Paul Phillips, whose long career as a Broadway stage manager included work on such notable productions as Sweet Charity, Mame, Chicago and, in 1967, the now historic Judy Garland at Home at …
Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris will donate a collection of 15 plays by Black playwrights to 53 libraries and community centers across the country, a donation made in lieu of sending …
Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon will join Roundabout Theatre Company's artistic leadership team as Senior Resident Director next month. The director, most recently of Roundabout's Ton…
Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris and New York Theatre Workshop " the Off Broadway company where he developed the acclaimed work " announced today the establishment of two $50,000 commi…
Warren Berlinger, a busy character actor whose numerous roles made him one of TV's most familiar faces from the Kraft Theatre golden age through the Grace and Frankie streaming era, died Wed…
EXCLUSIVE: Another step is being taken in Broadway's efforts to confront its own systemic racism: Broadway & Beyond, founded by stage and production managers of Hadestown, Frozen and Ala…
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says widespread, national use of an efficacious vaccine this spring and early summer could allow Bro…
The newly formed Theatre Producers of Color organization announced today its first educational program to support and mentor the next generation of BIPOC producers. The 10-week, limited-spac…
Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon opened today's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with an energetic rendition of "Dancing In The Streets," strutting like Jagger on the barricaded, crowd-free New …
EXCLUSIVE: Singer Sarah Brightman's first livestream Christmas concert next month will include a reunion with her former husband and partner-in-theater Andrew Lloyd Webber. The two will perf…
The theater industry's pandemic-shortened season seems to have opened up the Grammy playing field for cast albums, as only two of the six just-announced nominees for the 2021 awards represen…
Despite what you may have read, The Right Girl is not a musical about Harvey Weinstein. Then again, having been created by one of the first women to speak out against the rapist, it's not no…
The first Actors' Equity diversity and inclusion report since 2017 finds "modest improvement" in the hiring of actors and stage managers of color in the last three years, but describes the s…
Sony Music Masterworks has announced a strategic investment in Seaview, the theater production company behind Broadway's Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris and the Jake Gyllenhaal-Tom Sturridge …
Encores!, the acclaimed series of concert-style theatrical productions founded to rediscover overlooked Broadway gems of years past, announced plans to stage Into The Woods, the beloved Step…
Tina Fey will host NBC's One Night Only: The Best of Broadway, a two-hour special on Dec. 10 celebrating Broadway and featuring street performances from some of its most popular shows. Fey, …
EXCLUSIVE: Dylan McDermott and Phylicia Rashad will headline a streaming performance of the Tennessee Williams classic The Night of the Iguana, directed by Emily Mann and benefitting the Act…
Thoughts of a Colored Man, the critically lauded new play by Keenan Scott II and directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, will open on Broadway during the upcoming season, producers announced toda…
The Roundabout Theatre Company says it will resume production in Fall 2021 with two much anticipated shows " the COVID-delayed Jeanine Tesori/Tony Kushner musical Caroline, Or Change and Ali…
Tourism " a critical part of New York City's economy and a lifeblood for industries like Broadway theater " may not return to pre-COVID-19 levels until 2025, according to a new forecast from…
The Broadway premieres of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Lackawanna Blues and Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive have been set for 2022 and 2021, respectively, with producers at the Manhattan The…
Tony Award-nominated actor Chad Kimball, among Broadway's first wave of performers to contract the coronavirus last spring, is finding little support among his Broadway colleagues after he p…
Pete Wright, the 54-year-old Broadway stagehand who fell to his death last Thursday from a ladder on the fly floor above the Winter Garden Theater stage, is being remembered as "a force of n…
Steppenwolf's Broadway production of Tracy Letts' The Minutes is exiting the Cort Theatre, its pre-COVID home, with plans to re-open in 2022 at another Broadway venue. The move signals yet a…
EXCLUSIVE: "You thought you knew Scrooge," an ominous voice intones. "You don't know this Scrooge." So get acquainted with Estella Scrooge, the upcoming world premiere streaming musical with…