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2025 Emmy Award Nominee Michael Urie, Oscar and Emmy Award nominee Kumail Nanjiani, and Jenn Harris will join the cast of Oh, Mary! beginning Aug. 4 through Sept. 28. They will join the company alongside Jinkx Monsoon as Mary Todd Lincoln. Conrad Ricamora, James Scully, and Bianca Leigh, who originated their roles Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel and on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, along with the current ‘Mary Todd Lincoln,’ Tituss Burgess, will play their final performances on Aug. 2. 

To kick off the fourth annual Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival, Alex Newell, Laverne Cox, Betty Who, and more will take the stage in a one-night-only concert of The Drowsy Chaperone at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 20, 2025. The concert will be directed by Tony Award nominee L Morgan Lee. 

Joe Locke will make his West End debut in the UK premier of Clarkson by Samuel D. Hunter. The play will be directed by Jack Serio, and have a strictly limited run in the West End this autumn. Locke will share the stage with Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville. 

Brody Grant will take his final bow as Ponyboy in The Outsiders on Sunday Sept. 21. New casting for the role has yet to be announced. 

Joe Mantello will direct a new play by Samuel D. Hunter, Little Bear Ridge Road, starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock on Broadway this fall. It will play a limited 18-week run at the Booth Theatre beginning Oct. 7, with an official opening on Oct. 30. 

Heathers has extended its run at New World Stages for four additional months. The production has amassed the largest advance sale in New World Stages history. Originally scheduled to play through Sept. 28, Heathers will now run through Jan. 25, 2026. 

Two-time Tony Award nominee Gavin Lee will join the company of The Lion King on Broadway as Scar beginning July 22. Lee replaces Stephen Carlile in the role, who left the company earlier this year to star as Hades in Disney’s Hercules on the West End. Michael Hollick will continue as Scar on Broadway until Lee joins the company. 

The stage adaptation of the Paranormal Activity films will haunt the West End beginning Dec. 5. The production will transfer to the Ambassadors Theatre after a critically acclaimed run at Leeds Playhouse last summer. It will also begin a North American tour visiting the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles; Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC, and American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.

The first UK non-replica production of High School Musical is coming to The Lyric Theatre at Lowry next summer. The theatre will be transformed into a basketball court with seating on stage and an extended stage. The production will run Aug. 21, 2026 until Sept. 13, 2026. 

A Play About David Mamet Writing a Play About Harvey Weinstein, written by Mathilde Dratwa, will have its New York premier as a one-night-only reading on July 21 at the Judith O. Rubin Theater at Playwrights Horizons. It will star Abbi Jacobson, Billy Eichner, Heléne Yorke, and Kara Young, with direction by Leslye Headland. The reading will benefit the New York Civil Liberties Union. 

A Christmas Carol is returning to New York for a limited run this winter. The production, adapted by Jack Thorne and conceived and directed by Matthew Warchus, will run at PAC NYC from Nov. 23 — with an official opening on Dec. 4 — through Dec. 28. 

Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart will step into & Juliet on Broadway as Lance for a limited 13-week engagement starting Aug. 5. He takes over from pop icon Joey Fatone, who will play his final performance on July 31. 

Tony Award nominee Montego Glover will perform as Rose in Gypsy on Sunday matinees in July and August beginning on Sunday July 20. Glover filled in for star Audra McDonald from June 30 to July 6 while McDonald was on vacation.

Coming off her performance in the Academy Award-Winning Anora, Luna Sofía Miranda will make her stage debut in the Off-Broadway premier of Girls Will Be Girls. The play will open on July 23 at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center, with previews beginning July 17.

Romy & Michele: The Musical will debut Off-Broadway at Stage 42 this fall. Previews will begin on Oct. 14, with an official opening set for Oct. 28. 

Taraji P. Henson and Cedric Antonio Kyles, known as Cedric “The Entertainer,” will take the Broadway stage in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone opening in Spring 2026. The play will be directed by Debbie Allen and play at a Shubert Theatre on Broadway. 

Lord Nil, acclaimed international escape artist, will perform a world-premier limited engagement of Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins at Stage 42. Performances begin on July 21, with opening night on July 27, and conclude on Aug. 31. 

We could go see Boop for a few more weeks! Boop! The Musical will play its final performance on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at the Broadhurst Theatre. The musical, at time of closing, will have played 25 previews and 112 regular performances.The principal cast of Boop! The Musical is headed by Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop and Tony Award®-winner Faith Prince as Valentina, Ainsley Melham as Dwayne, Erich Bergen as Raymond Demarest, Stephen DeRosa as Grampy, Anastacia McCleskey as Carol Evans, Angelica Hale as Trisha, Phillip Huber as Pudgy the Dog, Aubie Merrylees as Oscar Delacorte, and Ricky Schroeder as Clarence.

Michelle Williams will lead a production of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Cristie directed by Thomas Kail — alongside Faist — this winter. The play will be part of St. Ann's Warehouse Fall 2025 season, and run from Nov. 25 to Feb. 1, 2026. 

Ivy Crest Theatre Co. is coming back to New York with a production of Strange Snow written by Stephen Metcalfe and directed by David Newer. The production will run from June 20 to 28, with all proceeds being donated to the Tunnels to Towers Foundation. 

Write It Out!, a 10-week free playwriting workshop for people living with HIV and AIDS, is accepting applications for its 2025 cohort and the Write It Out! Prize through July 30 at 11:59 p.m. ET. 

After his Tony nominated run in Lincoln Center’s Floyd Collins, Taylor Trensch will play the titular role in New York City Center’s annual gala presentation: Bat Boy. The musical will run from Oct. 29 to Nov. 9. 

Broadway’s Charlotte D’Amboise, Amy Spanger, Nancy Opel, and Kathy Fitzgerald will lead Robert Harling’s play Steel Magnolias at Bell Theater at Bell Works in Holmdel, NJ from July 25 to Aug. 10. It will be directed by Nate Patten. 

It’s time to close the coffin on Elmer McCurdy’s Broadway journey. Dead Outlaw will play its final performance at the Longacre Theatre on Sunday, June 29. At the time of closing, the new musical will have played 14 previews and 73 regular performances. With music and lyrics by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna, a book by Itamar Moses, the show was directed by David Cromer.

Jeff Ross will make his Broadway debut this summer in his one-man show Jeff Ross: Take a Banana For the Ride. The show will have a limited eight-week engagement at the Nederlander Theatre on West 41st Street from Aug. 5 — with opening night set for Aug. 18 — to Sept. 29. 

Jinkx Monsoon, award-winning actress, recording artist, and drag queen currently staring in Pirates! The Penzance Musical, will take on the title role of Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary! for eight weeks beginning on Aug. 4, 2025. Oh, Mary! has also extended its run through Jan. 4, 2026. 

Billy Porter and Marisha Wallace will reprise their roles as the Emcee and Sally Bowles after a successful run at the Kit Kat Club on the West End. They will perform for a limited 13-week engagement beginning July 22, after which Cabaret will close on Broadway.

You have just a few more weeks to get down to the factory. Real Women Have Curves will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, June 29, 2025 at the James Earl Jones Theatre. At the time of closing, Real Women will have played 31 previews and 73 regular performances. The show officially opened April 27 of this year and chief critic Juan A. Ramirez called it a charming new musical. Read his review here. 

Matthew Broderick and David Cross will star in New York Theatre Workshop’s upcoming production of Tartuffe. The production will be the world premier of a new version of Molière’s classic comedy, and be directed by Sarah Benson, with performances beginning in late fall 2025.

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is returning to the New York stage this fall. It will run for a limited 14-week engagement from Friday Nov. 7 — with official opening on Nov. 17 — to Feb. 15, 2026 at New World Stages. 

Original cast member Baayork Lee will direct a one-night-only special concert version of A Chorus Line on Sunday July 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway. The concert will remount the original Michael Bennett and Bob Avian choreography.

Can I Be Frank? returns to New York after a sold-out run at La MaMa last year. The play will run from July 24 to Sept. 13, 2025 at SoHo Playhouse. 

Tony nominee Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Michael Chernus (of Severance) will star in Well, I’ll Let You Go at The Space at Irondale. The play will run from July 29 to Aug. 29, 2025. 

Chiara Aurelia will step into the role of Shelby Holcomb in John Proctor is the Villain starting July 15. She is taking over for Tony Award nominee Sadie Sink, who will depart from the production on July 13. 

The Wicked Witch of the East has been found in Vegas! On June 10, the Sphere fell on top of her, leaving her ruby slippers and 50-foot-long legs exposed, complementing a display on the venue’s Exosphere featuring the scene where Dorothy’s farmhouse falls out of a twister and onto the witch. 

New York City Center's annual gala presentation will feature a production of Bat Boy: The Musical directed by two-time Tony Award winner Alex Timbers. It will run from Oct. 29 to Nov. 9, 2025. The 2026 Encores! Series will include High Spirits, The Wild Party, and La Cage Aux Folles starring Billy Porter. 

The winners have been announced for the 2025 Tony Awards here at the 78th Annual Celebration of the Best of Broadway at Radio City hosted by Cynthia Erivo. See the full list of winners here.

Francis Jue has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role in Yellow Face. Jue beat out fellow nominees Glenn Davis for Purpose, Gabriel Ebert for John Proctor is the Villain, Bob Odenkirk for Glengarry Glen Ross, and Conrad Ricamora for Oh, Mary!. 

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is on a roll! Purpose has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play! Jacobs-Jenkins' play beat out fellow nominees English, Oh, Mary!, The Hills of California, and John Proctor is the Villain. 

Definitely a happy ending! Darren Criss has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his role in Maybe Happy Ending. Criss beat out fellow nominees Andrew Durand for Dead Outlaw, Tom Francis for Sunset Blvd., Jonathan Groff for Just in Time, James Monroe Iglehart for A Wonderful World, and Jeremy Jordan for Floyd Collins. 

She’s come home at last to win a Tony! Sunset Blvd. has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Reivial of a musical. It beats out fellow nominees Gypsy, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, and Floyd Collins. Starring Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical has been wowing audiences here in New York since opening last fall. 

She’s the greatest star of all! Nicole Scherzinger has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her role as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. Scherzinger beat out fellow nominees Audra McDonald for Gypsy, Megan Hilty for Death Becomes Her, Jasmine Amy Rogers for BOOP!. and Jennifer Simard for Death Becomes Her.

Natalie Venetia Belcon has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Buena Vista Social Club. Belcon beat out fellow nominees Julia Knitel for Dead Outlaw, Gracie Lawrence for Just in Time, Justina Machado for Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, and Joy Woods for Gypsy.

Sarah Snook has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Snook beat out fellow nominees Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California, Mia Farrow for The Roommate, LaTanya Richardson Jackson for Purpose, and Sadie Sink for John Proctor is the Villain.

This is one for the history books! Sam Pinkleton has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Pinkleton beat out fellow nominees Knud Adams for English, Sam Mendes for The Hills of California, Danya Taymor for John Proctor is the Villain, and Kip Williams for The Picture of Dorian Gray.

‍Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. It beat out fellow nominees Romeo + Juliet, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang.

They’ve made Mary Todd Lincoln proud! Cole Escola has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for their role in Oh, Mary! Escola beat out fellow nominees George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck, Jon Michael Hill for Purpose, Daniel Dae Kim for Yellow Face, Harry Lennix for Purpose, and Louis McCartney for Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

Kara Young has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Purpose. Young beat out fellow nominees Tala Ashe for English, Jessica Hecht for Eureka Day, Marjan Neshat for English, and Fina Strazza for John Proctor is the Villain.

Jak Malone has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical. Malone beat out fellow nominees Brooks Ashmanskas for Smash, Jeb Brown for Dead Outlaw, Taylor Trensch for Floyd Collins, and Danny Burstein for Gypsy.

Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck have won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Choreography for their work on Buena Vista Social Club. The pair beat out fellow nominees Joshua Bergasse for Smash, Jerry Mitchell for BOOP! The Musical, Camille A. Brown for Gypsy, and Christopher Gatteli for Death Becomes Her.

They’ve made Hwaboon proud! Will Aronson and Hue Park have won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Original Score for their work on Maybe Happy Ending. The pair beat out fellow nominees Julia Mattison and Noel Carey for Death Becomes Her, David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna for Dead Outlaw, David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts for Operation Mincemeat, and Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez for Real Women Have Curves: The Musical.

Why [not] love? Michael Arden has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for his work on Maybe Happy Ending. Arden beat out fellow nominees Saheem Ali for Buena Vista Social Club, David Cromer for Dead Outlaw, Christopher Gatelli for Death Becomes Her, and Jamie Lloyd for Sunset Boulevard.

Well, we’d sure call that a happy ending. Maybe Happy Ending has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Musical. Maybe Happy Ending beat out fellow nominees Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, and Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical. It was among the most-nominated shows of the season, raking in 10 Tony Award nominations.

It’s a happy Tony beginning for Will Aroson and Hue Park, who have won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for their work on Maybe Happy Ending. The pair beat out fellow nominees Marco Ramirez for Buena Vista Social Club; Marco Pennette for Death Becomes Her; Itamar Moses for Dead Outlaw; and David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts for Operation Mincemeat.

It's almost time for the curtain to fall. Smash will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, June 22, 2025 at the Imperial Theatre. At the time of closing, Smash will have played 32 previews and 84 regular performances. 

Kara Young and Kerry Washington will take the stage in a series of monologues written by Whoopi Goldberg as part of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2025-2026 season. The season marks the first full for new artistic director Lear deBessonet, who directed this season’s Once Upon a Mattress and the hit Into the Woods revival at New York City Center.

It was an incredible night celebrating the best of the New York theatre season at NYU Skirball at the 2025 Drama Desk Awards. Maybe Happy Ending won big with six awards including Outstanding Musical. Boop!, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, and The Picture of Dorian Gray each went home with three awards. Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess hosted the ceremony which celebrates the best of the 2024/2025 theatre season here in New York. 

Beetlejuice will make its return to the Broadway stage at the Palace Theatre for a limited 13-week engagement from Oct. 8, 2025 to Jan. 3, 2026. The First National Tour of the popular musical will reach its final resting place on the great white way. Tickets go on sale Tuesday June 3 at 10 a.m.

The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal will star in the new Broadway play Dog Day Afternoon in Spring 2026.

The champagne is chilled and the ballots are ready. The nominees for the 2025 Tony Awards are being announced today, May 1 starting at 8:30 AM, and Theatrely is ready to bring you the latest as it rolls in.Eligible for the 2024-2025 Broadway season are 42 productions, with 14 new musicals, 14 new plays, seven musical revivals, and seven play revivals, all hoping to hear their name called this morning. The nominations are being revealed by Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce, live from the Sofitel Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

A limited number of mezzanine tickets are available for purchase for the 78th Annual Tony Awards via digital lottery. Winners will be able to purchase the seats for $495 each. 

You gotta catch a potential audience’s attention in any way possible these days. From massive social campaigns to wild in-person activations, folks are trying everything. But one performance is trying a different route. Not telling you anything about it! For the past few weeks, some mysterious Instagram account has popped up with the username @_____comingsoon______ and has been posting mysterious photos including balloons and an upside down wheelbarrow. The account follows only two individuals: actor and playwright Bubba Weiler and Theatrely31 alum Jack Serio. Serio recently helmed Ken Urban’s intimate Danger and Opportunity at the East Village Basement which won two special Drama Desk Awards in the past few weeks. 

Second Stage Theater's 2025 season will include two Pulitzer Prize finalist plays on Broadway at the Hayes Theater.

Friday morning, East 9th Street between University Place and Broadway was renamed in honor of Terrence McNally: renowned playwright, Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement winner, LGBTQ+ trailblazer, and longtime resident of the block. 

First-time Tony Award nominee Darren Criss and Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry will host The Tony Awards: Act One this year: a live pre-show streaming free on Pluto TV. The show will stream June 8 from 6:40 p.m. to 8 p.m. EST.

Tony Award nominee Montego Glover will step into the role of Rose in Gypsy from June 30 to July 6, 2025.

Musical Theatre Factory is launching its MTFxR Garage, a six-day collaboration that combines musical theatre and extended reality (XR).

Tony and Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris will return to Broadway this fall alongside Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale, and Tony and Emmy winner James Corden in the first ever Broadway revival of Art by Yasmina Reza.

Gianna Harris, who is finishing up her run in Hell’s Kitchen, will star as the title role in & Juliet starting June 10. Alongside her, viral TikTok vocal coach Cherly Porter will make her Broadway debut as Angélique starting Aug. 7 for a limited 13-week engagement.

Broadway veteran and Tony nominee Kerry Butler, known for her roles in Mean Girls, Hairspray, Beetlejuice the Musical, and Xanadu, will take the stage as Ms. Fleming/Veronica’s Mom in this summer’s upcoming production of Heathers the Musical.

He’ll “make her a star!” Tony Award nominee Jordan Donica will step into the role of Max Von Mayerling in Sunset Boulevard on Tuesday June 10. David Thaxton, who transferred to Broadway with the production after receiving an Olivier Nomination for his performance as Max, will play his final performance on Sunday June 8.

The 2024-2025 Broadway season has become the highest grossing season in recorded Broadway history, with $1.89 billion in grosses, according to The Broadway League.

Elizabeth Gillies has extended her sold-out run as Audrey in the Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors — and will reunite with her former 13: The Musical co-star Graham Phillips when he joins the production as Seymour.

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher will star in the first-ever Broadway revival of Chess — they will play Freddie Trumper, Florence Vassey and Anatoly Sergievsky, respectively. The production will open in Fall 2025.

The upcoming Broadway revival of Ragtime at Lincoln Center has announced additional casting. Alongside previously announced Joshua Hemry, Caissie Levy, and Brandon Uranowitz will be Colin Donnel, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, Shaina Taub, John Clay III, and Rodd Cyrus.

No Guarantees Productions has secured long-term lease of the Astor Place Theatre. It plans to transform the historic space into a cultural hub that amplifies artists and shows outside of the traditional Broadway model.

New York City Public School middle school students from Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens performed numbers from their full school productions of Broadway musicals at the 20th annual Shubert Foundation & Music Theatre International Broadway Junior Student Finale on Thursday.

Ride the Cyclone, written by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, will have its first UK production at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant from Nov. 14, 2025 to Jan. 10, 2026. The production will be directed and choreographed by Lizzi Gee

Tom Hanks is headed Off-Broadway this fall in the world premier of his original play This World of Tomorrow.

André Holland, who starred in the 2016 Best Picture winning film Moonlight, will take the stage in The Brothers Size at The Shed this summer.

Nicole Scherzinger took home the prestigious Distinguished Performance Award for her work on the 2025 revival of Sunset Boulevard at the 2025 Drama League Awards Friday afternoon. The Distinguished Performance Award can only be won once during an actor’s career. 

Julio Torres, an Emmy-nominated former Saturday Night Live writer, will make his Off-Broadway debut in Color Theories this September.

The scrunchies have been claimed for this summer’s off-broadway Heathers the Musical. Broadway stars McKenzie Kurtz, Olivia Hardy, and Elizabeth Teeter will take the stage as Heathers Chandler, Duke, and MacNamara, respectively. 

Producers Mike Lavoie and Carlee Briglia recently announced that they are bringing Josh Sharp’s ta-da! Off-Broadway this summer directed by 2025 Tony Award nominee Sam Pinkleton. The new show will begin previews July 7, 2025 at the Greenwich House Theater, with an official opening night set for July 21. The limited engagement runs through August 23, 2025. 

Get your flashcards ready! Most Unwanted Productions is set to present the New York premiere of the interactive parlor game, Out of Order, written and performed by Carl Holder at the East Village Basement June 27-July 23, 2025. Theatrely31 alum Skylar Fox (Trisha Paytas’ Big Broadway Dream) who developed the piece with Holder will also direct. 

Just in time for Pride Month, New York is about to be hit with a ton of… glitter. Earlier this week Rodeo, Sheep Soup, Tilted, and P3 Productions announced they will present the Edinburgh and London hit House Of Life, a travelling cult collective performed by glitter-clad Ben Welch and Lawrence Cole, with one singular goal: happiness for all, at any cost. The 65-minute, cabaret theater show is one part sermon, one part rebirth, three parts party--a space to let it all out. Inspired by the places where people come together to heal through music, joy and noise, the audience is taken on an eight-step musical journey to complete enlightenment.

We are about to be Gliding up to Lincoln Center. Today, it was announced that incoming artistic director Lear deBessonet’s inaugural season will open with a new production of Ragtime starring Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, and Brandon Uranowitz, following their acclaimed run at New York City Center last year. The revival will begin previews on Friday, September 26, with an official opening night set for Thursday, October 16 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. The limited 14-week engagement runs through January 4, 2026. 

Another day, another list of nominations! Earlier this afternoon, nominations were announced for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards that celebrates the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway during the 24/25 New York Season. This year, the awards will be hosted by Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess on Sunday, June 1st at 6:15pm at NYU Skirball. Stay tuned to Theatrely for all the latest information on winners.

It's Awards Season! Today the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the nominees for the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the 2024-2025 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. Leading the pack with the most honors of the season is the Broadway musical Death Becomes Her, with twelve nominations, followed by Maybe Happy Ending with nine nominations. Stranger Things: The First Shadow leads in the play categories with a total of seven nominations, followed by The Hills of California with six. See the full list below:

Today, The Huntington Theatre announced their upcoming 2025/2026 season including favorites from Broadway and world premieres including the sixth installment of Boston’s city-wide Ufot Family Cycle. The Huntington’s 2025/26 season includes: Tony Award winner Jez Butterworth’s The Hills of California, the haunting, international hit drama which asks, when home calls us back, how can we face everything we left behind; the poignant and hilarious toast of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sardines (a comedy about death) written and performed by Chris Grace of TV’s Superstore, which wonders how we keep dancing even when the music stops; the groundbreaking and emotionally rich Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home, with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, based on Alison Bechdel’s beloved graphic novel about how we learn to see our parents with grown-up eyes; Joshua Harmon’s heartfelt and funny We Had a World; an electrifying reimagining of the ancient myth of Oedipus with modern urgency to discover whether any of us can escape our fate in Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro; and Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector, a biting, on-the-pulse, Broadway satire exploring all the ways we disagree with laugh-out-loud results.

Harvey! Today, The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today that legendary actor and writer, and four-time Tony Award winner, Harvey Fierstein will receive the 2025 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.

It's the best season… awards! Today, Sarah Hyland (currently starring in The Great Gatsby) and Orville Peck (currently starring in Cabaret) announced the nominations for the 91st Annual Drama League Awards from the Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The Awards will be held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Friday, May 16, 2025 at 12:00pm here in New York City. 

If you have ever wanted to see how the sausage gets made and be in the room where it happens, now is your chance. Directed by Jon Halperin, Netflix is giving viewers a special peak behind the curtain to see how the creative team raced against the clock to open Stranger Things: The First Shadow on the West End back in 2023. I caught a screening of the film last night at the Paris Theater here in Midtown and it's an astonishing and incredibly candid look into the making of a major theatrical production unlike anything I have seen before. A truly fly-on-the-wall look following producer Sonia Friedman, writer Kate Trefry, directors Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin, and the entire cast and crew from early workshops, auditions, tech, all the way through to opening night. 

One of America’s most beloved films is coming to New York…kinda. Today, producers announced that Ginger Twinsies, a hilarious send-up of the beloved 1998 film The Parent Trap, will play a limited engagement at the downtown Orpheum Theatre beginning July 10, 2025. Directed and written by Kevin Zak, an official opening is set for July 10 for a 16-week run through October 26.

He’s coming home! Leslie Odom, Jr. will return to the Richard Rodgers Theatre to reprise his Tony-winning role as Aaron Burr in Hamilton; this comes nine years after he took his final bow in July 2016. Odom begins performances Tuesday, September 9, 2025 for a limited engagement through Sunday, November 23, 2025. 

Today it was announced that Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts will star in the West End hit Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) when it makes it North American premiere at the American Repertory Theater at Hard University in Cambridge. 

It’s time to celebrate the best of Boston theatre. Today, the Boston Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) have announced the nominations for the 42nd Annual Elliot Norton Awards. The ceremony is set to make place on Monday, June 2 at 7pm at the Huntington Theatre. 

Today it was announced that Diego Andres Rodriguez who is currently starring as Artie in Sunset Blvd on Broadway will star as Che in Evita this summer at the London Palladium. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, this new production will star Rachel Zegler as Eva Perón. First preview is set for June 14, with an official opening night on July 1. It runs through September 6. 

Today it was announced that Audible and Together, the new theatrical partnership led by Sonia Friedman and Huge Jackman, have a new collaboration including two fully-produced plays, readings, panels, workshops, and more this spring. Headlined by two plays directed by Ian Rickson and presented in repertory – the New York premiere of Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, with Ella Beatty and Hugh Jackman (April 28 – June 18), and Jen Silverman’s new adaptation of August Strindberg’s Creditors, with Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff, and Justice Smith (May 10 – June 18) – the collaboration rounds out Audible Theater’s sixth off-Broadway season at the Minetta Lane Theatre, where the company has produced numerous live shows since 2018, and marks the debut stage productions for Friedman and Jackman’s recently announced company, TOGETHER. Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and Creditors will also be recorded and released on Audible at a later date, extending their reach to millions of listeners around the world.

For their inaugural production at Studio Seaview, Seaview has announced that John Krasinski will return to the New York stage in Penelope Skinner’s dark comedy Angry Alan, directed by Sam Gold. The limited 10-week engagement will begin May 23, 2025 with an official opening night set for Wednesday June 11.