Tituss Burgess (Emmy Award nominee, Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; Broadway’s The Little Mermaid), Kyle Dean Massey (Broadway’s Pippin, Wicked), and Jasmine Amy Rogers (Tony Award nominee, Broadway�…

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.

Age: 29 Hometown: Porter Ranch, Los Angeles Current role: LJ Benet stars as Michael Emerson in The Lost Boys, A New Musical on Broadway. LJ Benet (Photo by Sergio Villarini for Broadway.com) Previous rol…

Melanie Moore, Amber Iman, Jada Simone Clark, and more star in the new musical from Dave Malloy and Jen Silverman.

Poised between island and mainland, Boricua artists create work that feels like home wherever they are.

Chess star Aaron Tveit is a Tony winner, new husband and father, and if that weren’t enough, he spends his time between scenes reading backstage. Did we mention he’s also gone viral for how good his hai…

Concord’s Samuel French imprint will license Samuel D. Hunter’s drama for productions worldwide.

The recording of When My Soul Speaks: Lisa Nichols Live on Broadway is coming to Prime Video and Apple TV on April 10, 2026. The film brings to the screen Nichols’ one-night-only stage performance, When My So…

Hear directly from Tony winner Hugh Jackman, Sepideh Moafi (The Pitt), Tony nominee Corey Stoll, Emmy nominee Cecily Strong, Ella Beatty (Appropriate) and Marianna Gailus (Vanya) on why this season of Audible x…

Jellicle cats came out Tuesday night to celebrate the arrival of Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway. This revival is not your grandmother's Cats. This reimagined version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic musical…

Rehearsals are underway for the new dance thriller, BLACK SWAN. A.R.T.’s world-premiere production begins performances at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, MA, on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, and runs through Sun…

Why not, I guess? Singer PINK has been chosen to host the Tony Awards this year. She’s never been on Broadway or acted in a production. She’s a pop star. (And also a trapeze artist.) But Pink — real name …

The Pops' 43rd Birthday Gala will be led by music director and conductor Steven Reineke.

Co-creator Adam Lenson directs the production at the U.K.'s Southwark Playhouse Borough.

Fresh from winning Tonys for Maybe Happy Ending, director Michael Arden and designer Dane Laffrey are soaring to new heights.

The ceremony recognizes excellence in Broadway ensembles of the past and present.

, A Beautiful Noise, the Neil Diamond Musical at the Kravis Center but coming to the Arsht, is a visually flashy, high-energy parade of more than two dozen of the acclaimed singer/songwriter’s enduring tunes…

Hinwood, Rocky in the cult-classic film, left the entertainment industry shortly after to pursue a career in antiques.

Three-time Grammy Award winner P!NK will host the 79th Annual Tony Awards on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall. “It is the honor of an entire lifetime to host a night celebrating the literal hardest working pe…

Welcome to the neighborhood. David Lindsay-Abaire’s The Balusters released first-look production photos featuring its all-star ensemble cast: Anika Noni Rose as Kyra Marshall, Marylouise Burke as Penny Bue…

Fresh from winning Tonys for Maybe Happy Ending, director Michael Arden and designer Dane Laffrey are soaring to new heights.

Earlier this week, winners were announced for the first-ever Broadway Ensemble Awards. Among the big winners were Chess, which took home four awards, and Ragtime, which took home two. Anne Fraser Thomas of The …

Tyga is bringing his musical talents to the big screen with Baby, You’re a Star, a new movie musical project co-written, produced, and starring the multi-platinum rapper, Deadline reports. Production is curre…

The play will begin performances on November 10 and open on December 1 at the Music Box Theatre.

Actors' Equity Association and the Actors' Equity Foundation will award the Paul Robeson Award for 2026 to Sheryl Lee Ralph. The Paul Robeson Award recognizes the ongoing work in our communities to leverage …

Songs by the pop singer-songwriter are part of the Broadway shows “& Juliet” and “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.”

Ready for some f**kin' perfect news? BroadwayWorld has just learned that music superstar and global icon P!NK will host the 79th Annual Tony Awards. The lifelong theater fan will bring her unparalleled performa…

Raise your glass for this year's high-flying host of Broadway's biggest night.

The School Spirits star is enrolled in Westerberg High as Heather Chandler through April 26.

The cult-favorite musical is back at the Imperial Theatre.

The artist will follow in the footsteps of Ariana DeBose, Cynthia Erivo and Kevin Spacey this June The Tony awards have turned to a singer with a reputation for a high-energy, physical live show to be the next …

Cats: The Jellicle Ball is a fresh take on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic moggy musical, set not in a junkyard but at the heart of the Ballroom scene. Directed by Zhailon Livingston and Bill Rauch, the produ…

The year two cast of Stranger Things: The First Shadow had their yearbook photos taken. The production released new shots of Victor de Paula Rocha as Henry Creel, joined by Ayana Cymone as Patty Newby, Shea Gr…

The bestselling author has been writing under her pseudonym.

Watch an exclusive look at Preston Truman Boyd singing "I Wanna Go Back" from Safety Not Guaranteed at Signature Theatre. The production, based on the 2012 film written by Derek Connolly, is currently running t…

Watch Mark Ballas make his debut as 'Billy Flynn' in Chicago on Broadway with a performance of "All I Care About Is Love," featuring the musical's ensemble. In a new video shared to his Instagram, Ballas makes …

Tony Award-winning stage and screen performer Jane Alexander is set to star in the new indie film Lillian, Next Door, from SXSW Audience Award-winning director Janice Engel. The movie begins production this mon…

P!NK will make her hosting debut on Broadway’s biggest night when the ceremony returns to Radio City Music Hall this June.

Grammy Award winner Pink is heading to Broadway to host this year’s 79th Tony Awards. Tony Awards Productions announced today that the music superstar and global icon — a lifelong fan of theater — will em…

Grammy-winning singer Pink will host the 79th Annual Tony Awards this June, producers announced today. In a Broadway season that has seen a range of performers with widespread, multi-genre appeal on the New Yor…

The pop star will lead the June 7 ceremony at Radio City Music Hall, breaking from the tradition of having a Broadway performer as host.

The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul – a new musical by Christie Baugher – will have three industry presentations on Thursday, April 30 at 2:00 PM and Friday, May 1 at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM. The Fitzgeralds of St. Pa…

In Dog Day Afternoon, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has adapted a play from a movie based on an actual event. I knew nothing about the movie except that it starred Al Pacino, and nothing about the play except…

Contributor Brendan McCall on Dan Safer SPIDER RABBIT starring Tony Torn currently playing at La MaMa.

The 2025 Broadway Cast album of Chess will be released in digital and streaming formats tomorrow, Friday April 10 through Ghostlight Records. The recording will be released on CD and vinyl later this year. 

A dazzling revival of “The Wiz” has landed at the National Theatre with electrifying energy, reintroducing audiences to a beloved classic through a fresh, contemporary lens. Rooted in the familiar journey o…

Written by Christie Baugher, the musical is planning an Off-Broadway premiere for later this year.

New production photos capture the play's new company, led by Victor de Paula Rocha.

The Tony-winning Fun Home and Kimberly Akimbo composer is being honored by Lincoln Center this entire season.

Between 1988 and 2018 scarcely any year went by when I didn’t have at least one, sometimes several, plays that I wrote on their feet in New York, and sometimes other towns too. Since then I have performed som…

Today’s new Travalanche posts for April 9, 2026 are about Frankie Thomas (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet) and a very fun theatre event I am involved in on May 1. Earlier Travalanche posts for April 9 (in no particu…

By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson, Yussef El-Guindi. Playwright Yussef El Guindi reflects on Golden Thread’s pivotal second decade; writing in the post-9/11 landscape; and how Middle Eastern, North African, and…

To keep pace with evolving technology and its demanding schedule, the Tarkington in Carmel, IN, recently upgraded its lighting system with ETC and High End Systems solutions. The venue is one of the most heavil…

Searching for new repertory, the company succeeds best with two veteran choreographers, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Lucinda Childs.

Kiss of the Spider Woman, the 2025 film adaptation of the Broadway musical starring Jennifer Lopez, is getting a physical media release, courtesy of boutique label Kino Lorber. The movie musical will be availab…

The official theatrical poster is here for Pressure, the new film adaptation of David Haig's play starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser. The movie will be released in theaters on May 29th from Focus Features…

The Public Theatre has released videos of scenes from Antigone (This Play I Read in High School), which stars Celia Keenan-Bolger, Tony Shalhoub, Susannah Perkins, and more. Now running through April 12, the pl…

The Arbiter is in the building! As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the CHESS (2025 Broadway Cast Recording) will be released in digital and streaming formats tomorrow, April 10, and on CD and vinyl later thi…

Concord Theatricals has acquired worldwide licensing rights to Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road for its Samuel French imprint. Little Bear Ridge Road opened at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago,…

Broadway alums Andrew Rannells (The Book of Mormon, Gutenberg! The Musical) and Sarah Silverman (All Out: Comedy About Ambition) are among the new cast members joining Nobody Wants This Season 3 in recurring ro…

There’s nothing distant about Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman now playing at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre. This revival, directed by Joe Mantello and starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, puts …

Meet the Lomans. The Joe Mantello-directed Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s American classic Death of a Salesman began performances on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on March 6, ahead of opening nig…

Casting has been announced for a new international production of The Full Monty, which will play Japan this summer. Performances begin August 19 at Tokyo International Forum Hall C, where the production will ru…

Tony winner Martin played Lucy opposite Seth Rudetsky's Schroeder at the 2025 Broadway Cares fundraiser.

April 9 was the birthday of actor Frankie Thomas (Frank Thomas, Jr., 1921-2006). I was already planning to write about the star of TV’s Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1950-55), when I learned that he was second ge…

New production photos have been released from STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW, featuring the new cast for Year 2 of the Tony Award-winning Broadway production. Check out the photos below! The second-year c…

The basement of Wicked briefly turned into the choir room when Kevin McHale went to see his Glee co-star Matthew Morrison in Just In Time! During the show's opening, Morrison picked McHale out of the crowd to d…

A new first look has been released for A24's Mother Mary, teasing the music-driven, psychological film with Anne Hathaway center stage as the titular pop star. The movie will be released in select theaters on A…

Derek Klena and the Savannah Bananas are coming to Roku. In a new partnership with the free, ad-supported streamer, viewers will be able to watch Savannah Bananas games from the 2026 Banana Ball World Tour, whi…

As August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone returns to Broadway, buy merch from the star-studded production! Be the first to buy merchandise from the show, including a beanie, music scarf, pin set, tote, mug,…

There is a lot of razzle dazzle happening at the Ambassador Theatre! Earlier this week, Dancing with the Stars couple Mark Ballas and Whitney Leavitt officially took their first Broadway bows together in Chicag…

Zoe Jensen as Glinda and Jessie Davidson as Elphaba in the National Tour of WICKED. Photo by Joan Marcus. The Peace Center is proud to announce a landmark 2026-27 Broadway Season, a spectacular collection of ni…

At least 15 Chicago theater companies have publicly cut ties with the Joseph Jefferson Awards after the organization named Invictus Theatre Artistic Director Charles Askenaizer "Best Director" at its Non-Equity…

Mark S. Hoebee directs the Tony-winning musical at the New Jersey venue.