Broadway advertising agency AKA launched The Arts Insider. A new content creator platform tailored specifically for the arts and entertainment enthusiasts, this announcement is the first of its kind for an industry historically behind the times in the digital space. Its members will have exclusive and inside access to Broadway shows, arts and culture institutions, destination-based entertainment and more to produce unique content for their followings, a total which equals over 6.2 million.

The Lost Boys, A New Musical will receive a private industry reading this February starring Caissie Levy, Nathan Levy, and Lorna Courtney.

Jaja's African Hair Braiding will be live streamed during its last week of performances, beginning November 14.

Marquee Digital––a paperless alternative to print theatre programs––has the potential to revolutionize the way we engage with the performing arts. 

Gloria Estefan announced on her Instagram recently that she is writing the music and lyrics with her daughter Emily Estefan for a new musical called Five Notes. Karen Zacarías will pen the new production that is to be directed by Tony-nominated Michael Grief.

LA and NYC-based playwright, director, producer collective The Kilroys are back with their annual List, but are changing things up this time around. After almost a decade of creating The List as a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of women, trans, and non-binary playwrights in the American theater.

CBS will present The 77th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 16, 2024. The telecast will be broadcast live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, after being held at the United Palace in Washington Heights earlier this year.

Social media managers Micayla Brewster and Chase Haylon are launching The Social Team, a new digital agency for theatre.

Rick Plaugher, Broadway's leading professional children's acting coach, has opened Take Choice Acting, a new conservatory-level training studio for young talent.

National Black Theatre joins the producing team for Purlie Victorious, coming soon to Broadway starring Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kara Young.

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has joined the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of The Outsiders as a lead producer. Based on the classic novel by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola’s film of the same name, the new musical will announce plans for Broadway soon.

Christoper Mannelli joins the Huntington Theatre Company as the new Executive Director after seven years at Geva Theatre Center.

Patrick Daly's Caledonia Productions signs first-look deal with Fremantle's Passenger.

Ogunquit Playhouse announced a staged reading for GENIUS: A New Musical Comedy, which will be held on Friday, May 19. Based on the novel by Patrick Dennis with a book by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid, music and lyrics by Ilene Reid, the musical will be directed by Heitzman. Incidental lyrics enhanced with Spanish translation are by Jaime Lozano.

Nancy Drew is headed to the stage in a new musical by Alan Menken and Nell Benjamin

The Drama League will honor André De Shields, the Drama Book Shop, and more. 

The theatrical landscape continues to shift after the COVID-19 pandemic left the industry trying to find new ways to be solvent. 

Summer internships are available in five disciplines under the Shubert Organization umbrella.

The beloved gal-pal action road trip movie premiered in 1991, starring Susan Surandon and Sheena Davis as two friends who find themselves dealing with the worst type of men possible from assailants to con men to cops.

The Off-Broadway solo play, directed by John Lithgow, opened October 13 at the DR2. 

The Broadway podcast from Quincy Brown and Kevin Bianchi is now streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts.

The three-time Tony winner announced on Twitter that she is “no longer part of this circus.” The move comes after two major stories erupted around star behavior last week. 

Stephen Daldry is attached to direct, who will also produce with Sonia Friedman.

The former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator will lead a discussion on women in theatre. 

The move comes after venues required proof of vaccination and masks for over a year. 

The adoption drive benefits NYC animal rescue groups. 

The musical, written by Hannah Friedman and the Grammy-winning team of Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, will premiere May 26—the day the infamous Taco Bell menu item returns. 

Rob Ashford is set to direct the work, with plans for development in London. The show will be developed in London with hopes to premiere in the West End and on Broadway. 

The Broadway League began releasing gross numbers again in March, allowing fans and industry insiders to again pore over the numbers and theorize on which shows’ futures looked bright—and which might be headed for closing.

The pandemic, still rampaging across the world, has once again been messing with the theatre industry. A number of delays, canceled performances, and calls for understudies have producers and fans apprehensive of the upcoming Tony season. 

The Louanna O. Carlin and John MacDonald reading series returns with a public event April 18 at The Mainstage Theater. Adrienne D. Williams directs. 

The project will be a partnership between Deaf West Theatre, Vendôme Pictures, and Pathé Films. CODA, about a family with both deaf and hearing members, is available to stream on AppleTV+ now will be adapted and developed into a Stage Musical.

As it tends to do in times of crisis, the theatre industry has banded together to support Ukraine and its citizens. Among those are a Broadway production and several performing arts institutions.For context, the country was invaded by Russia on February 24, which has since devolved into a major crisis, with nearly 3 million Ukrainians fleeing the destruction to neighboring European countries. Many have remained behind to fight against Putin’s troops. In the weeks since the conflict began, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly called on the world to send aid to support the refugees, citizens trapped in their homeland, and those serving on the front lines. 

The second anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic is fast approaching. Many facets of society have returned to a sort of “new normal,” but the arts and culture sector of the economy still needs help as the economic effects of the pandemic still loom. So, members of the creative economy banded together to ask for that help. Advocates for arts and culture testified before the Small Business Committee in a Congressional House Hearing titled “The Power, Peril, and Promise of the Creative Economy” on Jan. 19. In the first hearing in history to draw attention to the arts and culture economic sector, advocates provided recommendations for bringing arts and culture to the center of long-term recovery. Among the witnesses that testified before the committee was Carson Elrod, co-founder of the Be An #ArtsHero initiative and Arts Workers United. The Be An #ArtsHero initiative was founded by Elrod as well as Brooke Ishibashi, Jenny Grace Makholm and Matthew-Lee Erlbach with the goal of campaigning Congress for relief for arts workers who were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. From there, Arts Workers United was created to urge legislators to “make arts workers and the creative economy a legislative priority commensurate with their socioeconomic value” in a more official lobbying capacity, Elrod said.

Tony winner Brian Stokes Mitchell and his talk show Crossovers Live! have joined with Third Act to launch a new line of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) that are available now through December 20, 2021. With this release, Mitchell became the first Broadway actor to digitize his likeness in the form of an NFT. This collaboration was commissioned by production company Atomic Focus Entertainment, which partnered with Third Act’s in-house NFT studio to produce the collection. ​​The Third Act platform boasts an incredibly simple and easy-to-use crypto experience. The marketplace lists all of its available assets in USD and users can purchase NFTs directly with a credit card, meaning transactions can be made easily on one of the most eco-friendly platforms available today: Hedera Hashgraph. Using Hedera, Third Act’s carbon emissions are a fraction of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and even Visa transactions. And a portion of each and every sale goes directly back to productions, personalities, and IP owners. 

When The Lights Are Bright Again, the new book created by Andrew Norlen spotlighting the 2020-2021 theater shutdown will be published on Monday, November 1 by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. The book features letters of loss, hope, and resilience from the theater community, paired with stunning portraiture from acclaimed Broadway photographer Matthew Murphy.

Places Please: Broadway's Back is a one night only virtual shopping experience to celebrate the art form of theatre and connect with your favorite creators in ways like never before.

Broadway favorite Christy Altomare will lead a June 16th developmental reading of a new musical, Alice in Neverland, billed as a sequel to one of the most beloved stories of all time, and a prequel to anothe

This past Monday evening, June 7th, 2021, the League of Professional Theatre Women held their Theatre Women Awards Gala over Zoom.