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The surge in coronavirus cases comes at a tough time for the theater industry, which traditionally relies on the holiday season box office.
The Alanis Morissette musical becomes the first big show to be felled by the resurgent coronavirus pandemic.
The Alanis Morissette musical becomes the first big show felled by the resurgent coronavirus pandemic.
Roughly a third of Broadway shows canceled performances over the weekend, and the surge in virus cases has halted a variety of performances around the nation.
The playwright Michael R. Jackson describes his musical as "a big, Black and queer-ass American Broadway show."
Broadway, where cancellations were once vanishingly rare, has seen a raft of them as positive coronavirus tests among cast and crew members have upended productions.
This international production, an adaptation of the novella that is described as "a theatrical experience with musical elements," will run for five months.
Fans have been streaming his music, buying his books, and trying to get in to see his shows, with a new revival of "Company" opening this week on Broadway.
The Broadway musical, "MJ," with a book by Lynn Nottage and directed by Christopher Wheeldon, began previews Monday.
Days before he died, Stephen Sondheim and the director Marianne Elliott chatted about a Broadway revival of his 1970 musical. With a gender swap, it has a "different flavor," he said.
In an interview on Sunday, the revered composer and lyricist, 91, contentedly discussed his shows running on Broadway and off, as well as a new movie about to be released.
"I didn't think I'd ever perform on Broadway again," Natalie Mendoza said.
The digital experimentation born of the pandemic shutdown is continuing: the final 16 performances of Lynn Nottage's "Clyde's" will be streamed, for $59.
The musical, about a comedian's rise and fall, plans to open at the Nederlander Theater in the spring.
Under her leadership, the nonprofit produced "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" and other shows that made it to Broadway.
Mandy Greenfield has resigned and Jenny Gersten will be interim artistic director. The festival gave no reason for the move, but it follows complaints about working conditions.
The production brings the world of the playwright Adrienne Kennedy, 90, to Broadway for the first time.
The $60 million building in Hell's Kitchen, which will present theater, dance, music and more, is scheduled to open in December.
The two experimental works will end their runs on Nov. 14. They had been scheduled to close Jan. 16.
"The Book of Mormon," "The Lion King" and "Hamilton" are among those making changes as theaters reopen following the lengthy pandemic shutdown.
The show will be rewritten for a production set on the South Side of Chicago in the 1940s, directed by Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover.
The Broadway show had just returned to the stage on Tuesday with several understudies.
Ruth Negga will co-star as Lady Macbeth in a production directed by Sam Gold and scheduled to open next April.
The play, which had been nominated for 12 Tony Awards, will return to Broadway in November.
The ceremony, held for the first time in more than two years, honored shows that opened before the pandemic and tried to lure crowds back to Broadway.
