Wednesday, April 8, 2020
UPDATED with video New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed skepticism about Broadway’s just-announced June 7 reopening date. “I wouldn’t use what Broadway thinks as a barometer of anythin…
Linked From Deadline at 01:09PMBroadway will remain closed through June 7, a two-month extension of the current coronavirus shutdown that would seem to retroactively end the 2019-2020 Broadway season with the March 12 shu…
Linked From Deadline at 11:03AMNew York’s 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards will announce winners online this year, skipping the yearly gathering of theater artists and critics for the bestowal of awards. Only Broadway, Off…
Linked From Deadline at 09:16AMTuesday, April 7, 2020
Another Broadway production has nixed plans for this season: The Manhattan Theater Club’s anticipated staging of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, with Mary-Lo…
Linked From Deadline at 02:30PMThe American Theatre Wing has announced the first phase of its National COVID-19 Response Effort, including rapid funding mechanisms to support Off and Off Off Broadway as well as the nation…
Linked From Deadline at 01:04PMEditors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borde…
Linked From Deadline at 12:30PMMonday, April 6, 2020
John Krasinski, with a little help from Lin-Manuel Miranda and some friends, Zoom-reunited the original cast of Broadway’s Hamilton Sunday for a Florida fan whose now-canceled ninth birthd…
Linked From Deadline at 11:30AMLast November’s sold-out, one-night-only benefit concert featuring 79 performers from Disney’s 25 years on Broadway will be streamed April 13 to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fig…
Linked From Deadline at 10:01AMFriday, April 3, 2020
Editors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international border…
Linked From Deadline at 03:00PMWaitress composer and star Sara Bareilles has revealed that she has made a full recovery from COVID-19. In an Instagram story, Bareilles says, “I had it, just so you know. I’m fully reco…
Linked From Deadline at 10:16AMThursday, April 2, 2020
Musical-loving social distancers can get their Andrew Lloyd Webber fixes with a new YouTube channel devoted to the composer’s work. The free channel, called The Shows Must Go On, will unsp…
Linked From Deadline at 03:34PMBroadway’s Waitress and A Bronx Tale: The Musical actor Nick Cordero is unconscious in intensive care with what his wife Amanda Kloots suspects is COVID-19. In an Instagram post, Kloots sa…
Linked From Deadline at 11:36AMWednesday, April 1, 2020
The folks behind the daily online show Stars in the House, a series hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley that features stage and screen actors singing and performing live from home to be…
Linked From Deadline at 11:08AMTuesday, March 31, 2020
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Zachary Quinto and Ari Graynor will present an April 6 livestream reading of the late Terrence McNally’s acclaimed 1991 play Lips Together, Teeth…
Linked From Deadline at 03:39PMThe 35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding achievement Off Broadway will be presented virtually as an online event on May 3 due to the coronavirus pandemic, with shows that opened…
Linked From Deadline at 02:49PMMonday, March 30, 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 borde…
Linked From Deadline at 03:00PMFriday, March 27, 2020
The London production of the musical Waitress will not re-open following the COVID-19 West End shutdown, producers announced today. “It is with great sadness that we announce the closing o…
Linked From Deadline at 01:50PMSchitt’s Creek actress Emily Hampshire will host a new weekly, live-streamed YouTube talk show to raise money for The Actors Fund’s COVID-19 emergency financial assistance and services p…
Linked From Deadline at 01:12PMThursday, March 26, 2020
Madonna and Rosanna Arquette remembered their Desperately Seeking Susan co-star Mark Blum today, joining a lengthy and growing roster of Hollywood and Broadway stars mourning the actor who d…
Linked From Deadline at 05:04PMWednesday, March 25, 2020
Editors’ Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that already has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international bord…
Linked From Deadline at 04:30PMThe 74th Annual Tony Awards, scheduled to air live on the CBS Television Network on Sunday, June 7 from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, will be postponed and rescheduled at a later d…
Linked From Deadline at 02:34PMBroadway’s Caroline, or Change, the revival of the Jeanine Tesori-Tony Kushner musical starring Sharon D Clarke, and Birthday Candles, the Noah Haidle play starring Debra Messing, have bee…
Linked From Deadline at 12:00PMThe Michael Jackson estate, co-producers of the upcoming Broadway jukebox musical MJ The Musical, will donate $100,000 to the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ COVID-19 Emergency Assistan…
Linked From Deadline at 11:33AMTuesday, March 24, 2020
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who officiated at a 2015 marriage reaffirmation ceremony between his longtime friend and college roommate Tom Kirdahy and playwright Terrence McNally, sai…
Linked From Deadline at 05:39PMAcclaimed playwright Terrence McNally has died of complications due to coronavirus. The author of Master Class, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Love! Valour! Compassion!, among m…
Linked From Deadline at 02:38PMEven a killer shark – or a broken-down mechanical version thereof – is looking like a welcome sign of hope these days: New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse announced today that its 2020-2…
Linked From Deadline at 01:41PMFlying Over Sunset, the new Broadway musical by James Lapine, Tom Kitt and Michael Korie that suspended production March 12, will reopen this fall, Lincoln Center Theater announced today. LC…
Linked From Deadline at 11:50AMA new set of 24 “Viral Monologues” from The 24 Hour Plays will be available on Instagram tonight, with actors Daveed Diggs, Michael Shannon, Clark Gregg, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dylan …
Linked From Deadline at 11:03AMMore 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 …
Linked From Deadline at 09:36AMMonday, 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 border…
Linked From Deadline at 04:00PMSunday’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 s…
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