Leaving the bardo calls for transformation. The body becomes a page, a site for inscription, a blank slate. The silence echoes.

At New York’s performing arts venues, herding audiences is a melodic mission.

Today’s new Travalanche posts for November 18, 2025 are about musician and comedian Wilbur “Willie” Hall, and Dollywood/ Pigeon Forge. Earlier Travalanche posts for November 18 (in no particular order) in…

Though winter may be fast approaching, Buena Vista Social Club is bringing Havana heat eight shows a week on Broadway. Wesley Wray, who plays young Ibrahim, takes Broadway.com on a backstage tour at the Schoenf…

The Soraya’s resident dance company Ballet BC returned with a trio of modern ballets that defy description. How do you find the words to capture and convey the experience of these utterly thrilling dance work…

AFI FEST 2025: The Big Moments, the Breakouts, and the Industry Buzz The 39th edition of AFI FEST, held October 22–26 in Hollywood, delivered one of its most star-packed and internationally diverse programs i…

Let social media posts or opinion articles in the paper give us “answers” to challenging subjects. Let dance or theater (or both) instead give us time to look at our contradictory selves.

Talene Monahon’s captivating play uses a 1925 court decision to explore what identity means to Armenians here (a certain reality TV star included).

The post A (Very) Musical Christmas 2025 album to be released appeared first on Australian Arts Review.

With Ariana Grande moving her primary focus to acting, she has shared that her 2026 tour will likely be the last one for the foreseeable future. During an appearance on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast, the Wick…

The Broadway favorites will be backed by Pace University students in the Miranda Ferriss Jones-Richard Edelman work at Lincoln Center.

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Star-Crossed and West End-Bound Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe will make their West End debuts next spring in Romeo & Juliet. Performances begin March 16…

Justin Collette stars as the titular demon in Beetlejuice on Broadway. Someone must have said his name three times, because he's here to take fans behind the scenes of the spooky ooky show haunting the Palace T…

Known for its catchy but notoriously difficult-to-perform score, including '80s hit "One Night In Bangkok," Chess returns to Broadway for the first time since its debut in 1988. With powerhouse leads Lea Michel…

The big screen's Draco Malfoy is reprising the performance on stage, which saw a seven-figure increase at the box office last week.

The Tony Award-winning Best Musical Comedy Monty Python’s SPAMALOT is launching a North American Tour, and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge went behind the scenes with the cast to get a sneak peek! The 2025–20…

Broadway agency Situation was also recognized.

Jonathan Bailey is proving that he doesn't need to be in the land of Oz to dance through life; he can do it anywhere, including the wonderful world of Sesame Street! The Olivier Award-winning Wicked star recent…

The piece is expected to arrive Off-Broadway in 2026.

For the week ending Nov. 16, the 34 running productions grossed $40,196,255.

The director of Broadway's Kimberly Akimbo will be the first new leader in almost two decades at the California theatre.

Playbill was on the scene at Lincoln Center to catch up with the cast and creative team of Wicked at the New York premiere.

Wicked: For Good is expected to take over the box office this weekend, with a global opening of $200 million. Approximately $125-$150 million of that will come from theaters in the US and Canada, according to D…

Cynthia Erivo surprised the students at her old school with an impromptu performance of "For Good." In a new video with BBC, Erivo sings a special rendition of the iconic Wicked song while chatting with the stu…

Tom Felton may be making his Broadway debut in a role he knows inside and out, but the experience has still managed to surprise him. Revisiting Draco Malfoy—the character he originated onscreen—onstage in�…

Operation Mincemeat show no signs of defeat as the Broadway production marches into yet another extension. The farcical retelling of how Britain successfully disguised the 1943 Allied Invasion of Sicily will co…

'Rob Lake Does Magic With Special Guests The Muppets' closed Sunday after 24 performances.

Netflix has unveiled the premiere date and new first-look photos for What's in the Box?, the new game show hosted by Tony Award-winner Neil Patrick Harris. The show, which consists of six 45-minute episodes, is…

Disney has released the first trailer for the live action adaptation of Moana. The new teaser gives us a full look at Catherine Laga aia as Moana and Dwayne Johnson returning as Maui. The trailer ends with Cath…

Samuel D. Hunter is a playwright rapidly on the way to becoming an iconic voice of the blue collar, the downtrodden, and the frequently forgotten. Often based in Idaho (from where Hunter hails), Hunter’s play…

Here’s something I never thought while watching the film Paranormal Activity in 2009: One day I will be writing a review of the theater version of this found-footage movie. I vividly recall watching the cinem…

Broadway audiences can now see Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy in the Year 7 company of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, now playing at the Lyric Theatre. See footage from the red carpet opening here! About the ex…

Stephen Hamilton brings a stylish thought- provoking staging of Bradbury’s 1953 science fiction classic to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. By Patrick Christiano November 18, 2025: StephenHamilton’s styl…

Schiff’s book so slavishly follows her screenplay without adding new material that there is nothing much to wait for. The lyrics by Sanford and Jay alternate between not scanning and extremely simple rhymes. …

The BAFTA Award nominee is writing and directing the new work, on its way to becoming a new Audible Original audio offering, too.

Spellers old and new abounded November 16 as the William Finn-Rachel Sheinkin musical returned to NYC.

Heathers the Musical is gearing up for cast changes at New World Stages. McKenzie Kurtz returns to Westerberg High as Heather Chandler on November 19, with newly announced cast member Jackera Davis joining the …

At this point in this ongoing series I take the unusual step of giving a shout-out to an area of Tennessee my sons and I blew past in a rush to get somewhere else. This will thus be an odd post then, a piece on…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/16/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

Plus the latest shows and an interview with Debut Theatre Founder and Artistic Director Lee Kaplan

Don’t miss Mildred Inez Lewis’ remarkable, 1940s Asheville-set reimagining of Sophocles’ “Electra.”

Compass Rose Theater’s production of “Pride and Prejudice” is a sweet treat that will erase the stress of  a week of work and news. Written by Jane Austen in 1813 and adapted here by Emma Whipday (read h…

Thank goodness! The New York City premiere of Wicked: For Good, the much-anticipated sequel to the Wicked movie based on the long-running Broadway musical, lit up Lincoln Center in pink and green on November 1…

Kurtz has been away on a leave of absence since October.

Pop Up Dinner Theater @Barlume Downstairs blends food, story, humor, and philosophy into a soul-stirring ritual of connection. Suite524.org delivers an irresistible night of sensory richness, emotional truth, a…

Monsoon will play 30 performances only beginning January 8 through February 1, 2026.

He succeeds Durrell “Tank” Babbs, who is playing a limited run as Davis from November 18-30.

The play, which began performances on October 8, will now run through February 1, 2026.

(from European Interest, 11/18; Story: Michal Šimečka @MSimecka.) On Monday, tens of thousands of citizens in Slovakia participated in demonstrations against Prime Minister Robert Fico and his pro-Russian p…

Mason Alexander Park is becoming one of the most exciting rising talents in both the New York and London theatre scenes. It was recently revealed that Mason will be starring in OH, MARY! in the upcoming West En…

Broadway News has rounded up a few industry events for the week of November 17, so you never miss your cue.

The second part of the smash-hit Wicked film duology has officially arrived.

Austin Pendleton is directing the new play from Douglas Gearhart.

Warner Music released a studio album of Zack Zadek's indie-rock musical earlier this month.

Performed by two actors and a live Foley artist, it parodies a beloved dinosaur blockbuster using physical comedy, improv, and lo-fi props.

Rema Webb, Jared Zirilli, and more will perform the new work by Jon D'Agostino and Michael August.

New stars Alex Newell and Kate Baldwin helped mark the occasion at the November 17 curtain call.

Stephen Schwartz wrote two new songs for Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo: "The Girl in the Bubble" and "No Place Like Home."

"Summer, 1976" is a cleverly designed snapshot of a deep but fleeting friendship.

Cheyenne Jackson is back on Broadway in Oh, Mary! and buzzing—his word. He describes it as a full-body charge the moment he returns to New York, a jolt of inspiration and familiarity that makes two decades fe…

Monsoon Season returns to the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway this January. Oh, Mary! welcomes back Jinkx Monsoon as Mary Todd Lincoln beginning January 8, 2026. Monsoon will play 30 performances only through Febr…

Romy & Michele: The Musical, the off-Broadway musical that reimagines the 1997 film Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, has set its closing date, The production, starring Laura Bell Bundy and Kara Lin…

The advocacy group for women and TGNC playwrights presents a new iteration of their online resource uplifting makers and champions of new plays.

The UK government will move to ban the resale of live event tickets above face value, according to reporting by the BBC. Ministers are expected to announce the plan on Wednesday as part of a wider effort to lim…

Heathers The Musical has revealed cast updates for the production, which has been extended for the third time Off-Broadway. Heathers is now running through May 24, 2026 at New World Stages. McKenzie Kurtz retur…

Tom Hanks is back on stage in This World of Tomorrow, now running at The Shed. The Oscar-winner, along with co-star Kelli O'Hara and director Kenny Leon, spoke to CBS Mornings about the show, which he also co-w…

EXCLUSIVE: Range has inked Tony Award-winning actress and musician Lauren Patten, the breakout star of the Tony-nominated Alanis Morissette-Diablo Cody Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill.  Patten won t…

Choreographers hear, somehow, a larger heartbeat; it’s fascinating and revelatory to have them reinterpret your compositions, writes the US musician, ahead of a triple bill featuring his music coming to Sadle…

The actor will appear opposite British film star Noah Jupe in a production directed by Robert Icke opening in March Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink is to make her West End debut next year in Romeo and Juliet, opp…

From Chicago to Stan & Ollie, the Oscar-nominated actor has sung on screen for years. Now he arrives on stage – inside a trunk – to serenade the audience In one of Hollywood’s nicer ironies, character…

Brazilian actor will star in The Trial: Enemy of the People, which examines modern political and environmental conflicts The award-winning Brazilian actor Wagner Moura is to star in a new play being staged at t…

The Yorkshire comic was going nowhere with his act which relied on gimmicks, set-pieces and standing on tables. So he decided it was time to live a more interesting – and stressful – life What’s the oppos…

We are about to be changed for good! The conclusion of the Wicked film adaptation is only a few clock ticks away and ahead of its release on Friday, critics have weighed in with their thoughts. As of November 1…