Prayers go out to former Waitress and A Bronx Tale musical star Nick Cordero who has been hospitalized and in intensive care, according to his wife Amanda Kloots. In a Instagram post on Tuesday, Kloots said her husband, 41, is “in the ICU and now unconscious”...
Folksbiene! Live is coming to your living room. The NYTF Marketing Team in response to Covid-19 is helping combat the fear and isolation by bringing you the following: Tonight April 1 Adam B. Shapiro is on at 7 pm from Shapiro Hall with "From Fool to Fiddler" Tomorrow...
Due to the global pandemic, the Chita Rivera Awards, originally scheduled for May 17 at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place), will be postponed until later in the year, it was announced today by Joe Lanteri, Founder and...
The Actors Fund, the national human services organization for everyone in performing arts and entertainment, announced today that SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley, will also produce and host Plays in the House as part...
In light of recent events surrounding COVID-19, The Off-Broadway League and the Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation have revised the schedule for the 35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. With the closure of theatres across the...
It is with great sadness that I write that William Wolf died from complications related to COVID-19 on Saturday, March 28. Author, critic, and educator, Bill was the 22nd president of the Drama Desk. He also served a term as chair of the New York Film Critics...
By Michael Colby The time was 9:37 PM. The date - July 13, 1977. That was when New York, the town that purportedly never sleeps, came to a standstill. We were thrown into the abyss by the big electric blackout through the city. Exceptions...
For the first time the big celebration of the Annual MAC Awards went Livestream due to COVID-19 as winner names were read from two different locations, hosted by MAC Pres. Lennie Watts, with Amy Wolk and Lorinda Lizitsa weighing in and offering up a new song...
By Brian Scott Lipton Linda Lavin has been the consummate entertainer for nearly 50 years, triumphing on stage in numerous shows such as Gypsy, Broadway Bound, and The Lyons – earning one Tony Award and six nominations in the process -- as well as...
The 92Y has a beautiful tribute to recently departed Terrence McNally on his 80th Birthday. Check this video and their archives for much more! www.92Y.org
By Ron Fassler As a kid in the 1960s and 70s and totally infatuated with Broadway, listening to a cast album was as close as I could get to the real thing. There was no internet to go on, or YouTube and watch clips, and no such thing as streaming on your...
Terrence McNally died. His long, varied and prolific career as a playwright, musical librettist and screenwriter earned him four Tony Awards and an Emmy. He died today, March 24 from coronavirus complications at the age of 81. His plays included Master Class,...
Neil LaBute's Ten X Ten Series will be offered by Contemptible Entertainment as free content via The St. Louis Actors’ Studio’s Twitter account @STLAS1 beginning March 25, 2020. Ten X Ten is a collection of original monologues that are performed directly to the...
Happily, Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of André Bishop) has announced that it will reopen its productions of the new musical Flying Over Sunset at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and the new opera Intimate Apparel at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater this...
In keeping with current times and due to closings and postponments, 54 Below will launch its new series with Tony® nominee Joe Iconis & Drama Desk nominee George Salazar on March 25. See your favorite artists. Artist lineup includes Brittain...
The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization announced today the launch of their new YouTube live stream series, R&H Goes Live! beginning with JeremyJordan. The ongoing series will feature some of Broadway’s best performing stripped-down, contemporary...
Lincoln Center Launches Lincoln Center at Home New Portal Enables Families and Communities to Keep the Performing Arts Front and Center With: Lincoln Center Pop-Up Classroom A Daily Dose of Creativity with Artists and Educators, Weekdays at 10am ET ...
By Samuel L. Leiter Part I This is a true story I’ve told to a few friends over the years but never, in my recollection, revealed in print. It happened in 1961, when I was 21 and in my third year at Brooklyn College. This...
by Marcina Zaccaria Shakespeare in the Park was typically always about Shakespeare, but when George C. Wolfe was the Artistic Director of the Public Theater in the late 90s, it was announced that "On The Town," (Music by Leonard Bernstein and...
The Rosie O’Donnell Show Sunday, March 22, 7 pm ET Benefit Concert, Broadway.com 12-time Emmy Award® winner and Tony Award® recipient Rosie O’Donnell and actor/Producer Erich Bergen are proud to announce the one-night-only return of the legendary, 25-time Emmy Award...
In this disconcerting and confusing time, on Sunday March 22 at 4pm on their YouTube Channel, Guild Hall is delighted to offer, as a special live-streaming treat, the premiere of one of the most clarifying and crystalline concerts we’ve presented in recent years,...
Music is magic. Music is healing. Music is for every moment - especially this one. So let's make some, every week. Everything The Public Theater does is, and always has been, about making connections between you and our artists. And we are committed to...
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and piece by piece productions, in association with Rising Phoenix Repertory, are proud to announce that a limited number of tickets to view-at-home recordings of Ren Dara Santiago’s The Siblings Play are now on sale. Beginning...
by Guest Writer Gary Morgenstein During World War II, the British government initially closed down theaters; an audience would be easy targets for the relentless German bombers raining death on London. Gradually the government relaxed its rules and...
The Broadway League, in conjunction with the American Theatre Wing, and based upon CDC recommendations to keep theaters dark for an added four weeks, plays havoc with any chance of staying on schedule with a June 7 Radio City Music Hall ceremony, as coronavirus...
By Tania Fisher Thanks to Theater Pizzazz, there are now sections of my life that are filled with bright light from the shining star that is, Lainie Kazan. And although our relationship continues, these early segments remain forever embedded as...
Photographer Genevieve Rafter Keddy took these photos on March 9, 2020 at Sony Hall when many performed for BROADWAY AGAINST BULLYING. This was her last photo call before our world, as we know it here in New York City, came to a standstill. No...
The Theatre World Awards Board of Directors, Dale Badway, President, has announced, today, the 76th Annual Theatre World Awards Ceremony originally scheduled for Monday evening, June 1, 2020 beginning at 7:00 p.m. at Circle in the Square Theatre (1633...
West End theaters will be closed beginning Monday night, the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre announced. The theaters will be closed “until further notice and will re-open as soon as possible,” the theater organization said in a press release Monday. This...
As live performances are cancelled and postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, those looking for alternative entertainment options can count on PBS’s vast library of streaming content. In particular, the PBS franchise, GREAT PERFORMANCES, brings the best in the...
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