It was an unforgettable Valentine’s Day at Chicago on Broadway this weekend, as current Roxie Hart, Whitney Leavitt, helped stage a heartfelt surprise proposal for a devoted fan. Following the February 14 …

"Just Desserts" is an entertaining satire on competitions, “a musical bake-off.” With witty songs and colorful characters this show with book and lyrics by Barbara Campbell and music by Brad Ross features a…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Capital Stage's production of The Sound Inside! Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types of production…

Sadler’s Wells East, LondonThe all-male French troupe Chicos Mambo mix parody and pointework in a fast-paced comic celebration of dance’s high art and sillier side When the curtain goes up here in east Lond…

By Isa Goldberg February 12, 2026: It’s Intriguing to me to read women writers on boxing and wrestling -- sports so demonstrably masculine, they would seem out of reach. However, a writer known for doing jus…

By David Sheward February 12, 2026: The two-actor cast of Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters at the intimate Stage II at City Center in a Manhattan Theater Club production, go through quite a workout in its 90-min…

The name on everybody's lips is gonna be Whitney—er, Roxie. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star and Dancing With the Stars alum Whitney Leavitt is still making headlines. Leavitt made her Broadway debut as …

Sadler’s Wells, LondonTanztheater Wuppertal’s dancers treat the audience like lovers in an entrancing show of seductive elegance Pina Bausch had a pair of secret weapons in Matthias Burkert and Andreas Eise…

It’s a basic principle of directing theatre that when two people are on stage and one of them speaks, the audience will probably watch the one who is listening. The opposite is true of dance. When two people …

The name on everybody's lips is gonna be Whitney—er, Roxie. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star and Dancing With the Stars alum Whitney Leavitt is still making headlines. Leavitt made her Broadway debut as …

The “Hamilton” creator will emcee a performance in which the audience gets to dance, too.

On Thursday, March 26, the Tony and Grammy-winning Broadway musical Buena Vista Social Club will host Broadway’s first-ever “dance along” performance. Hosted by Lin-Manuel Miranda, this one-night only …

Part of the 2026/27 Mirvish Main Theatre Subscription Season https://www.mirvish.com/whats-on/subscriptions/mirvish-main-season-2026-27 In the main rehearsal room of the Beijing People’s Art Theatre in 1983,…

Lighting designer Justin Townsend is sharing how Just In Time became an "all-access" experience for its recent relaxed performance for TDF. In a new video on their social media, Townsend revealed that he had go…

York Theatre RoyalIn Catherine Dyson’s absorbing play, the audience become a class of year 9 pupils visiting a Holocaust exhibition with an emotional support animal Can we ever truly learn from history? This …

Protecting live theater, along with the other arts that the NEA has supported, is urgent, and it begins, as it did with me, by loving theater, either as a regular member of the audience or as someone onstage or…

Exclusive: John Doyle says theatre should be able to disturb and challenge audiences, and not sanitise difficult themes The Tony award-winning theatre director John Doyle has warned that trigger warnings before…

Based on the iconic Academy Award-winning film, which was released 38 years ago today, Dirty Dancing in Concert is bringing its magic back to Europe and North America in 2026 for a world tour spanning more than…

Spit & Vigor Theatre Company has an interesting approach to stagecraft at least with its return engagement of Nick Thomas’ Anonymous, now at their new home at the Tiny Baby Black Box Theatre. The play whi…

Today marks five years since the passing of Christopher Plummer. In honour of this extraordinary actor, one of the pioneers who helped put the Stratford Festival on the world stage and elevate the profile of th…

On Wednesday, Disney debuted a brand-new episode of The Muppet Show, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the original series. A full audience was present to witness the characters make their long-awaited re…

Stage and screen legend Ian McKellen sat down with Stephen Colbert during a recent episode of The Late Show for an extended interview covering his long career as a performer. Currently appearing in An Ark at…

Director Rob Gorman greeted us for an informative post-show discussion with the cast of “Enough To Let The Light In” at the Silver Spring Stage. He raised the question that haunted many in the audience. “…

Ensemble work is not easy. It is not for the faint of heart. It challenges the actor in the deepest ways to find the concentric circle between themselves, their character, and their collaborators in order to di…

Frontmezzjunkies interviews: Gus Kaikkonen on Remember This Gus Kaikkonen approaches REMEMBER THIS: THE LESSON OF JAN KARSKI with the steady hand of an artist who understands that some stories do not need emb…

Joe White’s "Blackout Songs" direct from London with its original cast is a tour de force for two actors. It is also a challenge for the audience both because its single topic is addiction and as intentionall…

Patti LuPone gave an impassioned speech during a recent Carnegie Hall concert, calling out Trump's recent changes to the Kennedy Center. While speaking to the audience at the famed New York City performance ven…

History onstage. Family in the audience. A milestone moment in Oz. 💚 #WICKED #BlackHistoryMonth

In wonderfully bewildering shows, New York’s venerable avant garde theatre company mash together everything from baroque opera to sci-fi B-movies. Their next trick? A seance-style tribute to an old friend Spa…

The show: “Oedipus,” created by Robert Icke, “after Sophocles,” on Broadway. What makes it special?: It’s not often you get to see a Greek tragedy on Broadway. However, this is not quite that, but ra…

Springs Ensemble Theatre stages Lucy Kirkwood’s post-disaster drama an intimate setting that pulls the audience into every uneasy exchange.

After playing Elphaba in Wicked, packing out a tent at Worthy Farm and returning to Les Misérables, the star is headlining the Palladium with songs that sum up her life Congratulations on your pregnancy. Have …

A revolutionary piece in a time of revolutionary needs, BLIND RUNNER took the New York City stage and challenged Western norms of language and narrative structure to deliver a piece with passion and full intens…

In the journey of bringing a text to life through live theatre, words claim the space, and the stage becomes a vessel, carrying the audience on a historical ride through comedy as an act of both individual and …

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival announced its awards winners Friday, with Beth de Araújo's searing drama "Josephine" and Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman's environmental-themed documentary "Nuisance Bear"…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Pump House Theatre Watford's production of Grease! Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types of product…

The show must go on! During a recent performance of Maybe Happy Ending, the show experienced technical difficulties and Dez Duron, who plays crooner Gil Brentley, was on hand to entertain the audience. Duro…

You know, it’s the 50th anniversary of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” I used to go to the Exeter Theater in Boston, and then the 8th St. Playhouse in New York to see midnight showings in its heyday. The…

How well can we really know someone,? We know what they tell us, what they want us to see. And for those who are evil or manipulative, the outer appearance can be just an illusion. Agatha Christie’s The Mous…

The drag superstar treated the audience at the Hirschfeld to an original song while making her Broadway debut.

Ben Cameron's long-running, award-winning, musical theatre variety series, Broadway Sessions, returned earlier last month with the cast of Beetlejuice, which just concluded its Broadway run on January 3, 2026. …

& JULIET has partnered with TDF (Theatre Development Fund) for a new education initiative, &Future. The program will connect New York City students and educators to the musical comedy through Broadway p…

Anne Gridley’s favorite neurologist has told her that people can only concentrate on walking for about eight seconds; human beings are designed to walk without thinking about it.  But her play asks the audi…

At This Theatre: The James Earl Jones Built in 1912, this theater was named for its owner, John Cort, and remained so until 2022, when it was renamed for renowned actor James Earl Jones. For a brief period…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on Charity Randall Theater's production of Mean Girls Jr. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types of pro…

The Toronto Theatre Review: Toronto Dance Theatre’s Make Banana Cry By Ross The sound of helicopters in the darkness draws the audience into Toronto Dance Theatre‘s Make Banana Cry, as pin lights reveal wha…

Review: Guess How Much I Love You? at Royal Court Theatre "its relentless conflict too often keeps the audience at a frustrated distance” The post Review: Guess How Much I Love You? at Royal Court Theatre app…

That’s a wrap on ChamberFest 2026! 🎻✨ Celebrating 25 years of this beloved Juilliard tradition, where students and coaches come together for one intensive week of chamber music. This year, the audience p…

Park theatre, LondonLeigh Douglas plays a sorority girl turned White House receptionist – as well as lecherous side characters – in a timely show This show arrives in London in a week that US politics could…

Magic Mike is coming to NYC! As BroadwayWorld previously announced, MAGIC MIKE LIVE will bring an all-new flagship production to New York City this fall. Created and directed by Channing Tatum, the global stage…

Bandit Lites proudly supported Lighting Designer Kane Wayne and his design for the Zach Top tour with a lighting package and production workflow. With a strong emphasis on prep quality, collaborative crews, and…

She started out performing in her living room, charging £1.50 a ticket. Now, having blazed through Love Island and silenced her Strictly haters, the Welsh sensation is really hitting the big time At the end of…

The show: “Bug” by Tracy Letts on Broadway What makes it special?: The show stars Carrie Coon (TV’s “The Gilded Age,” third season of “The White Lotus”) in a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwr…

Photo by Matthew Murphy One night at Chess will make a critic crumbleThe songs are great but the book’s unwieldy The story’s still a huge conf…

Dorothy Parker hated the theater, especially the “wretched downtown plays. The actors represent characters like ‘truth’ or ‘poverty’ while the audience is content to represent ‘sleeping’ or ‘lea…

Review by Jack Quinn, publisher Amelia Grace Beckham and Gavin Cole in a scene from Josée Klein’s “Falling Out” at UNDER St. Marks (Photo credit: Seana E. Rogovin) Falling Out is a rock musical built aro…

What "Dream Feed" does is evoke feelings, and images, and hopefully dreams. Most effective are the times when what I assume are actual dreams are recited, in one case through a voice changer, which is both funn…

Inua Ellams’ play takes you to different destinations for intimate conversations about sex, queerness, capitalism, football and much more I first saw Barber Shop Chronicles on National Theatre at Home. It was…

A first in the history of TSO this year, was the appearance of rock 'n' roll audience lights in the form of CHAUVET Professional Strike Array 2C blinders, which were supplied by PRG. Production and Lighting Des…

Review of the Saturday, January 10, 2026 matinee performance at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. Starring Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher, Hannah Cruz, Bryce Pinkham, Bradley Dean and Sean …

Chamber Dance Project’s performance at Arena Stage’s Finchandler Theatre was a charcuterie board for dance lovers. The nine brief works, including two world premiers, offered glimpses into larger worlds tha…

From its opening fight sequence and throughout the many that punctuate nearly every scene, Synetic Theater’s “Antony & Cleopatra” makes one thing unmistakably clear: power during the triumvirate perio…

Daytime gigs where parents can bring their infants without fear of judgment are proving a sellout success When Nick Page saw the exhaustion of the new mothers arriving at his comedy gig, he suggested turning th…

Kevin's amiable presence on his journey makes this a gentle voyage with a guide that enjoys the exploration as much as the audience. The post Benevolence appeared first on The Front Row Center.

On Wednesday, January 7, Song Sung Blue star and Actor Award Nominee Kate Hudson attended a special screening event at Soho House Los Angeles, hosted by Academy Award-nominated actress Demi Moore. After the scr…

This week's Stage Mag Spotlight is on The Chocolate Box Theatre Company's production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf at Planet Ant Theater. Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld's…

PITTSBURGH — It's common knowledge among fans of "The Pitt" that the show — with its documentary-style cinematography and esoteric language — sets realism as its No. 1 priority. Many of its situations are…

“Bug” is as intimate as it is intense. The set, designed by Takeshi Kata, drops the audience right into this specific place and time. The lightning, helmed by Heather Gilbert, and the sound, spearheaded by …

Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New York The White Lotus and Gilded Age actor takes on her real-life husband Tracy Letts’ 1996 thriller, which could have afforded some modern-day tweaks You can practically smell t…

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sonia De Los Santos has canceled her scheduled performances at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, citing concerns about the current climate at the venue, acco…

Review: Orphans at Jermyn Street Theatre “The play is part Theatre of the Absurd, part thriller, and part a mind game played on the audience.” The post Review: Orphans at Jermyn Street Theatre appeared firs…

Broadway.com went backstage at The Play That Goes Wrong to see (and photograph!) the prep work that goes into creating onstage calamity. Turns out, a lot has to go right before it can go wrong. Take a peek behi…

"The audience will walk away feeling something really thoughtful, amusing and relevant to their lives." Tony Award Winning Director Robert Falls explores the contemporary revival of "Holiday"—on stage startin…

Tony Award winner Jak Malone marked New Year’s Eve with their New York cabaret debut at Laurie Beechman Theatre, raising $5,000 for Broadway Cares through ticket sales and online donations. Check out photos o…

Jane Krakowski took her final bow as 'Mary Todd Lincoln' in Oh, Mary! on Broadway Sunday night. After her final bow, she was greeted onstage by Cole Escola, Sam Pinkleton, and Hannah Solow. Tituss Burgess, a fo…

by Leah Windahl. @leah_windahl. THE AMC ON 42 nd  STREET, NY – Though usually a place where dreams come true, everyone has a nice time, and nobody gets bedbugs, the atmosphere at the 42nd Street AMC was deci…

"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…

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 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…

On December 23, The Choir of Man arrived at the Kravis Center as part of its official U.S. tour, transforming the Dreyfoos Hall stage into a working pub, inviting the audience to order a pint. Nine men gather i…