EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award-winning playwright, actor and producer Sarah Jones has signed with UTA for worldwide representation in all areas. Jones, who won a Special Tony Award in 2006 for her on…
The Broadway future of the acclaimed David Byrne's American Utopia is unclear, but the date with HBO is certain: Spike Lee's film adaptation of the theatrical concert is set for Oct. 17, and…
In an impassioned defense of his beloved and beleaguered New York City, comedian Jerry Seinfeld has some harsh words for a Manhattan comedy club owner who bolted for Florida and recently cla…
EXCLUSIVE: The Broadway production company behind the upcoming Michael Jackson musical MJ and the stage adaptation of the hit 2000 film Almost Famous has hired The Old Globe Theater's Travis…
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who recently vowed to reopen London's The Phantom of the Opera despite what the show's producer called a "huge financial hit" from the coronavirus shutdown, has…
In a Broadway first, Diana: A New Musical, the stage production about Princess Diana that went dark with the COVID shutdown just prior to its opening night, will premiere on Netflix next yea…
Tony Charmoli, a leading television and Broadway choreographer and director who won three Emmy Awards from the 1950s through 1970s and worked with stars from Mitzi Gaynor and Shirley MacLain…
The John Gore Organization, a major Tony Award-winning production company and owner of Broadway.com and The Broadway Channel, has permanently laid off what sources say is more than 100 previ…
Two of theater's heavy-hitters are squaring off in a legal battle that could be Broadway's biggest drama during the pandemic shutdown: Ad agency Spotco is suing producer Scott Rudin for $6.3…
The Broadway League, the trade group representing Broadway and regional theater owners and producers, has added producer Brian Moreland and Kendra Whitlock Ingram, president and CEO of Milwa…
Brent Carver, a stage and screen actor who won the 1993 Tony Award for his performance in Broadway's The Kiss of the Spider Woman, died Tuesday at his home in Cranbrook, British Columbia, hi…
Labor leaders from five unions including Actors' Equity Association today joined together to demand Senate action on the HEROES Act, calling the additional $600 in weekly pandemic unemployme…
Sing Street, the sold-out Off Broadway musical that was set to begin performances at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre just as the COVID-19 shutdown hit, is now targeting an opening sometime between…
EXCLUSIVE Playwright Keenan Scott II, whose play Thoughts of a Colored Man is a likely contender for a post-shutdown Broadway staging, has signed with A3 Artists Agency in all areas. Scott, …
The Broadway Advocacy Coalition announces the creation of the BAC Artivism Fellowship to support artist activists, providing financial support, mentorship, networking opportunities and educa…
Actor Bryan Cranston revealed today a recent bout with COVID-19, posting an Instagram video of himself donating his antibody-positive plasma for research and encouraging people to wear a mas…
The Phantom of the Opera might not have left the London theater scene for good after all, assures composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Responding to a newspaper column written by Phantom producer C…
Royana Black, an actress who made her Broadway debut at age 10 in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and, five years later, took the title role in the 1988 sitcom Raising Miranda, died July…
A stage musical adaptation of the 2016 Oscar-nominated hit film Hidden Figures is in the works at Disney, with plans to assemble a creative team of Black artists, Disney Theatrical Productio…
A new organization called Black Theatre Coalition has launched its inaugural program to increase work opportunities for Black theater professionals by at least 500% within the next 10 years.…
While Congress debates how much (or how little) to parse out to the entertainment industry in the next COVID-19 relief package, a group of Broadway insiders is making clear just how wide and…
A recording of the late Nick Cordero's one-man show will be released by Broadway Records on September 17, marking what would have been the actor's 42nd birthday. Broadway Records and Cordero…
Theatrical stage union IATSE has issued a 27-page set of safety guidelines for the still-to-be-determined reopening of Broadway and other live performance venues, with recommendations includ…
A new work by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage will join Second Stage Theater's Broadway line-up for 2021, joining the company's postponed revival of Richard Greenberg…
Phyllis Somerville, an actress whose character work spanned decades as well as television (The Big C, NYPD Blue), film (Little Children, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and the stage (B…