The Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play is Broadway’s newest hit, “Take Me Out.” It delves into all the ways one can be “taken out” by telling the fictional story of Darren Lemming (Jesse Williams) coming out to his baseball team.
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The Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play is Broadway’s newest hit, “Take Me Out.” It delves into all the ways one can be “taken out” by telling the fictional story of Darren Lemming (Jesse Williams) coming out to his baseball team.
After nearly 15 previous musical and theatrical adaptations of the classic work “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, another rendition of the story opened Monday, April 11, on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre.
The six wives of England’s King Henry VIII have made their royal arrival to Broadway. The latest hit sensation, “Six,” follows the lives of Henry’s six wives as they battle it out to see who had the worst marriage and ultimately lived the worst life.
After COVID-19 put a damper on the world, Broadway included, the 74th Annual Tony Award show was postponed for over a year.
510 days after Broadway shutdown due to COVID-19, the Great White Way is lighting up its marquees again. Broadway returned officially with the preview for “Pass Over” on Wednesday, Aug. 4, and officially opened on Sunday, Aug. 22, at the August Wilson Theatre. Musicals returned to Broadway on Thursday, Sept. 2, with the reopening of “Hadestown” and the return of “Waitress,” which had previously left Broadway in January 2020.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced that certain entertainment venues can begin operating at reduced capacity beginning on Friday, April 2, according to ABC7. While the new regulation change applies to numerous art spaces, most Broadway shows will remain closed to the public. Certain theaters with more flexible spaces will host some live programming.
After nearly five months since the initial postponement of the 74th Annual Tony Awards, nominations were finally announced on Thursday, Oct. 15.
Movie theaters, Broadway theaters and concert venues all lie dormant as they wait for COVID-19 to end and for their patrons to return. Since entering this period of isolation more than a month ago, which most expect will last well into the summer, the entertainment industry has had to adapt from its traditional methods of engaging with its audience and pushing content into the digital world. But as entertainment faces this period of uncertainty, industry leaders are creating the blueprint for what can be our future well past COVID-19.
On the evening of Thursday, March 12, all 31 current Broadway shows were canceled until further notice. This was a combined order from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Charlotte St. Martin, the president of the Broadway League. In the announcement, Gov. Cuomo said that “gatherings with 500 people or more will not be permitted in NY state.”
The anniversaries of the deaths of two of Broadway’s biggest stars, Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, remind us what they gave the world of stage performing. Fosse, born in 1927, aspired to be a dancer as a child.
Summer began on Broadway with the 73rd Annual Tony Awards highlighting the best on Broadway this year. Now as the summer comes to an end, several new shows have taken their final curtain call, leaving theaters empty and waiting to be filled.
The new musical sensation “Hadestown” had its opening night on Broadway on Wednesday, April 17, after weeks in previews. “Hadestown” is a reimagined version of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Nineteen years after saying goodbye to Harry Potter and his friends at the Battle of Hogwarts, the iconic trio of Harry, Ron and Hermione has been revived in the production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” on Broadway.