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See photos from inside the rehearsal room as Home by Samm-Art Williams prepares to open on Broadway, in a production directed by Kenny Leon.

BroadwayWorld talks to director Jeffrey Lo about his poetic and visually striking production of the Tennessee Williams classic 'The Glass Menagerie' running at San Francisco Playhouse through June 15th.

October Drift have announced their largest headline show yet, which will take place at Scala in London on November 5th 2024. Pre-sale tickets are on sale now and general on sale commences on Wednesday May 8th at 10am. The announcement comes following the release of their new single ‘Blame The Young’, the first taste of the band’s forthcoming third album due later this year.

Legendary singer-songwriter Mariah Carey joins Audible's 'Words + Music' series in the latest installment, 'Portrait of a Portrait'.

V-Day, the global activist movement, revealed a new audio play, VOICES: a sacred sisterscape. Learn how to listen!

Steppenwolf Theatre Company has released first look photos of the Chicago premiere of Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play, a biting comedy about everything right, wrong and woke in America, directed by Jess McLeod. 

Discover the latest performances at Spire Center for Performing Arts in Plymouth, MA, featuring country artist Charlotte Morris, Foo Fighters tribute band The Best of Foo, and a tribute to James Taylor by October Road.

The biggest challenge of pulling off a show such as Romeo and Juliet is finding new ways to keep the audience interested when we all know what happens. If you’re going to put on a production of a play that has been endlessly adapted, performed, and studied for longer than any of us have been around, it has to be fresh and exciting. Fortunately, Seattle Shakespeare’s production of the famed work does just that. Innovatively directed by Sheila Daniels, the reimagined production of Romeo and Juliet is now playing at Center Theatre at Seattle Center.

Choosing to perform a Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams (1911-1983) play means genuinely committing to some of theater’s most salient aspects: in this case, a plot that must capture and then hold the audience in unfolding layers of tragedy, characters that are complex and often display less-than-desirable human characteristics, believable delivery of modified language to portray a specific region or temperament, performance of disconcerting and sometimes virulent spectacle on a human scale, and production design that rises to the needs of the story. 

Deadliest Catch, the genre-defining series following crab fisherman who risk their lives on the treacherous and unpredictable Bering Sea for the ultimate payday, returns with a two-hour premiere on Tuesday, June 11 at 8PM ET/PT on Discovery Channel. Watch the promo!

In THE THANKSGIVING PLAY, four actors’ road to creating an elementary school Thanksgiving performance is paved with good intentions. But good intentions aren’t enough to save them from their “white savior” complexes. 

The touring production of the acclaimed Broadway revival of Parade, winner of the 2023 Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Musical, will play Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre from March 11-23, 2025.

Rehearsals are underway for Neil Simon’s classic comedy The Odd Couple which will open at the Theatre Royal Sydney from 27 June following a season at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre from 18 May and.

This is a rock musical revue with a wild non-stop party, celebrating strong, invincible women while reliving the 1970's Greatest Hits.  “FOXY LADIES LOVE BOOGIE 70'S EXPLOSION!”

Eleanor Burgess’ brilliant, thoughtful, and often bitingly funny GALILEE, 34—currently having its impressive world premiere production at South Coast Repertory through May 12, 2024—is a humorously insightful, beautifully-performed new play that offers an unreliably revisionist examination of supposed events following Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.

Grim Abbey Productions will present Lindsey Ferrentino's drama, “Ugly Lies the Bone,” at this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival. Directed by award-winner Lulenoxx and featuring a talented and diverse cast, this production will captivate audiences with its exploration of resilience, love and the human spirit.

American Conservatory Theater will close its 2023/24 season with the National Theatre and Neal Street Productions’ critically acclaimed, five-time Tony Award winning production, The Lehman Trilogy. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show is now playing at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Tune in to see Cole Escola on Seth Meyers next week! On Tuesday, May 7, Cole Escola will stop by Late Night with Seth Meyers to talk about his Off-Broadway (and soon Broadway) hit play Oh, Mary. The program airs 12:35/11:35c on NBC. It was recently announced that the play, written by Cole Escola and directed by Sam Pinkleton, will transfer to Broadway this summer, following its sold-out, twice-extended world premiere run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Tune in to see Sterephonic on Jimmy Fallon next week! On Monday, May 6, cast from the play will be on The Tonight Show to perform a number from the production, which is currently playing on Broadway. The program airs 11:35/10:35c on NBC.

Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell will star in a dramatic reading of a new play centered on iconic Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, Dear Mr. Thomas: A New Play for Voices.

A weekend of “Tradition” in the Harton Theatre at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, began on Friday April 19 and ran through Sunday April 21 with Fiddler on The Roof.  I was so excited when Theresa asked me to review this show because it’s a favorite of mine. 

I.M, the artist known for being the youngest member of K-pop powerhouse group Monsta X, is back with his third solo EP, 'Off the Beat'. On the heels of the new album, I had the chance to chat with I.M about his writing process, inspiration behind his deeper lyrics, and more. Check out the full interview here!

On Sunday, May 5 at 6:30p.m., experience Compagnia de'Colombari's Whitman on Walls! (WoW!) Harlem at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park inside the Robert Frederick Smith Center for Performing Arts (679 Riverside Drive at 145th Street in Harlem).

A mother’s crushing struggle for sanity while grappling with economic and social realities that seem stacked against her and and her youngest daughter’s science project growing marigolds from seeds that have been exposed to radiation, or “gamma rays' collide in an inevitable collusion of the mother's delusions and the daughter's reality. The daughter's resilience allows her to thrive even with a toxic home life, in a way similar to the marigolds in her science experiment, which survive radiation exposure and produce beautiful flowers. Her resilience redeems hope and is the bright light at the heart of the play.