Actors' Equity Association has barred its 51,000 members from in-person auditions, rehearsals and performances since April 24, and made clear at a news conference Tuesday that it is not read…
The fundraiser will feature the streaming of a benefit concert, recorded in November, in which 79 singers and dancers performed songs from Disney musicals, backed by 15 musicians.
The industry " central to, and symbolic of, New York " had for several weeks been hoping to avoid mass closings, which are likely to cost tens of millions of dollars to investors and workers…
The usher recently worked at two Broadway theatres, at performances of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," and British musical "Six."
Broadway's leaders say they are determined to keep their theatres open if at all possible, and anticipate that they would collectively close only if ordered to do so by a government agency.