In comes Company " again. Marianne Elliott's revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's revered 1970 musical will resume previews on Dec. 20 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre ah…
In a hopeful sign for performing arts organizations, music venues and theater producers seeking help to resume live, in-person programming, the federal government's shuttered-venue subsid…
Some of the first Broadway shows to return in the fall will restart gradually. Six , the pop concert musical that was poised to open when Broadway shut down in March 2020, is offering tic…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today that Broadway can resume performances at 100 percent capacity on Sept. 14 and recommends that Broadway require Covid-19 vaccinations for entry to theaters. "The …
As Broadway faces the unprecedented challenge of reopening after at least 18 dark months, producers have proposed cutting back the standard eight-performance week while demand for tickets ra…
Actors' Equity Association says if everyone in a theater company has been vaccinated, a show may go on without adhering to the union's pricey pandemic protocols. "Vaccination will be a game …
The rapid rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine has increased optimism about indoor theater swiftly reopening in the U.S. Infectious disease specialists Thursday afternoon said Covid 19-testing, e…
Actors' Equity Association recently announced far-reaching health protocols that producers complained would prohibitively increase the cost of creating theater and delay the industry's re…
Ben Sprecher, who has produced shows and managed theaters in New York since the early 1980s and is best-known for a Broadway musical that collapsed before it could open, was sentenced Thursd…
EXCLUSIVE: For theater actors, a car and driver is generally a perquisite reserved for bankable stars. In this pandemic, the labor union Actors' Equity Association considers private transpor…
If and when The Book of Mormon  resumes performances on Broadway, the take-no-prisoners musical will reconsider its mission. In a video call last summer organized by lead producer Anne…
EXCLUSIVE: No one put more money into the highly anticipated Broadway revival of Company than the insurance giant Chubb. The Ladies Who Lunch LLC, which transferred the Stephen Son…
EXCLUSIVE:Â The nation's oldest theater company specializing in nurturing women writers and directors is in a seven-month court battle to recover $30,000, a significant sum for a nonprofit…
Broadway seeks givebacks from the industry's unions before performances resume, the head of the trade group that represents producers and theater owners told an online industry conference Mo…
Speaking at an industry video conference Saturday, Broadway League Chairman Thomas Schumacher said that restarting Broadway after the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic will be gradual and depen…
A Covid-19 vaccine was said to be highly effective in a large trial, heightening the possibility that Broadway can restart next year. On Monday, Pfizer Inc. and German partner BioNTech sa…
While performing arts spaces in the region remain largely shuttered because of Covid-19, Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater said that it plans to build a permanent home, its first since the Lon…
Growing up in Las Vegas, Ilana Atkins started studying piano at six but eventually hit a wall with classical music. "The music didn't speak to me," she said. "As I got older, the most consis…
EXCLUSIVE: A New York State judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a dozen investors in Nerds, Â a musical about the tech titans Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that collapsed weeks before its first…
Jagged Little Pill, Â a musical about teenage and parental angst based on Alanis Morissette's bestselling 1995Â album, was nominated for 15 Tony awards, the most of any show last season.…
The Broadway League is extending the industry's shutdown through May 2021, bringing theater's devastating closure to at least 14 months. The announcement, which people briefed on the plan sa…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Amidst Broadway's endless intermission, Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin has a message for the trade association's members: Pay your dues. Membership renewal invo…
The Tony Awards, postponed from June because of the Covid-19 pandemic, will be produced virtually on an unspecified date this year. In an email to members of the Broadway League, President C…
SpotCo, a leading Broadway advertising and marketing agency, filed suit in New York State Supreme Court against producer Scott Rudin, claiming that he left the company on the hook for $6.3 m…
Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of the blockbuster Hamilton  and a producer of the film version that streamed on Disney+, received an emergency small business loan for his company backe…