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As part of Playbill's Back to School week, take a look at our annual report on the colleges and universities with the most acting alums performing on Broadway in the 2023–24 Broadway season. Below you'll find this year's top 10 most represented schools on Broadway for actors. Take a look and see if your school—or a school you're considering attending—made the list!

Where Did the Actors of the 2023–24 Broadway Season Go to School?

Ogunquit, ME

Sha-la-la, stop right where you are, and check out highlights of Ogunquit Playhouse's Little Shop of Horrors, starring Broadway's Etai Benson and Talia Suskauer alongside RuPaul's Drag Race star Latrice Royale, above. Hunter Foster (who starred in the musical's 2003 Broadway bow) is directing the Howard Ashman-Alan Menken musical for...

Watch: See Highlights of Etai Benson, Talia Suskauer, Latrice Royale, More in

As many a theatre kid can attest, the high school stage is a popular place for Broadway dreams to begin. Playbill is currently celebrating Back to School season, so we've compiled a gallery of your favorite actors' photos from their teenage archives. Patti LuPone, Michael James Scott, Kara Lindsay, More...

Photos: See JJ Niemann, Patti LuPone, Ariana DeBose, More in Their High School Musicals

As part of Playbill's Back to School week, take a look at our annual report on the colleges and universities with the most creative alums performing on Broadway in the 2023–24 Broadway season. Below you'll find this year's top 10 most represented schools for Broadway creatives, plus some honorable mentions. Take a look and see if your school—or a school you're considering attending—made the list!

Where Did the Creatives of the 2023–24 Broadway Season Go to School?

Chicago, IL

Chicago's Sarah Siddons Society, which funds college scholarships for young theatre artists, will present its annual Sarah Siddons Society Award to Broadway favorite Kelli O'Hara. The honor, given in honor of O'Hara's outstanding artistic achievement in theatre, will be bestowed at the Society's 2024 benefit, planned for November 6 in Chicago.

Kelli O'Hara Will Receive Sarah Siddons Society Award

It's 79 days to the movie theatre debut of Wicked, which means we've got even more promos to get us fully amped up as we wait. A new set of movie posters offer the best look yet at the stars of the upcoming release—notably including Ethan Slater's Boq, who has been all but absent from the trailers released so far.

Get Up and Close With the Characters of

The Phantom of the Opera's Sarah Brightman, currently heading the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at the Sydney Opera House following a spring engagement at Melbourne's Princess Theatre, will bring her Norma Desmond to Asia next year. Base Entertainment Asia and GWB Entertainment in association with Opera...

Sarah Brightman-Led

The hit Off-Broadway musical Titanìque, an irreverent send-up of the blockbuster film Titanic, will welcome the return of Cayleigh Capaldi (Frozen) September 5 in the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater at the Daryl Roth Theatre. The hit production, which is approaching its 1,000th performance, is also set to welcome...

Cayleigh Capaldi to Return to Off-Broadway's

The York Theatre Company will celebrate 125 years of Noël Coward as well as the late composer-lyricist's lifelong association with America with a one-night-only concert October 6 at 7:30 PM at the Theatre at St. Jean’s. Presented in association with the Noël Coward Foundation, I Like America will...

Cast Set for York Theatre Company's Noël Coward Celebration,

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Shem Bitterman's The Civil Twilight has set a world premiere engagement at Los Angeles' Broadwater Studio Theatre. Performances will begin October 16 and continue through November 24, with an official opening October 18. Ann Hearn Tobolowsky will direct. The cast will feature Taylor Gilbert as Ann Carlson and Andrew Elvis...

Sets Los Angeles World Premiere

Red Bank, NJ

Two River Theater will present two benefit concerts with three-time Tony honoree Bernadette Peters this fall. Peters—who is scheduled to return to Broadway later this season in the London hit Old Friends, celebrating the life and work of Stephen Sondheim—will perform November 8-9 in the Joan and Robert M. Rechnitz Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Bernadette Peters Will Offer Benefit Concerts at Two River Theater

Newly released promo art for Broadway's upcoming Death Becomes Her is harkening back to the film's iconic poster, backwards heads and missing midriffs and all. See stage stars Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in the ghoulish new poster (by Franz Szony) below. Performances are slated to begin October 23 ahead...

Broadway Art Evokes the Iconic Film Poster

After a few sleepy summer weeks on Broadway with vacations ending and schools starting back up again, fortunes rose last week on the Main Stem. Over Labor Day weekend, not one of the 25 currently running shows brought in box office lower than the week prior, and, in fact, cumulatively saw an 11% increase.

Broadway Grosses Analysis: It's Standing Room Only in

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Seafair is over but it’s still festival and fair season. With good weather forecast for the weekend, it’s perfect for getting out of the house. There are several festivals happening around the region, covering a range of interests, from food and crafts to a logging show.

Wide Range of Festivals This Weekend

Hull, MA

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Get ready, because you're invited to the "best late summer beach party in New England!" The Endless Summer Waterfront Festival, hosted by the Hull Nantasket Chamber of Commerce, is just around the corner and promises to be an event you won't want to miss. Taking place on Saturday, September 7, 2023, this event celebrates the last days of summer and the vibrant community of Hull.

Live Music, Family Fun & More: This Waterfront Festival Has It All!

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Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center has named John Kennedy as the organization’s new executive director. Kennedy succeeds Karen Etling, who retired as of August 20. John Kennedy comes to Baker Hunt from an extensive career in education, most recently as headmaster of Covington Latin School. He led schools for two decades prior to that in North Georgia and San Antonio, after he and his wife taught in American schools in El Salvador and Egypt.

Baker Hunt announces appointment of John Kennedy as new executive director

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The weekend is almost here, and some zodiac signs are set to close the week stronger than they started. Today's cosmic combo seems favorable to their financial landscape as the universe sends sprinkles of luck and good fortune to their finances.

3 Lucky Zodiac Signs with Financial Abundance | September 6, 2024

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, More in The Shed's 2024-2025 Season

The Shed has revealed the lineup of productions and art installations for its 2024-2025 season Off-Broadway. The season will kick off with The Breakdown Odyssey by...

, More in The Shed's 2024-2025 Season

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