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Mel Winkler, a character actor with numerous TV, film and stage credits as well as being a recognizable voice behind characters on the animated series The New Batman Adventures and Oswald, d…
The first annual Antonyo Awards honoring black Broadway and Off Broadway theater artists is set for streaming on June 19 (aka Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of slavery in America…
The pre-recorded 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards, postponed due to the Black Lives Matter protests in New York, has been rescheduled for streaming on Saturday, June 13, at 7:30pm ET. The speci…
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS today announced $125,000 in immediate grants to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and three other anti-racism organizations. The grants include a $50,000 comm…
The Broadway Advocacy Coalition, a group founded by theater producers and actors to promote the use of the arts for social change, will host a three-day online forum June 10-12 to examine an…
The creative team and producers of Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play have donated $10,000 to the National Bailout Fund in support of Black Lives Matter, and have challenged others in the theater …
A social media campaign encouraging shutdown New York City theaters to open their lobbies " and restrooms " to protesters is gaining traction among Manhattan's Off Broadway venues and spaces…
Editors' Note: Colman Domingo, playwright, director and actor, was researching his musical (with co-author Patricia McGregor) about the iconic Nat King Cole when he realized the great singer…
Saying that now is no time for "celebration or diversion," the presenters of the annual Obie Awards for excellent in Off and Off Off Broadway theater, have postponed this year's virtual even…
John McCormack, a longtime behind-the-scenes force in Off Broadway theater, died Monday, May 18, at his home in Queens, New York from complications related to COVID-19. He was 61. McCormack'…
A streaming Broadway-themed fundraising special scheduled to air on Sunday, June 7 " the night that originally had been set for the annual Tony Awards " has been postponed in the wake of nat…
Update, with Broadway League statement The companies of Hamilton, Hadestown and What the Constitution Means To Me are among the Broadway voices speaking out on the issues that have filled ci…
Jane Moss, the artistic director at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for nearly 30 years, will step down from the post effective August 1. Moss said the timing of her departure was inf…
EXCLUSIVE: A Star Trek: Voyager reunion broke the Stars In The House single-episode fundraising record, drawing donations totaling $19,225 for The Actors Fund's efforts to assist entertainme…
Ryan Murphy, the producer and director who finally got Larry Kramer's groundbreaking play The Normal Heart to screen, remembered his late friend and collaborator today as "the single greates…
Few artists can say they've surmounted social-distancing obstacles as magically as Portuguese illusionist Helder Guimarães. The impact of social distancing on the performing arts needn't …
Refresh for updates Lin-Manuel Miranda, Benj Pasek, Rob Reiner and other figures of Hollywood and Broadway paid tribute today to Larry Kramer, the Normal Heart playwright and AIDS activis…
Larry Kramer, the playwright whose righteous fury over a lackluster governmental " and societal " response to the early AIDS crisis fueled his groundbreaking 1985 play The Normal Heart and a…
The reopening of Broadway theaters should not come without as much consideration for actors' safety as for that of audiences, Actors' Equity Association made clear today in a presentation by…
EXCLUSIVE: New York's Irish Repertory Theatre has announced an upcoming online run of four plays, becoming what could be Off Broadway's first summer season created specifically for virtual v…
A musical stage adaptation of NBC's Smash is in development for Broadway, with Steven Spielberg, Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron on board as lead producers. Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, …
Nick Cordero, the Broadway actor whose long battle with COVID-19 has been chronicled on Instagram, "had a bad morning," with wife Amanda Kloots noting in an Instagram Story video today that …
Broadway fans won't have to rely on CBS' Grease Sing-a-Long for their would-have-been Tony night celebrations: the Broadway On Demand streaming service, with support from the American…
Katelyn Kelley and Jon Demegillo, classmates in their fourth and final years at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, felt a calling to perform early in their young lives. Kat…
John Mahon, an actor, director and writer who played a police chief in 1997's L.A. Confidential and, as a language lab director in one of the creepiest moments of The Exorcist revealed that …
