We talk a lot about wanting younger audiences in our theatres. NYC’s new program offering more than 2,000 free tickets to high school students is a pretty good way to start.

Trainspotting: The Musical has canceled its planned UK tour after poor ticket sales, including a reported 19% sales capacity for its opening Edinburgh engagement.

Police say the music director of a community theatre production of The Rocky Horror Show admitted to faking threatening messages to himself in an effort to leave the show. The fabricated threats led the theatre to cancel the production.

Theater at Monmouth canceled its entire summer season and promised refunds. Nearly two months later, some patrons say they’re still waiting for their money and clear answers from the theatre.

Boy George has withdrawn from Jesus Christ Superstar days after releasing a controversial AI-assisted pro-Israel song.

South Carolina actor and theatre teacher Jonathan Andrew Monk has been indicted on federal child-exploitation charges.

A New Albany theater teacher resigned in May. Now parents, students, alumni, and an attorney are asking whether complaints from a City Council member influenced the decision.

Tom Stoppard’s name belongs in the West End. Now it will be there permanently, as the Duke of York’s Theatre is set to be renamed in his honor.

Broadway cleaners have voted to authorize a strike amid ongoing contract negotiations with the Broadway League. No strike date has been announced, but the vote marks a major escalation as workers push for a new agreement.

A major leadership shakeup at Arena Stage is raising questions about the future of one of the country’s most important regional theatres.

A play about migration and asylum was scheduled for a municipal theatre in France. Then a far-right mayor took office, and the show was pulled.

A former theatre instructor in Oklahoma has been sentenced to eight life terms after being convicted on all eight counts of child sexual abuse involving a former student.

The WNO-Kennedy Center split just got a lot messier. Washington National Opera is now suing over more than $17 million in disputed funds, including money it says was meant for the opera company.

The UK tour of Mean Girls canceled its Belfast run amid racist unrest in Northern Ireland. Vivian Panka, the first Black actress to play Regina George in the tour, says she has been afraid to leave her house.

Two former theatre educators connected to youth and school theatre programs have now been sentenced in separate child abuse and exploitation cases. One was sentenced to federal prison. Another was sentenced to probation and lifetime sex offender registration.

The Lyric Baltimore’s Board of Trustees has hired a law firm to investigate allegations of discriminatory treatment involving a Black patron and her son during a performance of West Side Story.

Several Pittsburgh Public Theater staff members were reportedly laid off the same day they returned from furlough — after already taking a pay cut and enduring weeks of uncertainty.

A scary backstage moment at Broadway’s Beaches has raised serious questions about security at the Majestic Theatre after a fan reportedly entered Jessica Vosk’s dressing room without permission.

A U.K. theatre group’s Dreamgirls has been canceled after the rights were pulled following backlash over its practically all-white principal cast.

A student matinee at a Canadian theatre has sparked public responses from both the theatre and the school after teachers removed students from a performance of Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer. The controversy has raised questions about content warnings and how theatres and schools communicate before students enter the audience.