With thousands of out-of-work theater professionals likely to become ineligible for their union insurance over the next six months as the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown continues, The Actors Fun…
As expected, Broadway will remain dark through 2020, with the Broadway League announcing today that theater owners will refund or exchange all tickets purchased for productions through Jan. …
The Broadway revival of the Tony Kushner-Jeanine Tesori musical Caroline, or Change and the New York premiere of Noah Haidle's Birthday Candles starring Debra Messing are the latest producti…
The Broadway revival of American Buffalo, orignally set to star Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss, and the Steppenwolf production of Tracy Letts' The Minutes are targeting Sp…
Marlo Thomas will join Stars In The House creators and hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley Friday on their YouTube series to celebrate the actress' groundbreaking 1970s TV special Free To B…
Lincoln Center Theater will postpone until Spring 2021 two productions it had planned for this Fall, including the James Lapine-directed Broadway musical Flying Over Sunset, due to the ongoi…
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Disney Animation are at work on an animated musical set in Colombia, the Hamilton creator teased in an interview on ABC's Good Morning America today. "I'm actually wri…
Audra McDonald, Tina " The Tina Turner Musical and its star Adrienne Warren, LaChanze, Aziza Barnes' play BLKS and the Off Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Con…
"There is only before this moment," says Adrienne Warren, star of Broadway's Tina " The Tina Turner Musical, "and after this moment." In a remarkable series of big, first steps into this new…
Philip J. Smith, Chairman and Co-CEO of The Shubert Organization, has announced his retirement, effective June 30, after 63 years with Broadway's largest theater owner and producer. A major …
Lin-Manuel Miranda has weighed in on John Bolton's lift of a Hamilton lyric for use as the title of his memoir The Room Where It Happened. Since the former national security adviser announce…
EXCLUSIVE: Isaac Powell, who originated the lead role of Tony in Ivo van Howe's Broadway revival of West Side Story, has signed with CAA. For his critically acclaimed performance, which incl…
Broadway actor Nick Cordero could face months more in the hospital and then as much as a year in a rehabilitation facility, his wife Amanda Kloots said in an Instagram Story last night. "We'…
Broadway's Moulin Rouge! The Musical and The Inheritance were named outstanding musical and play of the 2019-20 theater season by New York's Drama League, the organization announced today. T…
Blasting the British government for what he says has been "no tangible practical support," producer Cameron Mackintosh says his company's West End productions of Hamilton, The Phantom of the…
The producer and creators of Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen has donated $100,000 to organizations fighting racism in the theater industry, including $50,000 to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition t…
Mel Winkler, a character actor with numerous TV, film and stage credits as well as being a recognizable voice behind characters on the animated series The New Batman Adventures and Oswald, d…
The first annual Antonyo Awards honoring black Broadway and Off Broadway theater artists is set for streaming on June 19 (aka Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in America…
The pre-recorded 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards, postponed due to the Black Lives Matter protests in New York, has been rescheduled for streaming on Saturday, June 13, at 7:30pm ET. The speci…
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS today announced $125,000 in immediate grants to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and three other anti-racism organizations. The grants include a $50,000 comm…
The Broadway Advocacy Coalition, a group founded by theater producers and actors to promote the use of the arts for social change, will host a three-day online forum June 10-12 to examine an…
The creative team and producers of Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play have donated $10,000 to the National Bailout Fund in support of Black Lives Matter, and have challenged others in the theater …
A social media campaign encouraging shutdown New York City theaters to open their lobbies " and restrooms " to protesters is gaining traction among Manhattan's Off Broadway venues and spaces…
Editors' Note: Colman Domingo, playwright, director and actor, was researching his musical (with co-author Patricia McGregor) about the iconic Nat King Cole when he realized the great singer…
Saying that now is no time for "celebration or diversion," the presenters of the annual Obie Awards for excellent in Off and Off Off Broadway theater, have postponed this year's virtual even…