Friday, August 28, 2020
The Tony Administration Committee met for the final time Thursday to discuss eligible productions for the virtual Tony Awards this fall. There will be 18 productions from the 2019-2020 s…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Jujamcyn Theaters is suing its insurers over a lack of coverage during the pandemic. The theater owner, which operates five Broadway theaters, was denied coverage under its property insu…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:18PM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2020
The eligibility cutoff date for the upcoming Tony Awards is Feb. 19, 2020, Tony Award Productions confirmed Friday. The eligibility date would mean that "West Side Story" and "Girl from the …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 03:30PM[SHARE]The 74th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast digitally this fall. Final eligibility determinations will be made by the Tony Awards Administration Committee in the coming days, Tony Award Pr…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Advertising agency AKA is launching an office on the West Coast. The Los Angeles office will be headed up by Joaquin Esteva, formerly the client services group director for AKA NYC, and will…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 03:53PM[SHARE]Emmanuel Wilson, former director of membership at the Dramatists Guild, has been appointed to the new position of managing director for the guild. In the role, Wilson will oversee the staff,…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 02:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2020
Travis LeMont Ballenger, formerly the associate artistic director at San Diego's Globe Theater, has joined Lia Vollack Productions as a producer. As part of the production company, started b…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Actors' Equity has approved the safety plan for the filming of "Diana" on Netflix, the union announced Wednesday. The safety plan includes "an isolation plan" for the actors and stage manage…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:22AM[SHARE]"Diana" will shoot a filmed version of the musical for Netflix ahead of an expected 2021 Broadway opening. The musical will be filmed without an audience at the Longacre Theatre, where "…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2020
Advertising agency SpotCo is suing producer Scott Rudin for what it says is more than $6 million in owed payments. At issue is unpaid work the agency says it has done on Rudin's Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 03:57PM[SHARE]The Broadway League has voted Broadway producer Brian Moreland and Kendra Whitlock Ingram, president of the Marcus Performing Arts Center, to its board of governors. They join the about 50-p…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2020
"Sing Street" is delaying its Broadway opening to a date between winter 2021 and winter 2022, the producers announced Monday. The new musical, based on the 2016 film by John Carney, was orig…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:52AM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2020
"The Phantom of the Opera" is eyeing a return to both Broadway and the West End. Producer Cameron Mackintosh wrote in the Evening Standard last week that he and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2020
TodayTix has acquired theater review aggregator Show-Score. As part of the deal, which closed mid-July, Show-Score will retain its own branding and website, while becoming integrated int…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2020
The Black Theatre Coalition, a new organization co-founded by T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams and Reginald "Reggie" Van Lee, seeks to increase employment opportunities for Black theater profess…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 03:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2020
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society said Tuesday that its is endorsing Joe Biden for president. This is the first time the union has backed a presidential candidate in its 60-year…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 01:51PM[SHARE]Second Stage will present the New York premiere of a play by Lynn Nottage in its 2021 season. Nottage's play, which is currently untitled, will be directed by Kate Whoriskey and is sched…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 19, 2020
Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters will not be allowed to open as New York City enters Phase 4 of reopening on July 20. While theaters were originally included in this phase " the final …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2020
The Broadway industry is relying on the passage of additional federal relief packages to sustain its workforce. With a July 31 deadline for extending the additional $600 in unemployment bene…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2020
Producer Ken Davenport has been hired as advisor of theatrical development and production for Primary Wave Music Publishing. In the developmental deal, Davenport will have access to the …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2020
Actors' Equity has released guidelines for COVID-19 testing as theaters plan reopening strategies. Under the guidelines, actors, stage managers and any other staff members who will interact …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 04:59PM[SHARE]The Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers has elected Penny Daulton as president of the union for theatrical press agents, company managers and house managers. Daulton, a compa…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:59AM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2020
Actors' Equity issued a statement Monday mourning the death of actor Nick Cordero. Cordero passed away July 5 after contracting COVID-19 and spending 95 days in the intensive care unit at Ce…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2020
"Take Me Out," starring Jesse Williams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more, has rescheduled its Broadway run to spring 2021. The revival of Richard Greenberg's play, produced by Second Stage, was…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2020
The Actors Fund is launching a health insurance counseling and education campaign for performing artists and entertainment workers. The campaign, Every Artist Ensured, will provide worke…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]The Broadway League announced Monday that all shows will be closed through 2020. Ticket refunds will be processed through Jan. 3. As previously reported, the Jan. 3 date is not intended as a…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 12:07PM[SHARE]Broadway's costume shops have banded together in a fight for their survival. A group of more than 40 small business owners, whose costuming businesses create pieces for theater, televisi…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 26, 2020
Roundabout Theatre Company has moved its theatrical season, including "Caroline, or Change," to spring 2021. "Birthday Candles" starring Debra Messing, has been moved to fall 2021. In ad…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2020
"American Buffalo" and "The Minutes" have rescheduled their Broadway dates to spring 2021. The two plays, lead produced by Jeffrey Richards, were originally intended to open on Broadway in s…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2020
"The Music Man," starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, has pushed its opening to spring 2021. The musical, produced by Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and David Geffen, was originally set to be…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 12:15PM[SHARE]Lincoln Center Theater has moved its Broadway production of "Flying Over Sunset" to spring 2021. The new musical, as well as Lynn Nottage's opera "Intimate Apparel," were previously set to p…
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