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The New Vic announced its 2025 Spring Season, featuring a new stage adaptation of the classic British film A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, promising a fresh theatrical experience for audiences.

New Village Arts has announced its 2024 holiday musical MIRACLE ON 34th STREET: A LIVE MUSICAL RADIO PLAY to be performed on the Ray Charles Stage in the Conrad Prebys Theatre at the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center.

The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival revealed its 2025 season, featuring nine productions under the theme 'Undiscovered Countries,' including and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR and more. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Tiny Scripted has acquired Taylor A. Blackman's play IT'S KAREN, B****! for its On Stage licensing catalog. The play will be featured in the 2024 anthology WE/US and on PBS's All Arts in 2025.

Admittedly, I have a soft spot for stories about the Asian-American experience. Korea, in particular, has always fascinated me. When I was growing up, I heard my mother’s stories about her life in Korea and the challenges she encountered as an immigrant to the United States. My grandmother’s hardships were worse. Entering the United States as an adult was a culture shock. A new language, different customs, and a life that was completely unrecognizable from the one she had known for thirty years took a toll. I wish I had listened more and asked more questions. She was lonely and yearned for companionship with someone who understood her unique position, much like the two characters in Lloyd Suh’s poignant take on friendship, The Heart Sellers. Its Northern California premiere is happening now at Capital Stage, after which it will then go on to two other Bay Area theatres in a triple co-production.

Samuel L. Jackson visited The Tonight Show on Monday, where he previewed Malcolm Washington's upcoming film adaptation of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Jackson also shared a short clip from the film, which can be seen as part of the interview. Watch it now!

Discover upcoming performances at the Spire Center in Plymouth, featuring Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light, guitarist Mike Dawes, and Krisanthi Pappas with love songs from Bacharach & The Beatles.

Lobby Theatre will present the L.A. premiere of Clare Barron's Pulitzer Prize finalist DANCE NATION, featuring Marin Hinkle and Justin Kirk. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Read the reviews for Autumn at Park Theatre. The production is adapted by Harry McDonald, and directed by Charlotte Vickers.

Disney Jr. Live On Tour: Let's Play comes to The Capitol Theatre on October 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM. Ages 1 year and up require ticket.

Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, October 21, 2024.

Broadwayworld had the opportunity to interview Jenny Lyn Bader about her career and the 'Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library' at 59E59 Theaters.

One man show Jeeves Takes Charge, by P.G. Wodehouse, is to play Theatre Royal Bath this Christmas. Adapted for the stage by Edward Duke and Hugh Wooldridge, directed by Hugh Wooldridge and starring Sam Harrison.

Ensemble Studio Theatre announced the new members of its Youngblood program, a collective of emerging playwrights under 30.

Bristol Old Vic has announced its Spring/Summer Season for 2025, including a flagship production directed by Nancy Medina. Learn more about the full season here!

Howard Community College has announced the third-annual Drag[on] Extravaganza, a celebratory and educational drag show, to be held on October 24, 2024, in HCC’s Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center.

After sixty years of touring and recording, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Tom Paxton will play one of his last shows at Club Passim. An internationally recognized and loved cultural figure with multiple Grammy nominations, Paxton's place in folk music is secured. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The full cast has been announced for RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA at Theatre Latte Da, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Based on the new book by Douglas Carter Beane, with the original book by Oscar Hammerstein II. 

The Spire Center for Performing Arts in Plymouth, Massachusetts announced four new shows. Massachusetts comedian Brian Glowacki will perform on January 10, tribute band to The Doors Crystal Ship will play on January 18, and the funk and soul instrumental band O'Neal Armstrong will perform on January 23. On January 25, Massachusetts rock band Vapors of Morphine will play.

Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, October 14, 2024.

Thanks to festivals and features in movies, bluegrass music is enjoying a rise in popularity that was originally eclipsed by the rise of rock music. The nostalgia for old-time America mixed with honest lyrics add to its appeal. Coming up on October 15, The Sofia is hosting Damn Tall Buildings. The group is comprised of only three members: Avery Ballotta, Max Capistran, and Sasha Dubyk. They’re a damn good bluegrass band, and BroadwayWorld spoke to violin player and vocalist Avery Ballotta about their tour, what bluegrass means to them, and how you'll have a damn great time at their show.

From San Diego to New York and Back again, an interview with Mylinda Hull from the Old Globe's “Agatha Christie’s Murder on The Orient Express” runs through October 20th.

Mountain Play Association has announced a hiatus this season, citing financial concerns.

Lýkos Ánthrōpos by Bob Bartlett will be staged at the Historic Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC on Thursdays through Sundays from October 31 - November 24, 2024.

Join standup comedian, voice artist and author Joey Camen for the world-premiere of his new seriocomic play, Laughing Through the Pain: My Journey from Detroit to Hollywood Standup Comedy and Beyond.