Al Kasha, the Academy Award-winning composer who, along with songwriting partner Joel Hirschhorn, won Oscars for the soft rock disaster movie classics "The Morning After" and "We May Never L…
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway's Tony- and Grammy-nominated couple Andy Karl and Orfeh have acquired the rights to Eric Bernat's 2016 mystery novel The Dancer. The deal marks the duo's first collaborat…
A COVID-19 vaccine would likely not be an immediate, complete solution to Broadway's woes, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, who noted in an interview this week that it could take a year of reliable v…
With Broadway theaters and other stages shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic, the Pulitzer Prize board has amended its rules of drama prize eligibility to include online productions and sho…
Ben Brantley, the influential New York Times theater critic, will leave the job next month. "This pandemic pause in the great, energizing party that is the theater seemed to me like a goo…
EXCLUSIVE With a roster of Broadway actors from such recent or on-pause productions as Waitress, Hadestown, The Play That Goes Wrong and Moulin Rouge!, a new musical inspired by A Christmas …
Veteran Broadway general manager Nathan Gehan is opening his own New York City general management firm, ShowTown Theatricals, with a roster of clients including the international musical pro…
Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre has indefinitely postponed its world premiere stage adaptation of the 2005 George Clooney-co-written film Good Night, and Good Luck, a project that had generate…
Timothy Graphenreed, a longtime musical and dance arranger who composed two numbers for the beloved Broadway musical The Wiz, died March 1 at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital. He was 68. Gra…
The recently formed Costume Industry Coalition has launched a pandemic emergency relief campaign for New York City's pattern makers, cutters, stitchers, tailors, milliners, hand finishers an…
Producer Ryan Murphy drew the curtain back on the cast of Netflix's The Prom, sharing a first-look photo of the "icon-packed" group on Instagram. See the entire photo below. "Meet the incred…
Broadway's Second Stage Theater has hired Khady Kamara, the managing director of Arena Stage in Washington D.C., as the New York company's new executive director. Kamara will join Second Sta…
Eighteen Broadway productions will be eligible for this year's Tony Awards competition, an awards committee confirmed today. The figure is significantly lower than last year's pre-pandemic 3…
In a lawsuit that offers a glimpse of COVID-19's economic threat to the Broadway industry, Jujamcyn Theaters, owner of five major Broadway venues, is suing its insurance companies after the …
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway and TV writers, actors and directors Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse have signed with ICM Partners for literary representation across all media. Taylor is best known for perf…
Castmates of the late Nick Cordero from such stage productions as A Bronx Tale, Bullets Over Broadway, The Toxic Avenger, Rock of Ages and Waitress will take part in a special memorial tribu…
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-winning playwright, actor and producer Sarah Jones has signed with UTA for worldwide representation in all areas. Jones, who won a Special Tony Award in 2006 for her on…
The Broadway future of the acclaimed David Byrne's American Utopia is unclear, but the date with HBO is certain: Spike Lee's film adaptation of the theatrical concert is set for Oct. 17, and…
In an impassioned defense of his beloved and beleaguered New York City, comedian Jerry Seinfeld has some harsh words for a Manhattan comedy club owner who bolted for Florida and recently cla…
EXCLUSIVE: The Broadway production company behind the upcoming Michael Jackson musical MJ and the stage adaptation of the hit 2000 film Almost Famous has hired The Old Globe Theater's Travis…
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who recently vowed to reopen London's The Phantom of the Opera despite what the show's producer called a "huge financial hit" from the coronavirus shutdown, has…
In a Broadway first, Diana: A New Musical, the stage production about Princess Diana that went dark with the COVID shutdown just prior to its opening night, will premiere on Netflix next yea…
Tony Charmoli, a leading television and Broadway choreographer and director who won three Emmy Awards from the 1950s through 1970s and worked with stars from Mitzi Gaynor and Shirley MacLain…
The John Gore Organization, a major Tony Award-winning production company and owner of Broadway.com and The Broadway Channel, has permanently laid off what sources say is more than 100 previ…
Two of theater's heavy-hitters are squaring off in a legal battle that could be Broadway's biggest drama during the pandemic shutdown: Ad agency Spotco is suing producer Scott Rudin for $6.3…