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Paddington is coming to New York! To celebrate the Broadway announcement, the beloved bear himself stopped by Good Morning America on Tuesday. Check out the full segment and photos from his appearance.

Conductor Lorenzo Passerini makes his Royal Opera House debut leading Richard Jones' staging of Puccini's LA BOHÈME, featuring two casts including Freddie De Tommaso, Juliana Grigoryan, and several artists making their Royal Opera debuts.

Comedian Sarah Roberts, named in Rolling Stone's Rising Stars of 2024, will bring SCARY MOVIE 7 to Edinburgh's Monkey Barrel 2, blending horror and absurdism to explore loneliness, social media, and human connection.

Following its award-winning New York run, Jerry Topitzer brings his acclaimed one-man show Once Upon a Wall Street to the UK, with a special London performance at the Drayton Arms Theatre and a month-long run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is  June 16, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: 

Annalee Jefferies, Constance Shulman, and Gus Birney will lead the cast of THE CANNIBALS OF McGOWER COUNTY at TheaterWorks Hartford in an upcoming production this summer.

Alternative singer-songwriter honestav (Av) has unveiled his headline Sweet American Boy Tour, kicking off this September with 44 shows across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

HERE Arts Center has unveiled its 2026-27 season, featuring the world premieres of The Kick Inside, See/Unsee and Water Walker, plus new works developed through its artist residency program.

New York, please look after this bear. As BroadwayWorld reported last month, the record-breaking, smash hit, seven-time Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical  PADDINGTON The Musical will begin performances Tuesday, March 30, 2027 and officially open Sunday, April 18, 2027  at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

Some concerts entertain. Others transport. On Thursday, June 4, at Wildwood Park for the Arts, Satia Spencer and Melanie Hanna Ezell delivered the latter, treating audiences to an evening of stunning vocals and enough beauty to leave everyone floating out of the theater. Accompanied by Adam Savacool on piano and Ethan Ezell on guitar, the duo created a concert that felt equal parts recital, theatrical performance, and love letter to music itself.

The star talks her origins in the performing arts, the importance of Pride and more ahead of her solo show 6/21 at NYC's Beechman Theatre in Hell's Kitchen.

The 2025–2026 season at Playhouse on the Square could be summed up in one word: Renaissance. The overall quality of the productions, the size of the audiences, and the standard of excellence have all finally returned after suffering noticeably from the far‑reaching effects of the Covid pandemic.

Wicked will host the 2nd annual Broadway Pride Block Party. Presented by Wicked and TodayTix, this block party will bring together Broadway fans, artists, and allies in an afternoon of music, giveaways, games, photo ops, and Pride-filled fun.

Original The Lost Boys film star Jason Patric visited the 4-time Tony Award winning Broadway musical, fresh off its wins. See photos of Jason Patric alongside the cast here!

All new rehearsal photos have been released for The Saviors, presented by Atlantic Theater Company. Performances begin in July at the Linda Gross Theater. Check out the photos here.

Writers Timothy L. Michuda and Benjamin Ward announced a concept EP for their new musical TURING, chronicling Alan Turing's life through six singles performed by Broadway and West End talent.

The theater world never really slows down — and this week is proof. The Lost Boys dominated our Theater Fans' Choice Awards, sweeping nearly every musical category, while the Washington National Opera's legal battle with the Kennedy Center over $17 million in disputed funds continues to unfold. On a more hopeful note, Berkeley's beloved Aurora Theatre is planning its comeback after a year in the dark. All that, plus BroadwayWorld has launched a brand-new Producer Fantasy Game — so if you've ever thought you could pick the hits, now's your chance to prove it.

“John Adams is a debut role for me. I love his passion.  He is the central catalytic force in the entire drama. He has dedicated his life to God, country, and family in that order.  He’s been toiling in the Continental Congress for years now, and he just wants to get the job [independence] done and go home to his family.” Actor James Patterson is speaking enthusiastically about the challenge of playing the Founding Father from Massachusetts in Maine State Music Theatre’s new production of 1776, created for America’s 250thanniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, that begins its run at the Pickard Theater in Brunswick, Maine on June 24th.

Blue Fire Theatre Company's BLOODY MARY(S) profiles around 30 notable women named Mary, from Mary Shelley to Typhoid Mary, letting audiences vote on which they'd invite to a dinner party.

People know Romeo & Juliet. In fact, it feels to the point that people would be reasonably familiar with a somewhat modernised Romeo & Juliet. Indeed, the archetypal tragedy is so often pulled apart and rehashed that it can become tired. WAAPA’s third year acting students, keen to make an impression, refused to retread a tired path.

What did our critic think of THE FIRST STAGE: OIL & WHISKEY AND JOHNNY AND THE DEVIL'S BOX. at Analog?

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.

Methexis Productions will present Cindy Lou Johnson's BRILLIANT TRACES at The Sonnet Theater, directed by Naomi Bailis, starring Olivia Sinnott and Henry Morehouse in the 1989 Off-Broadway classic.

Death, it turns out, is an excellent alibi for a party, even one being held in your honour. Legendary magician, beloved family man and complete fiction Dieter Roterburg has sadly died and his wake is being held nightly in the tunnels beneath Waterloo train station.

Creekside Theatre Fest’s RABBIT HOLE is heart-wrenching in its exploration of unimaginable grief and human connection. Written by David Lindsey-Abaire, RABBIT HOLE opens mere months after Becca and Howie Corbett lost their son, Danny, in a car accident and examines grief.