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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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

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. 

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.

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.