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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…
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…
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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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 …
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.…
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.
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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…
As final work continues in the Eugene O’Neill Theatre following a May 4 fire, the start date for performances for The Book of Mormon has been adjusted.
Performances for The Book of Mor…
BroadwayWorld has just learned that Liberation, winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and recently nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Play, will be produced in London in 202…
The season three finale of Elsbeth debuts this week, with guest appearances from three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone and two-time Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie. Check out sneak peek p…
John Ottman, who won an Oscar for his editing work on the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, is taking on another musical icon. According to Variety, Ottman will direct a movie center…
Because of Winn-Dixie, the new Broadway-bound musical based on the Newbery Medal-winning and best-selling children’s novel by Kate DiCamillo, will hold a private reading in New York City o…
The official trailer is here for Stop! That! Train!, the forthcoming film from the producers of RuPaul's Drag Race and directed by Hairspray's Adam Shankman. The movie will be released in th…
A Broadway return may be in the cards for Bryan Cranston. According to Page Six, the Breaking Bad star could be back on the New York stage as early as next season if the London production of…
May 18th marked the world premiere of Stop! That! Train!, the forthcoming action comedy from the creators of RuPaul's Drag Race. The event was held at the Harmony Gold Theater in Los Angeles…
A.R.T.’s world-premiere production of BLACK SWAN is currently in rehearsals, and begins performances at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, MA, on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, and is now extende…
Every Brilliant Thing will launch a national tour in 2027, from Seattle, Washington. Casting and venue dates for the national tour will be announced at a later date.
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Aya Cash might have only just made her Broadway debut, but the Giant star is no stranger to the New York City stage. This year, she earned a Tony nomination for her breakthrough role opposit…
Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 5/17/2026 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical …
A new episode of the PBS Great Performances series Stagebound has debuted, spotlighting Tony-nominated performer Luke Evans, who currently stars as Frank-N-Furter in Broadway's The Rocky Hor…
Lea Michele is having a full-circle moment each night at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre.
The actress, who is starring as Florence Vassy in the revival of Chess opposite Aaron Tveit and Ni…
American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin will be the recipient of the 2026 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The honor, recognizing a regional theatre company that has displayed a cont…
The studio cast EP Caesar: The Musical will be released in digital and streaming formats on Friday, June 19. Caesar: The Musical is a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, reimagi…
SIX on Broadway is partnering with NYC Pride to present NYC Pride Night on Thursday, May 28 at the Lena Horne Theatre.
Following the 7pm performance, cast members will participate in a po…
Zachary Noah Piser and Hannah Kevitt will play the roles of “Oliver” and “Claire” in Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway respectively, beginning tonight, Tuesday, May 19, 2026! Piser star…