Tuesday, March 24, 2020
More than 20 Broadway producers have pledged $1 million in matching funds for the COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The producers will match every new …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:36AM[SHARE]Monday, March 23, 2020
Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:00PM[SHARE]Sunday's one-night-only, celebrity-packed livestream return of The Rosie O'Donnell Show raised more than $600,000 in support of The Actors Fund during the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers say. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:26PM[SHARE]Broadway actor Aaron Tveit, star of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, announced today that he's tested positive for COVID-19 and has been in quarantine since the March 12 Broadway shutdown. "I'm fe…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2020
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the much-anticipated Broadway revival starring Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett with a powerhouse creative and production team, will not resume performances…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:19AM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2020
The Broadway League, representing producers, theatre owners and general managers, has reached an agreement with Broadway unions for emergency relief during the COVID-19 shutdown. The agreeme…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:39PM[SHARE]The Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's new comedy Hangmen will not resume performances when the coronavirus shutdown is lifted. The producers of the Olivier Award-winning play, starrin…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:00PM[SHARE]Two days ago Andrew Lloyd Webber's Twitter page asked socially-isolated followers which of the composer's songs they'd most like to hear Sir Andrew play. The answer was clear " "All I Ask Of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:06PM[SHARE]This year's Jimmy Awards " the annual Broadway talent showcase for high school musical performers from across the country " has been canceled over COVID-19 concerns, the Broadway League has …
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2020
Actress Jeanna de Waal has appeared on Broadway's musical theater stage before " she was among the replacement casts for both Kinky Boots and American Idiot. She was in 2012's Off Broadway r…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2020
With the Broadway League weighing CDC recommendations for an additional four weeks of dark theaters, the likelihood of this year's Tony Awards staying on schedule is shrinking daily, if not …
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:04PM[SHARE]Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders,…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2020
The Broadway League, the trade organization representing theater owners and producers, is in discussions about new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control calling for the eight-week po…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:27AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2020
The League of Professional Theatre Women, a non-profit representing more than 500 theater artists, is offering members impacted by the coronavirus Broadway shutdown access to an emergency lo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:53AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2020
Tony Award-wining actress Laura Benanti just cheered up theater kids across the country: In a just-posted Instagram video message, the Sound of Music Live! and Nashville star is inviting hig…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2020
"Well, this is not the way I wanted to say goodbye." So begins Real Housewife and Chicago star Erika Jayne's farewell to New York and her theater colleagues, one of many social media respons…
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:24PM[SHARE]Actors' Equity, the union representing actors and stage managers, told members today that Broadway's month-long shutdown is "uncharted territory," and that discussions with employers about s…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:33PM[SHARE]Telecharge, the service that bills itself as the official ticketing site for Broadway and Off Broadway, will automatically refund Broadway tickets purchased for performances between today an…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:37PM[SHARE]Broadway is going dark, effective today, a day before a statewide ban of all gatherings of more than 500 people will go into effect. In a statement released by the Broadway League, the immed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:21PM[SHARE]Broadway's hit musical Moulin Rouge! has canceled today's matinee and evening performances. The production tweeted the cancellation announcement without explaining the reason, but sources te…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:13PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: The Broadway League has called an emergency meeting today as theater owners and producers consider a proposal to shut down all Broadway productions immediately over coronavirus co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:12PM[SHARE]UPDATE, with video New York City is developing guidelines for Broadway during the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN today, with new rules expected to be issued by tomorrow.…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:50AM[SHARE]A part-time Broadway usher who recently worked at two theaters has tested positive for coronavirus, the theater owners have confirmed, as both shows " Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Producer Scott Rudin is slashing ticket prices to $50 through March for whatever seats remain available at his five usually sold-out Broadway productions, a move designed to help keep theate…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:05AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2020
Broadway producers are "cautiously optimistic" as attendance figures for last week show little, if any, immediate impact from the global coronavirus scare. Charlotte St. Martin, president of…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:51PM[SHARE]The Marc Shaiman-Scott Wittman stage musical adaptation of Some Like It Hot will make its pre-Broadway debut next March in Chicago, with, as previously announced, Tony Award-winner Casey Nic…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:06PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2020
The nation's coronavirus scare has not as yet impacted Broadway production schedules, with all shows currently playing as planned in theaters scrubbed and disinfected with extra vigor and st…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2020
In case you hadn't noticed over the last five or six decades, Bob Dylan can't be contained, not by any particular genre, persona, creed or even voice, and the same can mostly be said for Gir…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Hailey Kilgore, a 2018 Tony Award nominee for her performance in the Broadway musical Once On This Island, has joined the cast of the Starz series Power Book III: Raising Kanan. She'll play …
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:48PM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda's Miranda Family Fund has made a 10-year $1 million commitment to provide scholarships for the National Theater Institute, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's six-semester…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:25PM[SHARE]Once Upon a One More Time, the Broadway-bound musical set to Britney Spears songs has found its fairy tale cast, with Briga Heelan set to play Cinderella, Justin Guarini as Prince Charming a…
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