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Sentimental Men will host a holiday live show featuring former Wicked stars at The Green Room 42 Monday, December 11, 2023.

Sleep No More will play its final and 5000th performance in January 2024.

Bebe Neuwirth and Steven Skybell join the Broadway cast of Cabaret.

Directed by Tony Winner Sam Gold, Keremy Strong and Michael Imperioli will star in An Enemy Of The People on Broadway.

Initial casting for Heidi Schreck’s new translation of Uncle Vanya has been announced and it’s a doozy! The all-star company will include Steve Carell as Vanya, in his Broadway debut, William Jackson Harper as Astrov, Jayne Houdyshell as Mama Voinitski, Mia Katigbak as Marina, Alfred Molina as Alexander Serabryakov, Alison Pill as Sonya, and Anika Noni Rose as Yelena.

This morning it was announced that the Almeida Theatre production of Tammy Faye will premiere at a Nederlander Theatre on Broadway in the 2024-2025 season. With music by Elton John and lyrics by Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, Tammy Faye features a book by James Graham and will be directed by Olivier Award-winner Rupert Goold. 

Robyn Hurder will play her final performance as Marcia Murphey in A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical on December 17, 2023.

The York Theatre Company in association with Richard J.Robin will present A Sign of the Times, a new musical featuring 1960s pop hits. Previews begin Wednesday, February 7th and an opening night scheduled for Thursday, February 22nd at New World Stages. 

The critically acclaimed Donmar Warehouse Production of Next To Normal will transfer to the West End next year. The limited run begins at London's Wyndham’s Theatre on Tuesday June 18, 2024.

Surprise! Sony Masterworks Broadway will release the digital version of the new Broadway cast recording of Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth in just a few hours. The digital release will be available tonight, November 15, 2023 at 12:01AM ET. The physical CD is set for release on January 12, 2024. The musical features Daniel Radcliffe as Charley Kringas, Jonathan Groff as Franklin Shepard, and Lindsay Mendez as Mary Flynn

Boy George will return to Broadway in Moulin Rouge! The Musical as Harold Zidler.

Marquee Digital has launched its first annual Marquee Gives Back Competition.

The 15th Annual Jimmy Awards will return to Broadway's Minskoff Theatre on Monday, June 24, 2024.

Former Wicked stars Kristin Chenoweth and Shoshana Bean will reunite on stage at Bean's Apollo Christmas Spectacular this December.

Here Lies Love will be closing its doors later this month. The show will play its final performance at the Broadway Theatre on Sunday, November 26. At the time of closing, Here Lies Love will have played 33 previews and 149 regular performances. 

We have casting for the upcoming new musical The Notebook, based on the bestselling novel by Nicholas Sparks that inspired the film. Portraying Allie and Noah across their lifetimes are Jordan Tyson as Younger Allie, Joy Woods as Middle Allie, and Tony-winner Maryann Plunkett as Older Allie; John Cardoza as Younger Noah, Ryan Vasquez as Middle Noah, and Dorian Harewood as Older Noah

Lempicka, the gorgeous new musical celebrating the true story of renowned artist Tamara de Lempicka, will open on Broadway this spring at the Longacre Theatre. Eden Espinosa, who originated the titular role in critically acclaimed performances at Williamstown Theatre Festival and La Jolla Playhouse, will star in the production

Jaja's African Hair Braiding will be live streamed during its last week of performances, beginning November 14.

This morning it was announced that Aaron Tveit will star as Sweeney Todd and Sutton Foster will star as Mrs. Lovett in the Tony-nominated revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Hugh Wheeler, the revival is directed by Thomas Kail. 

Joey Merlo's On Set with Theda Bara, starring David Greenspan, will run off-Broadway beginning February 2024 at The Brick.

Principal casting was announced for the previously announced Water For Elephants. The cast will be led by Grant Gustin making his Broadway debut, Isabelle McCalla, Gregg Edelman, Paul Alexander Nolan, Stan Brown, Joe De Paul, Sara Gettelfinger and Wade McCollum. 

Next fall, Tony-winner Kenny Leon who directed Purlie Victorious which is now playing at the Music Box Theatre, will direct Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. This will mark the first time the classic American play will be on Broadway since its last revival at the Booth Theatre in 2002, and its fifth Broadway revival. 

The Who’s TOMMY will open on Broadway this spring at the Nederlander Theatre. More than 30 years after the original production, Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff’s beloved tale will begin performances on March 8, 2024, before an official opening night on March 28, 2024.

My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?), written and performed by Rob Madge, will debut on Broadway this spring at the Lyceum Theatre.

The Hunger Games is being adapted for the stage by Conor McPherson, and is set to debut in London in fall 2024.

This morning, it was announced that Eddie Redmayne will return to the Kit Kat Club and reprise his Olivier Award-winning performance as The Emcee in Cabaret when it returns to Broadway this April. Gayle Rankin will star as the toast of Mayfair Sally Bowles in the new production directed by Olivier Award winner Rebecca Frecknall.

The Ali Forney Center will host SERVE, a dance-a-thon to fight food insecurity among homeless LGBTQ+ youth on November 12, 2023.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate is shaping up to be the performance of the fall. This morning, it was announced that Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Elle Fanning will make her Broadway debut in the production, directed by Lila Neugebauer.

Suffs will open on Broadway this spring at the Music Box Theatre, with Hilary Rodham Clinton and Malala Yousafzai joining the producing team.

Gloria Estefan announced on her Instagram recently that she is writing the music and lyrics with her daughter Emily Estefan for a new musical called Five Notes. Karen Zacarías will pen the new production that is to be directed by Tony-nominated Michael Grief.

LA and NYC-based playwright, director, producer collective The Kilroys are back with their annual List, but are changing things up this time around. After almost a decade of creating The List as a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of women, trans, and non-binary playwrights in the American theater.

Jordan Fisher will join Hadestown as Orpheus beginning November 20, 2023. Best known for his roles in the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Teen Beach Movie franchises as well as his Broadway turns in Sweeney Todd, Dear Evan Hansen, and Hamilton, Fisher succeeds original cast member Reeve Carney who will depart the production on November 19.

CBS will present The 77th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 16, 2024. The telecast will be broadcast live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, after being held at the United Palace in Washington Heights earlier this year.

Mean Girls is finally headed to London next summer after many years of speculation on its trans-atlantic journey. The smash hit musical will make its West End debut at the Savoy Theatre beginning in June of 2024. 

Cast has been announced for BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical including Erich Bergen, Stephen DeRosa, Faith Prince, and Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop!

New musical Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent) will get its world premiere at National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene this winter. The production features Steven Skybell, Abby Goldfarb, Avram Mlotek, and Daniella Rabbani.

Sugar Hill: The Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker will have its world premiere at New York City Center, where it will play November 14-28. It will then play in Chicago at Auditorium Theatre December 19-30.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express makes a triumphant return to London's West End in summer 2024.

The Notebook, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, will come to Broadway in spring 2024. Ingrid Michelson's new musical premiered at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in the fall of 2022.

Days of Wine and Roses, starring Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James, will transfer to Broadway in January 2024.

The Devil Wears Prada musical adaptation will play in Plymouth before heading to London's West End in 2024.

Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams will make her Broadway debut in Amy Herzog's Mary Jane at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Water for Elephants, the book to screen to stage adaptation, is headed to Broadway in Spring 2024.

Tituss Burgess returns to Broadway after 14 years away as Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical.

Waitress: The Musical will receive a nationwide release in movie theaters this December through Bleecker Street and Fathom Events.

Jessica Lange, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Jim Parsons will star in the world premiere of Paula Vogel's Mother Play on Broadway, as part of Second Stage's 45th Anniversary Season.

World Premiere of the musical adaptation of classic 1992 film, Death Becomes Her, will play in Chicago this spring. The production will star Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard.

Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment is bringing Broadway to China in Next Stop Broadway: A Night of New Broadway Classics, starring Jenn Colella, Keri René Fuller, Joseph Morales, and Zachary Noah Piser.

Rick Plaugher, Broadway's leading professional children's acting coach, has opened Take Choice Acting, a new conservatory-level training studio for young talent.

Rupaul's Drag Race alum Willam and Search Party's Drew Droege will join Titanique Off-Broadway.

Vineyard Theatre has announced its 2023/2024 season, which will include Scene Partners and Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy.

Once Upon a One More Time will close on Broadway on September 3, 2023.

Irish Repertory Theatre will present an encore run of Love Letters by A.R. Gurney, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, following sold-out performances this past spring. The encore run will take place this fall, featuring five performances with returning star, Matthew Broderick, Talia Balsam; J. Smith-Cameron and Victor Garber; Brooke Shields and John Slattery.

Broadway newcomer Nichelle Lewis will star as Dorothy in The Wiz's pre-Broadway tour starting this fall. She joins previously announced Wayne Brady, Alan Mingo, Jr., Deborah Cox, Melody A. Betts, Kyle Ramar Freeman, Phillip Johnson, and Avery Wilson.

Ars Nova has announced its 2023-2024 season, including two Off-Broadway premieres, (pray) by nicHi douglas, and Travels by James Harrison Monaco.

Emmy Award nominee Anthony Edwards and Aria Shahghasemi join Prayer for the French Republic on Broadway. They join returning cast members Betsy Aidem, Francis Benhamou, Ari Brand, Molly Ranson, and Nancy Robinette.

The Outsiders will come to Broadway spring 2024 after a stellar world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse earlier this year.

Here Lies Love will welcome Filipino sensation Vina Morales to the cast in September as Aurora Aquino.

You Gotta Believe's 9th Annual Benefit Concert, Voices: Stars for Foster Kids has announced its star-studded lineup. Performing in the concert are Patina Miller, Krysta Rodriguez, Norm Lewis, Terrance Mann, Charlotte d'Amboise, Sharon Catherine Brown, Ta'Nika Gibson, Matt Gould, Anika Larsen, Griffin Matthews, Grace McGraw, Rosie Perez, Bellamy Young, and more to be announced!

Freestyle Love Supreme, featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson, will close out the Delacorte Theatre at the Public Theatre ahead of its renovation.

New Musical Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Taylor Mac and Jason Robert Brown, will premiere at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 2024. Tony Award winner Rob Ashford will direct, Tanya Birl will choreograph, and Christopher Oram will design the sets.

Harmony has announced its complete Broadway casting and creative team.

Jake Pedersen will join the Broadway company of Wicked as Boq beginning Monday, August 14.. Michael Wartella will play his final performance as Boq on Saturday, August 12. 

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has joined the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of The Outsiders as a lead producer. Based on the classic novel by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola’s film of the same name, the new musical will announce plans for Broadway soon.

National Black Theatre joins the producing team for Purlie Victorious, coming soon to Broadway starring Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kara Young.

Spamalot is headed back to Broadway this fall and the company will include Christopher Fitzgerald as Patsy, Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart as King Arthur, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer as The Lady of the Lake, Tony Award nominee Ethan Slater as The Historian/Prince Herbert, Jimmy Smagula as Sir Bedevere, Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie as Sir Robin and Nik Walker as Sir Galahad.

Cirque du Soleil's Holiday production, 'Twas the Night Before..., will return to both the Theater at Madison Square Garden and the Chicago Theatre this holiday season.

Broadway and Succession alums Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon will star in JOB at Soho Playhouse starting in September.

A24's new movie musical Dicks: The Musical has released its trailer. The film stars Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Megan Thee Stallion, Bowen Yang, and introducing Aaron Jackson & Josh Sharp.

The Broadway League's Kids' Night on Broadway will have a summer return on August 29th. Seventeen Broadway shows will participate, including The Lion King, Wicked, Back to the Future: The Musical, Hadestown, and many more!

Beaches the Musical will have its international premiere as part of Theatre Calgary's 2023-2024 season.

The Da Vinci Code will get its American premiere at Ogunquit Playhouse this fall starring Michael Urie, Hannah Cruz, Charles Shaughnessy, and more.

Monty Python's Spamalot will return to Broadway this fall! The production is a transfer from the Kennedy Center's Broadway Center Stage series, which had an acclaimed and sold-out run earlier this year in Washington, D.C.

Vanya in London has launched an under 30s ticket lottery where patrons can enter to purchase £10 tickets for the first West End performance of Vanya on 15 September 2023.

Call Fosse at the Minskoff, written and performed by Mimi Quillin, will play at Nantucket's White Heron Theatre Company.

Sarah Paulson will return to Broadway in Appropriate opposite Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at Second Stage this fall.

The Prom original Broadway cast member Isabelle McCalla will join Shucked as Maizy beginning September 8.

Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada will star as Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan in Paper Mill Playhouse's world-premiere production of The Great Gatsby.

Rachel Bloom will make her Off-Broadway debut in her one woman show Death, Let Me Do My Show.

The Radio City Rockettes will return this winter in the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes.

Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott will star in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Off-Broadway. This will be Plaza's stage debut!

The Broadway premiere of New York, New York is closing up shop a bit quicker than anticipated. The show will play its final performance at the St. James Theatre on Sunday, July 30. At time of closing, New York, New York will have played 33 previews and 110 performances. 

International pop music sensation Betty Who and Tony and Grammy Award nominee Phillip Boykin will join the cast of Hadestown as Persephone and Hades September 5, 2023.

Lincoln Center will house the New York premiere of The Gardens of Anuncia, by Michael John LaChiusa. The cast will feature Enrique Acevedo, Andréa Burns, Eden Espinosa, Priscilla Lopez, Tally Sessions, Mary Testa, and Kalyn West.

Grey House will play its final performance on Broadway Sunday, July 30, 2023.

La Jolla Playhouse announces the cast and creative team for its world-premiere production of The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, music and lyrics by Joe Iconis, book by Joe Iconis and Gregory S. Moss, choreographed by Jon Rua and directed by Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley, running August 29 – October 1 in the Playhouse’s Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre.

How to Dance in Ohio will open on Broadway this fall.

Solea Pfeiffer will play Eurydice in Hadestown on Broadway starting this August after Eva Noblezada departs the production. Lillias White has also extended her run as Hermes through February 2024.

The Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York City will present Downtown Sessions, a new intimate concert series with LaChanze on October 1, Ben Platt on October 7, and the previous announced Brian Stokes Mitchell on October 5. 

The much acclaimed London revival of Cabaret will premiere on Broadway next Spring at the August Wilson Theatre. The beloved Kander & Ebb musical of 1930s Berlin has been wowing West End audiences since late 2021 and now American audiences will get to experience the glamor of the Kit Kat Club. 

Broadway's Funny Girl will go on a North American national tour, with principal casting finally announced.

Francois Battiste, Tracie Bennett, Bobby Cannavale, Micaela Diamond, Amber Gray, Jin Ha, Rachel Bay Jones, Denis O'Hare, Steven Pasquale, David Hyde Pierce, and Jeremy Shamos will all star in Here We Are by Stephen Sondheim at the Shed in New York City.

Today, it has been announced that for Encores! 30th Season will include three trailblazing musicals in the American canon. Once Upon A Mattress starring Sutton Foster, Jelly’s Last Jam, and Titanic will complete the lineup for Encores! Artistic Director Lear deBessonet’s next season. City Center has also announced a brand-new adaptation of Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey reconceived by Savion Glover and Tony Goldwyn for its Gala starring Ephraim Sykes, Loretta Devine, Jeb Brown, Aisha Jackson, Elizabeth Stanley, and Brooks Ashmanskas.

54 Below has launched a new $15 ticket initiative to expand accessibility and build new cabaret audiences.

Original Broadway cast member Eva Noblezada will play her final performance as Euridyce in Hadestown on Broadway August 13, 2023.

Jackie Burns will step into the role of Céline Dion in Titanique off-Broadway beginning July 18, 2023 in New York City.

Casey Cott will make his Broadway debut in Moulin Rouge! The Musical on Broadway this August as Christian. He will take over the role after Derek Klena, and will be joined by Courtney Reed as Satine.

Patrick Daly's Caledonia Productions signs first-look deal with Fremantle's Passenger.

Ali Stroker, Myles Frost, Lorna Courtney, Andrew Barth Feldman, Alex Boniello, and Jimmie Herrod will star in the symphonic world premiere performances of RENT in Concert with the National Symphony Orchestra.

Broadway's Camelot at Lincoln Center will close on July 23.