The Wickedtour will welcome Jon Robert Hall as Fiyero and welcome back Catherine Charlebois as Nessarose, beginning Tuesday, August 22nd at Philadelphia's Academy of Music.

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As BroadwayWorld reported in May, controversy recently erupted over an Oregon production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Shoebox Theatre director Michael Streeter posted the below statement after receiving news from the Edward Albee estate

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Welcome to this week's edition of BroadwayWorld's exclusive WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the week ending 8202017.

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Four-time Emmy nominee Patricia Richardson stars in the Broadway hit play, 'Other Desert Cities' by Jon Robin Baitz at Bucks County Playhouse BCP - returning to where she appeared in a record-breaking, star-studded production of 'Steel Magnolias' last summer. 'Other Desert Cities', directed by Sheryl Kaller, runs through September 2, 2017. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below

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Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 8202017 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section.

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Broadway's THE BAND'S VISIT just released a behind-the-scenesteaser of the band performing 'Haj-Butrus.' Check out the song, featuring bothimprovisation and written music, below

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This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 8212017.

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HAIR co-authorlyricist James Rado was thrilled to watch Lin-Manuel Miranda sing 'Aquarius' from his internationally-acclaimed musical performed in James Corden's Crosswalk The Musical series on CBS... bringing the song to new 'Heights.'

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As part of Mary-Mitchell Campbell's concert last night at Feinstein's54 Below, Jonathon Groff Hamilton, Spring Awakening performed an amazing mashup of Britney Spears and Stephen Sondheim songs, arranged by Campbell herself. Check it out below

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On August 20, the casts of Broadway's Aladdin and Miss Saigon came together to swap songs, sing show tunes, and raise money for a friend in need. The show entitled ShowSwap was presented by Telly Leung and Billy Bustamante, and featured hits from Miss Saigon, Aladdin, Les Miserables, Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, and more.

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Barrington Stage Company BSC, the award-winning theatre in Downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, has announced a one-week extension of Company.

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Deadline has reported that Lin-Manuel Miranda and his family have received the Imagen Foundation's President's Award. This award represents Miranda's contributions to Latino culture, both artistic and humanitarian.

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For those of you who don't know who Bart Shatto is, you will soon.From the stages of Broadway, where he played the pivotal role of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, to packed arenas on tour with the GoldPlatinum selling rock-symphonic band, The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Bart has delighted audiences with his magnificent talents.

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Numan Acar has joined the cast of Disney's live-action ALADDIN reboot, to be directed by Guy Ritchie.

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Roundabout Theatre Company has just announced the complete cast of The New York premiere of Anna Ziegler's new play The Last Match, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch. The cast includes Wilson Bethel as 'Tim,' Alex Mickiewicz as 'Sergei,' Natalia Payne as 'Galina' and ZoeWinters as 'Mallory.'

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The full cast for the Harold Prince-directed production of EVITA in South Africa has been announced. Presented by Pieter Toerien and David Ian, this revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic musical will see the original West End and Broadway production presented on stage at The Teatro at Montecasino and the Artscape Opera House later this year.

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59E59Theaters has announced the line-up of shows forFall 2017.All performances take place at59E59Theaters59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues.

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The York Theatre Company, dedicated to the development of new musicals and preserving musical gems from the past, in association with Cecilia Lin and Hu Guo, has announced the cast and creative team of the New York premiere of the musical Desperate Measures, with book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg Anna Karenina and music by David Friedman Scandalous.

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Below, BroadwayWorld brings you this weekly listing of Broadway shows and their show times for the week of August 21-27, 2017.

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The producers of Broadway's most delicious hit, WAITRESS, announced today that beginning Tuesday, August 22, the smash musical will offer 40 rush tickets for every performance, available in-person daily at the Brooks Atkinson box office 256 West 47th Street.

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This week's top growing musicals were Groundhog Day, Come From Away, The Great Comet, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The top growing plays were 1984, A Dolls House Part 2, and The Play That Goes Wrong.

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In a recent interview with Australia's Jones publication, Broadway alum Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale revealed they are expecting the arrival of baby number two

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After 780 performances in New York 34 previews and 746 regular performances, the Broadway production of ON YOUR FEET played its final performance at the Marquis Theatre yesterday, August 20, 2017, ahead of the show's 80-week First National Tour and International Premiere, both kicking off this fall.

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Pioneering airline pilot Beverley Bass was captain of one of the 39 planes redirected to a small Canadian town in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, a story dramatized in the Broadway hit COME FROM AWAY.

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Nicholas Barasch, Dave Thomas Brown, Max Chernin, Kaitlyn Frank, Julia Hines, Peter LaPrade, Natalia Lepore, Jude McCormick, Jennafer Newberry, Christiana Perrault, and Daniel Quadrino have joined the cast of 54SingsIngridMichaelson at Feinstein's54 Belowon Monday, September 4th at 930pm.