"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" so opens Charles Dickens' novel, "A Tale of Two Cities," and while this blog post has nothing to do with the French Revolution, we would like to celebrate t…

In celebration of the Rockettes' milestone 100th anniversary, the iconic Company dancers recently visited Live with Kelly and Mark for a performance of New York at Christmas from the 2025 Christmas Spectacular.…

This one goes out to my good friend Tammy Faye Starlite, New York’s, and probably the world’s, pre-eminent Marianne Faithfull impersonator. Tammy also does Mick Jagger, which makes me YEARN for a very exhau…

Today’s new Travalanche posts for December 29, 2025 are about the late Marianne Faithfull, jazz man Clyde McCoy, and bio-pics about President Andrew Johnson and air force pioneer Billy Mitchell. Other earlier…

The Devil Wears Prada star is heading back to 54 Below next year.

BroadwayWorld previously reported that Broadway and screen actor Max Mendoza Crumm (Grease, The Connector) launched a Kickstarter campaign for The Cosmic Clubhouse: A Handmade Musical Short, a new puppet-driven…

There's a new mythic b*tch headed to the halls of Westerberg High. Peyton List joins the cast of Heathers The Musical as Heather Chandler on January 26, 2026. She replaces Jodie Steele, who originated the role …

Comedy tends to skew high or low, but Simon Rich has successfully found a happy medium. Critics compare his quirky stories to the works of James Thurber and P.G. Wodehouse, while John Mulaney calls him “the S…

Brian Cox and Nicholas Braun, who starred as Logan Roy and Cousin Greg on HBO's Succession, reunited at Gruesome Playground Off-Broadway. Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries re…

See photos of Ethan Hawke visiting Carrie Coon, Namir Smallwood and more in Bug on Broadway! Performances are now underway for the Broadway premiere of Bug, written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy…

From the first moments of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK: THE MUSICAL, Greta Gertler Gold’s score makes it clear that this is not a mystery you simply watch. It’s a mystery you enter. In the intimate Off-Broadway s…

The collection of short plays is coming to East London's The Divine via Brooklyn Rep in 2026.

Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards in Eugene O’Neill’s “A Moon for the Misbegotten” (1973).December 29, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953), the only Americ…

The Off-Broadway revival will welcome the School Spirits star to succeed current leading lady Jodie Steele next month.

Disney has released the full star-studded Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade, which debuted on Thursday, December 25, just in time for Christmas. Watch the full special now, featuring performances from T…

The Broadway and Off-Broadway shows that Playbill's editorial staff loved this year.

Carnegie Hall has released new video footage of Nicole Scherzinger performing "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret as part of her Carnegie Hall debut in October 2025. The performance ends with Scherzinger showing off…

The Kennedy Center is going to be very quiet this winter and spring. The only show of note coming in for the next six months is a national tour of “Chicago,” from March 29th. Otherwise, the famed institutio…

The actors will play fae princes from rival kingdoms in the three-part romantasy series from audio erotica platform Quinn.

Victor Popovic, longtime tour manager for New Kids On The Block, passed away on Dec. 14, 2025 at age 52. “We are heartbroken by the unexpected loss of our dear friend Vic Popovic,” the band wrote, in a stat…

I have a question for any Hatfields out there (I have some Hatfield relatives): in your bid to pick off and incapacitate McCoys, would you include CLYDE McCoy (1903-1990)? For the jazz trumpeter and big bandlea…

Crack out those scrunchies, we just got word that Westerberg High will be getting a new student next month. This morning, it was announced that Peyton List will join Heathers as queen bee Heather Chandler begin…

The Associated Press reports that the historic theater in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol has reopened more than three years after it was destroyed in a Russian airstrike that killed hundreds of…

Peyton List, who stars in the hit Paramount+ TV series “School Spirits,” will join the cast of Heathers The Musical as Heather Chandler. List will join the production on Monday, January 26, 2026. Heathers i…

Peyton List, whose TV credits include the Paramount+ series School Spirits and Netflix’s Cobra Kai, will take to the stage later this month when she joins the hit Off Broadway revival of Heathers The Musical.…

Sutzkever’s poems reflect the emotional roller coaster of its residents’ existence, pivoting among horror, humor, and an ambivalent desire for both death and redemption.

On Tuesday, December 23, Neil Diamond and Song Sung Blue star Kate Hudson attended the Aspen Special Screening in partnership with Aspen Film at the Isis Theater. Additional attendees included Katie McNeil Diam…

MIAMI — Cuban-American singer and Star Island resident Gloria Estefan, one of the most influential figures in Latin music history, was honored Sunday night during “A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music, “ a…

Christmas may be over, but it's not too late to check out a recent performance from Broadway's Jessica Vosk on Good Morning America. Fresh off a year-long run in Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen, the performer t…

Wicked: For Good may be arriving on digital in just a few short days, but the sequel to the 2024 blockbuster is still chugging along in theaters. According to Deadline, the movie musical surpassed $500 million …

The West End return of the Tony-winning musical opened at the Lyric in February 2024.

The new project features music by Kasey Dillon Yeargain and a book and lyrics by Jersey Boys star Sean McGee.

The musical short will feature an ensemble of original creature characters crafted from "cardboard, sparkles, and paint," all living in a magical clubhouse hideaway.

The New York institution rings in the new year with its first new production of the Bellini masterpiece in 50 years.

The revival will treat closing night audiences to a special curtain call sing-along finale before it ghosts Broadway forever.

Born December 29, two (unrelated) American leaders who broke rules, were publicly disgraced, and yet became the subjects of Hollywood bio-pics, Andrew Johnson and Billy Mitchell. The stories of both men raise p…

The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has announced the nominations for the 13th Annual MUAHS Guild Awards, which include honors for Broadway's Death Becomes Her and Beetlejuice, along with Wicked: For …

The Kennedy Center Honors drew its smallest audience ever this year. The Donald Trump-hosted ceremony averaged an estimated 2.65 million viewers, a large drop from the 4.1 million viewers in 2024. The CBS cerem…

The Sunset Blvd. star revisited her In the Heights anthem during her tribute to Tony winner Miranda.

How DO you measure a year? New York theater lovers do so in shows, sure (Top 10 Critics’ Lists (+ 6) of Top 10 NYC Theater),but not in shows alone. Clockwise from top left: a moment from Masquerade, destructi…

The standup on studying Ancient Greek comedy at university, his worst gig and having the test scores shouted at him during sets How did you get into comedy?Slightly by accident. I had tried standup in my last y…

BEETLEJUICE will end its limited 13-week Broadway return engagement at The Palace Theatre on January 3, 2026, at 8pm with a special audience curtain call sing-along finale. In the last 7 years, BEETLEJUICE has …

A previously unpublished radio play written by Tennessee Williams as a college student has been published in The Strand magazine. What does the work say about the playwright before he became famous?

For the fourth consecutive year, the Californian city of Paramount’s annual Tree Lighting Celebration was brought to life by the expert production team at Ambient Pro, LLC., supported by a comprehensive deplo…

We were fortunate to have seen 17 different productions in 2025: 14 on Broadway and 3 off-Broadway. These are the shows we considered in all categories this year: Bat Boy: The Musical. Buena Vista Social Club,…

There are dozens of comedy shows happening around Connecticut on New Year's Eve, New Year's Day or New Year's weekend to welcome in 2026.

Dahlak Brathwaite’s “Try/Step/Trip,” part of the Under the Radar festival, uses the language of step to express the liberating and restricting power of groups.

The London UK Theatre Review: Kenrex at The Other Palace By Ross ‘911, what’s your emergency?’‘My husband… they shot him… they all did.’ It’s July 10th, 1981, Missouri, and in that sharp introdu…

Find out what’s happening in the opera, concert, and dance scene this week.

Tartuffe [House of the Redeemer, 27 October 2025] ; Tartuffe [New York Theatre Workshop, 20 December 2025] New York City had the distinct pleasure of being visited by two productions of Moliere’s Tartuffe in …

Watch a video excerpt of Mandy Gonzalez's performance of 'Breathe' from IN THE HEIGHTS in her recent program at Carnegie Hall called EVERYTHING I KNOW....

Today’s new Travalanche post for December 28, 2025 is about Alex Chilton of The Box Tops, Big Star, et al. Earlier Travalanche posts for December 28 (in no particular order) include ones on: Stan Lee Martin M…

However, where the Peter Weir film used magical lighting and the atmosphere of the actual filming at Hanging Rock to recreate a mystical, supernatural feeling, the musical instead adds songs and dialogue. Unfor…

The power of education as a tool for emancipation and democratic thinking has been the subject of a few productions of late in Spanish theatre. To Xavier Bobés and Alberto Conejero’s El mar. Visión de unos …

The House of Bernarda Alba has engendered no shortage of spin-offs — dance and film adaptations like those of Eleo Pomare, Mats Ek and Mario Camus, as well works that pick up the piece’s characters and pres…

La Cubana have been making theatre for over 45 years – stagings that have reimagined popular genres while contemplating the dynamics of putting on a show from the perspectives of those working behind the scen…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about the best theater and performances of 2025. “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is the longest-running ru…

Us Wicked fans have reason to celebrate as a much-buzzed-about deleted scene from the Wicked: For Good film has officially made its debut ahead of the movie’s home release. A cut clip featuring Jonathan Baile…

The annual Vienna Philharmonic Ball anchors a winter calendar of some 450 dances across the city that open a window into Viennese tradition, then and now.

Below is a list of theater books that were published in 2025, most of which I read and enjoyed (sometimes immensely, sometimes with caveats), several I hope to get to in the new year. Beneath that is a list of …

In a land and a business predicated on perpetual change it’s rare for those in the music business to maintain street cred across multiple generations, but Alex Chilton (1950-2010) did. Few know him by name, b…

Red velvet theater seats (Credit: Manuel Medir/Getty Images)Here is a selection of 25 in-depth stories from Broadway News in 2025. We'll see you in 2026! 5 Broadway advertising executives get honest with Broa…