Friday, August 21, 2026 at 8am (Broadway Time)
Sydney James Harcourt reflected on the closing of CATS: The Jellicle Ball during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, which was guest hosted by Rosie O'Donnell. In the interview, he looked ba…
‘Strictly’ star hosted BBC companion show until last year
Sydney James Harcourt, who most recently played the Rum Tum Tugger in Cats: The Jellicle Ball, has released a new single! Harcourt teased the single in a series of Instagram stories featurin…
Friday, August 21, 2026 at 7am (Broadway Time)
A comprehensive list of the productions bowing in the first half of the Main Stem season, including dates, venues, plot summaries and preliminary talent
What Broadway can learn from the way young audiences become lifelong fans
Friday, August 21, 2026 at 6am (Broadway Time)
A review of The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” at the Delacorte Theater. By Antonio “A sad tale’s best fo…
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 21, 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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Friday, August 21, 2026 at 5am (Broadway Time)
The Chinese musical The Story of the Stone was staged at the 600-seat ARKO (Arts Council Korea) Arts Theater in Seoul, Korea, on July 10 and 11, 2026. This musical, directed by Gao Ruijia, w…
Arab Canadian theatre is frequently discussed through the language of war, displacement, exile, and trauma. Although such themes have produced some of the field’s most significant works, t…
Performed in Flemish Sign Language, “[seagull]” revisits Anton Chekhov’s play with a cast of hearing and deaf actors. Our chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, met with the play’s direct…
Friday, August 21, 2026 at 4am (Broadway Time)
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Friday, August 21, 2026 at 1am (Broadway Time)
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Friday, August 21, 2026 at midnight (Broadway Time)
Traverse theatre, EdinburghMalaika Kegode delivers a supernatural story about the strange disappearance of a maudlin folk singerPlaywright and performer Malaika Kegode tops and tails this sh…
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Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11pm (Broadway Time)
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Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10pm (Broadway Time)
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In benevolent, Sophie McIntosh turns a basement laundry room into a small theater of female confinement, where the dirty linens of respectable New York become both literal evidence and metap…
Sex, soccer, and secrets abound in the US Premiere of John Donnelly's play. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 8pm (Broadway Time)
The prolific Portland playwright's newest, a two-hander with songs at Twilight Theater Company, carries echoes of her own experiences with a villainous mentor.
Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 6pm (Broadway Time)
Phoenix Festival: Live Arts in Nyack (Daytrippers: 24 Miles from NYC) Drilling Company & Phoenix Theatre Ensemble present MURROW by Joseph Vitale Sunday October 18, 2026 @ 2pm Nyack Li…
Jeff Daniels' Pickleball, Wait Until Dark and Always… Patsy Cline headline a five-show lineup at the Golden theatre
Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 5pm (Broadway Time)
Here’s a quick roundup of stories you might have missed.
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Pitch Perfect's Anna Camp, original Hamilton cast member Jasmine Cephas Jones, Finn Jones and Martin…
Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 4pm (Broadway Time)
Cut character backstories, last minute additions: this track-by-track is ripe for Lost Boys fans to take a bite.
When you make a Playbill with PLAYBILLDER, you can also design your own covers.
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis fantastic comic play from the Radio 4 trio unleashes a torrent of great gags and illusionsHorror pastiche has a proud lineage at this festival – for exam…
Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 3pm (Broadway Time)
Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is coming to Broadway, nearly 10 years after its off-Broadway premiere. Featuring a lineup of grade-A talent across the board, …
The musical was revised by its original writers prior to Concord’s acquisition.
Tickets are now on sale for August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who won a Tony Award for appearing in the original production of the piece. The play will begi…
Raising funds for the Alzheimer's Association and The Entertainment Community Fund, the readings will be held August 26.
Linda Buchwald| Stroker will play Rona Lisa Peretti and Hernandez will play Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre. ||Off-Broadway|Alex Newell,Ali Stroker,Laura Marano,Laurie Hernandez,The 25th Ann…
As part of Bryant Park’s continuing summer Picnic Performances concert series, WNYC radio personality, John Schaefer, hosted the New York Guitar Festival last Friday and Saturday evening (…
Wrapping up The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park season is The Winter's Tale, now running at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Veteran director Daniel Sullivan returns to T…
Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 2pm (Broadway Time)
Linda Buchwald| Mei Ann Teo directs the PlayCo production. ||Off-Broadway|Josep Maria Miró,Mei Ann Teo,PlayCo,Rachel Crowl,Sharon Feldman,The Nicest Body Ever Seen Around These Parts [...]
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Night Side Songs – the cast album of the new musical produced by Lincoln Center Theater at LCT3 / the Claire Tow Theater – will be released in streaming and digital formats on Friday, Au…
Linda Buchwald| Rebeca Robles and Ben Rosenfield also star. ||Off-Broadway|Ben Rosenfield,Human Things,Joshua Owen,Michael Mulheren,Rebeca Robles,Rory McGregor,Victoria Clark [...]
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Abigail’s Party, Harold Pinter Theatre review – raucous, randy and ridiculous
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Thu, 08/20/2026 - 19:45
Exaggeration central: cartoon version…
Linda Buchwald| The season also includes new work from Romeo Castellucci and Angélica Liddell. ||New York City|Angélica Liddell,Bros,Dead Centre,Medea’s Children,Milo Rau,NYU Skirball,Ro…
From a cake-baking Elton John to possibly the most horrible man in the world, comedians reveal how they get in character – and how far they can push thingsIn the Covid lockdowns, I was dra…
BAM has revealed the complete cast for The Ford/Hill Project, a Waterwell production created by Elizabeth Marvel (House of Cards, Homeland) and multi-Obie winner Lee Sunday Evans (Oratorio f…
Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 1pm (Broadway Time)
Concord Theatricals has acquired exclusive worldwide licensing rights to a newly reworked version of Broadway’s Almost Famous: The Musical, a dazzling, semi-autobiographical show from the …
Classic Stage Company will present a one-night-only benefit concert performance of Rags, featuring a book by Jospeh Stein, music by Charles Strouse, and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.
Starri…
Linda Buchwald| Elizabeth Marvel and Josh Hamilton reprise their roles and Teagle Bougere joins the cast. ||Brooklyn,New York City|Elizabeth Marvel,Gabby Beans,Josh Hamilton,Lee Sunday Evans…
The Ford/Hill Project, produced by Waterwell, will run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Beginning September 7, Tony Award-winner Ali Stroker (Oklahoma!, “Glee”) will play Rona Lisa Peretti, and Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez will play Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre…
The stage favorites will perform at the August 24 event at Brooklyn Improv.
The magic-filled recounting of Guimarães' journey as a Portuguese immigrant played a sold-out world premiere at Geffen Playhouse.
Windows, a new play written by Tawni O'Dell, will be presented for two performances only, September 10 at 7:30PM and September 12 at 2PM, at Arizona Theatre Company at the Temple of Music an…
EXCLUSIVE: Marcus Callender, best known for starring in Power and Wu-Tang: An American Saga, is taking his Spades: The Play on a national tour. The stage play is set to run 76 performances a…
Thursday, August 20, 2026 at noon (Broadway Time)
Western Washington University's summer program brings students together with guest writers for two weeks of collaborative development.