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March 15: Deadline for Lowest Price and 3-for-1 to New York Marketing & Fundraising Conference

Two new play commissions were announced by the independent publishing company Stage Partners, with the goal of engaging professional playwrights to create inspiring new works especially for school theatre programs.

Jamila Ponton Bragg has been named the new manager of the Broadway Women's Fund.

Director and theatre visionary Anne Bogart will receive Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation's 2023 Gordon Davidson Award.

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has announced that Dot & the Kangaroo JR.

Mayor Eric Adams, the Honorable Letitia James, and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine were among the list of esteemed honorees as well as the visionary founders of BroadwayHD: Bonnie Comley and Stewart F.

Theater for a New City has been awarded $24,999 as part of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation National Paralysis Resource Center.

New 42 has promoted executive team member Leroy Li to the position of Vice President, Real Estate & Facilities.

The Classical Theatre of Harlem will welcome Tony nominee Kara Young, Dr.

As theatre marketers continue to try and find new ways to market their shows - and in a very crowded Broadway season new ways to break through the noise - there is a strong trend to chase the next shiny thing.

Building for the Arts has announced that it will offer subsidized, affordable rehearsal space to artists and companies at its Theatre Row Rehearsal Studios, located in NYC's Theater District.

TRW Plays, a division of Theatrical Rights Worldwide, has acquired the global licensing rights for two new plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR by Doug Wright and DOWNSTATE by Bruce Norris.

Playwright Cris Eli Blak has won the prestigious 2024 Charles M.

Vineyard Theatre is one of fourteen New York City theaters that have been awarded a grant to participate in the Tow Foundation Playwright Residency Program.

Explore the 2024 Fresh Ink Reading Series and Playwriting Cohort announced by Primary Stages.

Tanya Marie Grubich, 60, of Bucks County, PA passed away peacefully in her sleep on February 16, 2024 after a courageous battle with Early Onset Dementia.

 The York Theatre Company will present developmental readings of Bordello, The Musical, with book by Barbara Bellman and Joan Ross Sorkin, music by Emiliano Messiez, lyrics by Barbara Bellman, music direction by Steven Gross and directed by Will Pomerantz.

Inside Broadway has just announced Katie McAllister as the Executive Director of the nonprofit that has introduced the magic of Broadway to New York City public school students for free for over four decades.

The Dramatists Guild Foundation will present selections of work by the 2022-2023 Class of Musical Theater Writing Fellows on Monday, March 25, at Playwrights Horizons.

Broadway alumni, Bart Shatto, Daniel Z.

HERE has unveiled a new leadership structure where the boundary pushing organization will be led by three Co-Directors.

Open Jar Studios is launching The Stage Door Foundation, which emerges as the new not-for-profit organization to provide support to artists as they develop theatrical projects.

The Al Hirschfeld Foundation has appointed three new members of the board.

The restructuring of the industry continues - in North Carolina, Raleigh has lost one of its major institutions (for the time being) as North Carolina Theater suspends their 2024 season and files for bankruptcy.

Shakespeare & Company's Center for Actor Training has announced its Spring 2024 schedule of workshops and weekend intensives, including both in-person and online offerings.