353 stories from Broadway Journal
Broadway is usually a risky business " but the remount of Waitress looks like an excellent bet. Pop star Sara Bareilles, who wrote the musical's acclaimed score, will return to the lead …
The first post-pandemic preview of the highly anticipated revival of Company, Â the groundbreaking Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical, has been rescheduled to Nov. 15, more than a month…
Bruce Springsteen's summer engagement at the St. James Theatre will likely break Broadway records " but we may never know for sure. The Broadway League won't report grosses for the return of…
The U.S. Small Business Administration plans to notify about 10,000 Shuttered Venue Operators Grant applicants, or 70 percent of the total, by Independence Day, Broadway League President Cha…
EXCLUSIVE: The company producing The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway has been removed from a lawsuit by the advertising agency SpotCo, simplifying the show's return to New York after the C…
As Scott Rudin steps back from the entertainment industry following reports that he abused his staff, all indications are that his once-formidable influence on Broadway is being dispersed. A…
In comes Company " again. Marianne Elliott's revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's revered 1970 musical will resume previews on Dec. 20 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre ah…
In a hopeful sign for performing arts organizations, music venues and theater producers seeking help to resume live, in-person programming, the federal government's shuttered-venue subsid…
Some of the first Broadway shows to return in the fall will restart gradually. Six , the pop concert musical that was poised to open when Broadway shut down in March 2020, is offering tic…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today that Broadway can resume performances at 100 percent capacity on Sept. 14 and recommends that Broadway require Covid-19 vaccinations for entry to theaters. "The …
As Broadway faces the unprecedented challenge of reopening after at least 18 dark months, producers have proposed cutting back the standard eight-performance week while demand for tickets ra…
Actors' Equity Association says if everyone in a theater company has been vaccinated, a show may go on without adhering to the union's pricey pandemic protocols. "Vaccination will be a game …
The rapid rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine has increased optimism about indoor theater swiftly reopening in the U.S. Infectious disease specialists Thursday afternoon said Covid 19-testing, e…
Actors' Equity Association recently announced far-reaching health protocols that producers complained would prohibitively increase the cost of creating theater and delay the industry's re…
Ben Sprecher, who has produced shows and managed theaters in New York since the early 1980s and is best-known for a Broadway musical that collapsed before it could open, was sentenced Thursd…
EXCLUSIVE: For theater actors, a car and driver is generally a perquisite reserved for bankable stars. In this pandemic, the labor union Actors' Equity Association considers private transpor…
If and when The Book of Mormon  resumes performances on Broadway, the take-no-prisoners musical will reconsider its mission. In a video call last summer organized by lead producer Anne…
EXCLUSIVE: No one put more money into the highly anticipated Broadway revival of Company than the insurance giant Chubb. The Ladies Who Lunch LLC, which transferred the Stephen Son…
EXCLUSIVE:Â The nation's oldest theater company specializing in nurturing women writers and directors is in a seven-month court battle to recover $30,000, a significant sum for a nonprofit…
Broadway seeks givebacks from the industry's unions before performances resume, the head of the trade group that represents producers and theater owners told an online industry conference Mo…
Speaking at an industry video conference Saturday, Broadway League Chairman Thomas Schumacher said that restarting Broadway after the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic will be gradual and depen…
A Covid-19 vaccine was said to be highly effective in a large trial, heightening the possibility that Broadway can restart next year. On Monday, Pfizer Inc. and German partner BioNTech sa…
While performing arts spaces in the region remain largely shuttered because of Covid-19, Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater said that it plans to build a permanent home, its first since the Lon…
Growing up in Las Vegas, Ilana Atkins started studying piano at six but eventually hit a wall with classical music. "The music didn't speak to me," she said. "As I got older, the most consis…
EXCLUSIVE: A New York State judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a dozen investors in Nerds, Â a musical about the tech titans Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that collapsed weeks before its first…
