Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Some have taken issue with the reframing of the musical, which now focuses on the love story of an Indian American woman and a white American man.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07PMFriday, May 10, 2019
Five actors, many drinks, short-and-silly scripts and a party atmosphere generated good buzz in New York — and a second edition in Chicago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMWednesday, April 10, 2019
The theater community spans across the world, but it is famously small. So when you don't pay people who works for you, it tends to get out, especially if those folks have Broadway connectio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMMonday, April 8, 2019
For a while, it seemed like we might only have one musical revival, the Roundabout Theatre Company production of KISS ME, KATE. Then a transfer of critical darling OKLAHOMA was announced for…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMTuesday, January 1, 2019
We have a lot of new plays on Broadway this season. Thirteen are currently set. There are also seven play revivals. Two of the new plays were written by women--both produced by non-profits a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMMonday, December 24, 2018
Ten years ago, Jujamcyn Theaters founded Givenik, a service that enabled ticket buyers to give a little back to charity when buying tickets to a show.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMTuesday, November 20, 2018
It was around 3pm on November 1, 2018. The members of the company of BAT OUT OF HELL, which was in the midst of an engagement at Toronto's Mirvish Theatre, received a text saying there would…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMFriday, November 2, 2018
The Tony Awards policy has always been that in order to vote in a certain category, you needed to have seen all the shows nominated in that category. If, for example, you missed one show tha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMFriday, October 19, 2018
Theater folks are not necessarily the first to embrace change or technology. So it's not surprising when you walk into a rehearsal room and see creatives sitting with giant binders of paper.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMMonday, October 1, 2018
We are still fairly early in the Broadway season, but it is never too early to start thinking of the Tony race. And what do people seem to be focused on Whether the Roundabout Theatre Compan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMTuesday, August 21, 2018
In the last few decades, theater has become much bigger business than it used to be. However, in that same period of time, the coverage of it in mainstream media outlets has dwindled. Many o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33PMWednesday, August 1, 2018
If you have kids, or just a love of children's theater, you may have noticed that TheaterWorksUSA-and, yes, after a rebranding, that is how to write it-is not presenting its free summer thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMMonday, July 9, 2018
What do HAMILTON, THE HUMANS, DOUBT, SIDE MAN, THE WOLVES and AMERICAN IDIOT all have in common They all started with New York Stage and Film NYSAF. Since 1985, the non-profit's summer progr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMTuesday, June 19, 2018
We've all had it happen--we're sitting in the theater, we're enjoying a scene and half a row in front of us gets up because of the arrival of a latecomer. You think 'Can no one stop these pe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMSunday, June 10, 2018
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
When FringeNYC announced in fall 2016 that it would take a year off, some wondered if it would come back. After all, since the festival began in 1997, many others have sprung up around the c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
As we enter into this, the most industry of all industry times, there are some Tony related questions that many believe need answering.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMFriday, March 30, 2018
Very rarely do you hear of new ways to invest in, or contribute to, the theater. Something surprised me recently however--on the website for the off-Broadway commercial production of THE STO…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMFriday, March 16, 2018
When you think Broadway, a lot of things come to mind. For me one of them is unions because I've had to cover many a threatened strike in my day. Except Actors' Equity, the union that repres…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMFriday, November 25, 2016
A show is a product of design-from the lights that you see to the sound that surrounds you to the hair on top of the actors' heads. Hair and wig designers help define characters, though thei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMSaturday, October 29, 2016
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
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It is 704pm on a Thursday. To the average audience member of THE COLOR PURPLE, the most important person waiting backstage is one of the above-the-title stars Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Hollida…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Who helps an actor to sing material a certain way If you ask the majority of people outside the theater industry they would say people simply sound the way they sound or maybe credit the com…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:07PMThursday, September 1, 2016
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