Friday, October 9, 2020
Although an exact date for various performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through May 30.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:43AMThursday, August 27, 2020
“Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices” will be held online Oct. 1 and will be hosted by Andréa Burns. It will be directed and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:40AMFriday, August 21, 2020
Tony Award Productions said Friday that the celebration of live theatre will be digital but offered no date or streaming platform.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:03PMSunday, July 5, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award-nominated actor Nick Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as “Waitress,” “A Bronx Tale” and “Bullets Over Broadway,…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 09:29PMMonday, June 29, 2020
The shutdown on Broadway has been extended again — until at least early January. Although an exact date for performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:16PMAlthough an exact date for performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through Jan. 3.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:11PMBroadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through Jan. 3.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:33AMWednesday, June 3, 2020
Joining the Oscar- and Tony-winners for virtual tutorials are Tony award-winning Broadway director Jerry Zaks and Tony-nominee Judy Kuhn. Broadway director Stephen Brackett, composer Joe Ico…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:58PMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Kramer’s husband, David Webster, told The New York Times that Kramer died of pneumonia on Wednesday.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:33PMLarry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:06PMFriday, May 15, 2020
The Disney show opened in March 2018 and placed among the top five Broadway productions for both gross and attendance over both years it ran, often pulling in over $1 million, and even $2 mi…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:16PMTuesday, May 12, 2020
Although an exact date for performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through Sept. 6.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:27PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — When Broadway theaters finally reopen, at least one musical theater fan will show up. But she’ll look a little different. “I would wear a mask and gloves,” said actre…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 12:27PMFriday, April 24, 2020
The winning contestant will be introduced onstage by Lloyd Webber at either the home of “The Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway or London — whichever opens first — and sing after the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:13PMSunday, April 19, 2020
The Canadian actor entered the intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on March 31 and has been on a ventilator and unconscious after contracting COVID-19.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00PMThursday, April 9, 2020
Musical theatre stars are taking to social media to sing, offering fans a front seat to a Broadway show and a much needed intermission amid the coronavirus pandemic.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:58PMThursday, March 26, 2020
The American playwright, known for plays like “Master Class” and musicals such as “Ragtime,” was a lung cancer survivor who lived with chronic inflammatory lung disease.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:30AMFriday, December 27, 2019
Tony Award-winning composer Jerry Herman, who wrote the cheerful, good-natured music and lyrics for such classic shows as “Mame,” “Hello, Dolly!” and “La Cage aux Folles,” died T…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 04:28AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
As a producer, he helped created Damn Yankees, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof. He became a director and helped shape Cabaret, Company…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:43PMNEW YORK (AP) — Harold Prince, a Broadway director and producer who pushed the boundaries of musical theater with such groundbreaking shows as “The Phantom of the Opera,” ”Cabaret,…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 11:38AMSunday, June 9, 2019
The arty and original "Hadestown" was leading the Tony Awards with six wins, including a rare win for a woman director of a musical, while Ali Stroker made history as the first actor in a wh…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:48PMFriday, June 7, 2019
TV talk show host James Corden steps back into the role of Tony Award host Sunday, not planning anything too political and not worried about any online snark. "I hope people will find joy in…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:10PMNEW YORK (AP) — TV talk show host James Corden steps back into the role of Tony Award host Sunday, not planning anything too political and not worried about any online snark. “I hope peo…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 11:59AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
"Hadestown," singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell's Broadway debut, earned a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, followed by the jukebox musical "Ain't Too Proud," built around songs by …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:54AMNEW YORK (AP) — “Hadestown,” singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s Broadway debut, earned a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, followed by the jukebox musical “Ain’t Too Pr…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 01:04AMMonday, April 1, 2019
John Leguizamo is taking his irreverent one-man comedy show about Latin history on the road for a 12-state tour
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:04AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Hugh Jackman is coming back to Broadway as a classic roguish traveling salesman in a revival of ‘The Music Man’
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:07AMThursday, February 28, 2019
Dozens of community and nonprofit theaters across the U.S. have been forced to abandon productions of “To Kill a Mockingbird” under legal threat
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:24PMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Many academics argue the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the star of U.S. $10 bills, is a counterfeit. Now they’re escalating their fight against the musical.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00AMMonday, February 4, 2019
Ever since the historical musical "Hamilton" began its march to near-universal infatuation, one group has noticeably withheld its applause — historians. Many academics argue the portrait o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:24PM 
