Young actors living best lives on Broadway tour for first time in ‘Water for Elephants’

Oregon ArtsWatch: To be a young 20-something actor and traveling and working on your first Broadway tour is quite an exciting time, said lead actor Zachary Keller of Water for Elephants.

Review Roundup: BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Launches North American Tour

BroadwayWorld: It’s been years since legendary singer Omara Portuondo last entered a recording studio. Once known as the “Queen of Feeling,” her voice was celebrated throughout Cuba – until she vanished from the spotlight. But when an ambitious young record producer brings her a rare opportunity, the elusive diva must finally reckon with her past.

Review Roundup: DEATH BECOMES HER Launches North American Tour

BroadwayWorld: Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies… until Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé away. As Helen plots revenge and Madeline clings to her rapidly fading star, their world is suddenly turned upside down by Viola Van Horn, a mysterious woman with a secret that’s to die for.

Interview: Josh Tower of BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB National Tour

BroadwayWorld: From September 22nd-27th, the national tour of Buena Vista Social Club will be gracing the stage of the Durham Performing Arts Center. I recently got to speak with Josh Tower, who's one of the understudies in the show. He has previously been seen on Broadway and on tour in RAGTIME, THE LION KING, MOTOWN THE MUSICAL, SCHOOL OF ROCK, and HAMILTON. Yet before all of that, he went to graduate school at the University of North Carolina.

Review Roundup: DIRTY DANCING Launches North American Tour

BroadwayWorld: The North American Tour of Dirty Dancing: The Musical is now underway! The tour launched at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, MN and will continue across North America, making stops in cities including Detroit, Boston, Toronto, and Washington, DC.

Q&A: Rebecca Gerhard And The Doja Cat Ma Vie Tour

Live Design Online: Freelance video engineer, operator, and lighting technician Rebecca Gerhard was instrumental in bringing Doja Cat’s Ma Vie world tour visuals to life on stage. Traveling to 30 shows across five continents, Rebecca did everything from physically building the tour infrastructure on a Disguise system for visual consistency, through to using a Sockpuppet workflow to busk the whole operation live, night after night.

Plot Luck: Jamie Davis Lights Michael Bublé's Summer Tour

Live Design Online: Michael Bublé's 2026 summer tour featured major outdoor festival and arena concerts across the UK, Ireland - including Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire – and international venues like VidantaWorld in Mexico.

HAIRSPRAY Tour Sues Production Group After Broken Sprinkler Causes Damage

www.broadwayworld.com: The touring production of the musical Hairspray is suing production group ASM Global after a broken sprinkler caused property damage backstage during the show's run in Denver, The Denver Post reports. The damage allegedly cost the production nearly $150,000 and caused cancellations and loss of income.

Bad Bunny Tour shines with Claypaky Ultimo Sharpys

LightSoundJournal.com: International superstar Bad Bunny is using 286 Claypaky Ultimo Sharpy fixtures on his “Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour,” which continues this year after hugely successful runs in Latin America, Europe and other destinations around the world. Inner Circle Distribution (ICD) is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky lighting fixtures in North America.

Review Roundup: BEETELJUICE New North American Tour

www.broadwayworld.com: Performances are underway for the new North American Tour of Beetlejuice. The tour played its first public performance on February 13 in Fresno, CA at the Saroyan Theatre and officially launched at the Safe Credit Union Preforming Arts Center in Sacramento, CA on February 17 before haunting 50+ cities across North America.

TSL strengthens concert touring team with industry experts

TPi: TSL has reinforced its concert touring and festival team with a series of senior industry appointments, bringing decades of touring and festival experience into the business and expanding its capability to deliver lighting and rigging services at the highest level.

Inside Ed Sheeran’s World Tour with CAST’s WYSIWYG

LightSoundJournal.com: Lights Control Rigging (LCR) is one of the UK’s most respected lighting rental companies, trusted by globally recognized artists and major event producers alike. Among its most ambitious projects is Ed Sheeran’s monumental world tour, a groundbreaking in-the-round production that redefines how audiences experience live performance.

‘An Unbelievable Mess’: Artists Are Stymied by Trump Travel Bans

The New York Times: The travel bans — along with escalating costs and delays in the always-fraught visa application process — represent a looming crisis for the American performing arts sector, as many overseas musicians, theater companies and others face new and seemingly insurmountable obstacles to travel. Some, assessing the risks, are electing to avoid coming here altogether, according to talent agents and the American promoters and producers who are now contemplating holes in their calendars.

The Smith Center's 2026-27 Broadway Series brings fresh Tony winners to Vegas

Las Vegas Weekly: The Smith Center for the Performing Arts’ 2026-27 Broadway Las Vegas Series has everything. It has elves. It has robots. It has musicians performing in Spanish; we know you love those. All it doesn't have is Mary Todd Lincoln—although, remarkably, she’s available as an add-on.

Cohesion ecosystem supports Halsey's For My Last Trick Tour

TPi: Halsey’s 2025 summer tour For My Last Trick, in support of her acclaimed fifth album The Great Impersonator, was a show to remember, combining Broadway-style theatrics, automated prop sets, a giant LED wall, a pyro package and more beneath an Art Deco-inspired false proscenium. This dramatic and cinematic amphitheater tour, her highest-selling one to date, was supported by Cohesion on each of its thirty coast-to-coast stops.

Brian May Reveals Reason the Band Won’t Tour in the U.S.

www.thedailybeast.com: “America is a dangerous place at the moment, so you have to take that into account,” he said. “It’s very sad because I feel like Queen grew up in America, and we love it, but it’s not what it was. Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment.”

‘Broadway Hit “Oh, Mary!’ Sets 2026 U.S. National Tour

TicketNews: Cole Escola’s Broadway comedy “Oh, Mary!” is preparing to take its irreverent portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln beyond New York, with a national tour scheduled to begin in fall 2026. The touring production will launch in Hartford, Connecticut, with its first performances set for The Bushnell, before traveling to cities such as Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.

Still ‘popular’: ‘Wicked’ soars again in its return to Pittsburgh

The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle: After more than two decades on stage, “Wicked” remains, in Glinda’s words, undeniably “popular.” And it’s easy to see why. With an inventive story, resonant themes and an iconic score, the show continues to strike all the right notes.

VeteranCast Member and Uniontown Native Justin Wirick Brings Experience and Gratitude to 'Wicked'

onstagepittsburgh.com: Flying into the Benedum Center for the first time since 2018, the mega-musical Wicked is prepared to ‘defy gravity’ from January 14th to February 15th. But before Glinda drops the “a” in her name, I had the pleasure of speaking with ensemble member Justin Wirick. Born in Uniontown, PA, Justin is celebrating his 16th year with the touring company of Wicked. Having performed in over 4,500 shows since joining the cast in 2010, Wirick is looking forward to returning to his hometown for the next month.

Zama Magudulela Will Join THE LION KING Tour as Rafiki

www.broadwayworld.com: The North American tour of Disney’s The Lion King will welcome Zama Magudulela as Rafiki. Magudulela will begin performances on Tuesday, January 13 in Sacramento at the Safe Credit Union Performing Arts Center, where the award-winning musical begins a three-week return engagement on Wednesday, January 7 and plays through Sunday, January 25, 2026.