G.W. "Skip" Mercier, a prolific set, costume and puppet designer whose scenic work for Julie Taymor's Broadway production of Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass earned a Tony Award nomination in 1…
In the year since the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the Broadway industry, The Actors Fund has distributed more than $19 million in direct cash assistance to more than 15,000 people, with more…
To hear the cast of Broadway's Company tell it, the industry's shutdown one year ago today was perhaps more shocking than surprising, arriving swiftly but maybe not swiftly enough. For at le…
A coalition of New York arts businesses and organizations, including Tony Awards co-presenter the American Theatre Wing, is calling on New York state legislators for economic relief and supp…
To mark its one-year anniversary on March 16, the Actors Fund benefit YouTube series Stars in the House will feature a special all-new week-long series of its popular reunion episodes, bring…
Kathryn Hahn, Keanu Reeves, Debbie Allen, Ellen Burstyn and Bobby Cannavale are among the actors who'll take part in this year's virtual Spotlight on Plays series benefitting The Actors Fund…
The Queen's Gambit, the Walter Tevis novel recently adapted as the hit Netflix miniseries, could be headed to Broadway as a musical. Entertainment company Level Forward has the acquired thea…
Joan Weldon, stage actress and a Warner Bros. contract player in the 1950s who achieved lasting sci-fi fame in the creature feature giant ant classic Them!, died Feb. 11 at her home in Fort …
Actors' Equity is warning members that New York City's just-launched "Open Culture" program of outdoor performances on city streets does not meet the union's minimum standards for wages or i…
A select number of now-dark Broadway venues will begin opening in April for a series of live- performance pop-up events that could establish the safety protocols needed for the theater indus…
Bill C. Davis, whose 1981 Broadway hit play Mass Appeal was adapted for a 1984 feature film starring Jack Lemmon and Željko Ivanek, died Feb. 26 following a brief illness, his family has …
Keenan Scott II's play Thoughts of a Colored Man has officially landed a venue " the Golden Theatre " becoming the first new, non-revival show to take up Broadway residence since the industr…
The Coalition of Broadway Unions & Guilds is calling for health care relief in the upcoming New York State budget, specifically urging for the updating and renewal of the state's COBRA s…
Douglas Turner Ward, the director, actor and playwright who co-founded the landmark, influential Off Broadway Black theater group the Negro Ensemble Company, died Saturday, Feb. 20, at his h…
Gary Gunas, executive producer of such Broadway musicals as The Who's Tommy, Jekyll & Hyde and Ragtime, died today of pancreatic cancer at his home in London. He was 73. His death was an…
Martha Stewart, an actress whose run of 1940s and '50s era Hollywood hits included costarring roles in Daisy Kenyon opposite Joan Crawford and In a Lonely Place with Humphrey Bogart, died Fe…
Christopher Pennock, whose long career in daytime drama is best remembered for his portrayal of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde character on ABC's supernatural soap Dark Shadows, died Feb. 12 foll…
Whoopi Goldberg won't be falling back into the old habit after all: The View moderator has canceled plans to appear in an upcoming London revival of Sister Act The Musical due to the product…
Amber Ruffin has joined the Broadway-bound team of Some Like It Hot as a co-writer of the film-to-stage adaptation. The host of Peacock's The Amber Ruffin Show will partner with Tony nominee…
Joe Allen, whose self-named restaurant on W. 46th Street in Manhattan's theater district has been a sort of commissary-slash-clubhouse for Broadway folks " and that fans who love them " sinc…
Stars in the House, the popular YouTube series known for reuniting classic TV and Broadway casts, will be hosted every Tuesday in February by prominent members of the Black theatre community…
In yet another sign that Broadway is taking its pandemic shutdown pause to re-evaluate itself, Jujamcyn Theaters announced today that it had entered into a multi-year partnership with ticket…
The curtain's inching up on the Tony Awards: A ceremony will be held on an as-yet-undetermined date in coordination with Broadway's eventual reopening, but voters will finally be able to mak…
Editors note: Earlier this week, IATSE president Matthew Loeb informed President Joe Biden that the union's members "stand ready to help build vaccination sites across the country, or to con…
Bob Avian, the dancer-turned-choreographer who played an integral role in such pivotal Broadway musicals as A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, Company, Follies and Miss Saigon, died of cardiac ar…