Monday, September 13, 2021
The long-delayed Tony Awards have landed two impressive master of ceremonies — Tony- and Grammy-winning singer and actor Leslie Odom Jr. will host a splashy TV special and the awards will …
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 10:02AMFriday, August 27, 2021
Examining every aspect of their productions has led New York's theaters to everything from touchless bathroom facilities to scrapping the tradition of actors signing autographs after shows.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 10:33AMFriday, August 6, 2021
Musician Lisa Loeb logged onto a Zoom of former Brown musical theater students and listened as people reminisced about shows and talked about how COVID-19 had affected their plans and hopes.…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 12:13PMThursday, May 27, 2021
The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. announced Thursday that it will stage “Once Upon a One More Time,” featuring Spears’ tunes, including “Oops!… I Did It Again,”…
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Producers announced Monday that tickets will go on sale June 11 for the eight-time Tony Award winning musical and that the production will resume playing the Walter Kerr Theatre weeks before…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:27AMTuesday, May 4, 2021
Kristin Chenoweth, Laura Benanti, Sierra Boggess, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Santino Fontana, Judy Kuhn, Howard McGillin, Norm Lewis, Kelli O’Hara and Sally Wilfert will perform in …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:23AMWednesday, April 28, 2021
The Grammy-nominated leader of Florence + The Machine is supplying the lyrics and co-writing music for a stage musical adaptation of “The Great Gatsby,” it was announced Wednesday. No ca…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:51AMSaturday, April 17, 2021
The move comes more than a week after The Hollywood Reporter’s cover story on Rudin contained accounts of the producing heavyweight throwing glass bowls, staples and baked potatoes at form…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:54AMSunday, April 11, 2021
How have Hollywood and Broadway responded to an exposé detailing routine abuse and bullying by producer Scott Rudin? Mostly, with crickets.
SOURCE: apnews.com at 09:00AMTuesday, March 23, 2021
The series kicks off Thursday with “The Thanksgiving Play” by Larissa FastHorse, directed by Leigh Silverman starring Reeves, Bobby Cannavale, Heidi Schreck and Alia Shawkat.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:11PMFriday, January 8, 2021
Monday, December 14, 2020
Ann Reinking, the Tony Award-winning choreographer, actress and Bob Fosse collaborator who helped spread a cool, muscular hybrid of jazz and burlesque movement to Broadway and beyond, has di…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 07:31PMWednesday, November 25, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — Jawan M. Jackson recently got to do something he’s been yearning to do for months — sing and dance again with his Broadway cast. Jackson is one of the stars of “Ain�…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 10:57AMFriday, October 30, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Lloyd Webber is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of his “Jesus Christ Superstar” album with the first single from his latest musical, “Cinderell…
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 03:30PMThursday, October 22, 2020
The hourlong, nonpartisan “Act Out: Vote 2020” will be performed by Yvette Nicole Brown, Ryan J. Haddad, Brian Tyree Henry, Lloyd Knight, Sandra Oh and Ephraim Skyes.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:50AMFriday, 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 12:00PM 
