John McCormack, a longtime behind-the-scenes force in Off Broadway theater, died Monday, May 18, at his home in Queens, New York from complications related to COVID-19. He was 61. McCormack'…
A streaming Broadway-themed fundraising special scheduled to air on Sunday, June 7 " the night that originally had been set for the annual Tony Awards " has been postponed in the wake of nat…
Update, with Broadway League statement The companies of Hamilton, Hadestown and What the Constitution Means To Me are among the Broadway voices speaking out on the issues that have filled ci…
Jane Moss, the artistic director at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for nearly 30 years, will step down from the post effective August 1. Moss said the timing of her departure was inf…
EXCLUSIVE: A Star Trek: Voyager reunion broke the Stars In The House single-episode fundraising record, drawing donations totaling $19,225 for The Actors Fund's efforts to assist entertainme…
Ryan Murphy, the producer and director who finally got Larry Kramer's groundbreaking play The Normal Heart to screen, remembered his late friend and collaborator today as "the single greates…
Few artists can say they've surmounted social-distancing obstacles as magically as Portuguese illusionist Helder Guimarães. The impact of social distancing on the performing arts needn't …
Refresh for updates Lin-Manuel Miranda, Benj Pasek, Rob Reiner and other figures of Hollywood and Broadway paid tribute today to Larry Kramer, the Normal Heart playwright and AIDS activis…
Larry Kramer, the playwright whose righteous fury over a lackluster governmental " and societal " response to the early AIDS crisis fueled his groundbreaking 1985 play The Normal Heart and a…
The reopening of Broadway theaters should not come without as much consideration for actors' safety as for that of audiences, Actors' Equity Association made clear today in a presentation by…
EXCLUSIVE: New York's Irish Repertory Theatre has announced an upcoming online run of four plays, becoming what could be Off Broadway's first summer season created specifically for virtual v…
A musical stage adaptation of NBC's Smash is in development for Broadway, with Steven Spielberg, Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron on board as lead producers. Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, …
Nick Cordero, the Broadway actor whose long battle with COVID-19 has been chronicled on Instagram, "had a bad morning," with wife Amanda Kloots noting in an Instagram Story video today that …
Broadway fans won't have to rely on CBS' Grease Sing-a-Long for their would-have-been Tony night celebrations: the Broadway On Demand streaming service, with support from the American…
Katelyn Kelley and Jon Demegillo, classmates in their fourth and final years at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, felt a calling to perform early in their young lives. Kat…
John Mahon, an actor, director and writer who played a police chief in 1997's L.A. Confidential and, as a language lab director in one of the creepiest moments of The Exorcist revealed that …
The 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards will celebrate the life and legacy of American theater producer and director Harold "Hal" Prince (Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, among many others) with the …
Some Like It Hot, a planned stage musical based on the great 1959 Billy Wilder comedy, has set its sights on a Fall 2021 Broadway opening, producers announced today. The staging would mark t…
Bette Midler will personally match donations to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund up to $100,000, the charitable organization announced today. "Between he…
Disney's Frozen has become Broadway's first long-running casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and industrywide shutdown. The production, which opened March 22, 2018 at the St. James Theatre, an…
The Actors Fund has distributed a record-breaking $10.5 million over the past eight weeks to provide emergency financial assistance for performing arts and entertainment workers in need due …
MJ, the Michael Jackson stage musical headed for Broadway, will begin previews next March, an eight-month postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. The new dates were announced …
Christopher Jackson originated the role of President George Washington for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway smash Hamilton " a role he'll reprise in the film version, set to debut on Apple+ Jul…
Debra Messing, Katharine McPhee, Christian Borle, Megan Hilty and other cast members of NBC's 2012-13 series Smash will virtually reunite May 20 for a one-night-only Actors Fund benefit stre…
The Broadway revival of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite, starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker and directed by John Benjamin Hickey, will postpone its opening more than a year due to …