Here are the latest promotions, appointments, and departures, as well as notable awards and accomplishments, from May 2025. 

Ask her Smash collaborators about Robyn Hurder, and they use admiring words like “leader” (from choreographer Joshua Bergasse) and “Renaissance woman” (from director Susan Stroman) and “old-school triple threat” (both of them).

From major tours to noteworthy premieres to Hollywood-inspired musicals (and one movie musical), here are 28 shows on our contributors’ must-see lists.

Here are the latest promotions, appointments, and departures, as well as notable awards and accomplishments, from May 2023.