When the pandemic gives way to live performance, producer Scott Rudin plans to present an American classic about the gift of being alive. Rudin is assembling cast and creatives for the first…
The Broadway League said theaters are offering refunds through Jan. 3, 2021, as the industry officially canceled performances for the rest of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic. With 1…
EXCLUSIVE:Â The coronavirus epidemic must be "under control" and testing be frequent and accurate before it's safe for actors and stage managers to return to work, the executive director o…
EXCLUSIVE: The Public Theater, which has earned tens of millions of dollars launching Hamilton, received federal assistance meant to preserve jobs threatened by the pandemic. The Publi…
In another sign that Broadway doesn't see a quick return of theater amid the coronavirus pandemic, the producers of a musical about Michael Jackson postponed performances until next year. MJ…
Broadway has given up predicting when it will be back. With no indication about when it will be safe to produce theater in New York or when audiences will feel comfortable returning, the Bro…
As nonprofit theater companies struggle through an open-ended shutdown, Playwrights Horizons has scored a double shot of validation from the New York Drama Critics' Circle. A Strange Loop, M…
Is the Broadway season over? If so, statistically, 2019-20 was both disastrous and illustrative of the industry's resilience. The season that was to end in late May is effectively kaput, tha…
The Broadway League extended its shutdown through June 7, the original date of the Tony Awards, guaranteeing that Broadway will be closed at least three months due to the coronavirus pandemi…
Producing theater is quixotic in the best of circumstances. Weathering the industry's longest-ever shutdown, which has halted shows and cut off incomes, makes the endeavor that much more dau…
BREAKING: The Broadway League today introduced websites with information about city, state, federal and philanthropic relief packages for employees and employers battered by the covid-19 cri…
With no way of knowing when New York's cultural life will resume, Lincoln Center Theater has suspended production of its summer shows. Two plays scheduled to open in July have been postponed…
Broadway can't reopen without New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's permission, and it may be among the last sectors of society to get it, Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin wrote to memb…
The Broadway League and American Theatre Wing indefinitely postponed the 2020 Tony Awards, which was scheduled for June 7 at Radio City Music Hall. This afternoon's announcement follows the …
With no indication of when New York and Broadway will reopen for business amid a worsening public health and economic catastrophe, producer Scott Rudin cancelled his revival of Edward Albee'…
With no end in sight for the global coronavirus pandemic and U.S. theater shutdown, the Broadway League announced an agreement with the industry's unions requiring suspended productions to p…
Broadway will go dark for at least a month " its longest shutdown in modern times " as U.S. performing arts and professional sports screech to a halt in an attempt to limit the public health…
The National Basketball Association announced it will suspend its season, after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for the coronavirus. Los Angeles Times story here. The announcement may put…
The musicals Ain't Too Proud,  Moulin Rouge, Frozen, Jagged Little Pill and The Tina Turner Musical posted their worst sales since opening as tourists increasingly stay home in respon…
Video has a starring role in the dazzling new revival of West Side Story. Live close-ups of the charismatic young cast in the Arthur Laurents/Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim classic ar…
EXCLUSIVE: A month before previews start on Broadway, the limited run of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite is approaching full occupancy. The advance sale for the revival with husband-and-wife st…
Broadway Musicals are running longer and making more money ever " which is on display in these eye-catching interactive graphics below. Seven of the top 10 highest-grossing musicals since 19…
EXCLUSIVE: Turns out the road to nowhere is paved with gold. Investors in David Byrne's Broadway concert American Utopia  have been repaid and profit checks are imminent, according …
EXCLUSIVE: Six, the sizzling pop musical in which British Royals meet #MeToo, may be able to repay investors within 11 weeks of its first preview. That's assuming the production can su…
Idina Menzel is in talks to play Fanny Brice this fall in the first Broadway revival of Funny Girl, the hit 1964 Jule Styne-Bob Merrill-Isobel Lennart musical that starred Barbara Streisand.…