353 stories from Broadway Journal
Jagged Little Pill, Â a musical about teenage and parental angst based on Alanis Morissette's bestselling 1995Â album, was nominated for 15 Tony awards, the most of any show last season.…
The Broadway League is extending the industry's shutdown through May 2021, bringing theater's devastating closure to at least 14 months. The announcement, which people briefed on the plan sa…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Amidst Broadway's endless intermission, Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin has a message for the trade association's members: Pay your dues. Membership renewal invo…
The Tony Awards, postponed from June because of the Covid-19 pandemic, will be produced virtually on an unspecified date this year. In an email to members of the Broadway League, President C…
SpotCo, a leading Broadway advertising and marketing agency, filed suit in New York State Supreme Court against producer Scott Rudin, claiming that he left the company on the hook for $6.3 m…
Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of the blockbuster Hamilton  and a producer of the film version that streamed on Disney+, received an emergency small business loan for his company backe…
When the pandemic gives way to live performance, producer Scott Rudin plans to present an American classic about the gift of being alive. Rudin is assembling cast and creatives for the first…
The Broadway League said theaters are offering refunds through Jan. 3, 2021, as the industry officially canceled performances for the rest of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic. With 1…
EXCLUSIVE:Â The coronavirus epidemic must be "under control" and testing be frequent and accurate before it's safe for actors and stage managers to return to work, the executive director o…
EXCLUSIVE: The Public Theater, which has earned tens of millions of dollars launching Hamilton, received federal assistance meant to preserve jobs threatened by the pandemic. The Publi…
In another sign that Broadway doesn't see a quick return of theater amid the coronavirus pandemic, the producers of a musical about Michael Jackson postponed performances until next year. MJ…
Broadway has given up predicting when it will be back. With no indication about when it will be safe to produce theater in New York or when audiences will feel comfortable returning, the Bro…
As nonprofit theater companies struggle through an open-ended shutdown, Playwrights Horizons has scored a double shot of validation from the New York Drama Critics' Circle. A Strange Loop, M…
Is the Broadway season over? If so, statistically, 2019-20 was both disastrous and illustrative of the industry's resilience. The season that was to end in late May is effectively kaput, tha…
The Broadway League extended its shutdown through June 7, the original date of the Tony Awards, guaranteeing that Broadway will be closed at least three months due to the coronavirus pandemi…
Producing theater is quixotic in the best of circumstances. Weathering the industry's longest-ever shutdown, which has halted shows and cut off incomes, makes the endeavor that much more dau…
BREAKING: The Broadway League today introduced websites with information about city, state, federal and philanthropic relief packages for employees and employers battered by the covid-19 cri…
With no way of knowing when New York's cultural life will resume, Lincoln Center Theater has suspended production of its summer shows. Two plays scheduled to open in July have been postponed…
Broadway can't reopen without New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's permission, and it may be among the last sectors of society to get it, Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin wrote to memb…
The Broadway League and American Theatre Wing indefinitely postponed the 2020 Tony Awards, which was scheduled for June 7 at Radio City Music Hall. This afternoon's announcement follows the …
With no indication of when New York and Broadway will reopen for business amid a worsening public health and economic catastrophe, producer Scott Rudin cancelled his revival of Edward Albee'…
With no end in sight for the global coronavirus pandemic and U.S. theater shutdown, the Broadway League announced an agreement with the industry's unions requiring suspended productions to p…
Broadway will go dark for at least a month " its longest shutdown in modern times " as U.S. performing arts and professional sports screech to a halt in an attempt to limit the public health…
The National Basketball Association announced it will suspend its season, after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for the coronavirus. Los Angeles Times story here. The announcement may put…
The musicals Ain't Too Proud,  Moulin Rouge, Frozen, Jagged Little Pill and The Tina Turner Musical posted their worst sales since opening as tourists increasingly stay home in respon…
