EXCLUSIVE: Jon Hartmere, writer of the Broadway-bound Britney Spears musical Once Upon a One More Time and the 2017 film The Upside, has signed with Verve. The Spears jukebox musical, with a…
Dramatists Play Service, the theatrical licensing and publishing agency formed in 1936 that represents scores the stage's most prominent playwrights, has been acquired by Broadway Licensing …
Melvin Van Peebles' groundbreaking 1971 musical Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death will return to Broadway next year with the playwright's son Mario Van Peebles onboard as Creative Produc…
Three of the nation's great regional theaters will change ownership this month, with the Ambassador Theatre Group acquiring San Francisco's Golden Gate and Orpheum theatres and Detroit's Fis…
Actors' Equity Association will hold a town hall event to address issues about safety protocols and get-back-to-work efforts raised in a petition from more than 2,000 union members last week…
With the first green shoots of spring " and mass vaccinations " bringing hope for continued drops in Covid-19 cases, some events and venues sidelined for the past year are cultivating comeba…
The early weeks of spring 2020 and Broadway's pandemic shutdown already seemed like a distant, bygone era by summertime. Initial hopes for a two- or three-week hiatus had morphed into talk o…
Broadway's Roundabout Theatre Company, with a planned 2021-22 season opener of Black playwright Alice Childress' rarely produced 1955 play Trouble in Mind, announced today the launch of a we…
New York City's annual symbol of summertime " Free Shakespeare in the Park " will return from its Covid hiatus in July, the Public Theater has announced. "We have spent the last year getting…
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…
Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center, nightclubs and music venues can reopen as of April 2, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. The Broadway announcement was tipped by Deadline e…
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…
Hayao Miyazaki's 2001 Oscar winning animated film, Spirited Away (Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi), has been set for a stage production which will have its world premiere in Tokyo in 2022. Thi…
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…