Portland Center Stage announced the 26th annual JAW New Play Festival at The Armory. This year’s festival features readings of four dynamic new plays in development by local and national writers, a showcase of short works from up-and-coming teen playwrights, inspiring Community Artist Labs, and a wide array of Press Play community events.
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 12, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.
Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s 2024 Tony Award-winning Best Play, featuring original music by Will Butler, is now available for professional licensing worldwide through Concord Theatricals.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center will present a World Voices reading of ELLEN B., a psychological thriller by Marius von Mayenburg, directed by Whitney White, with a post-show talk and reception. The event is free and open to the public.
The Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwriting Program at Hunter College will present an industry reading of I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU by PJ O'Neal, featuring Ryan Jamaal Swain of FX's Pose and Tony nominee Annie McNamara.
Hunter College's MFA Playwriting Program will present staged readings of five new plays at the Frederick Loewe Theater in New York, featuring works by graduates of the two-year program directed by notable theater artists.
Hunter College's MFA Playwriting Program will present a developmental reading of THESE BLUE NEW HAMPSHIRE NIGHTS by Jack Becker, directed by Kleban Prize winner Phillip Christian Smith, featuring a cast that includes Keith Randolph Smith.
The Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwriting Program at Hunter College will present an industry reading of The Oil by Drew Praskovich, featuring six-time Obie winner David Greenspan.
Think of the greatest songs you’ve never heard - the soaring melodies, the unexpected anthems, the driving beats, the lyrics that speak to a feeling you didn’t know could be expressed in words. Unlike most straight plays, this opus has its own musical score, and good one by Will Butler. And that is the projected end-product taking shape at the hoped for conclusion/finale of “Stereophonic,” now playing in the gorgeous Muriel Kauffman Opera House through Sunday April 11.
Hunter College's MFA Playwriting Program will present an industry reading of I'M A REALLY GOOD SWIMMER by Mya Ison, directed by OBIE winner Taylor Reynolds, on April 10th, featuring Ayana Workman, Kelly McAndrew, and Tẹmídayọ Amay.
At a ceremony at the National Theatre, the Critics’ Circle announced the winners of the 2026 Theatre Awards. These are the only prizes to be entirely voted for by the professional theatre critics who are members of the Circle. Check out photos of the winners below.
The Critics’ Circle just announced the winners of the 2026 Theatre Awards. Big winners included Arthur Miller's All My Suns, Into the Woods, Punch, Paddington, and more. Check out the full list here!
STEREOPHONIC, the most awarded Tony play of 2024, will be staged at the Kauffman Center from April 7-12, featuring a story set in a 1976 music studio.
Tony-Award Winning Play Stereophonic at State Theatre New Jersey March 28-29! Written by David Adjmi, directed by Daniel Aukin, and featuring original music by Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, Stereophonic invites the audience to immerse themselves—with fly-on-the-wall intimacy—in the powderkeg process of a band on the brink of blowing up.
Hunter College's MFA Playwriting program, in collaboration with Breaking the Binary Theatre, will present a series of free public master class workshops aimed at supporting transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ theatre artists.
Hunter College's Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwriting Program will present an industry reading of A GOOD FIT, a play by Maia Matsushita McBride, on March 6th. The event, directed by Awoye Timpo, will explore themes of gentrification, racism, and class dynamics in NYC.
Actor and singer Emilie Kouatchou is only in her twenties and she’s already making musical theater history.
State Theatre New Jersey will host the 2024 Tony Award-winning play STEREOPHONIC for a two-night event in March 2026. The acclaimed production will be staged at the historic venue in New Brunswick, NJ.
Second Stage Theater has revealed the complete cast for its upcoming production of Adam Bock’s dark comedy, The Receptionist, directed by Sarah Benson.
The heightened reality replete with elongated pauses –(do people really wait this long in real life to answer one another?) that emanates from the stage of the Pulitzer- Prize and Tony -winning production of Stereophonic –now being produced in a touring /edited two hour and 50-minute version at the National Theatre-- certainly grabbed my attention.
