Actors’ Equity Association and The Broadway League have created the League-Equity Audition Program ('LEAP'), a new pilot initiative designed to provide Equity actors the opportunity to be seen by top creative talent and casting professionals.
On the business side, ATG Entertainment is reportedly being prepared for a possible sale by its private equity owner, while Pittsburgh Public Theater terminated its staff ahead of its merger with Pittsburgh CLO — two stories that speak to the consolidation and financial pressures reshaping the ind
The National Endowment for the Arts and National Alliance for Musical Theatre announced the winners of the Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge for High School Students, with winning songs to be performed in concert at New World Stages in NYC.
Pipeline Arts Foundation has launched Pipeline Arts Productions, a new for-profit producing arm with a priority on advancing musical theatre projects by artists who’ve previously won Pipeline Awards.
Executive Director Chad Bauman on Milwaukee Rep's expansion, new play development, and why he sees this moment in American theater as 'a call to purpose.
Betty Gilpin spent part of her Saturday on Broadway, catching the matinee performance of SIX before posing backstage with the cast.
xBroadway’s current theater capacity rules have not always been how they are now.
Jeffrey Lane, an Emmy-winning writer and producer who was most famous for Mad About You, Cagney & Lacey and Lou Grant, as well as the Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, died at he age of 71 in New York following a lengthy illness.
Carnegie Hall's Summer Music Educators Workshop will bring nearly 150 music teachers together for a four-day intensive, culminating in a free concert at Riverbank State Park featuring a nationwide teachers' orchestra and chorus.
Busted Broadway has newly launched as an independent musical theatre record label positioned to release original dark-humor concept cast albums geared towards absurd, edgy, and intentionally outrageous musical theatre titles.
David Joseph CBE, CEO of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and one of the UK's most respected creative industries executives, has joined the Board of LW Entertainment as Non-Executive Director.
A new musical adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK will hold a private industry workshop and table reading in Manhattan, featuring NYC stage veterans with Off-Broadway and national tour credits.
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) will host a Tony Awards watch party fundraiser, limited to 60 attendees, featuring a buffet, Tony Pool ballots, and a chance to cheer on several TRU-affiliated nominees.
Amas Musical Theatre will present developmental readings of Industrial Strength by Steve Young and Stuart Ross, with musical direction by David Hancock Turner and direction by Stuart Ross
Actors’ Equity Association’s National Council has voted to endorse Jon Ossoff’s campaign for United States Senate on behalf of the more than 51,000 actors and stage managers working in live entertainment.
Pronto Me, a new platform designed exclusively for the performing arts community, has officially launched to transform how actors, singers, and dancers receive professional feedback.
StageMag, the digital show program platform from BroadwayWorld, launched its new PDF Editor to all producers and stage managers using the service.
Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International just announced the licensing availability of Sister Act SR.
Write Out Loud announced its panel of judges for the 2026 songwriting contest, including Tom Kitt, Jaime Lozano, Madeline Myers, and others with credits spanning HAMILTON, NEXT TO NORMAL, and SIX.
The Actors’ Equity Foundation has revealed the recipients of its 2026 awards for theatre artists.
Aléna Watters and Natalie Joy Johnson have joined the two invite-only industry staged readings of Had It Blue, the new rock-and-roll musical with book and lyrics by Paul Pecorino and music by David Nehls.
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) has revealed a significant expansion of its commitment to New York City’s youth through a slate of new education, artistic, and family-focused programs.
Three-time Grammy Award-winner and Broadway alum Leon Thomas will be honored with the ASCAP Vanguard Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been taped at the Ed Sullivan Theatre located on Broadway between 53rd and 54th Streets since it began in 2015.
The Museum of Chinese in America will present a conversation with Tisa Chang of Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, covering the company's founding, the Asian American theater movement, and the future of the field.
