Industry Pro Newsletter: Is AI a Threat to Broadway's Newest Shows?
by Alex Freeman - Oct 14, 2025
This week, we're exploring the forces shaping the future of the theatre industry, from technological disruption to fundamental questions about its workforce and leadership. On Broadway, the rise of AI is changing how audiences discover new shows, even as looming labor negotiations, which have drawn the attention of Congress, threaten to halt current ones. At the same time, we're seeing innovative solutions to talent pipeline challenges emerge overseas, while also celebrating the creators and leaders steering the art form forward, from a key artistic appointment in the regional sector to a major international award for a Tony-winning writing team.
Video: ALADDIN Cameo Made by ABC News Anchor JuJu Chang
by Emmy Rice - Jun 1, 2025
ABC News Anchor JuJu Chang had the chance to make her Broadway debut in a cameo in Broadway's Aladdin in the role of Fortune Teller! Don Darryl Rivera, who plays Iago in the show, showed her around backstage. See the video here!
Photos: The WNET Group Hosts 2025 Gala Celebrating Public Media And The Arts
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 30, 2025
Last night, The WNET Group, home of PBS stations THIRTEEN and WLIW, network NJ PBS, and Long Island's only NPR station WLIW-FM, hosted its 2025 gala to celebrate the arts and public media, paying homage to The WNET Group’s mission to use the power of media to educate, inform, entertain, and inspire audiences everywhere. See photos from the event.
ABC News Live Presents PRIDE ACROSS AMERICA
by Josh Sharpe - Jun 26, 2024
ABC News Live will celebrate Pride Month on Sunday, June 30, with “Pride Across America,” an unparalleled television event spanning the country, featuring five hours of live coverage from three of the nation’s biggest pride marches and parades, which draw millions of participants and spectators.
ABC News Sets Special 2024 Presidential Election Coverage For Super Tuesday
by Michael Major - Mar 4, 2024
Contributors Dan Abrams, Donna Brazile, John Katko, Reince Priebus, and Kate Shaw will provide analysis across platforms. ABC News will have on-the-ground reporting from California, Alabama, Virginia, Texas and Colorado to deliver viewers up-to-the-minute reporting of all election results and campaign updates.
ABC News Renews IMPACT x NIGHTLINE For Season Two on Hulu
by Michael Major - Sep 18, 2023
Featuring hard-hitting investigative reporting from ABC News anchors Diane Sawyer, Juju Chang and Janai Norman, plus correspondents Rachel Scott, Matt Rivers, Selina Wang, Megan Ryte and more, the new season takes viewers into the field each week to examine the headlines, giving audiences new insight.
Photos: Go Inside the AMERICAN BORN CHINESE New York Premiere
by Michael Major - May 8, 2023
Academy® Award winners Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan joined fellow castmates Ben Wang, International Emmy(R) Award Nominee Yeo Yann Yann, Chin Han, Daniel Wu, Jimmy Liu and Sydney Taylor on the red carpet. Check out photos now!
20/20 to Feature Interview With Woman at the Center of a Deadly Love Triangle
by Michael Major - Mar 23, 2023
The episode also contains interviews with Chuck and Judy Miller, Bruce’s brother and sister-in-law; Mike Cassaday, Cassaday’s brother; Charlene Cassaday, Cassaday’s mother; James Cassaday, Cassaday’s son; Kevin Shanlian, the lead detective in the case; Marcie Mabry, Genesee County assistant prosecutor; John Hutchinson, and more.
92NY's Seventh Annual EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN AWARDS Presented In Person And Online November 14
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 29, 2022
On Monday, November 14, the 92nd Street Y, New York will honor women leading the way and making a difference with its seventh annual Extraordinary Women Awards. The event will be conducted in-person and livestreamed at 92NY's Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Avenue & 92nd Street, and online, 6-7 pm ET. In person attendees are invited to a celebratory cocktail reception afterwards. Tickets are available here.
ABC Announces 2022 Holiday Programming Schedule
by Michael Major - Oct 24, 2022
Two dazzling specials featuring some of the biggest names in music will bring melodies in December: “A Very Backstreet Christmas” celebrates the holidays with The Backstreet Boys, and “Finding Harmony” is an uplifting story featuring EGOT winner John Legend and David Brown, founder of the Columbus-based Harmony Project in Ohio.
ABC News' NIGHTLINE Is No. 1 in All Key Demos for 2nd Week Straight
by Michael Major - Oct 4, 2022
This week “Nightline” covered Hurricane Ian, Russians fighting back against Putin’s call to arms, Singer Melanie Chisholm’s new memoir, the U.S. fentanyl crisis, climate change’s affect on hurricanes, “Hocus Pocus 2,” and the latest “20/20” episode which covered the Sherri Papini case.
ABC News Announces SOUL OF A NATION Pride Month Special
by Michael Major - Jun 6, 2022
“PRIDE: To Be Seen,” documenting the LGBTQ+ experience and examining what it means to be seen in the current moment as a member of the community. The special, hosted by Cara Delevingne with a special show open composed and performed by artist Alok, explores the meaning of Pride and celebrates and honors the past while looking ahead to the future. Watch the trailer here!
ABC News Announces THE YEAR: 2021 Prime-time Special
by Michael Major - Dec 8, 2021
With the country still fighting COVID-19, a groundbreaking inauguration, the Capitol insurrection, and continued protests for racial justice, 2021 proved to be a year unlike any other in modern-day history. The special will feature David Muir, George Stephanopoulos, Lara Spencer, Jimmie Allen, actress Ryan Michelle Bathe, Kevin Frazier, and more.