This week's newsletter is packed with leadership news, as theaters across the country — from San Francisco's Magic Theatre to Manhattan Theatre Club to the Cape Playhouse — announced new appointments and restructured their teams. We've also got honors for Heidi Schreck and Cate Blanchett, plus a reminder that the 17th Annual Jimmy Awards stream live from the Minskoff Theatre tonight!
The West End transfer of The Old Vic’s acclaimed and Olivier Award nominated production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is directed by Carrie Cracknell and will run at the Duke of York’s Theatre, which is being newly renovated into the round. Check out the photos!
Writers Theatre announced an additional week of performances for Tom Stoppard's LEOPOLDSTADT, directed by Carey Perloff, with the production now set to close at the Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Theatre in Glencoe, IL.
Writers Theatre has extended Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt or an additional week, with the production now set to close in August. Simultaneously, the psychological thriller JOB has also been extended at the Glencoe venue.
The acclaimed actor, producer and artistic leader, Cate Blanchett, has been named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for the academic year 2026-27.
Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt follows multiple generations of an Austrian Jewish family from prosperity to despair — spanning over 50 years from 1899 to 1955. Now in its Chicago-area premiere at Writers Theatre, the late Stoppard’s final play includes a cast of 24 actors and many, many characters. Leopoldstadt (named after the Jewish quarter of Vienna) is a sprawling and ambitious work.
Cygnet Theatre will present Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Sean Murray. The show will be produced in the Dottie Studio Theater. The cast features Richard Baird as Bernard Nightingale, Manny Fernandes as Richard Noakes, and more.
Tom Stoppard's Jumpers will be revived at Hampstead Theatre later this year, alongside the premieres of three new plays. Learn more about the lineup here!
Broadway actress Gina Ferrall, whose stage credits included Mamma Mia!, She Loves Me, Beauty and the Beast, and Les Misérables, has died following a battle with uterine sarcoma.
Caissie Levy took home a Tony Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for Ragtime. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, she checked in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to share her initial reaction!
So, in no order (and with no clarity of categories), here are the BROADWAY WORLD HOUSTON CRITICS’ CHOICE awards for the 2025-2026 season! CHEERS!
You can now watch the acceptance speeches from this year’s Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre recipients André Bishop, Jules Fisher, and James Lapin, and Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award winner Mary-Mitchell Campbell.
The Old Vic's Olivier Award nominated production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, directed by Carrie Cracknell, will transfer to the West End, and BroadwayWorld has your first look inside the rehearsal room!
You can now get a first look inside the first day of rehearsals for the West End transfer of The Old Vic’s Olivier Award nominated production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, directed by Carrie Cracknell.
Legendary Broadway producer Manny Azenberg, 92, talks ticket prices, the loss of playwrights to screens, the rise of investor 'producers,' and whether theater can reclaim its cultural footing.
Cape Rep Theatre continues our 2026 season with The Real Inspector Hound, written by Tom Stoppard and directed by Holly Erin McCarthy. Considered by many as “nearly perfect,” this is Stoppard at his wittiest.
Nikki Amuka-Bird and Oliver Chris join the West End transfer of the Olivier Award-nominated Old Vic production of Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA, directed by Carrie Cracknell at the Duke of York's Theatre.
GRAMMY-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein will perform a free concert at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, featuring music by J.S. Bach and Philip Glass from her albums Complicité and Hourglass with ensemble Baroklyn.
Writers Theatre will present The Stoppard Series, a lineup of lectures and community events surrounding its 29-member ensemble production of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt, directed by Carey Perloff, at its Glencoe, IL venue.
The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced that André Bishop, Jules Fisher, and James Lapine will each receive the 2026 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
