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Broadway in Hollywood and the Hollywood Pantages Theatre will now require ticketholders to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and to provide proof of vaccination. This policy is in effect for performances through October 10, 2021, and will be re-assessed on an ongoing basis. For Broadway in Hollywood’s purposes…

Actors’ Equity Association and the Broadway League have announced an agreement on safety protocols that includes mandated vaccines and weekly testing for the Broadway workforce. "This is an important milestone on the path to getting all our members safely back to work," said Mary McColl, executive director for Actors'…

Bruce, a previously announced new musical based on Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb's 1975 memoir The Jaws Log, is resurfacing: Seattle Rep will stage the world premiere next May, the regional theater company announced today. Featuring music by Richard Oberacker and book and lyrics by Oberacker and Robert Taylor (the…

Patrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams have confirmed their return to the Broadway production of Take Me Out when the Richard Greenberg play begins performances next March. The trio had been set to star in the Second Stage Theater production with a pre-pandemic opening of April 2020. The cast has…

The Broadway cast of Hamilton will star Miguel Cervantes in the title role when the hit musical resumes performances at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on September 14. Cervantes had only recently started playing the role on Broadway when the production, along with the rest of the industry, shut down in March 2020 due to…

The original principal cast of Broadway musical Six will return to the production this Fall, producers announced today. The musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss begins performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Sept. 17, with its long-delayed opening night set for Oct. 3. Six was in previews when the Covid-19…

UPDATE, July 23 New York’s Public Theater has canceled tonight’s Free Shakespeare in the Park performance of Merry Wives, the third consecutive cancellation of the show after a member of the production tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week. In a series of Tweets today, the Public wrote, “On Wednesday, we…

UPDATE, July 23 The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cinderella will restart performances in London next month following what proved to be a temporary halt rather than the “closure” initially suggested by the composer. In a Tweet this morning, the production said, “We are pleased to announce that performances of Cinderella…

A new $100 million tax credit to encourage and support the reopening of Broadway was launched today with an announcement by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. "New York is not ‘New York’ without theater,” Cuomo said, in part, on today’s launch of the New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit, a two-year…

Tony nominee Adrienne Warren will return to her widely acclaimed starring role in Broadway’s Tina – The Tina Turner Musical when the show reopens at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Friday, October 8. The announcement was made today by producers Stage Entertainment, James L. Nederlander and Tali Pelman in association with…

Lincoln Center Theater’s Flying Over Sunset will begin performances on Broadway a week later than previously announced, with previews at the Vivian Beaumont Theater now set to start Thursday, Nov. 11, with an official opening on Monday, Dec. 13. The new dates, which producers attributed to scheduling conflicts, moves…

The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Merry Wives has postponed its opening night by nearly two weeks due to an onstage injury sustained by its leading man Jacob Ming-Trent. Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy adaptation of Merry Wives of Windsor, currently in previews at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater…