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    <title>Nathan Lane Wants Jack Black In a PRODUCERS Revival</title>
    <description><![CDATA[On Gold Derby&rsquo;s Awards Magnet podcast, Nathan Lane mused over the possibility of a revivial for The Producers and he has one man in mind to take on Max Bialystock who would make it worthwhile - Jack Black.

&ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t have to, he&rsquo;s starring in several franchises. He doesn&rsquo;t need to do any shows a week. But you know, for a lark&hellip;if you asked him really nice, maybe. To be honest with you, he&rsquo;s the only guy I could think of that I would go, &lsquo;Oh, that&rsquo;s a reason to do it, to bring it back.&rsquo; To get to see Jack play that part&mdash;he has that same kind of Zero Mostel madness.&rdquo; stated Lane.

&ldquo;When I see him hosting SNL, he&rsquo;s the most adorable, brilliantly funny guy. He&rsquo;s a wonderful...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 12:51:54 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: Watch &apos;Now, Forever&apos; from THE LOST BOYS</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Check out new video from the show as LJ Benet &amp; Maria Wirries perform &quot;Now, Forever.&quot;

Perfect weather. Beautiful beaches. And a charming boardwalk&hellip;as long as you ignore all the &ldquo;Missing&rdquo; posters. When Lucy and her two teenage sons move to town in desperate need of a fresh start, they soon uncover the darker side of this sunny coastal community. While Lucy tries to piece her family&rsquo;s life back together, Michael keeps pulling away in search of belonging. As he finds connection with a local rock band and its charismatic leader, his younger brother Sam comes face-to-face with a startling reality: When night falls, Michael&rsquo;s new friends are even more dangerous than they first appeared.

Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Arden, the new musical...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 09:59:52 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Matthew Broderick, Katie Couric and More Join CELEBRITY AUTOPBIOGRAPHY On Broadway</title>
    <description><![CDATA[New stars have joined the lineup for the Broadway premiere of CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, the Drama Desk Award-winning comedy created by Eugene Pack.

Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick will join the opening night cast on Monday, May 18. Newly announced performers joining the rotating cast include Katie Couric, Anthony Anderson, Jason Alexander, Tiler Peck, and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer.

Previews for CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY begin Saturday, May 16, 2026 at the Shubert Theatre, ahead of an official opening night on May 18. The limited Broadway engagement is scheduled to run through August 16, 2026.

The production features a rotating lineup of performers from television, film, theater, sports, and politics reading excerpts from celebrity memoirs live onstage. In addition to solo readings, the show incorporates ensemble &ldquo;mash-ups&rdquo;...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:01:28 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: Christiani Pitts Is Ready to Carry A Tony Award Across New York</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Christiani Pitts is having a star-turn this season carrying a show (and a cake) eight times a week at the Longacre Theatre. She stars opposite fellow 2026 Tony nominee Sam Tutty as &#39;Robin&#39;. 

&quot;We do bring a lot of joy. And I think one thing as well that I appreciate it, we don&#39;t really market [this musical] as more than a rom-com,&quot; she explained. &quot;You got to kind of come see what else is happening. But I appreciate there&#39;s a lot of vulnerability happening on that stage, eight shows a week. And people are feeling seen. And people are feeling like it&#39;s OK for them to not be OK. And that is, I think, what I&#39;m most proud of.&quot;

Watch in this...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 15:00:20 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: Danny Burstein Is Breaking Records and Back at the Tony Awards</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, Broadway living legend Danny Burstein took his final bow in Marjorie Prime. His performance in that play would catapult him into Tony Awards history, as the most-nominated male actor ever, with nine nominations to his name. 

&quot;I just love doing the work,&quot; he told BroadwayWorld. &quot;That&#39;s really why I&#39;m here, ultimately, that I don&#39;t take myself or all of it too seriously. I just love to do the work. I love going to the theater every night and high-fiving the doorman and hanging out with the stagehands. That&#39;s normal to me.&quot;

Watch in this video as Danny chats more about why he has the best job in the world, how a person comes upon nine Tony nominations, and so much more. Plus, check out...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 15:00:20 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: Hannah Cruz Turned 23 Minutes Into a Tony Nomination</title>
    <description><![CDATA[There are no small parts... and Hannah Cruz knows all about it. She appears in her second Broadway show this season, playing &#39;Svetlana&#39; in the first-ever revival of Chess&ndash; a role that doesn&#39;t arrive on the Imperial Theatre stage until Act 2.

&quot;You know, this part is in Act 2, it&#39;s 23 minutes on stage... so I didn&#39;t expect anything! But what I do take very seriously always, maybe too seriously, is the work and putting in as much as I can into the time that I got on stage because it&#39;s my favorite time in my life is when I&#39;m on stage. And so to be recognized for that is like beyond my wildest dreams,  truly.&quot;

Watch in this video as Hannah chats more about why...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:30:20 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Winners Announced for the 2026 Roger Rees Awards</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Earlier tonight, talented students from across New York City gathered at Symphony Space for the Roger Rees Awards, hosted by Andrew Keenan-Bolger. The winners of Outstanding Performance in a Musical were Jacob Solomon and Emerson Hunt. Hunt also won the fifth season of BroadwayWorld&#39;s Next on Stage in 2025.

Other finalists included: Gloria Manning (Emerging Artist winner), William Herbert (Emerging Artist winner), Leonidas Tirella, Molly Lyons, Maxwell Vegliando, Tosia Sliwski, Donovan Russell, Tatianna Krummenacker, Jack Chambers, and Lily Giese.

This year&rsquo;s nominees represented 104 high schools located across 13 counties throughout the Greater New York area including the Bronx, Dutchess, Kings (Brooklyn), Nassau, New York (Manhattan), Orange, Putnam, Queens, Rockland, Suffolk, Ulster and Westchester.

Judges included Disney Theatricals Kiara Brown-Clark, New York City Center VP and...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 21:01:27 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: Michael Arden Took Big Chances on THE LOST BOYS... And They Paid Off</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Just last week, following his double 2026 Tony nominations, Michael Arden sat down with BroadwayWorld&#39;s Richard Ridge to discuss bringing The Lost Boys to the stage- a production that blends horror, heart, humor, and high-flying spectacle.

How did the project come to him? Arden admitted that he had actually never seen the original film when he first got the call from producers. &ldquo;I thought there was a real opportunity to do something really fun,&rdquo; Arden explained. &ldquo;The tone of it was so interesting that it was like horror... but there&#39;s a love story, but there&#39;s a family story, but there&#39;s Goonies-like adventure. You could really pack a lot into this! And that vampires are young and sexy. It just seemed like, well this, if we...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:01:10 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Photos: Olivia Rodrigo Visits HADESTOWN on Broadway</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Grammy Award winner Olivia Rodrigo visited Hadestown, currently in its 7th year on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre. See photos here!


The current principal cast features Joshua Colley as &#39;Orpheus&#39;; Jordan Tyson as &lsquo;Eurydice&#39;; television and film star Gary Dourdan as &#39;Hades&#39;; Tony and Grammy Award winner J. Harrison Ghee as &lsquo;Hermes&#39;; and Grammy Award winner Gaby Moreno as &lsquo;Persephone.&#39;

Following two intertwining love stories &mdash; that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone &mdash; Hadestown invites audiences on a journey to the underworld and back. 

Photo credit: Andy Henderson


Olivia Rodrigo visits Hadestown on Broadway


Olivia Rodrigo visits Hadestown on Broadway

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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 14:42:17 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Whitney White Replaces Liesl Tommy as IMITATION OF LIFE Director; Production Dates Pushed Back</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The new musical Imitation of Life has revealed new production dates and a new creative team member for its world premiere engagement at The Griffin Theater at The Shed, in a co-production with National Black Theatre.

Featuring a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, music and lyrics by Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award winner John Legend, and directed by Two-Time Tony Award nominee Whitney White, Imitation of Life will now begin performances on Saturday, November 21, 2026 in an extended for two weeks strictly limited 6-week engagement through Sunday, January 3, 2027.

National Black Theatre, John Legend and Mike Jackson of Get Lifted Film Co., Liesl Tommy and Jennifer Mudge of Crocodile Eyes, <a...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 13:59:41 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>70th Annual Drama Desk Awards Winners - The Full List</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The best of the New York City theatre community is at Town Hall tonight for the 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards, the theater award honoring excellence across all of New York City&rsquo;s theatrical landscape. Hosted by Titan&iacute;que&#39;s Marla Mindelle, the ceremony marks the Awards&#39; first return to the historic venue since the 2020 Broadway shutdown.

The 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards is conceived as a tribute to the artists, institutions, and communities that have defined seventy years of New York theater &mdash; from the Off-Off-Broadway movement to the great Broadway houses, from the city&#39;s longest-running musicals to its boldest new work. Over seven decades, the Drama Desks have honored excellence across every tier of the New York stage.

The Drama Desk Nominating Committee considered shows...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 09:00:20 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Irene Sankoff and David Hein&apos;s VIENNA Presented as Industry Workshop</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Goodspeed Musicals presented Vienna, by Irene Sankoff and David Hein (the creators of Come From Away), as an industry presentation on May 15, 2026 at Pearl Studios.

The cast included Jeff Kready as Dan, Megan McGinnis as Rachel, Brendan Looney as Aiden, Michelle Veintimilla as Viktorine/Vee, Zachary Prince as Hans Asperger, Jim Walton as Franz/Donald, Abigail Esfira Campbell as Mary, James Moye as Beaman/Georg, Lawrence E. Street as Barker/Ensemble, Happy McPartlin as Deborah/Ensemble, Claire Saunders as Ellie/Ensemble, and Hunter Hoffman as Drew. Members of the cast also appeared as various clinicians, community members, and key employees of The Home Depot.

The creative team included director David Ivers, music director Matt Hinkley, stage manager...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 13:46:37 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: Kara Young and Mallori Johnson Bonded While Playing Twins in IS GOD IS</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Kara Young is making the jump from Broadway to the big screen. Alongside Mallori Johnson, the two-time Tony winner is starring in Is God Is, the film adaptation of Alesha Harris&rsquo;s award-winning play, now in theaters.

In Is God Is, the duo plays a pair of inseparable twin sisters. Young is Racine, whose hard exterior has dubbed her &ldquo;the Rough One.&quot; Johnson stars as Anaia &quot;the Quiet One,&quot; who demonstrates a quiet gentility that, to her sister, is sometimes seen as an inadequate, passive approach to the requirements of an unjust world.

Despite their differences, the bond they hold is unwavering. They are on the same wavelength, possessing a shared language that is often expressed through onscreen text, brilliantly executed...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 14:06:22 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Isa Briones, Christopher Abbott, Hank Azaria and More to Join BROADWAY BETS</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Theater industry&rsquo;s game night, Broadway Bets, will return this Monday, May 18, 2026. Special guests include 2026 Tony Award nominee Christopher Abbott (Death of a Salesman); Ben Ahlers (Death of a Salesman); Emmy Award winner Hank Azaria (The Simpsons); Patrick Ball (Becky Shaw, HBO&rsquo;s The Pitt); Isa Briones (Just in Time, HBO&rsquo;s The Pitt); Grammy, Tony and Golden Globe Award winner Don Cheadle (Proof); Robert Creighton (Frozen); 2026 Tony nominee Nicholas Christopher (Chess); 2026 Tony nominee Hannah Cruz (Chess); ; poker pro Andy Frankenberger; Christopher Innvar (Fallen Angels); 2026 Tony nominee Christiani Pitts (Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)); poker pro Erik Seidel; 2026 Tony nominee Mark Strong (Oedipus); 2026...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 13:09:26 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Photos: Behind the Scenes with the 2026 Tony Award Nominees for Plays</title>
    <description><![CDATA[  Tonys season is here at last! Did you know that 21 plays opened on Broadway in the 2025/26 season? 18 of them have a big reason to celebrate this month because they all earned nominations for Tony Awards!

Earlier this week, the nominees gathered at the Sofitel New York to meet the press for the first time and BroadwayWorld was there to speak with all of them! Check out photos from behind the scenes with the nominees as they chatted with Richard Ridge and passed on our very own Tiny Tony.

P!nk will host The 79th Annual Tony Awards for the first time, from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7 on CBS.

See the full list of nominees here!

Photo Credit: Jennifer...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 12:00:20 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: JOE TURNER&apos;S COME AND GONE Cast Reflects on August Wilson</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The New York Public Library presented a discussion, hosted by Richard Ridge, featuring the cast members of August Wilson&#39;s Joe Turner&#39;s Come and Gone on Broadway.

Taraji P. Henson, Cedric the Entertainer, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Joshua Boone, and Abigail Onwunali discuss how they were first introduced to the work of August Wilson, what it&#39;s like performing August Wilson&#39;s work on stage, and more. You can watch the full discussion here!

Cedric the Entertainer shared how he first was introduced to August Wilson&#39;s work, stating, &quot;Mine was later in life, the play Fences was one that came into my life at a later time, and then The Piano Lesson. I actually didn&#39;t know much about this play at all, so...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 12:42:48 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Photos: Behind the Scenes with the 2026 Tony Award Nominees for Musicals</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Tonys season is here at last! Did you know that twelve musicals opened on Broadway in the 2025/26 season? Nine of them have a big reason to celebrate this month because they all earned nominations for Tony Awards!

Earlier this week, the nominees gathered at the Sofitel New York to meet the press for the first time and BroadwayWorld was there to speak with all of them! Check out photos from behind the scenes with the nominees as they chatted with Richard Ridge and passed on our very own Tiny Tony.

P!nk will host The 79th Annual Tony Awards for the first time, from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7 on CBS.

See the full list of nominees here!

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    <description><![CDATA[The best of Broadway and off-Broadway are on hand today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom to celebrate 92nd Annual Drama League Awards, hosted by Emmy Award winner Frank DiLella. 

Awards will go out for Outstanding Production of a Play, Outstanding Revival of a Play, Outstanding Production of a Musical, Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Direction of a Play, Outstanding Direction of a Musical, and the Distinguished Performance Award.

Tune in for live updates from inside the ceremony. Winners will be marked: **WINNER**


2026 DRAMA LEAGUE AWARDS 

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY

THE BALUSTERS
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Written by David Lindsay-Abaire; Directed by Kenny Leon; Associate Director: Ioana Alfonso

CAROLINE
MCC Theater
Written by Preston Max Allen; Directed by David Cromer; Associate Director:...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 12:15:04 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Photos: Hanging with the 2026 Tony Award Nominees</title>
    <description><![CDATA[It&#39;s Tonys season! A total of 129 Tony Award nominations went out in 26 categories for the spectacular work of Broadway artists this season. All of the nominees were celebrated yesterday as they met the press for the first time. Check out a full breakdown of this year&#39;s noms.

The nominees gathered at the Sofitel New York and BroadwayWorld was there for the special day. Check out photos from inside the event below and more from their arr

P!nk will host The 79th Annual Tony Awards for the first time, from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7 on CBS.




Photo Credit: Bruce Glikas


Alden Ehrenreich and Marla Mindelle
 

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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:00:20 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: For Aleshea Harris, Directing IS GOD IS Was &apos;a Baptism by Fire&apos;</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Aleshea Harris is making her feature directorial debut with Is God Is, her new film adaptation of her award-winning play. With a background in theater work, this project marked a new experience for the playwright, who brought the rich world of her play to the big screen.

Is God Is follows a pair of twin sisters, played by two-time Tony-winner Kara Young and Mallori Johnson. It is a revenge story, taking the inseparable duo on the road where they attempt to find their father and make him pay for sins he committed against his family. The result is a winding journey for the eyes and ears, with one twist after another. Adapting the story as a film allowed Harris to utilize cinematic devices that weren&#39;t always possible...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 12:10:39 EST</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Titan&iacute;que&#39;s Background Vocalists are taking over our Instagram today! Tune in to our Story to go backstage at the Tony-nominated musical with Sara Gallo, Polanco Jones, and Kristina Leopold. See what goes on during a two-show-day at the St. James Theatre today, Saturday, May 16.

About the Background Vocalists

Sara Gallo (Background Vocalist) Broadway/Tour: 1776. Regional: MUNY, Ogunquit, Tuacahn, Fulton, Walnut Street Theatre, North Shore, TUTS, &amp; more. TV: A Holiday Spectacular (Hallmark). Boston Conservatory Alum. BLOC Talent. For Joe, Georgia, &amp; their village. @sarajgallo

Polanco Jones (Background Vocalist) An eclectic artist and theatrical inclusion for museum innovation specialist at the New Orleans Jazz Museum Is back on Broadway! Broadway: The Wiz Revival.  Off-Broadway: Black No More....]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 07:00:20 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>THE GREAT GATSBY&apos;s Damani Van Rensalier Takes Over Our Instagram Today</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Great Gatsby&#39;s Damani Van Rensalier is taking over our Instagram today! Follow along here as Van Rensalier takes our Instagram followers behind-the-scenes of the hit Broadway musical. Go backstage at the hit musical today, May 17!

About Damani Van Rensalier

Damani is a proud Paterson native grateful to be joining the Gatsby family! Broadway credits include: Hadestown, Hamilton, Boop!. Other credits: The Preacher&rsquo;s Wife, Saturday Church.

About The Great Gatsby

The new musical features music and lyrics by Tony Award nominees Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen. The Broadway musical features a book by Jonathan Larson Grant winner Kait Kerrigan (The Mad Ones) and is staged by award-winning director Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) and choreographer Dominique...]]></description>

    
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    <description><![CDATA[Dad Don&#39;t Read This, a new play by Eliya Smith is now playing Off-Broadway at St. Luke&#39;s Theatre through May 29. Directed by Chloe Claudel, the show features performances by Drama Desk winner Amalia Yoo, Ren&eacute;e-Nicole Powell, Sophie Rossman, and Kayta Thomas. 

In suburban Central Ohio, four girls meet weekly for a sleepover. They talk and sleep and play The Sims, a computer game that simulates real life, on a laptop. They gossip, snack, and attempt to get drunk. They strive to fulfill their needs, struggle to understand the relationship between doing and being seen, and begin to suspect they don&#39;t have a whole lot of agency. Wait, nevermind; that&#39;s The Sims. Dad Don&#39;t Read This is...]]></description>

    
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    <description><![CDATA[Isa Briones is once again treading the boards on the Great White Way. Currently appearing as Connie Francis in Just in Time, The Pitt star has returned to her theater roots for the project, though she admits her experience has changed since the last time she was onstage.

&quot;I&#39;m so happy to be back... but it&#39;s definitely a little different now. People kind of know who I am now,&quot; shared the performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers, adding that &quot;people are coming to see me.&quot;

Briones made her Broadway debut in Hadestown in 2024. Since that time, she began playing Dr. Trinity Santos in The Pitt, a breakout role that has resulted in increased media visibility for the actress. This has led to some Just in Time...]]></description>

    
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    <description><![CDATA[The world premiere of &ldquo;The People Versus Lenny Bruce&rdquo; a play by Susan Charlotte, based on the legal case of legendary lawyer Martin Garbus, is now being presented Off-Broadway at Theatre Row - Theatre Four through Sunday, June 28, 2026.

This theatrical adaptation is the story of comic Lenny Bruce and his lawyer Martin Garbus who tried to save his client from the system &ndash; and from himself.

The cast for The People Versus Lenny Bruce includes Johnny Anthony as Lenny Bruce, Timothy Doyle as Jules Feiffer, Dan Grimaldi as Herbert Ruhe, Ian Lithgow as Richard H. Kuh, Jonathan Spivey as Forrest Johnson, Stephen Schnetzer as Martin Garbus/Narrator, and Roberta Wallach as Dorothy...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:59:48 EST</pubDate>
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