Friday, April 2, 2021
The rapid rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine has increased optimism about indoor theater swiftly reopening in the U.S. Infectious disease specialists Thursday afternoon said Covid 19-testing, e…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:03AMThursday, March 18, 2021
Actors’ Equity Association recently announced far-reaching health protocols that producers complained would prohibitively increase the cost of creating theater and delay the industry’s …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:47PMBen Sprecher, who has produced shows and managed theaters in New York since the early 1980s and is best-known for a Broadway musical that collapsed before it could open, was sentenced Thursd…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:56PMTuesday, March 9, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: For theater actors, a car and driver is generally a perquisite reserved for bankable stars. In this pandemic, the labor union Actors’ Equity Association considers private transp…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:07PMSaturday, February 27, 2021
If and when The Book of Mormon resumes performances on Broadway, the take-no-prisoners musical will reconsider its mission. In a video call last summer organized by lead producer Anne Gar…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:04PMFriday, February 5, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: No one put more money into the highly anticipated Broadway revival of Company than the insurance giant Chubb. The Ladies Who Lunch LLC, which transferred the Stephen Sondheim …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:47PMFriday, January 8, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: The nation’s oldest theater company specializing in nurturing women writers and directors is in a seven-month court battle to recover $30,000, a significant sum for a nonprofit…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:00PMMonday, November 16, 2020
Broadway seeks givebacks from the industry’s unions before performances resume, the head of the trade group that represents producers and theater owners told an online industry conference …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:30PMSunday, November 15, 2020
Speaking at an industry video conference Saturday, Broadway League Chairman Thomas Schumacher said that restarting Broadway after the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic will be gradual and depen…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:51PMTuesday, November 10, 2020
A Covid-19 vaccine was said to be highly effective in a large trial, heightening the possibility that Broadway can restart next year. On Monday, Pfizer Inc. and German partner BioNTech said…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:04PMSunday, November 1, 2020
While performing arts spaces in the region remain largely shuttered because of Covid-19, Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater said that it plans to build a permanent home, its first since the L…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:09PMMonday, October 26, 2020
Growing up in Las Vegas, Ilana Atkins started studying piano at six but eventually hit a wall with classical music. “The music didn’t speak to me,” she said. “As I got older, the mos…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:11PMWednesday, October 21, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: A New York State judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a dozen investors in Nerds, a musical about the tech titans Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that collapsed weeks before its first s…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:22PMThursday, October 15, 2020
Jagged Little Pill, a musical about teenage and parental angst based on Alanis Morissette’s bestselling 1995 album, was nominated for 15 Tony awards, the most of any show last season. �…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:33PMFriday, October 9, 2020
The Broadway League is extending the industry’s shutdown through May 2021, bringing theater’s devastating closure to at least 14 months. The announcement, which people briefed on the pla…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:48AMMonday, September 28, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Amidst Broadway’s endless intermission, Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin has a message for the trade association’s members: Pay your dues. Membership renewal in…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:53PMFriday, August 21, 2020
The Tony Awards, postponed from June because of the Covid-19 pandemic, will be produced virtually on an unspecified date this year. In an email to members of the Broadway League, President C…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:02PMFriday, August 7, 2020
SpotCo, a leading Broadway advertising and marketing agency, filed suit in New York State Supreme Court against producer Scott Rudin, claiming that he left the company on the hook for $6.3 m…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:48PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of the blockbuster Hamilton and a producer of the film version that streamed on Disney+, received an emergency small business loan for his company backed …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:37PMTuesday, June 30, 2020
When the pandemic gives way to live performance, producer Scott Rudin plans to present an American classic about the gift of being alive. Rudin is assembling cast and creatives for the first…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:10PMMonday, June 29, 2020
The Broadway League said theaters are offering refunds through Jan. 3, 2021, as the industry officially canceled performances for the rest of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic. With 1…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:24PMTuesday, May 26, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: The coronavirus epidemic must be “under control” and testing be frequent and accurate before it’s safe for actors and stage managers to return to work, the executive direct…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:25PMThursday, May 21, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: The Public Theater, which has earned tens of millions of dollars launching Hamilton, received federal assistance meant to preserve jobs threatened by the pandemic. The Public bo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:42PMWednesday, May 13, 2020
In another sign that Broadway doesn’t see a quick return of theater amid the coronavirus pandemic, the producers of a musical about Michael Jackson postponed performances until next year. …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:23PMTuesday, May 12, 2020
Broadway has given up predicting when it will be back. With no indication about when it will be safe to produce theater in New York or when audiences will feel comfortable returning, the Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:33PMThursday, April 16, 2020
As nonprofit theater companies struggle through an open-ended shutdown, Playwrights Horizons has scored a double shot of validation from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. A Strange Loop,…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:17AMWednesday, April 8, 2020
Is the Broadway season over? If so, statistically, 2019-20 was both disastrous and illustrative of the industry’s resilience. The season that was to end in late May is effectively kaput, t…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:02PMThe Broadway League extended its shutdown through June 7, the original date of the Tony Awards, guaranteeing that Broadway will be closed at least three months due to the coronavirus pandemi…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:33AMFriday, March 27, 2020
Producing theater is quixotic in the best of circumstances. Weathering the industry’s longest-ever shutdown, which has halted shows and cut off incomes, makes the endeavor that much more d…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:05PMBREAKING: The Broadway League today introduced websites with information about city, state, federal and philanthropic relief packages for employees and employers battered by the covid-19 cri…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:31PMThursday, March 26, 2020
With no way of knowing when New York’s cultural life will resume, Lincoln Center Theater has suspended production of its summer shows. Two plays scheduled to open in July have been postpon…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:11PM 
