Thursday, March 13, 2025
Broadway is almost back, and pop music tours and sports events are booming. But Hollywood, museums and other cultural sectors have yet to bounce back.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards recognize excellence in preservation.
SOURCE: PlaybillWith a revival starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran in Brooklyn, a look at the carefully weighted balance that actors playing Blanche and Stanley need to strike.
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The star-studded evening benefited Broadway Cares and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
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Kristin Chenoweth has signed with United Talent Agency (UTA) for representation in all areas. The Emmy and Tony Award-winning singer and actor is starring in and producing ”The Queen of…
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The deal will be scrutinized by New York’s other Off Broadway theaters, which the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has been working to unionize.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionEXCLUSIVE: A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a reorganization plan for Hal Luftig Co. that gives the busy producer breathing room in his six-year court battle against a deep-pocketed i…
SOURCE: Broadway JournalEXCLUSIVE: Punch, the acclaimed new play by the Olivier Award winning James Graham, will open on Broadway this fall as part of the Manhattan Theatre Club’s 2025-2026 season. The play, base…
SOURCE: DeadlineThe musical, starring Kristin Chenoweth ad F. Murray Abraham, will start performances in October.
SOURCE: The Hollywood ReporterProlific South African playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, has died at the age of 92.
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Lady Gaga revealed her hopes to write a Broadway musical during a Q&A with influencers that was webcast Thursday. “I would really love to write a musical. I think that would bring me s…
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The Roundabout Theater Company will also present Noël Coward’s “Fallen Angels,” starring Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara.
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The show, developed by Disney with a Tony-winning creative team, will have an initial production in Bristol, England in the spring of 2026.
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The 2025 Olivier Awards nominations have positioned “Fiddler on the Roof” as the frontrunner with a commanding 13 nods, the most for any production this year. The Jordan Fein-directed mu…
SOURCE: VarietyThe acclaimed revival, which is about to transfer to London’s Barbican, scored 13 nominations at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe international hit, which features the songs of ABBA, will again play the Winter Garden Theatre.
SOURCE: PlaybillThe musical’s original run was the ninth-longest in Broadway history; a six-month return engagement will start in August.
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
The limited engagement will shut its cameras down in July.
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Broadway expert Jennifer Ashley Tepper takes us through the places where the ‘Rent’ creator lived, worked and wrote.
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“The Jonathan Larson Project,” a years-in-the-making musical collage of Larson’s life, features songs he wrote before he died. Now it’s onstage at the Orpheum.
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Nick Jonas, Sadie Sink and Christian Slater are among this year’s unusually large cohort of stars who first appeared onstage as tweens or even younger.
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For the arts institution, which receives only a small portion of its budget from federal funding, the perennial challenge is to raise additional revenue through ticket sales and private dona…
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionHe is making his Broadway debut with a stage version of his 2005 movie “Good Night, and Good Luck.” He’s ready, but also terrified.
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BroadwayWorld is saddened to report the passing of Broadway music director, conductor, and arranger, Paul Ford.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorldThe actress won a Tony Award for “The Color Purple,” and is now nominated for an Oscar for playing Elphaba in the film adaptation of “Wicked.”
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe Oscar-nominated Wicked star will preside over Broadway's biggest night of the year, set for June 8 at Radio City Music Hall.
SOURCE: PlaybillAct 1 was a constant struggle for rent and opportunity. But now that these emerging dramatists have emerged, what will they make of Act 2?
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Cynthia Erivo is set to play Jesus Christ this summer in a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the Hollywood Bowl. Erivo shared the news via In…
SOURCE: VarietyA letter signed by 463 playwrights, poets, dancers, visual artists and others pushes back against new grant requirements that bar the promotion of diversity or “gender ideology.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription“Let Me Be Your Star,” which evokes an actor’s longing to shine, has come a long way from its TV days. Here’s how the song evolved on its way to the stage.
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The Tony-winning actress co-stars with Bernadette Peters in “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends,” a show that is letting her surprise audiences with her comedy chops.
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The acclaimed troupe will relocate to a Times Square tower, more than doubling its footprint, and building six new studios.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionIn celebration of their 20th anniversary as a band, Jonas Brothers have announced “Jonascon,” a special one-day event taking place in their home state of New Jersey on March 23 at the Am…
SOURCE: VarietyMeanwhile, artists such as Issa Rae and Renée Fleming have voluntarily cut ties with the now-Trump-controlled organization.
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Tony winner Idina Menzel stars in the Tina Landau-Kate Diaz musical, which she also co-conceived.
SOURCE: PlaybillThe evening benefits Broadway Cares and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
SOURCE: PlaybillPlaybill celebrates a selection of theatremakers, on and off stage, who are changing the paradigm.
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The organization is now exclusively led by Trump appointees.
SOURCE: PlaybillAs the National Endowment for the Arts adjusts to comply with President Trump’s executive orders, “gender ideology” is out and works that “honor the nation’s rich artistic heritage…
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The comedy whodunit will make its world premiere at Birmingham Rep.
SOURCE: PlaybillThe long-running favorite topped the chart of highest grossers by more than $700,000.
SOURCE: PlaybillThe Trump administration official's appointment comes as the president continues a leadership shakeup at the formerly bipartisan Washington, D.C. institution.
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This annual program allows kids 18 and under to attend a show for free.
SOURCE: PlaybillWorkers say the move is overdue, but theater companies fear it will drive up costs in a wounded sector that has yet to recover from the pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionWith their Tent Theater Company, Tim Sanford and Aimée Hayes want to raise the profiles of older artists and keep them from being sidelined.
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The legendary actor discusses the prophecy that changed his life, his Oscar snub and his upcoming role starring alongside a “complicated” Jake Gyllenhaal in “Othello” on Broadway.
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He had an acclaimed Broadway career in musicals and comedies, but moviegoers knew him mostly as the tall, self-assured, easygoing pal to Mr. Allen’s insecure heroes.
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With the high-energy “I AM,” Brown takes her signature interweaving of African diasporic dance forms to new heights.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe New York City Center Encores! season kicks off with Urinetown, which stars Jordan Fisher, Keala Settle, Rainn Wilson and more. Check out what the critics are saying about the production …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorldThe dance humor in Christopher Gattelli’s shows, like “Schmigadoon!” and “Death Becomes Her,” is underpinned by affection for musical theater and its excesses.
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After Lin-Manuel Miranda collaborated with director Jon M. Chu on the 2021 movie musical “In The Heights,” the pair almost worked together on 2024’s biggest Broadway adaptation: “Wic…
SOURCE: VarietyWhen LaChanze was publicizing the play Jaja's African Hair Braiding during the 2023 season, she approached it a little differently than most Broadway ...
SOURCE: Google'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' is coming to Broadway with an updated, gargantuan Mind Flayer and 'a whole lotta new illusions.
SOURCE: GoogleKastrinos will collaborate closely with incoming Artistic Director Lear deBessonet to plan and support LCT’s artistic efforts.
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With concerns about Covid on the wane, aging theatergoers rebounded on Broadway last season, according to a new report by the Broadway League. As the audience shrank modestly in 2023-24 for…
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Despite the colder months, winter remains a popular season for visitors, with Broadway's dazzling performances continuing to be a highlight of the ...
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The Alicia Keys musical continues at Broadway's Shubert Theatre.
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Over 34 years, the show gave Fred Armisen a drumming gig, “Arrested Development” a hilarious story line and more. Now the cultural sensation comes to an end in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe stars of the Tony-winning Broadway production are heading back to London.
SOURCE: PlaybillLeslye Headland's play centers on four adult children and their partners as they return home for a rocky holiday gathering.
SOURCE: PlaybillFounding Artistic Director Jason Eagan will transition into an advisory role in July.
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Ariana DeBose won’t be crying for Argentina. The Oscar winner was in talks to star in Jamie Lloyd’s revival of “Evita” at the London Palladium, but sources tell me things didn’t wo…
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Saturday, January 25, 2025
Kara Young spends a rare day off brunching with her family in Harlem and popping into beauty supply stores along 125th Street.
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EXCLUSIVE: The highest-stakes succession race on Broadway appears to be over. Jeff T. Daniel is being positioned to take the reins at the Shubert Organization, Broadway’s largest landlord,…
SOURCE: Broadway JournalThe Emmy winner visited Live with Kelly and Mark to share how the musical's universal themes resonate outside of its robotic setting.
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The fizzy, determinedly upbeat documentary charts how Liza Minnelli survived Hollywood. It’s inspiring, jaw-dropping and conspicuously incomplete.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionSebastian Stan’s Trump portrayal is also rewarded after the film had a hard time getting distribution, while Marianne Jean-Baptiste was overlooked.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription“The Brutalist” and “Wicked” secured 10 nominations apiece in a year with a wide-open best picture race. Acting nominees include Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, Adrien Brody and Timothée…
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The committee met for the second time to determine eligibility for 11 productions of the 2024–2025 season.
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After five years, Robert Barry Fleming will no longer be at the helm of Actors Theatre of Louisville.
SOURCE: www.lpm.orgOut of town fans of Broadway shows didn’t like congestion pricing’s first week at all. Receipts were down by $13 million from the previous week, showing steep drop off in attendance. Tot…
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The mind behind 2000's Big Band hit Swing!, Ms. Taylor-Corbett worked with Alvin Ailey, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and more.
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The former Second Stage Theater space will continue to operate as an Off-Broadway theatre.
SOURCE: PlaybillThe move follows a breakdown in negotiations between the Off-Broadway company and IATSE, through which the company's backstage workers unionized in 2024.
SOURCE: PlaybillOnstage, the flip-side of filial devotion has often been contempt. But a wave of forceful and multidimensional mothers suggests that may be changing.
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