John Earl Jelks, currently appearing in the HBO Max series Love Life, has joined the previously announced Debra Messing and Enrico Colantoni in the cast of the upcoming Broadway production o…
Robert Allan Ackerman, the director whose television work scored five Emmy nominations and who directed acclaimed Broadway productions including Bent and Extremities, died Jan. 10 of kidney …
The closing notice and possible return for Broadway's Girl From The North Country was barely cold before a second major production announced its own hiatus: To Kill a Mockingbird will close …
The acclaimed Bob Dylan musical Girl From The North Country will play its final Broadway performance at The Belasco Theatre on Jan. 23, with producers saying they're in advanced conversation…
Shoshana Bean has joined the cast of Billy Crystal's upcoming Broadway musical Mr. Saturday Night, producers announced today. Also announced were new preview and opening dates: The musical w…
After 10 seasons at the pressure cooker of Saturday Night Live, Cecily Strong comes well prepared, much loved and properly steeled to her New York stage debut as the solo star in an Off Broa…
Vincent J. Sainato, a visual designer whose ad campaigns for Rent and Avenue Q helped launch those musicals as long-running Broadway stalwarts, died Jan. 8 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, foll…
Jack Viertel, whose 34 years with Broadway's Jujamcyn Theaters included stints as both the Creative Director and, more recently, Senior Vice President, announced his retirement today, effect…
Broadway's traditional post-holiday January doldrums teamed up with a slate of show closings and a national skyrocketing surge in Omicron cases to send box office tumbling by nearly a third …
Broadway's mask and Covid vaccination requirements for audiences and theater workers has been extended through April 30, with the rules expanding to include children ages 5- to 11-years-old …
The foundation created by Cabaret lyricist Fred Ebb has awarded a record-setting $2.6 million to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The gift is the single largest in Broadway Cares history. …
EXCLUSIVE: A newly launched financial grant program called The 1/52 Project will offer $15,000 grants to theater designers, with a mission to encourage early career designers from historical…
Flying Over Sunset will end its limited engagement Broadway run three weeks earlier than planned, producer Lincoln Center Theater announced today. The musical, which imagines a meeting of th…
Joan Copeland, an actress whose Broadway career began in the 1940s and would include acclaimed performances in a 1976 revival of Pal Joey and in the 1980 premiere of The America Clock, writt…
Broadway box office receipts rebounded by a significant margin last week, climbing to $26 million from Christmas Week's grim, Covid-decimated $14 million estimate. That's an overall, week-to…
Paradise Square, the musical from producer Garth H. Drabinsky set during the history-making New York Draft Riots of the 1860s, has postponed its Broadway arrival by three weeks due to the…
The Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway production of Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew starring Phylicia Rashad has canceled performances through Sunday, Jan. 9, due to breakthrough Covid c…
Mrs. Doubtfire is the latest Broadway production to go on hiatus on Jan. 10 following rising Omicron cases. Producers announced on Sunday that the show is set to return to the Stephen Sondhe…
Allan Larson, father of Jonathan Larson and a dedicated caretaker of the Rent playwright's legacy, has died. His death was announced last night on Twitter by Lin-Manuel Miranda, director of …
With the recent Broadway cancellations and Omicron knocking New York City for a holiday loop, it's easy to forget that Broadway's fall season was, artistically speaking, stellar, with a slat…
We got trouble, my friends, right there in New York City. It's trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with C, and that stands for … Covid. Broadway's revival of The Music Man has canc…
Ain't Too Proud " The Life and Times of The Temptations is ending its Broadway run. The jukebox musical will play its final performance on January 16 at the Imperial Theatre. The Tony-nomina…
David Byrne will present a revised version of his American Utopia Broadway show beginning Tuesday, due to several breakthrough Covid cases among his onstage band. In an Instagram video today…
They won't be singing "Ya Got Trouble" at the Hugh Jackman Music Man revival. At least, not on the scheduled Christmas Day and Dec. 26 shows, which have been officially canceled because of C…
Waitress, the Broadway musical featuring music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, has canceled its remaining performances at the Ethel Barrymore theatre, producers announced tonight. The decision…