing all the instrumental underscoring written for the film by Stephen Schwartz and John Powell. Listen to it now!

2026 marks Stage One’s 50th anniversary of supporting Theatre Producers, particularly those with a strong focus on entrepreneurship and those who have been traditionally underrepresented in the industry. 

All new production images have been released from English National Opera’s HMS Pinafore, running through 7 Feb 2026 at the London Coliseum. Check out the photos here! 

Initial casting has been announced for the Manila stop of Boublil and Schönberg’s LES MISÉRABLES THE WORLD TOUR SPECTACULAR, coming to The Theatre at Solaire from 20 January to 1 March 2026.

The razor-sharp wit of Cole Porter will return to the Barbican next summer in a new production of Porter’s musical masterpiece HIGH SOCIETY. Learn more here!

Music fans are being invited to return to the early ‘noughties' for a new Friday night party which is set to launch the 2026 Live at Arley series of open-air concerts. Learn more here!

Ensemble Theatre Company will present the West Coast premiere of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN, ABRIDGED as part of its 47th season. See photos of the production.

Playwright Crystal Skillman will receive a West Coast Premiere of her myth-shattering new play The Rocket Men this season with Oregon Contemporary Theatre.

Alley Theatre has received an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for Dear Alien by Liz Duffy Adams, directed by Shelley Butler. The award provides support for additional rehearsal time with the full creative team prior to the world premiere.

Chetkangwan Thipruetree (Jade) is an accomplished Thai chef with a deep passion for authentic Thai cuisine.

Check out new photos The Queer Without a Santa Claus at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. The show features a cast of dancers, drag queens, and divas telling dirty jokes and performing burlesque to all your favorite songs like 'Blue Christmas', 'Here Comes Santa Claus', and the infamous 'Snow Miser / Heat Miser' number.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is December 4, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Les Misérables has seen major success in China with the launch of its staged concert production at Shanghai Grand Theatre, reports China Daily. The musical began performances on November 4 and will run through December 28 as part of the “See You in Shanghai!” initiative from SMG Live.

The Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center has revealed its 2025-2026 West Boca Theatre Company season, featuring a lineup of award-winning comedic and dramatic productions.