Monday, 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 03:11PMWednesday, October 21, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: A New York State judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a dozen investors in Nerds, a musical about the tech titans Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that collapsed weeks before its first s…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:22PMThursday, October 15, 2020
Jagged Little Pill, a musical about teenage and parental angst based on Alanis Morissette’s bestselling 1995 album, was nominated for 15 Tony awards, the most of any show last season. �…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:33PMFriday, October 9, 2020
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 pla…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:48AMMonday, September 28, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: 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 in…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:53PMFriday, August 21, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:02PMFriday, August 7, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:48PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
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 backed …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:37PMTuesday, June 30, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:10PMMonday, June 29, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:24PMTuesday, May 26, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: 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 direct…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:25PMThursday, May 21, 2020
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 Public bo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:42PMWednesday, May 13, 2020
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. …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:23PMTuesday, May 12, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:33PMThursday, April 16, 2020
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,…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:17AMWednesday, April 8, 2020
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, t…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:02PMThe 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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:33AMFriday, March 27, 2020
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 d…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:05PMBREAKING: 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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:31PMThursday, March 26, 2020
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 postpon…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:11PMBroadway 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 …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:02AMWednesday, March 25, 2020
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 th…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:28PMSaturday, March 21, 2020
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�…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:57AMFriday, March 20, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:04PMThursday, March 12, 2020
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 he…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:57PMWednesday, March 11, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:09PMMonday, March 9, 2020
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 response…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:54PMThursday, February 20, 2020
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 are …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:57PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:14PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
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 …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:05PMFriday, January 31, 2020
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 to a…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:02PM 
