For only the second time in its century-plus history, Actors' Equity Association, the union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theater, has endorsed…
The upcoming season of Encores! at New York's City Center will include an adaptation by Pose's Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997. Porter's adaptat…
U.S. Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Broadway League renewed the call for dedicated federal funding for Broadway and other New York live venues today, reiterating the push for the…
Nick Cordero's album Live Your Life: Live at Feinstein's/54 Below, released posthumously yesterday on what would have been the Broadway star's 42nd birthday, hit #1 on iTunes album chart las…
A filmed version of Heidi Schreck's acclaimed, Tony-nominated Broadway play What the Constitution Means to Me will premiere Oct. 16 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, the streamer said today…
Tony Tanner, the Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer of Broadway's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1982, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88. His d…
EXCLUSIVE: Bob Martin, co-writer of the Tony Award-nominated book for Broadway's The Prom and the upcoming Netflix film adaptation, has signed with Verve for representation in all areas. Mar…
A coronavirus relief fund for New York City's small theaters was launched today by The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, the arts service organization dedicated to supporting nonpro…
Broadway's Roundabout Theatre Company has named Miranda Haymon as Resident Director, making the company's resources available to develop their own work and to contribute to the overall artis…
Al Kasha, the Academy Award-winning composer who, along with songwriting partner Joel Hirschhorn, won Oscars for the soft rock disaster movie classics "The Morning After" and "We May Never L…
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway's Tony- and Grammy-nominated couple Andy Karl and Orfeh have acquired the rights to Eric Bernat's 2016 mystery novel The Dancer. The deal marks the duo's first collaborat…
A COVID-19 vaccine would likely not be an immediate, complete solution to Broadway's woes, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, who noted in an interview this week that it could take a year of reliable v…
With Broadway theaters and other stages shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic, the Pulitzer Prize board has amended its rules of drama prize eligibility to include online productions and sho…
Ben Brantley, the influential New York Times theater critic, will leave the job next month. "This pandemic pause in the great, energizing party that is the theater seemed to me like a goo…
EXCLUSIVE With a roster of Broadway actors from such recent or on-pause productions as Waitress, Hadestown, The Play That Goes Wrong and Moulin Rouge!, a new musical inspired by A Christmas …
Veteran Broadway general manager Nathan Gehan is opening his own New York City general management firm, ShowTown Theatricals, with a roster of clients including the international musical pro…
Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre has indefinitely postponed its world premiere stage adaptation of the 2005 George Clooney-co-written film Good Night, and Good Luck, a project that had generate…
Timothy Graphenreed, a longtime musical and dance arranger who composed two numbers for the beloved Broadway musical The Wiz, died March 1 at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital. He was 68. Gra…
The recently formed Costume Industry Coalition has launched a pandemic emergency relief campaign for New York City's pattern makers, cutters, stitchers, tailors, milliners, hand finishers an…
Producer Ryan Murphy drew the curtain back on the cast of Netflix's The Prom, sharing a first-look photo of the "icon-packed" group on Instagram. See the entire photo below. "Meet the incred…
Broadway's Second Stage Theater has hired Khady Kamara, the managing director of Arena Stage in Washington D.C., as the New York company's new executive director. Kamara will join Second Sta…
Eighteen Broadway productions will be eligible for this year's Tony Awards competition, an awards committee confirmed today. The figure is significantly lower than last year's pre-pandemic 3…
In a lawsuit that offers a glimpse of COVID-19's economic threat to the Broadway industry, Jujamcyn Theaters, owner of five major Broadway venues, is suing its insurance companies after the …
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway and TV writers, actors and directors Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse have signed with ICM Partners for literary representation across all media. Taylor is best known for perf…
Castmates of the late Nick Cordero from such stage productions as A Bronx Tale, Bullets Over Broadway, The Toxic Avenger, Rock of Ages and Waitress will take part in a special memorial tribu…