Published by Wisdom Digital Media Publishing (launched in 2001), BroadwayWorld.com was founded in 2003 to cover theater news. As of September 2018, the website had a readership of 5.5 million monthly online visitors and an
Alexa PageRank of 16,156 worldwide. The site also produces annual fan-voted awards and competitions related to various types of production. In 2020, the site underwent a major redesign, and which included the creation of new sections, such as the Theatre Shop, Online Education, BroadwayWorld Research, and Industry Pro. For its 20th anniversary in 2023, BroadwayWorld held a gala at
Sony Hall,
Manhattan, hosted by
Chita Rivera and Richard Ridge, with funds raised going to the charity
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The
Mayor of New York City,
Eric Adams, officially proclaimed May 21, 2023 as BroadwayWorld Day.
2025 , BroadwayWorld is the largest theater site on the internet, and covers 100 cities in the US as well as 45 countries. It is published in 12 languages. The site is focused on live entertainment, including that which appears on screen, and covers music, concerts, opera, dance, classical music and stage performances of all kinds. It has interviews, features, a message board, and various content for professionals as well as audiences. Its content is all original and aims to be accurate and free of bias. The
Wikipedia community considers BroadwayWorld an unreliable source of information, as part of a group of sources that "allow clients to pay for coverage, run
press releases or other
user-generated content with little oversight, or operate essentially as partisan forums for activists of various political stripes". ==Awards==