Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 9am (Broadway Time)
Broadway’s official game night, Broadway Bets, took place on May 18, 2026, for an evening of poker that raised $989,528 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. This year’s event welcomed…
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 7am (Broadway Time)
Costume designer Abbandandolo and lighting designer Byrd reflect on their concepts and collaboration.
White is nominated for her second Tony Award.
Celebrity Autobiography is now on Broadway! This marks the Broadway premiere of the long-running Off-Broadway production. Celebrity Autobiography is a Drama Desk Award-winning comedy created…
King’s Head theatre, London An office toilet once used by the wartime PM sparks a culture war in this frenzied show about politics and patriarchyWhen Rachel Reeves became chancellor in 202…
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 6am (Broadway Time)
⭐⭐Star - To - Be⭐⭐Benjamin PajakAt the ripe old age of 15, one might say that Benjamin Pajak is already a star, not a "to be." But we are certain that he is on his way to a decades l…
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Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is May 20, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours:
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 5am (Broadway Time)
Ava Pickett just opened her play “1536” in London. Next up: a TV adaptation, then a project with the filmmaker Baz Luhrmann.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 4am (Broadway Time)
Broadway is contracting pretty fast. It had already been announced that “Moulin Rouge” would shut down at the end of August. Then “Death Becomes Her,” based on the movie, announced a…
An Ideal Husband, Lyric Hammersmith review - an oddly timely and amusingly repurposed classic
Helen Hawkins
Wed, 05/20/2026 - 09:00
Oscar Wilde's comedy wi…
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 3am (Broadway Time)
This summer, Free Shakespeare in the Park returns to the Delacorte Theater in Central Park with two extraordinary productions: ROMEO & JULIET beginning May 22 and THE WINTER’S TALE later i…
HENRY VI: A TRILOGY IN TWO PARTS
June 09, 2026 - July 19, 2026
Venue Newman Theater
By William Shakespeare
A Trilogy in Two Parts
Adapted and Directed by Stephen Brown-Fried
NAATCO retu…
We’re still not over the incredibly celebrated and legendary Mia Katigbak receiving the 2026 Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award! ✨ Don’t miss Mia when she returns to The Public …
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 1am (Broadway Time)
The Broadway star and two-time ‘Drag Race’ winner speaks to Louis Chilton about portraying a timeless queer icon on stage, her struggles with addiction, and ‘treating Doctor Who like S…
Hayley Levitt| Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Leavitt follows his wife Whitney’s turn in Chicago with a run in Cost n’ Mayor’s off-Broadway dance show. ||Off-Broadway|11 to Midnight…
Actors Shine in Electrifying Becky Shaw Revival and Well, I’ll Let You Go
Helen Eisenbach
May 20, 2026 - 01:17
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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by Melissa Griegel Photos by Melissa Griegel Photography The 2026 Chita Rivera Awards took place on May18th at NYU Skirball (566 LaGuardia Place off Washington Square Park) recognizing dance…
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Last night, Lincoln Center Theater honored Emmy Award-winning Producer Susan Downey and Academy Award winner Robert Downey Jr. at their annual spring Gala at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Go …
There are shows that entertain. There are shows that impress. Then there are the rare theatrical experiences that seem to bypass logic entirely and go somewhere buried far deeper inside the …
Sunday’s Drama Desk Awards red carpet reflected the mood of the season itself: theatrical, glamorous, slightly chaotic, and deeply celebratory. Broadway favorites, downtown innovators, leg…
Join The Braoadway Bradshaws as Lindsay and Jared Bradshaw meet up with Sean, Ashley, Maddie and Olivia and Mackenzie for some Muppet Thrills for the new re theme of Aerosmith I MEAN Muppet�…
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 11pm (Broadway Time)
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Friends, colleagues and fans share their memories of Rex Reed—the reviews that changed their lives, the letters he sent back, and the man who made a generation of young gay men feel seen. …
Seth Godin made a recent post about hotel night clerks. He noted that while they often have the highest number of customer interactions, especially with those that may be experiencing a degr…
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 10pm (Broadway Time)
For the week ending May 17, the 40 running productions grossed $38,166,527.
On Monday, May 18) the cast and creative team of Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) and friends celebrated their Cast Album Vinyl Release with an intimate party at RPM Underground.…
A performance that defies genre to reach for the sacred. Catherine Sawoski reviews.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 9pm (Broadway Time)
Tony Award-winner Anika Noni Rose, currently starring in Broadway's The Balusters, 'would love to' take part in a stage adaptation of Disney's The Princess and the Frog.
On opening night …
The YMCA’s “Indian Princesses” program—rebranded in recent years as “Adventure Princesses”—bills itself as wholesome father-daughter bonding through Native-inspired activities.…
It’s 2008, in the middle of the financial crisis, and a group of white suburban dads has signed up to connect with their young daughters, ages 9 to 12, in the YMCA program known as Indian …
Kenji Fujishima| Eliana Theologides Rodriguez makes an impressive debut with this ambitious, intelligent, and affecting new play. ||Off-Broadway|Anissa Marie Griego,Atlantic Theater Company,…
The ebb tide is nigh for Broadway’s Beaches. The musical based on the 1988 Garry Marshall movie has set an early closing date after getting blanked at the Tony Awards nominations a couple …
★★★★☆ The Signature Theatre ends its 35th anniversary season with Kenita R. Miller's revelatory performance in a revival of Heather Christian's haunting spiritual journey.
The pos…
Heather Christian made a name for herself with Oratorio for Living Things, a singular concert-cum-theater piece that won numerous awards after its 2022 premiere. Now Signature Theatre is mou…
Hayley Levitt| Kenita Miller performs Heather Christian’s genre-defying piece of musical autobiography at Signature Theatre. ||Off-Broadway|Alexandra Crosby,Animal Wisdom,Caro Moore,El Beh…
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 8pm (Broadway Time)
Heather Christian is both everywhere and nowhere to be found in this revival of her “Animal Wisdom,” which she first performed nine years ago, and which she still struggles to define. He…
Beaches, the new Broadway musical based on the bestselling book and the 1988 film of the same name, will close early on Broadway. Originally scheduled to run through September 6, 2026, the …
It will play theaters in Los Angeles, San Diego, Charlotte, Oklahoma City, Washington, D.C. and many more cities to be announced in its first year.
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We caught up with students stocking up at the Juilliard Store before heading off for summer break! ☀️🛍️ Take a look at what’s in their bags, then stop by the Juilliard Store in pe…
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Marlowe Theatre secures £4.4 million to transform historic Canterbury building into The Hive
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 7pm (Broadway Time)
A musical version of the 1980s tear-jerker will close months earlier than planned after opening in April to negative reviews and soft sales.
BroadwayWorld has learned that Beaches, A New Musical will close on Broadway this Sunday, May 24. The final performance comes over three months before the production was originally set to pl…