Madame Giry (right) with the company of the North American tour of The Phantom of the Opera. Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
Touring & Regional

Rema Webb joins The Phantom of the Opera tour as Madame Giry from November 10

Rema Webb takes over as Madame Giry in the North American tour of The Phantom of the Opera on November 10, joining the company at the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City as the tour heads into its second year.

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Touring & Regional

The Baby-sitters Club musical sets its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, with Natalie Portman among its producers

The Baby-sitters Club: A New Musical will have its world premiere at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, with previews from May 6, 2027, an opening night on May 16 and performances scheduled…

Daniel Emond, writer of Dream: A Freudian Musical. Photo by Sadie Veach
Off-Broadway News

Samantha Pauly Joins Dream: A Freudian Musical for Two Concerts at Joe’s Pub

Samantha Pauly is the special guest for Dream: A Freudian Musical, a new show by Daniel Emond that gets two concert performances at Joe’s Pub, on Sundays, November 15 and 22, at 6 p.m.

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Upcoming and New Shows

Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal’s The Grand Delusion leads BAM’s Winter/Spring 2027 season

The Grand Delusion, a new musical by Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal, runs at BAM’s Harvey Theater from May 11 to June 6, 2027.

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Off-Broadway News

Red Bull Theater Returns to Shelley’s The Cenci for a One-Night Revelation Reading

Eighteen years after it first staged the play, Red Bull Theater is going back to The Cenci, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s verse tragedy, for a single Revelation Reading on Thursday, November 5, at 7 p.m.

The company of Waiting for Lefty at Classic Stage Company. Photo by Marc J. Franklin
Off-Broadway News

First look: Steven Pasquale’s Waiting for Lefty in previews at Classic Stage Company

A line of cabdrivers under one hard pool of light, arms flung out toward the house. The first production photos from Classic Stage Company’s Waiting for Lefty are out, two weeks before Steven Pasquale’s staging of the…

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Off-Broadway News

Donna Vivino Will Play Dorothy Kilgallen in the World Premiere of Kilgallen Off-Broadway

Donna Vivino will play the columnist Dorothy Kilgallen in Kilgallen, a new musical getting its world premiere from the York Theatre Company at the Theatre at Saint Jean’s, November 28 to December 27, 2026.

Sophia Anne Caruso as Colette in Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen. Photo by Andy Henderson
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: MEMOIRS OF AMOROUS GENTLEMEN at The Night Egg at the Culture Club

The reviews are in for Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, the last musical Duncan Sheik completed. He died in September at 56, a week before previews began, and nearly every critic writes with that loss, and with Spring…

The company of Midnight at the Daryl Roth Theatre. Photo by Valerie Terranova
Reviews & Roundups

Review Roundup: MIDNIGHT at the Daryl Roth Theatre

The reviews are in for Midnight, the sung-through musical that opened at the Daryl Roth Theatre on Thursday, October 15, and few new shows have carried one name on so many lines of the credits.