Key art for Red Bull Theater's God's Spies at 59E59 Theaters, showing Shakespeare against a splash of black ink
Off-Broadway News

59E59 Theaters sets its winter 2027 season, from Shakespeare in quarantine to Virginia Woolf

59E59 Theaters has filled out its winter 2027 calendar, and the new titles lean hard on the solo form: a Frank Lloyd Wright murder retold by the wife who vanished, Virginia Woolf speaking in her own sentences, and a…

Susannah Flood as A in Pre-Existing Condition at the Greenwich House Theater. Photo by Austin Ruffer
Off-Broadway News

Susannah Flood takes over as A in Pre-Existing Condition, with first photos

Susannah Flood has taken over as A in Pre-Existing Condition at the Greenwich House Theater, and the first photos of her in Marin Ireland’s play show her alongside Greg Keller, Dael Orlandersmith and Susannah Perkins.

Broadway News

Betty McGuire, original-cast player in Plain and Fancy and Oh, Captain!, dies at 100

Betty McGuire, who was in the original Broadway companies of Plain and Fancy, Happy Hunting and Oh, Captain! in the 1950s before a long career on screen, died on October 8, 2026. She was 100.

Key art for Little Brother by Eoin McAndrew, the opening reading of Irish Repertory Theatre's New Works Fall Festival 2026. Courtesy of Irish Repertory Theatre
Off-Broadway News

Irish Rep sets five new works for its fall festival, November 2–23

Irish Repertory Theatre has named the five pieces in its New Works Fall Festival, November 2–23: plays by Eoin McAndrew, Karis Kelly, Hannah Khalil and the team of Iseult Golden and David Horan, and a solo show from…

Artwork for six of the shows at Spark Musical Theatre Festival NYC: Long Ago Song, Queen of Clubs, Standing Above Pajaro, CLICKBAIT!, Mysterious Rays and The Great Mortality. Courtesy of Emerging Artists Theatre
Off-Off-Broadway News

Spark Musical Theatre Festival NYC launches with 26 new musicals at The 28th Street Theatre

Musicals are getting a festival of their own at The 28th Street Theatre. Emerging Artists Theatre's first Spark Musical Theatre Festival NYC runs November 2–22, with 26 new musicals over three weeks.

Collin Matthew Flanagan as Tommy Walker in the North American tour of The Who’s Tommy. Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade
Touring & Regional

First look at The Who’s Tommy on tour as the North American company reaches Tucson

Tucson is the second stop for the North American tour of The Who’s Tommy, which plays Centennial Hall from Tuesday, October 20, to Sunday, October 25, and the first production photos from the road put Collin Matthew…

Upcoming and New Shows

Rosie O'Donnell and Kristin Chenoweth lead a reading of The Pyramid, a Dance Moms musical parody

Rosie O'Donnell and Kristin Chenoweth led an industry reading of The Pyramid: An Unauthorized "Dance Moms" Musical in New York on Monday, October 19. O'Donnell read Abby Lee Miller. Chenoweth read Cathy Nesbitt-Stein.

Key art for Rent, the 30th Anniversary Concert
Broadway News

Neil Patrick Harris, Rachel Zegler and Taye Diggs join Rent’s 30th-anniversary concert

Neil Patrick Harris, Rachel Zegler, Taye Diggs and Norbert Leo Butz are among 45 performers added to Rent, the 30th Anniversary Concert since its first cast list, the one-night Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit…

Here There Are Blueberries key art for the Broadway production at the Barrymore Theatre
Broadway News

Here There Are Blueberries puts 5,500 $10 student tickets on sale at the Barrymore

Students can buy tickets to Here There Are Blueberries on Broadway for $10 each from today. An initial allotment of 5,500 subsidized seats is on sale only at the Barrymore Theatre box office, and a further 2,000 New…