Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams

Better known for staging hit musicals from Broadway and the West End, 9 Works Theatrical is charting new waters with its first-ever straight play, 'Yemaya.'

The Robey Theatre Company will present a free play reading of WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS..., written by Reginald Edmund and directed by Ben Guillory, at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Birdland Jazz Club hosted Gabrielle Stravelli & Billy Stritch: Bossa & Beyond. This concert paired singer and pianist Billy Stritch with jazz vocalist Gabrielle Stravelli for an evening celebrating the beauty, sophistication, and emotional depth of Brazilian and Latin American music. Check out the photos!

Following a successful on-sale earlier this month, demand for the Sydney season of A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL has prompted the release of additional performances.

The Opera Festival of Chicago is currently running Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea, directed by Shifra Werch, conducted by Maestro Emanuele Andrizzi with a cast of more than 50 performers and a 40-piece orchestra at the George Van Dusen Theatre, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. Check out the photos!

Teatro Paraguas has announced the three more performances of the Teatro Paraguas Teen Ensemble, production of Cuentos, a comedy with music by Carlos Morton and Angel Vigil.

Steven Brinberg (Simply Barbra), Award-winning singer and actor makes a return with his latest “SIMPLY BARBRA” show to the Supper Club at The Green Room 42.

Kristina Libby's one-woman show I ALMOST DIED FOR THIS?! will play the East to Edinburgh Festival before heading to Edinburgh Fringe, directed by Padraic Lillis. The show won Best Storytelling Show at the United Solo Festival.

1518: THE DANCING PLAGUE, a satirical comedy about medieval mass hysteria, will perform at the Electric Lodge in Los Angeles as part of the Daredevil Arts Festival before heading to Edinburgh Fringe.

Interactive gameshow-play (NO) REFUNDS will perform at The Tank NYC before heading back to Edinburgh Fringe. One premium ticket holder competes in games for a chance to win a full refund.

Artists from four of Portland's theater companies are coming together to mount a fully staged production of Samuel Beckett's seminal Waiting for Godot as a fundraiser for The Canon Shakespeare Company. 

BWW catches up with Jennifer Jane to chat about bringing Happy Tea to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Calvin J. Walker's new play BIGGER examines Black masculinity, fetishization, and mental health in a workshop performance at Arts Mission Oak Cliff in Dallas, with a post-show talkback following one performance.

BROKEN PLANET SHOW, the genre-bending cabaret from creator Callum Grant, returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe with comedy, circus and live-looped music at Just The Tonic at The Caves.

Richie Schiraldi's immersive character-comedy THE MOTHMAN COMETH, performed in near-total darkness, returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe after winning Best Comedy at the Edinburgh Spooky Awards.

THE LADY DOTH PROTEST, a dark comedy from Joy Powered and Feminine Productions, heads to Edinburgh Festival Fringe following a sold-out New York run, featuring NYU Tisch MFA alumni and a live accordion score.

The New York Neo-Futurists announced a new Off-Broadway residency at Asylum NYC in Manhattan, marking the company's first long-term Off-Broadway home and a return to the borough after nearly two years in Brooklyn.

Open-Door Playhouse will present That Kind of Future, a new short play in podcast form by Asian-American playwright Martin Fogarty, directed by Bernadette Armstrong with Sue Gisser and Matthew Scott Montgomery.

The Argyle Theatre is currently running its summer production of BEAUTIFUL: The Carole King Musical, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway hit that celebrates the life, music, and enduring legacy of one of America's greatest songwriters.

BWW catches up with Chris Forbes to chat about bringing Father Christmas to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The Citizens Theatre is delighted to announce that Callum Smith will be joining the company as its first Director of Producing. Callum is currently Director of Producing at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. He will join the Citz in September. 

The Only Independent Weekend Comedy Show Run (Quite Brilliantly) by a Woman — Glasgow’s Own Amanda Hursy — Launches at Glasgow Comedy Club, Doonstairs at Max’s

In a coup for MAD Theatre of Tampa, their company is the first community theatre in Florida to present this incredibly moving and heartfelt musical.

The intense production will pull into its spell thanks to the astonishingly real characters brought to life by four amazing actors who authentically portray these historical druids on the darkened and often spooky, mist-filled set.

Carolyn Marcell Elmore passed away peacefully in her New York City apartment on June 19, 2026