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…
Widow Amanda Kloots said to her Instagram audience on Thursday that she has received a sign from her late husband. Kloots said she asked for a "sign that you're here" and she claimed it happ…
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…
Andrew Lloyd Webber has told the Donald Trump campaign to scrub his "Memory," joining a growing list of musical artists " from Neil Young to the Rolling Stones " who object to the playing of…
A coalition of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) theater workers has released a detailed, 29-page set of demands and strategies to combat racism in the Broadway theater, recommen…
Amanda Kloots, wife of the late Broadway actor Nick Cordero, has posted details of his memorial service online today, a week after he died from coronavirus complications. Kloots shared the "…
The Obie Awards, Off Broadway's most prestigious honor, has rescheduled its prerecorded 65th annual award ceremony for July 14 on YouTube. The original premiere date of June 4 was scratched …
We certainly don't need another reason to wish the coronavirus gone and Broadway back in business, but here's one anyway: Ben Platt wants to return to the stage. "Hankering," is the word he …
New York Governor Andrew said Monday he's "concerned" at the prolonged shutdown of New York City's cultural industry as the city moves into Phase 3 today with key businesses still shuttered.…
Broadway actor Nick Cordero has died after complications with COVID-19. The actor, who received a Tony nomination for his role in Bullets Over Broadway and appeared in productions of…
There's nowhere to go and little to do this July 4 weekend (thanks, coronavirus!). But Disney+ has capitalized on the downtime to bring a streaming treat to masses with the debut last night …
Stage actor and writer Sidney DuPont (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Trevor: The Musical) has gathered a group of Broadway and Off Broadway performers to launch "The Walkout Project," a…