A stage musical adaptation of the 2016 Oscar-nominated hit film Hidden Figures is in the works at Disney, with plans to assemble a creative team of Black artists, Disney Theatrical Productions confirms.
The project has been in development, quietly, for a few years, but came to light this week with a mention in a New Yo…
A new organization called Black Theatre Coalition has launched its inaugural program to increase work opportunities for Black theater professionals by at least 500% within the next 10 years.
And the group has hit the ground running, announcing a partnership with the producers of Broadway’s upcoming revival of Steven…
While Congress debates how much (or how little) to parse out to the entertainment industry in the next COVID-19 relief package, a group of Broadway insiders is making clear just how wide and varied the $14.7 billion Broadway ecosystem really is.
In what is meant to be an evolving effort, The Broadway Community Project…
A recording of the late Nick Cordero’s one-man show will be released by Broadway Records on September 17, marking what would have been the actor’s 42nd birthday.
Broadway Records and Cordero’s wife Amanda Kloots announced the release today of Live Your Life, a live recording of the Broadway actor’s April 2019 show at…
Theatrical stage union IATSE has issued a 27-page set of safety guidelines for the still-to-be-determined reopening of Broadway and other live performance venues, with recommendations including the employment of COVID-19 “compliance officers,” paid sick leave and diagnostic testing of workers.
The guidelines address…
A new work by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage will join Second Stage Theater’s Broadway line-up for 2021, joining the company’s postponed revival of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out starring Patrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams.
The newly announced, as-yet-untitled…
Up characters Russell and Dug the dog are out — and so are the Actors’ Equity members who played them — in a revamped version of a bird-show attraction at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom.
As the union and Walt Disney World in Orlando enter into discussions about a grievance filed by Equity over the resort’s…
Andrew Scott will star in new lockdown play Three Kings, live-streamed from London's Old Vic theatre July 29 – August 1.
Stephen Beresford has written the show for the Fleabag and Sherlock actor. It will explore "fathers and sons, the gifts and burdens of inheritance, and the unfathomable puzzle of human…
EXCLUSIVE: “We had no idea, of course, that we would soon be on the brink of an historic moment in race relations in this country. So this racial equity fund is now suddenly more enormous in its significance than we imagined. But then again, Craig always did seem to have his finger on the pulse of what was coming…
The British government announced on Friday that theaters can reopen for indoor shows on August 1, providing a ray of hope for a live performance industry that is currently on its knees.
Prime minister Boris Johnson said: “We will restart indoor performances to a live audience, subject to the success of pilots, and we…
The Los Angeles production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton won’t be arriving at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre until next April, more than a year after its originally scheduled premiere.
After repeated postponements due to the COVID-19 shutdown, producers have officially scotched the latest start-up target of…
A coalition of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) theater workers has released a detailed, 29-page set of demands and strategies to combat racism in the Broadway theater, recommendations that dive deep into the foundational structure of the industry.
The coalition, known as We See You, White American…
