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Terence Frisch returns to Watford Palace Theatre for his 14th pantomime season as Dame Christmas, joined by Michael Lambourne as Ebenezer Scrooge in A CHRISTMAS CAROL: THE PANTOMIME.
Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated performer Eddie Izzard is bringing her acclaimed one-person performance of The Tragedy of Hamlet to the Sydney Opera House. Check out photos here.
Rhode Island Stage Ensemble has revealed its 20th anniversary season, themed 'Rising Up,' featuring Dracula, School of Rock: The Musical, and Hadestown: Teen Edition, among other MainStage and youth productions at venues across northern Rhode Island.
Here’s one play you don’t want to miss! 'David Copperfield' is now on stage at 59e59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off-Broadway 2026 festival of plays.
The Tony Award-winning Best Musical Maybe Happy Ending, directed by Michael Arden, will launch its North American Tour at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, with original Broadway cast members Steven Huynh and Claire Kwon starring.
Actors Theatre of Louisville has revealed its upcoming season, featuring A Christmas Carol,, Primary Trust and more, plus the return of the Storytelling Revolution Festival across its Louisville venues.
The Cleveland Play House is launching the world premiere of the new musical Freak the Mighty. Adapted from Rodman Philbrick’s novel, the story follows the adventures of two young outsiders who form an unlikely friendship.
Westport Country Playhouse announced its 2026-27 season featuring six productions, including two world premieres, under artistic director Mark Shanahan, with works by Ken Ludwig and Charlotte Booker and a cast including Judith Ivey.
May 19's ESCAPE: THE MUSIC OF RUPERT HOLMES at AMT Theater was a cabaret with the songwriter himself in attendance, on-stage, and in good spirits, along with some cast members from the hosting J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company
Pleasure Dome Theatre will present Charles Dickens' supernatural thriller- The Signalman, adapted by Jonathan Holloway and directed by Scott Le Crass. Get a first look at the trailer here!
Literally Alive Family Theatre announced its upcoming Off-Broadway season at the Players Theatre, featuring three original musicals based on classic literature: ALICE IN WONDERLAND, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and CINDERELLA.
The Old Globe is celebrating its 2026 Holiday Season with the 29th annual production of the beloved musical, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!; the Dickens comedic send-up, Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show and more.
Darren Criss played his final performance in Maybe Happy Ending on Sunday, May 17. The performance concluded with the production's 'passing of the charger,' before an emotional stage door visit from Criss. Watch the videos!
Pleasure Dome Theatre announced casting for THE SIGNALMAN, with Gerald Dickens, great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, leading the cast in a South West tour visiting Heritage Railways and the Landmark Theatre.
A cabaret night celebrating the music of Bob Merrill in conjunction with J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Co.'s production of CARNIVAL. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD is currently playing through May 24.
The age-old literary mystery of the circumstances surrounding the death of the perennially wedding-dress-clad Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’ 1851 novel “Great Expectations” is reexamined through a contemporary lens in “(re)Dressing Miss Havisham,” by local playwright John Minigan, being performed May 19–24 at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre as part of the company’s New Play Incubator program.
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is May 18, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
An actor-musician adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel, written by Jeffrey Scharf and directed by Gabriel Barre, held a private workshop presentation produced by Act Two Theatricals and Davenport Theatrical Enterprises.
The stage production does make a lot of strides that strengthens the endurance and popularity of this love story. It repeats iconic moments from the popular 2004 film, but isn’t aping the original screenplay in any way. A new libretto offers a fresh take that borrows the basic structure of the novel and memorable film moments, whilst breathing in new voices and new scenes that add different layers to these familiar characters.
Full casting has been announced for J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company's production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, opening off-Broadway this week. Learn more here!
