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The casts of all Tony Award nominated best musicals and revivals, including Camelot, Into The Woods, & Juliet, Kimberly Akimbo, New York, New York, Parade, Shucked, Some Like It Hot and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick will reprise their roles in Plaza Suite in London's West End in 2024. This will mark Parker's West End debut.

Smash hit Broadway musical Shucked will make its way across the pond to London next year!

Skylar Astin and Julianne Hough will host the 76th Annual Tony Awards pre-show, The Tony Awards: Act One on Pluto TV. After, Ariana Debose will host the Tony Awards, airing on CBS and Paramount+.

The Broadway-bound The Wiz has found its Wiz! Wayne Brady and Alan Mingo Jr. will play the role, with Brady starring in Los Angeles and San Francisco before Broadway, and Mingo Jr. playing the role in the other cities across the country on tour.

John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable will receive its first Broadway revival starring Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber.

Off-Broadway hit Prayer for the French Republic will come to Broadway December 2023. MTC will produce the Broadway production, with casting and creatives to be announced at a later date.

The Public Theatre has announced its 2023/2024 season, which includes Alicia Keys' new musical Hell's Kitchen, starring Shoshana Bean. The season also features many world and New York premieres of exciting new works.

The American Airlines Theatre will be renamed to honor the late Todd Haimes, who served as a leader at Roundabout Theatre Company for nearly 40 years.

Sara Bareilles' hit Broadway Musical Waitress has been turned into a film that will premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2023. For the first time ever, the film, Waitress, The Musical - Live On Broadway! will be broadcast through the TSX app and onto a digital screen in Times Square.

The classic musical Grease will play at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City this August.

Sesame Street: The Musical returns Off-Broadway! With a sold-out run last fall, the show will come back at Theatre 555 starting July 29.

The first annual LGBTQ Critics Dorian Theater Awards have been announced, and Kimberly Akimbo won the most awards. Individual honors went to Victoria Clark, Marla Mindelle, J. Harrison Ghee, and many more.

Funny Girl fan favorite Julie Benko joins the Broadway cast of Harmony. The Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman musical will also star Chip Zien.

WP has announced its 2023-2024 season, including the world premieres of Bite Me and munich medea: HAPPY FAMILY.

Ogunquit Playhouse has announced casting for Singin' in the Rain! The musical will star Broadway alum Max Clayton, Christian Probst, Chiara Trentalange, Greg Jackson, Kate Loprest, and Lance Roberts.

The pre-Broadway national tour of The Wiz has found its Lion, Tin Man, and Scarecrow! The tour will commence in Baltimore before heading across the country, and eventually hitting Broadway in Spring 2024.

The New York premiere of new musical Rock & Roll Man will begin on June 3rd at New World Stages. The show stars Constantine Maroulis and Joe Pantoliano.

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, Jennifer Holliday, Aisha Jackson, Elizabeth Stanley, and Brooks Ashmanskas.

The 2023 Excellence in Theatre Education Tony Award will go to South Florida teacher Jason Zembuch Young of South Plantation High School. This honor is bestowed upon an outstanding teacher in theatre anywhere in the United States by the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University.

The eight-time Tony-nominated musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is heading on a national tour across the United States. Set to launch in early Spring 2025, the tour has yet to announce casting, dates, or cities, so stay tuned.

The 2023 Drama Desk Award winners have been announced, and Broadway musical Some Like It Hot has won the most awards with eight, followed by Life of Pi with four.

The 2023 Chita Rivera Award winners have been announced, including dancers from New York, New York, Bob Fosse's Dancin', A Beautiful Noise, and more!

The Pasadena Playhouse will be honored with the 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award at this year's ceremony on June 11.

Tony Award winners Joanna Gleason and Phylicia Rashad will work on Master Class together, with Gleason directing and Rashad starring.

The Color Purple movie musical will start playing in theaters on December 25. The film stars Danielle Brooks, Taraji P. Henson, Fantasia Barrino, and more.

Directed by Joe Mantello, the world premiere production will be presented at The Shed. 

The news arrives after a lead producer withdrew from the project amid a shortfall in capitalization. 

The Theater Breaking Through Barriers production will be staged at Theatre Row. 

The star current plays Albus Potter at the Lyric Theatre on Broadway. 

The Audible production will play at the Minetta Lane Theatre for a limited three-night run.

The new play will also feature acclaimed musician Eddi Reader leading a band on stage. 

The OBCR will be released this week from Interscope Records.

The Off-Broadway show, directed by Ciara Renée, will begin previews May 7 at Theatre 71. 

They join an already huge slate of stars, including Ben Platt, Annaleigh Ashford, and Bonnie Milligan. 

The slate includes 4 world premieres and the revival of a Tony-nominated play.

The production will stop in over 25 different cities, including Providence and Charlotte. 

The production will open during the 2024-2025 season. 

Previews begin June 30 and officially opens August 3 at the Winter Garden Theatre.

The world premiere production begins June 7 in Atlanta, Georgia, at Alliance Theatre. 

The upcoming CSC season will also feature Santino Fontana and Judy Kuhn in I Can Get It for You Wholesale. 

The Huntington and SpeakEasy Stage will present the Tony-winning musical later this year. 

Antonio Díaz (El Mago Pop) will come to Broadway this August.

Paper Mill Playhouse’s 2023–2024 lineup features The Great Gatsby (Oct 12–Nov 12, 2023), Fiddler on the Roof (Dec 6, 2023–Jan 7, 2024), After Midnight (Jan 31–Feb 25, 2024), Gun & Powder (Apr 4–May 5, 2024), and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (June 5–30, 2024).

Hamlet returns to The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park this summer.

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window will transfer to Broadway this April.

Olivia Valli and Celia Hottenstein will lead the national tour of Wicked starting May 2.

Alex Edelman will make his Broadway debut this summer in his solo show Just For Us.

Evita at A.R.T. will star Shereen Pimentel, Omar Lopez-Cepero, Gabriel Burrafato, Caesar Samayoa, and Naomi Serrano.

Kimberly Akimbo will launch a national tour in September 2024 at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Ariana DeBose will host the Tony Awards for the second year in a row.

Jon M. Chu will direct a film adaptation of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for Amazon Studios.

Liz Kingsman brings her critically acclaimed ONE WOMAN SHOW to New York this summer.

After much wait, and a few cryptic tweets that sent theatre fans into a dizzy, it was announced that Sara Bareilles' Waitress, The Musical - Live On Broadway! will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival running from June 7 - 18, 2023 here in New York City.

High School Musical fave Corbin Bleu will host the Jimmy Awards for the second year in a row.

Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney will star in HBO's Reality, based on Tina Satter's play Is This a Room.

Broadway fav Arielle Jacobs will star in Here Lies Love on Broadway as Imelda Marcos.

The fabulous killer comedy Death Drop is coming to New York this summer at New World Stages.

The Playhouse 46 gates to the Upside-Down will shutter early next month.

The 2023 Tony Award nominations will be announce by Lea Michele and Myles Frost Tuesday, May 2.

The Shark is Broken makes its way to Broadway this summer at the Golden Theatre.

The 2023 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominees have been announced.

& Juliet will tour North America starting Fall 2024.

A.R.T. has announced its 2023-204 season, which includes multiple world premiere productions.

Tony Award winning choreographer and director Jerry Mitchell will be honored with the 2023 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award.

New York City Center Encores! Light in the Piazza announces additional casting.

Performances will run from June 7th (7:30pm…. Eastern Standard Time) through July 2nd at Paper Mill in Millburn, NJ.

Raise Your Voice: A Cabaret for a Cure will feature Broadway faves in a one-night benefit for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

The Off-Broadway hit new musical Harmony by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman will come to Broadway this fall.

Three excellent theatre professionals will be honored with the 2023 Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre.

2022-2023 Tony Award nominations are here! This is the complete list of nominees.

Bob Fosse's Dancin' will close on Broadway on Sunday May 14, 2023.

Broadway legends Joel Grey and John Kander will each receive 2023 Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre.

The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. has announced its 2023-2024 season, including Tony Award winning shows, new works, and theatre for young audiences.

The McCarter Theatre Center has announced their 2023-2024 season, which includes a Pulitzer finalist's play, a Tony nominated musical, and an Emmy Award winner's play.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bad Cinderella will close on Broadway.

Nancy Drew is headed to the stage in a new musical by Alan Menken and Nell Benjamin

Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Jeremy Strong will star in a new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People, featuring a new adaptation by 2023 Tony Award Nominee Amy Herzog, directed by Tony Award-winner Sam Gold.

Ogunquit Playhouse announced a staged reading for GENIUS: A New Musical Comedy, which will be held on Friday, May 19. Based on the novel by Patrick Dennis with a book by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid, music and lyrics by Ilene Reid, the musical will be directed by Heitzman. Incidental lyrics enhanced with Spanish translation are by Jaime Lozano.

Some Like It Hot took home the most Outer Critics Circle Awards this year, with Leopoldstadt following closely behind. Find out all the 2023 winners here.

Initial casting has been announced for Barrington Stage's production of A New Brain playing later this summer.

Former pop star Nicole Scherzinger will star in new version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard in London this fall.

The 2023 Drama League Award winners have been announced, including Annaleigh Ashford, Some Like It Hot, Leopoldstadt, and more.

Moana star Auli'i Cravalho has announced she won't reprise her role in the upcoming live-action Disney adaptation.

Previews begin May 13 at the Marquis Theatre ahead of a June 22 opening night. 

The reveal will take place April 25 at NYPL for the Performing Arts. 

The Funny Girl star originated the role of Little Girl in the original production in 1998. 

The Gatsby Mansion at the Park Central Hotel New York will become a roaring '20s venue later this spring.

More than 100 young NYC public school theatre artists will make their Broadway debuts later this month.

Sandy Rustin’s play, directed by Jason Alexander, begins previews July 7 at the Hayes Theater

The star is making her Broadway debut in the Disney musical, currently playing at the New Amsterdam Theatre. 

Cecily Strong, Keegan-Michael Key, Ariana DeBose, Dove Cameron, Jane Krakowski, and more are back.

Illinois, inspired by Stevens’ 2005 album, will premiere at The Fisher Center at Bard this summer.

The star has been in the Wicked family for over 13 years, having been a standby and tour lead for Elphaba in the past. 

Plus, Ben Platt and Noah Galvin’s Theater Camp gets a release date. 

The Broadway hopeful is playing himself in the hilarious new comedy about a man tricked into jury duty—but everyone else is an actor. 

The evening is a musical autopsy of the past half-year, presented through the lens of Spotify Wrapped playlists.

Previews for the LCT production will begin June 23 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre.

The movie studio take over the property from its current owners, who have tried to sell it for years. 

There’s a new sadist in town, giving dentistry a bad name at the Westside Theatre.