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Looking for a show to see in a city near you? Check out our guide of current and upcoming Broadway tours, and learn about each production as they make their way across the United States and Canada on their North American routes, including musicals and plays.

Miller Theatre celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Composer Portraits with a performance by Courtney Bryan and a 'Photo Call' lobby exhibition on September 12.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis will kick off the 2024/25 Season with the suspense thriller Dial ‘M’ for Murder by Frederick Knott. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Tthe cast of Once Upon a Mattress, starring Sutton Foster, too their first bow on Broadway last night! Check out a video of the cast and learn more about the production.

Next up for The Group Rep, Agatha Christie’s Murder After Hours opening August 2, 2024, at their Lonny Chapman Theatre. Jules Aaron directs the cast of: Patrick Anthony, Joe Clabby, Roslyn Cohn, John Combs, Jason Culp, Megan Deford, Rebecca Del Sesto, Meghan Lewis, Michael Robb, Dani Thompson, Chris Winfield and Gina Yates. Dani made some time before opening to answer a few of my queries.

BroadwayWorld is giving you an exclusive look backstage at rehearsal for Once Upon a Mattress, which begins previews on Broadway tonight, July 31. Check out the photos here!

An in-person and digital rush ticket policy has been announced for the Broadway run of Once Upon a Mattress at The Hudson Theatre. Learn more about how to save on tickets and enter here!

Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced the cast and creative team of the first show of 24/25 Season, William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, directed by STC Artistic Director Simon Godwin.

Once Upon A Mattress is now in Broadway previews at the Hudson Theatre. Check out photos of the new Broadway marquee!  

Cohen Media Group has released the trailer for Merchant Ivory, the first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. The documentary features interviews from Dame Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Hugh Grant, and more.

Emmy Award winner Edie Falco will extend for an additional week in Pre-Existing Condition by Tony Award nominee Marin Ireland. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Three shows in the 2024-2025 Ameren Illinois Broadway in Peoria series will be on sale next Monday. The series includes popular titles and promises an exciting season for theater enthusiasts.

In Barry Edelstein, we’ve got an adaptor/director who is guiding these proceedings with a rock and roll brio...The production is big, brash, often overreaching, occasionally pandering and utterly arresting through its nearly six hours (over two evenings) of stage time.

Check out photos from Once Upon a Mattress' first tech rehearsal! Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Elephants? No elephants here. Just grand, grand opera! (Tenor Limmie Pulliam will astonish you!) The evening is filled with moments of glory.

Duluth Playhouse Youth Theatre will bring two fantastic productions to the NorShor Theatre this summer. Featuring the phenomenal talent of over 60 young performers in the Twin Ports area, these shows are the culmination of four weeks of intensive training in acting, singing, and dancing.

What happens when you take a classic film, update it for a modern audience and then turn it into a Broadway musical? This seems to be a question producers and creatives have been asking themselves more and more over the last few years. With musicals like BACK TO THE FUTURE and THE OUTSIDERS currently playing the Great White Way, it seems like musical adaptations of hit films are here to stay. One of the recent examples of a beloved classic being mounted as a musical is TOOTSIE, based on the classic 1982 film starring Dustin Hoffman. Some might think of this 40+ year old film as an odd choice for adaptation – especially with the world’s perspective on gender and identity being much more evolved in today’s world – but the musical, TOOTSIE, on stage now as the opening show of Titusville Playhouse’s 60th season, shows the tale can be modern, fresh, relevant, entertaining and downright hilarious.

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. Check out the full lineup here!

This time, the reader question was: What are some of the most unique ways that Broadway shows have originated?

If you want to see an opera based on Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” head for Gounod’s version of the piece. with its famous waltz and series of duets. Bellini’s I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI is not it but that's what Will Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo brought to town this week,