As they struggle to recover after the pandemic, regional theaters are staging fewer shows, giving fewer performances, laying off staff and, in some cases, closing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:13AMA teenage ritual takes on deeper significance as a setting where autistic young people can blossom — and exercise their social skills along the way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:13AMThe institution, a titan among nonprofit theaters, is suffering from the combined effects of falling revenue and rising costs plaguing the arts world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:49AMThe production opened in London with Eddie Redmayne in a starring role; the New York cast has not yet been announced but he is expected to join it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:13AMAt a time when lawmakers and parents are seeking to restrict what can and cannot be taught in classrooms, many teachers are seeing efforts to limit what can be staged in their auditoriums.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:25AMThe Theater Development Fund’s departing director reflects on two decades of work expanding access to theater and the paths that lie ahead for Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:04AMThe pair, who were the original co-stars of “The Book of Mormon,” will return to Broadway this fall in a two-man musical comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:55AM“Leopoldstadt,” which was named best play, and “Kimberly Akimbo,” which won best musical, saw considerable increases in ticket sales.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMSecond Stage, a nonprofit with a focus on living American dramatists, said it will present works by the playwrights on Broadway this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PMThe Tony Awards went off with out a hitch despite a screenwriters’ strike. Among the highlights: The first acting awards for out nonbinary performers, and prizes for two shows about antise…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:49PMGhee became the first out nonbinary performer to win a Tony for best leading actor in a musical, for ‘Some Like It Hot.’
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:43PM“Thank you for seeing me Broadway,” the performer said of winning the award for best featured actor in a musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMHere is all the information you’ll need to tune in on Sunday to the annual ceremony honoring Broadway’s top productions and performers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:04AMAfter the musicians’ union raised objections to the show’s plans to use recorded music instead of a live band, the show agreed to use 12 musicians.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:13PMOur theater reporter talked to one-fifth of the Tony voters ahead of Sunday’s ceremony. Here’s hoping they steered him right.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:25AMThe poor air quality sent a star offstage mid-play and forced the cancellation of one of Broadway’s most popular musicals and the first two performances of Free Shakespeare in the Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:13PMEach year we photograph Tony nominees, and talk with them about their craft. This year we focused on actors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMRoundabout Theater Company’s flagship theater will honor Haimes, the transformational leader who died in April.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AMThe show is a highlight of the Public Theater’s new season, which will also include plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, Itamar Moses, Mary Kathryn Nagle and Ife Olujobi.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMThe production, presented by the nonprofit Roundabout Theater Company, is to begin performances in February.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThe play, which is scheduled to open in January 2024, joins a string of Broadway shows that confront antisemitism in the U.S. and abroad.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42AMThe show plans to use recorded music instead of a live band, but a labor union says its contract for the theater requires musicians for musicals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMThe screenwriters’ strike threatened next month’s broadcast, a key marketing moment for the fragile theater industry. That’s when leading dramatists sprang into action.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12PMThe Tony Awards ceremony had been in doubt ever since Hollywood’s screenwriters went on strike earlier this month.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 11:45AMThe Tony Awards, a key marketing opportunity for Broadway, can go ahead in an altered form after the striking screenwriters’ union said it would not picket this year’s broadcast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PMThe strike by the Writers Guild of America is endangering the June 11 broadcast of the Tony Awards, one of the biggest marketing opportunities for an industry recovering from the pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMThe production, with a new script by Amy Herzog and directed by Sam Gold, will begin early next year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PMThe Tonys, set to be telecast on June 11, are Broadway’s biggest marketing moment. But the strike by the Writers Guild of America means the show might not go on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AMThe show features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who arrived on Broadway in 1971 and has had an unbroken streak of shows since 1979.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AMWhat’s on Jessica Chastain’s mind as she spins onstage? Plus: Ben Platt’s silence, the “Fat Ham” ghost, the “Shucked” corn dance and all that “Sweeney” blood.
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