Actors in 'Waitress' Tour Seek to Join Labor Union
Employees of a nonunion production are seeking improved compensation and safety protocols, saying a union version of the same musical pays better.
Employees of a nonunion production are seeking improved compensation and safety protocols, saying a union version of the same musical pays better.
It will be the busiest April for Broadway openings in more than a decade. But some of its biggest stars have been sidelined by positive tests.
Parker's co-star, Matthew Broderick, who is also her husband, had tested positive earlier this week, and has been out of the show since Tuesday.
Broderick's positive test result comes as coronavirus cases have once again been rising in New York City, and a number of Broadway shows have been affected
The show, which just began previews on Tuesday, hopes to resume on April 8.
The revival of August Wilson's play, directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson, will also star Danielle Brooks and John David Washington.
The Lincoln Center Theater production, with a new book by Sorkin and directed by Bartlett Sher, will open in December.
The theater plans to work with the Oscar-nominated film's producers to adapt the story of a teenager torn between helping her deaf family and singing.
"Bhangin' It" explores complex identity issues through an intensely competitive North American dance scene.
The Hugh Jackman-led revival has 76 trombones, 110 cornets, and took in $3.5 million in ticket sales last week, more than any show since the pandemic began.
The 75th ceremony, honoring plays and musicals staged on Broadway, resumes its traditional calendar after a few years of pandemic disruption.
A company known for audiobooks is mounting starry live productions " and recording them, too.
A new production of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" is to be staged late this year by the nonprofit New York Theater Workshop in the East Village.
Six decades after she played Scout in the film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird," Mary Badham takes on the role of a neighbor in the play's national tour.
The landmark theater will be renamed in honor of the 91-year-old actor who has made 21 Broadway appearances and won two competitive Tony Awards.
"POTUS," by Selina Fillinger, will star Julianne Hough, Vanessa Williams, Rachel Dratch, Lea DeLaria, Lilli Cooper, Suzy Nakamura and Julie White.
The new musical, by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori, will star Victoria Clark as a teen girl who ages too quickly.
Long Wharf Theater, a regional nonprofit on New Haven's waterfront, is ending a long, bumpy chapter there, hoping to expand access and reduce costs.
The actress, who has played Persephone in "Hadestown" in three countries and four productions, is leaving to join a new "Macbeth" on Broadway.
The musical, which closed temporarily last month as the Omicron variant spread, had hoped to reopen in March.
The actress, known for "The Walking Dead" and "Black Panther," will headline a return to semi-normal for the annual festival, which will also present "As You Like It."
The production, which was canceled at the start of the pandemic, will try again, this time starring Alfie Allen of "Game of Thrones" fame.
Big shows did well when they returned in the fall after the long pandemic shutdown but new plays struggled, previously undisclosed industry data shows.
For the first time, digital, audio and other virtual productions will be considered for the honors, for Off and Off Off Broadway works.