Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino recently made her Broadway debut in Chicago, taking on the iconic role of Roxie Hart. On Friday, the Mighty Aphrodite star joined Sherri Shepherd's daytime show to talk all abo…

REVOLUTION(S) is "fabulously performed" (Chicago Tribune). Extended by popular demand through November 16, don't miss this "highly interesting and engaging" new production featuring "pulsing, urgent energy that…

THE NOTEBOOK is coming to the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco from February 10–March 1, 2026. Based on the best-selling novel that inspired the iconic film, THE NOTEBOOK tells the story of Allie and Noah, b…

REVOLUTION(S) is "a show that deserves a future beyond this production" (Chicago Tribune). Extended by popular demand through November 16 get tickets at GoodmanTheatre.org/Revolutions

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SUFFS is coming to the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco from October 21–November 9, 2025. BEHIND EVERY POWERFUL WOMAN… ARE MORE POWERFUL WOMEN. Direct from Broadway, comes the acclaimed Tony Award®-winni…

New York City’s immersive attraction RiseNY hosted an unforgettable Playbill Torch Song performance on Friday, October 10, to celebrate the one-night-only benefit I Put a Spell on You, featuring performances …

Tickets for the Broadway premiere of Bug, written by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer will be on sale beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, October 15. Th…

The Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA) hosted its 50th Anniversary HOLA Awards Gala on October 13 at Manhattan's HK Hall, marking five decades of support for Hispanic and Latino artists in the perform…

For more than 60 years, Tony winner Tony Walton designed costumes and sets for Broadway classics including Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun, and Guys and Dolls.

Kiss of the Spider Woman, the big screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical, is finally in theaters. The John Kander and Fred Ebb musical has been directed and adapted by Bill Condon, who is no strang…

Grammy winner, Tony and Emmy nominee Kandi Burruss returns to the Broadway stage in & Juliet for a limited engagement this winter. Burruss will play Angélique beginning December 11, through March 8, 2026.…

Grammy Award winner and Tony Award and Emmy Award nominee Kandi Burruss will return to the stage this winter in the hit Broadway musical & Juliet. Burruss will join the cast as ‘Angélique’ for a limite…

“The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kandi Burruss is returning to Broadway in the musical “& Juliet.” She’ll join the cast as Angélique for a limited run starting on Dec. 11 and concluding on M…

This month's awards include MacDowell and Chicago Dramatists residencies, Chicago’s Equity Jeff Awards, prizes awarded to NYC musical theatre composers, and more.

Old Vic theatre, LondonFive actors play the protagonist at different stages over 70 years in Tracy Letts’ play, co-starring Andrea Riseborough If there is something familiar about a play comprising disparate …

Broadway is buzzing with reunions, openings and backstage secrets this week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal. Fadal chats with Gavin Lee about joining the long-running phenomenon The Lion King and stepp…

Today’s new Travalanche posts for October 8, 2025 are about Sigourney Weaver and Her Show Biz Family, and the Peshtigo Fire of 1871. Earlier Travalanche posts for October 8 (in no particular order) include on…

Broadway is buzzing with reunions, openings and backstage secrets this week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal. Fadal chats with Gavin Lee about joining the long-running phenomenon The Lion King and stepp…

It’s The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the …

Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock are starring after premiering the Samuel D. Hunter play at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre last year.

Samuel D. Hunter's Little Bear Ridge Road, starring two-time Tony winner Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, begins performances at Broadway's Booth Theatre on October 7. The show, directed by Tony winner Joe …

A is For hosted its annual Broadway Acts for Abortion (BAfA) benefit last night at 54 Below, bringing together some of Broadway’s brightest stars in a powerful evening of performance, solidarity, and advocacy…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Stream the Original Broadway Cast Recording on all platforms! Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is bac…

The university’s American Music Theatre Project will debut the Chicago Musical Theater Writers Workshop, offering instruction and support in musical theater writing for local writers and composers.

Rennie Harris, praised by The New Yorker as "the most brilliant Hip-hop choreographer in America," returns to The Joyce with the New York premiere of American Street Dancer, a new commission that pays tribute t…

Q Brothers Collective and Chicago Shakes reimagine “Julius Caesar” as a “hip-hopera,” where if you want to get by, you better be superfly.

Broadway Games: Famous Composers and Their Least Famous Shows Many theater fans can readily name shows written by their favorite Broadway composers. Lovers of the classics know Jerry Herman wrote Hello, Dolly!…

Tony nominee Norm Lewis has joined the cast of The Foundation for New American Musicals’ concert production of John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Peter Stone’s Woman of the Year. Directed by Glenn Casale, with chor…

Mike Ditka, Harry Caray, Jordan and...Pete. Sam (JENNA FISCHER) gives her dad, PETE a much needed reminder that he's an important part of Chicago's History. Don't miss ASHLAND AVENUE—a heartwarming and hilari…

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of this Broadway staple by seeing how schools tackled the Kander and Ebb musical.

The eighth edition of the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival features work ranging “from movement-driven experimental work to deeply rooted historical dramas.”

Relentless Theatre Group is presenting the reading, the play's first performance in New York after a Chicago bow earlier this year.

The play from the Hell's Kitchen writer makes its world premiere at American Blues Theater in Chicago.

Homecomings can be a tricky thing, as Chloë Grace Moretz’s Maddie learns in Preston Max Allen’s new drama Caroline. After fleeing home as a teenager amid drug-fueled rebellion, stealing from her well-heele…

Catching up with the digital editor on the state of criticism, a regrouping of Theatre Folx of Color, Chicago happenings, new columns, and more.

The Stephen Schwartz-John Caird musical was filmed at a 2022 performance in Chicago also starring David Phelps and Randal Keith.

Tom Morello invites Chicago audiences to experience his searing new musical REVOLUTION(S). On stage starting October 4. Get tickets at GoodmanTheatre.org/Revolutions.

The full cast has been revealed for the brand-new tour of Elf The Musical launching on November 1 following the limited holiday Broadway engagement at The Marquis Theatre last year. The tour will come to 10 cit…

Hear why audience's from last year's production of "A Christmas Carol" raved about this Chicago tradition. Get tickets and learn more at GoodmanTheatre.org/Carol

John Cardoza seemingly made an emergency return to Moulin Rouge! on tour last night at 'Christian.' The Notebook alum – who took his final bow in the Broadway production of Moulin Rouge! over the summer – j…

Broadway's Chicago welcomes Sophie Carmen-Jones back to the Ambassador Theatre as Velma Kelly on September 29. Carmen-Jones previously played the role from February 10 through August 10, before Bianca Marroqu�…

The record-breaking revival continues at the Ambassador Theatre.

Sophie Carmen-Jones will return to Chicago the Musical on Broadway in the role of “Velma Kelly” beginning Monday, September 29 at the Ambassador Theatre. Most recently, Sophie Carmen-Jones appeared as Nini …

The actor will replace Bianca Marroquín.

5 Little Things I'm Looking Forward To On Our Next NYC Visit After 40 plus years of visits to The Big Apple, I've pretty much done all of the touristy things, and they don't really interest me too much anymore…

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is September 26, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click…

The long-running, Tony-winning revival continues at the Ambassador Theatre.

You can now get a first look at Mira Sorvino as Roxie Hart, Bianca Marroquín as Velma Kelly, Tam Mutu as Billy Flynn, Angela Grovey as Matron “Mama” Morton. Chicago is now playing at New York’s Ambassado…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/21/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

LES MISÉRABLES is coming to the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco from September 24–October 5, 2025. Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musi…

Mira Sorvino is officially on Broadway, and that's good... isn't it?! The Academy Award winner just stepped into Roxie Hart's heels in Chicago and will continue performances through Sunday, November 2, 2025. "…

We know them as Benny, Lola, Fiyero, The Wiz and more- but how well do Wayne Brady and Taye Diggs know those characters? We're putting them to the test in the latest edition of BroadwayWorld's Line Please! In t…

The new musical from the Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave musician follows a soldier and aspiring musician who return home from Afghanistan to discover the South Side of Chicago is now occupied territory…

We know them as Benny, Lola, Fiyero, The Wiz and more- but how well do Wayne Brady and Taye Diggs know those characters? We're putting them to the test in the latest edition of BroadwayWorld's Line Please! In t…

Goodman's new play, crammed with Chicago details, stars Jenna Fischer and Francis Guinan.

CHICAGO — Oscar speeches come and go. Each year a new batch replaces the old with only a select few penetrating public consciousness enough to make a best-of reel. Fewer still can survive a replay without an …

BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Get tickets now: justintimebroadway.com Tony Award® winner Jonathan Groff (Merrily We Roll Along, Hamilton) is back on Broadway and is “onstage perfection” (Chicago Tribune…

The cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Off-Broadway production of Queens recently met the press ahead of the show's first performance next month. Martyna Majok’s newly imagined version of Queens will b…

Lee Kirk’s new Chicago-set drama Ashland Avenue is now on stage through October 12 at The Goodman Theatre. The world-premiere production, directed by Walter Artistic Director Susan V. Booth, is the first of T…

Jennifer Lopez will compete in the awards category of Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Aurora/Ingrid Luna in the Kiss of the Spider Woman film, which opens next month. Gold Derby was the first to …

Based in Chicago, the trailblazing and acclaimed Trinity Irish Dance Company celebrates its 35th anniversary this year as the first Irish step dance company to present a full evening in the historic Ted Shawn T…