Monday, April 5, 2021
NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang released a sweeping "arts revival" proposal today that would include the use of city funds and corporate commitments to purchase "hundreds of thousands" of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:38PM[SHARE]The L.A. Stage Alliance, the 46-year-old nonprofit service organization behind the Los Angeles-area's annual Ovation theater awards, has ceased operations following the mass resignation of m…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 3, 2021
Arthur Kopit, whose 1969 Broadway play Indians was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and later adapted as the film Buffalo Bill and the Indians starring Paul Newman, died Friday in New York. He w…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:46AM[SHARE]Friday, April 2, 2021
Armie Hammer has withdrawn from the planned 2022 Broadway production of Tracy Letts' The Minutes, producers confirmed today. The news is the latest hit to Hammer's career in the wake of sexu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:04PM[SHARE]More than 25 Los Angeles area theater companies, including the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse and the Deaf West Theatre, have revoked their memberships in the L.A. Stage Alliance a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 1, 2021
Monday, March 22, was Stephen Sondheim's birthday, his 91st, and it came and went without one of the star-packed concert extravaganzas that marked previous milestones in the composer's life,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 31, 2021
A Wolverine jacket donated by Hugh Jackman, a pair of Elton John's eyeglasses, boots and jeans from Bruce Springsteen and Bette Midler's glittery black Halloween 2014 gown are just a few of …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 30, 2021
A most unusual year in theater will be recognized by a most unusual Drama League Awards: This year, the traditionally New York-centric honors will be expanded to include theatrical artists a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:37PM[SHARE]A Game of Thrones stage production is in the early stages of development from producers Simon Painter and Tim Lawson, with the play being written and adapted Duncan MacMillan working alongsi…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:53AM[SHARE]Diana: The Musical will return to Broadway in December, two months after a special presentation of the production premieres on Netflix, producers announced today. Pending government approval…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:33AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The Mystic Pizza stage musical announced last year will get delivered this summer in a first production at the Playhouse in Ogunquit, ME, and the show will have some unexpected in…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 25, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Grammy-winning country music star, actress and longtime Sugarland vocalist Jennifer Nettles has made no secret of her passion for Broadway " she once said her dream gig would be p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:30PM[SHARE]New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that a Broadway Covid-19 vaccination site reserved for theater industry workers will be included in the city's drive to get the industry back on…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Meryl Streep, Mary-Louise Parker and Carla Gugino have joined the line-up of actors taking part in this year's virtual Spotlight on Plays series benefitting The Actors Fund, with Streep reun…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Jon Hartmere, writer of the Broadway-bound Britney Spears musical Once Upon a One More Time and the 2017 film The Upside, has signed with Verve. The Spears jukebox musical, with a…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:30PM[SHARE]Dramatists Play Service, the theatrical licensing and publishing agency formed in 1936 that represents scores the stage's most prominent playwrights, has been acquired by Broadway Licensing …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:31AM[SHARE]Melvin Van Peebles' groundbreaking 1971 musical Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death will return to Broadway next year with the playwright's son Mario Van Peebles onboard as Creative Produc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, March 22, 2021
Three of the nation's great regional theaters will change ownership this month, with the Ambassador Theatre Group acquiring San Francisco's Golden Gate and Orpheum theatres and Detroit's Fis…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PM[SHARE]Actors' Equity Association will hold a town hall event to address issues about safety protocols and get-back-to-work efforts raised in a petition from more than 2,000 union members last week…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 17, 2021
The early weeks of spring 2020 and Broadway's pandemic shutdown already seemed like a distant, bygone era by summertime. Initial hopes for a two- or three-week hiatus had morphed into talk o…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:17PM[SHARE]Broadway's Roundabout Theatre Company, with a planned 2021-22 season opener of Black playwright Alice Childress' rarely produced 1955 play Trouble in Mind, announced today the launch of a we…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 16, 2021
New York City's annual symbol of summertime " Free Shakespeare in the Park " will return from its Covid hiatus in July, the Public Theater has announced. "We have spent the last year getting…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:39AM[SHARE]Monday, March 15, 2021
G.W. "Skip" Mercier, a prolific set, costume and puppet designer whose scenic work for Julie Taymor's Broadway production of Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass earned a Tony Award nomination in 1…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 13, 2021
In the year since the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the Broadway industry, The Actors Fund has distributed more than $19 million in direct cash assistance to more than 15,000 people, with more…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 12, 2021
To hear the cast of Broadway's Company tell it, the industry's shutdown one year ago today was perhaps more shocking than surprising, arriving swiftly but maybe not swiftly enough. For at le…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 11, 2021
A coalition of New York arts businesses and organizations, including Tony Awards co-presenter the American Theatre Wing, is calling on New York state legislators for economic relief and supp…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 9, 2021
To mark its one-year anniversary on March 16, the Actors Fund benefit YouTube series Stars in the House will feature a special all-new week-long series of its popular reunion episodes, bring…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:35PM[SHARE]Monday, March 8, 2021
Kathryn Hahn, Keanu Reeves, Debbie Allen, Ellen Burstyn and Bobby Cannavale are among the actors who'll take part in this year's virtual Spotlight on Plays series benefitting The Actors Fund…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:00PM[SHARE]The Queen's Gambit, the Walter Tevis novel recently adapted as the hit Netflix miniseries, could be headed to Broadway as a musical. Entertainment company Level Forward has the acquired thea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 4, 2021
Joan Weldon, stage actress and a Warner Bros. contract player in the 1950s who achieved lasting sci-fi fame in the creature feature giant ant classic Them!, died Feb. 11 at her home in Fort …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:58PM[SHARE]Actors' Equity is warning members that New York City's just-launched "Open Culture" program of outdoor performances on city streets does not meet the union's minimum standards for wages or i…
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