A theater director at Harvard University announced this week that she will produce an all-female and LGBT version of the classic musical, 1776. The production is scheduled to debut on Broadway in the spring of 2021.
In an unprecedented move, all Broadway shows in New York will shut down immediately for a month on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s orders banning public gatherings of more than 500 people. The decision will almost certainly deal a significant blow to the city’s billion dollar theater industry and the many ancillary businesses that depend on it, including numerous restaurants in the midtown area that rely heavily on pre-show theatergoers.
New York has banned most gatherings of more than 500 people, including at Broadway shows, starting tonight at 5 p.m. Smaller gatherings will also be restricted. Facilities with capacities of fewer than 500 will have their legal limits cut in
As live performance cancellations continue to mount on fears surrounding the coronavirus outbreak, some artists and producers are sticking to the mantra that the show must go on despite growing pressure to #CancelEverythingNow.
NEW YORK (AP) — The new coronavirus has reached Broadway, but the shows on the Great White Way are scheduled to go on as planned.
NEW YORK (AP) — There was a chorus outside the Broadway Theatre on Thursday at the opening night of a new revival of “West Side Story” but what was being sung was a protest chant.
A revival production of West Side Story is set to debut this month, but its classic “star-crossed lovers” theme will cede the stage to modern political touchstones such as identity politics and police brutality.
Broadway Producer Ben Sprecher was arrested Tuesday and charged with possession of child pornography, according to multiple reports.
The Island of Dr. Moreau comparisons are pretty astute. But that movie was supposed to freak you out, to horrify you at the thought of some mad scientist combining animal and human DNA to create monsters.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is not a fan of President Donald Trump, but she apparently agreed with his comparing her to Eva Peron, popularly known as Evita, the first lady of Argentina who championed the poor in the 1940s.
The Broadway play Hillary and Clinton is reportedly wrapping up production one month early due to low ticket sales, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
A group of New York City theater companies is set to hold a 24-hour reading of the Mueller Report this weekend at an event called “Filibustered and Unfiltered: America Reads the Mueller Report.”
Actor Jeff Daniels insisted during an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday that President Donald Trump has gone off the rails and “completely soiled” the Oval Office.
Empire actor Jussie Smollett will no longer co-star in the Broadway revival of the play “Take Me Out” amid lingering charges that the performer staged a hate crime against himself, according to a report.
A recently launched contest offers Hillary Clinton supporters an opportunity to take in a Broadway play with the twice-failed presidential candidate while sipping a glass of chardonnay.
Actors Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow will star in a Broadway production of Hillary and Clinton, a play that will following the struggle of Hillary Clinton as she tries to salvage her unsuccessful 2008 presidential primary campaign.
Beto O’Rourke apologized for once writing that the only qualifications of actresses in Broadway’s The Will Roger’s Follies were their “phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”
The U.S. Secret Service has launched a formal inquiry after legendary Broadway star Carole Cook joked about President Donald Trump being assassinated over the weekend, according to a new report.
Asked Sunday evening for her thoughts on Frozen the Broadway Musical actor Timothy Hughes snatching a pro-Trump flag from an audience member last week, legendary Broadway actress Carole Cook cracked a joke about the need for President Donald Trump to be assassinated.
Actress Rosie O’Donnell led a group of Broadway performers in a series of anti-Trump chants outside the White House on Monday, as part of a nightly protest against President Donald Trump since his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Virulent anti-Trump activist and one-time TV host Rosie O’Donnell is reportedly set to lead a group of Broadway actors in a protest against Donald Trump to be held outside the White House.
Ben Brantley, co-chief theater critic for the New York Times, has apologized for a portion of his review of the Broadway show Head Over Heels. According to Broadway World’s Alan Henry, Ben Brantley “purposefully misgenders a non-binary character, played by trans
Tina Fey is joining some of Broadway’s biggest stars — including Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel and Chita Rivera — for a concert being livestreamed Saturday to benefit migrants on the Mexican border.
The man behind Saturday night’s disruption at the Robert De Niro-directed Broadway production of A Bronx Tale has revealed exclusively to Breitbart News that he’s planning the “world’s largest Trump 2020 flag.”
A man supportive of President Donald Trump disrupted actor Robert De Niro’s Broadway musical on Saturday by displaying a “Keep America Great” flag in front of the audience.
European Union eco regulations are threatening to turn London’s West End theatreland dark within two years.
Actor Chris Evans — known best as the red, white, and blue-clad Marvel Comics superhero Captain America — is set to take on another kind of enemy: toxic masculinity.
Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway show sees the veteran rocker showcase his greatest hits while taking subtle shots at President Donald Trump.
Actor Alec Baldwin has confirmed he is considering taking his infamous impression of President Donald Trump to Broadway in a one-man show based on his popular Saturday Night Live routine.
President Donald Trump took on one his most vocal celebrity critics Saturday in a message posted to his Twitter account, calling filmmaker Michael Moore’s anti-Trump summer Broadway show a “total bomb” that was “forced to close.”
The prolific Broadway composer Michael Friedman died on Saturday, Sep. 9, at the age of 41 from complications of HIV/Aids.
Michael Moore opened his new one-man Broadway show, The Terms of My Surrender, Thursday by having a decidedly critical conversation about President Donald Trump with feminist activist Gloria Steinem.
Michael Moore tests the limits of free speech in his new one-man Broadway show during a segment in which he appears to call the office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to issue a death threat against him.
Michael Moore’s original one-man anti-Donald Trump Broadway play began rehearsals in New York City Monday.
Hillary Clinton drew a lengthy standing ovation while attending the Tony Award-winning play Oslo with her husband Bill Clinton on Sunday.
The modernized Broadway production arguably serves as a direct repudiation of the postmodern spirit that has incrementally gained control of academia in the United States over the past few decades.
The life of pop icon Cher will be the subject of an upcoming Broadway musical, the 71-year-old singer confirmed this week.
An Off-Broadway play that paints an ominous picture of a post-President Trump America is shutting down in New York City after struggling to build an audience in the liberal city.
Documentary filmmaker and left-wing activist Michael Moore plans to take on President Donald Trump in an original one-man Broadway show.
A thief has been targeting the audience of the Broadway show Hamilton, police said.
