EQ Endeavours announces the MTI Australasia Graduate’s Guide Scholarship

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BROADWAY’S ‘THE MUSIC MAN’ HALTS SHOWS AFTER HUGH JACKMAN TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 by Robert Shuman

(from Breitbart; Photo:  Phil Walter/Getty Images.) Dec. 28 (UPI) — Actor Hugh Jackman announced Tuesday that he tested positive for COVID-19, as his Broadway show, The Music Man, cancele…

Broadway P.S. On Hugh Jackman and “The Music Man”: Show Resumes January 2nd But Star Doesn’t Return til the 6th by Roger Friedman

Here’s a little PS on Hugh Jackman, whose COVID diagnosis was the last straw in closing down “The Music Man” on Broadway.

Bay Area arts outfits cancel New Year’s shows, citing omicron, while others look hopefully to 2022 by Chronicle Staff

At what point should producers cancel performances, especially as New Year’s Eve events approach?

"Welcome to Nowhere" | The Band's Visit by Broadwaysf

Don’t miss THE BAND'S VISIT, coming to the Golden Gate Theatre from January 11–February 6, 2022. With a Tony- and Grammy-winning score that seduces your soul and sweeps you off your fee…

The Ten Tenors – 25th Anniversary Tour

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Theatre Review: ‘Once Upon A One More Time’ at the Shakespeare Theatre Company by Lynne Menefee

Jukebox musicals have become a staple of the theater world over the past couple of decades with mixed results. The immensely successful “Mama Mia!” started the ball rolling with the musi…

Broadway Closing: AIN’T TOO PROUD — THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS (ends on January 16, 2022 at the Imperial) by Gregory Bernard

FINAL THREE WEEKS Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, January 16, 2022, at the Imperial Theatre (249 West 45th S…

LIVE Disney dad TRIVIA Dec 28, Covid edition by Framily Travel

Born 100 Years Ago Today: Johnny Otis by Trav S.D.

Born 100 years ago today, the one and only Johnny Otis (Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes, 1921-2012). We’ll get to his ethnic identity and other interesting trivia betimes, but first, his accom…

Chicago’s Puppet Theater Fest returns for 2022 with old favorites and the wildly new, broadening what you expect from a puppet show by Doug George

For all the things Chicago is famous for, let puppetry be on the list, and puppetry’s biggest event on the calendar is the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.

OUR COUNTRY - Under the Radar 2022 | The Public Theater by The Public Theater

OUR COUNTRY Created by Annie Saunders and Becca Wolff Produced by Octopus Theatricals Mara Isaacs, Executive/Creative Producer From the wild frontier to Ancient Greece, OUR COUNTRY unearths…

Valerie Schremp Hahn's memorable stories from 2021 by Valerie Schremp Hahn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Here are reporter Valerie Schremp Hahn's five most memorable stories from 2021.

Neil Marcus, Whose Art Illuminated Disability, Dies at 67 by Annabelle Williams

A playwright and actor, he saw his life as performance art. He was best known for his play “Storm Reading.”

Working in the Theatre Extended Interviews: Patrick Bevilacqua (Wardrobe) by American Theatre Wing

In this never-before-seen full interview, Wardrobe Supervisor (My Fair Lady, The King and I, On the Town) Patrick Bevilacqua shares his journey, technical advice, show specifics, and more on…

After Hugh Jackman tests positive for COVID-19, Broadway's 'Music Man' hits pause by Christie D'zurilla

Though vaxxed and boosted, 'The Music Man' star Hugh Jackman tests positive for COVID-19. Suffering mild symptoms, he expects to be back onstage soon.

Acclaimed Broadway actor Harvey Evans dies at 80: 'We lost a great one' by USA Today

Harvey Evans, an actor, singer and dancer who had a knack for landing roles in the original Broadway productions of such classics as “West Side Story,” “Follies,” “Hello, Dolly!”…

Get a 1st Listen to Troy Iwata on the Title Song From How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by Talaura Harms

Broadway performer and TikTok star JJ Niemann will host an online listening party for the new musical's concept album.

‘Ain’t Too Proud’ will close on Broadway as Covid takes its toll. by Michael Paulson

Hugh Jackman Tests Positive for Covid by Sandi Durell

It was announced today all performances of Broadway’s The Music Man are canceled through January 1st. All tickets can be refunded or exchanged at point of purchase. Performances will resum…

Denzel Washington’s Best Performances: From ‘Malcolm X’ to ‘Macbeth’ by Clayton Davis

“Denzel” — like Bono or Prince, the sheer mention of the mighty figure doesn’t require a surname. The industry-given mononym implies adoration and respect; yet in selecting the best …

Hugh Jackman Has Covid, Forcing ‘The Music Man’ To Cancel Broadway Performances by Lee Seymour

Jackman's co-star Sutton Foster tested positive for the virus last week.

Broadway: “Ain’t Too Proud” Closing January 16th (Sniff!), “American Utopia” Downsizing to Keep Going (See Videos) by Roger Friedman

COVID is really wrecking havoc on Broadway, as we know. Sad news this morning that “Ain’t Too Proud,” the Temptations musical, will

How Bobby Scheerer Jived His Way to the Stars by Trav S.D.

Robert “Bobby” Scheerer (1929-2018) had many fine credits as a movie and TV director, but nonetheless I confess I was briefly muddled about why I’d put him on my calendar to write abou…

Broadway: More Trouble in River City as Hugh Jackman Tests Positive, “The Music Man” Cancels Again Til January 2nd by Roger Friedman

“The Music Man” just cancelled all performances from now through January 1st. They’ll try and return on January 2nd. Hugh Jackman has

Of Charles Dingle and His Alleged Dangle by Trav S.D.

Long have I been a fan of Charles Dingle’s turn in William Wyler’s 1941 screen adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes opposite Bette Davis, one of his first, biggest, and fla…

Hugh Jackman Tests Positive For Covid; Broadway’s ‘Music Man’ Goes Dark Through January 1 by Erik Pedersen

We got trouble, my friends, right there in New York City. It’s trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with C, and that stands for … Covid. Broadway’s revival of The Music Man has ca…

BWW Album Review: FROZEN Star Samantha Barks Bravely Leads Listeners 'Into the Unknown' With Her New Album

Frozen star, Samantha Barks, recently released her latest album, Into the Unknown, under new record label, Westway. The album features selections from a number of contemporary musicals, incl…

Hugh Jackman Tests Positive for COVID-19, ‘Music Man’ Cancels Performances by Brent Lang

“The Music Man” will cancel performances through Jan. 1 after Hugh Jackman tested positive for COVID-19. The revival of Meredith Wilson’s classic musical is one of the hottest tickets …

Dangerous Liaisons: Why I Won’t Be Attending “The Music Man” by Admin

The much anticipated 2021 revival of perennial favorite The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, began preview performances on December 20th to much trumpeting and fanfare. Or…

Top Posts and Best Reads of 2021: Broadway Reopening, Musicals on Screen by New York Theater

Below are some of the year’s best reads and the most popular posts of 2021, which, not surprisingly, were largely about the reopening of Broadway, although the number 1 post was about the …

See To Kill a Mockingbird's Celia Keenan-Bolger Reminisce About Spelling Bee, Peter and the Starcatcher & More by Caitlin Moynihan

Celia Keenan-Bolger has six Broadway credits, four Tony nominations, three Drama Desk Awards and one Tony Award to her name. Her road to becoming a Broadway mainstay began in 2005 with The …

On with the show: Pittsburgh cultural venues say they aren't seeing omicron cancellations by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh’s largest cultural institutions are not reporting cancelations due to the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

New COVID Cancellations From Broadway and Beyond, Including The Music Man, Hadestown by Playbill Staff

Hugh Jackman announced that he himself has contracted the virus and will be out of The Music Man through January 6.

Metropolitan Playhouse Announces Casting for She's Got Harlem on Her Mind

Timothy Johnson will direct an evening of one-act plays by Harlem Renaissance writer Eulalie Spence.

Hugh Jackman Tests Positive for Covid

The Broadway revival of The Music Man has canceled all remaining 2021 performances, but aims to reopen on January 2.

THE MUSIC MAN Cancels All Performances Through January 1st; Hugh Jackman Tests Positive For COVID-19

It was announced today all performances of Broadway's The Music Man are canceled through January 1st. All tickets can be refunded or exchanged at point of purchase. Performances will resume …

‘West Side Story’s’ Anita may be the next character to produce multiple Oscar-winning performances by Joyce Eng

Anything you can do, someone else can do better — or just as well. In academy history, only twice have two different actors won Oscars for playing the same character, but there could be a …

VIDEO: Christine Pedi Plays Liza Minnelli in Tribute to Broadway's Understudies

Producer Tom D'Angora posted a video to his Facebook page celebrating the understudies of Broadway. The video, titled 'At This Performance' stars Christine Pedi as Liza Minnelli, inserting h…

‘Ain’t Too Proud’ Announces Closing Date by Matthew Wexler

Producers announced that Broadway's 'Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations' will play its last performance on January 16, 2022. The post ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ Announc…

VIDEO: Steven Spielberg & Janusz Kamiński Discuss WEST SIDE STORY Cinematography

Steven Spielberg and Janusz Kamiński go behind the scenes of West Side Story, discussing the film's award-winning cinematography. West Side Story recently won the New York Film Critics Ci…

Temptations Musical ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ To End Broadway Run In January by Denise Petski

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations is ending its Broadway run. The jukebox musical will play its final performance on January 16 at the Imperial Theatre. The Tony-no…

‘Ain’t Too Proud’ Is Latest Broadway Show To Close - But First To Make Profit by Lee Seymour

The Motown hit is the eighth show to announce an early closure as Omicron hammers Broadway.

‘Eddie Redmayne & Jessie Buckley shimmer & scintillate in this striking reworking’: CABARET – West End by Ian Foster

Director Rebecca Frecknall and designer Tom Scutt have done an awesome job in reconfiguring the Playhouse Theatre into the risqué surroundings of The Kit Kat Club.

New Year's Week Cancellations: The Lion King, Six, Moulin Rouge!

These are the shows with performance cancellations during the final week of 2021.

Temptations Musical Ain't Too Proud Will End Its Broadway Run by Caitlin Moynihan

The hit Broadway musical Ain't Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations has set a closing date of January 16, 2022 at the Imperial Theatre. The production began previews on Februar…

Cabaret & Music Updates by Sandi Durell

SEE MORE! Dawn Derow will celebrate her one-night only CD Release of My Ship: Songs From 1941 with the return of her award-winning show to The Green Room 42 on January 15 at 7 pm – New Yor…

‘Ain’t Too Proud’ to end Broadway run Jan. 16 by Broadway News

“Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations” will play its final Broadway performance Jan. 16, producers Ira Pittelman and Tom Hulce announced Tuesday. The show canceled…

New Year's Week Closings: The Lion King, Six, Moulin Rouge!

These are the shows with performance cancellations during the final week of 2021.

Ain't Too Proud Announces Final Three Weeks on Broadway

The Temptations musical will end its Broadway run in January 2022.

THE LION KING Extends Cancelations Through December 29th Matinee

The Lion King has extended performance cancelations at The Minskoff Theatre for Tuesday, December 28th at 7PM and Wednesday, December 29th at 2PM.

Harvey Evans, Actor in Original Broadway Shows ‘West Side Story,’ ‘Hello Dolly!’ and More, Dies at 80 by Hollywood Reporter

Evans died Christmas Eve at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, said Lawrence Leritz, a friend and Broadway actor.

‘Ain’t Too Proud’ Becomes Latest Broadway Musical to Close as COVID Hits Theater Business Hard by Brent Lang

Broadway is losing another show. “Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations,” the jukebox musical about the influential vocal group behind “My Girl” and “Ain’t …

Toronto Production of Come From Away Closes After COVID Shutdown by Andrew Gans

The musical had reopened at the Royal Alexandra Theatre December 15.

Harvey Evans, cherished and essential Broadway character actor, dies at age 80 by Joseph Wilkinson

Harvey Evans, the Broadway actor whose talents got him into several classic plays in below-the-marquee roles, died Friday. Evans died at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J., his friend L…

8 Denver-area art events that will make you feel optimistic about what’s to come by Ray Mark Rinaldi

I don’t know about you, but I need a little optimism in my life.

Sugar Ray Coming to Gene Frankel Theatre by Sandi Durell

“Sugar Ray” by Laurence Holder, performed by Reginald L. Wilson, directed by Luther D. Wells will be presented January 6 to 23 by Twenty Four Bond Arts Center in association with Fa…

‘Ain’t Too Proud’ to Close on Broadway as Covid-19 Takes Its Toll by Michael Paulson

The jukebox musical about the powerhouse Motown group will end its run on Jan. 16. It is now the fourth show to announce a closing in the last eight days.

Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations to Close on Broadway by Andrew Gans

The musical opened at the Imperial Theatre in 2019.

Dickens Nailed It: South Florida Theater Two Years In Review by Bill Hirschman

If Dickens’ opening line in A Tale of Two Cities has become a trite cliché through overuse it has become a painfully accurate truism about theater over the past two years, especially Sout…

BETTY – Holly Jollypocalypse by Sandi Durell

By Andrew Poretz . . . BETTY is a popular “alternative rock” group that has performed together since the late 1980s.  They first came to my attention from their frequent appearances at …

Aint’ Too Proud Closing January 16 by Sandi Durell

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations, the smash hit Tony Award®-winning musical will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, January 16, 2022, at the Imperial …

AIN'T TOO PROUD Will Close on Broadway January 16th

 Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations, the smash hit Tony Award®-winning musical will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, January 16, 2022.

7 Theatre Books to Read This Winter by Dan Meyer

There’s plenty to cozy up with this season, including The Phantom of the Opera graphic novel, a Lorraine Hansberry biography, and more.

BroadwayRadio Special, December 28, 2021: “tick, tick…BOOM!” Review by Ashley Steves

In a special episode of BroadwayRadio, Ashley and Grace discuss the Netflix adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s “tick, tick…BOOM!,” directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and starring Andrew Gar…

Gunhild Carling & The Carling Family by Sandi Durell

By Andrew Poretz . . . Birdland’s latest must-see act, Gunhild Carling and the Carling Family Band, wowed an enthusiastic audience of fans on the second night (December 17) of their sold-o…

Best of 2021: Debuts by JK

Every New York debut is a momentous occasion for an actor, be on or off or off-off Broadway. Accomplishing this career highlight is no small task, maybe even more so in these trying times.…

‘It has enough of the film’s DNA to engender the good feeling of old’: BACK TO THE FUTURE – West End by Shanine Salmon

I’m a huge fan of Back to the Future. I saw it for the first time in January 1986 and maybe a hundred times since.

Take a Look at the 2021–2022 Tony Season Thus Far by Marc J. Franklin

As 2021 comes to a close, look back at the new productions that have officially opened this season.

Chicago cast knows a lot has to go right to create ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ by Jerald Pierce

Welcome to the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society. Chris Bean will be making his directorial debut, and for the next two hours his cast will be telling you the story of “The Murder at Haver…

Gamechanger: Local Woman Discovers Ticket Not Required to Take Instagram Photo in Front of Theater by Broadway Beat

by Rich Taylor. @RTinDC. SECAUCUS, NJ - After enduring years of cyber-generated FOMO, local woman Shannon Higgins had an epiphany,...

Celebrate Tony Award Winner Denzel Washington With a Look at His Theatre Highlights by Playbill Staff

The Tony and Oscar winner was born December 28.