Disney Theatrical Announces a Changing of the Guard
Thomas Schumacher is relinquishing his role overseeing the division's business operations.
Thomas Schumacher is relinquishing his role overseeing the division's business operations.
Starting with the next academic year, the drama school will eliminate an "unrealistic burden" for graduate acting students.
How hotshot directors are reimagining "Cats," "Evita," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Sunset Boulevard."
Sondheim said days before his death in 2021 that he did not know when it would be finished, but the musical, now called "Here We Are," begins performances Thursday.
The position is one of the few nonunion segments of the theater industry's work force.
His pending departure, in 2025, means that there are job openings for the top artistic positions at three of the four nonprofits operating Broadway theaters.
The nonprofit, a singular institution in New York's theatrical ecosystem, has presented acclaimed works like "Between Riverside and Crazy" and "Next to Normal."
The Congresswoman was asked to leave after being accused of being loud and recording the show at a moment when many theaters are debating how to deal with raucous audience behavior.
Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James will reprise the roles they played Off Broadway earlier this year.
The prominent Los Angeles nonprofit chose the playwright to oversee its artistic programming at a time of crisis for American theaters.
The show, with a group of circus artists as part of the cast, is adapted from Sara Gruen's best-selling novel.
The theme "No Place Like Home" will drive shows and festivals in both large cities and rural locales of this country on July 27, 2024.
The play, by Amy Herzog, is about a mother caring for a chronically ill child.
"Mother Play," set in the 1960s, will feature Lange as a mother raising two children, played by Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger.
The subscription model, in which theatergoers buy a season's worth of shows at a time, had long been waning, but it fell off a cliff during the pandemic.
The show, which was capitalized for $20 million, will end its Broadway run on Sept. 3 after 123 performances. Its producers say they are planning a national tour.
The show, which opened in the spring of 2022, has had a remarkable box office turnaround after Michele replaced its original star.
The new production, directed by Josh Rhodes, had a brief run at the Kennedy Center in Washington in May. Casting has not yet been announced.
The big-budget musical that tried to position itself as a nostalgic love letter to the city will close after a summer of dropping sales.
As they struggle to recover after the pandemic, regional theaters are staging fewer shows, giving fewer performances, laying off staff and, in some cases, closing.
A teenage ritual takes on deeper significance as a setting where autistic young people can blossom " and exercise their social skills along the way.
The institution, a titan among nonprofit theaters, is suffering from the combined effects of falling revenue and rising costs plaguing the arts world.
The production opened in London with Eddie Redmayne in a starring role; the New York cast has not yet been announced but he is expected to join it.
At a time when lawmakers and parents are seeking to restrict what can and cannot be taught in classrooms, many teachers are seeing efforts to limit what can be staged in their auditoriums.
The Theater Development Fund's departing director reflects on two decades of work expanding access to theater and the paths that lie ahead for Broadway.