Monday, September 27, 2021
More than two years after opening on Broadway, Moulin Rouge! won 10 Tony Awards and became the first big-budget best musical winner since 2009. The pandemic-delayed ceremony celebrated the …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:21AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Five months after announcing that he would “step back from active participation” on his Broadway shows, producer Scott Rudin is still negotiating the terms of his exit from his biggest …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:37PMWednesday, August 11, 2021
The producers of the first Broadway revival of Funny Girl, planned for the spring of 2022, confirmed that Beanie Feldstein has been cast to play Fanny Brice, the role that made Barbra Stre…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:50PMMonday, August 9, 2021
Broadway producers are people who need people — especially courageous people willing to congregate indoors during a pandemic. And maybe even get excited about a new take on a classic music…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:01AMFriday, July 30, 2021
The Broadway League said it will require audiences show proof of vaccination and wear masks except in designated areas for eating and drinking. The mandate by the trade association of theate…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:31AMThursday, July 29, 2021
Actors’ Equity Association and the Broadway League mandated that actors and other employees at Broadway theaters be fully vaccinated — with a few exceptions — while unvaccinated audien…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:54PMMonday, July 12, 2021
Ivo van Hove’s video-heavy revival of West Side Story, which was originally produced by Scott Rudin and opened a month before Broadway was shuttered, has scored a $10 million Small Busin…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:47PMWednesday, July 7, 2021
Broadway is usually a risky business — but the remount of Waitress looks like an excellent bet. Pop star Sara Bareilles, who wrote the musical’s acclaimed score, will return to the lea…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:29PMTuesday, July 6, 2021
The first post-pandemic preview of the highly anticipated revival of Company, the groundbreaking Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical, has been rescheduled to Nov. 15, more than a month e…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:40AMFriday, June 25, 2021
Bruce Springsteen’s summer engagement at the St. James Theatre will likely break Broadway records — but we may never know for sure. The Broadway League won’t report grosses for the ret…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:41PMWednesday, June 16, 2021
The U.S. Small Business Administration plans to notify about 10,000 Shuttered Venue Operators Grant applicants, or 70 percent of the total, by Independence Day, Broadway League President Cha…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:00PMFriday, May 21, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: The company producing The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway has been removed from a lawsuit by the advertising agency SpotCo, simplifying the show’s return to New York after the Cov…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:07AMSunday, May 16, 2021
As Scott Rudin steps back from the entertainment industry following reports that he abused his staff, all indications are that his once-formidable influence on Broadway is being dispersed. A…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:50PMMonday, May 10, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:05AMSunday, May 9, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:41PMFriday, May 7, 2021
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 ticke…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:38PMWednesday, May 5, 2021
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. “Th…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:41PMTuesday, April 20, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:40AMSunday, April 4, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:06PMFriday, April 2, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:03AMThursday, March 18, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:47PMBen 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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:56PMTuesday, March 9, 2021
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 transp…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:07PMSaturday, February 27, 2021
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 Gar…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:04PMFriday, February 5, 2021
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 Sondheim …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:47PMFriday, January 8, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: 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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:00PMMonday, November 16, 2020
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 …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:30PMSunday, November 15, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:51PMTuesday, November 10, 2020
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 said…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:04PMSunday, November 1, 2020
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 L…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:09PMMonday, October 26, 2020
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 mos…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:11PM 
