Charlotte St. Martin News

Tony Award winning star of stage and screen, Whoopi Goldberg, will take center stage as she hosts the 62nd Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards on Sunday, June 15 live from Radio City Music Hall. Ms. Goldberg made the announcement this morning live on ABC's THE VIEW.

The latest biennial economic impact study by The Broadway League, 'Broadway's Economic Contribution to New York City: 2006-2007 Season,' reveals that the impact derived from Broadway-related spending has hit $5.1 billion - a 44% increase from the $3.5 billion in impact contributed in the 1998-1999 season. The Broadway industry also supported an estimated 44,000 full-time jobs during the 2006-2007 season.

The application deadline for The Commercial Theater Institute and the O'Neill Theater Center's new joint program, The CTI-O'Neill Summer Workshop, has been extended until Thursday, May 22nd.

The Broadway League announced the winners of the Touring Broadway Awards today at its annual Spring Road Conference. Wicked was recognized for the second year in a row as the 'Touring Broadway Audience Choice Award' and also took home prizes for 'Best Musical Score of a Touring Production' and 'Best Direction of a Touring Production.'

Actors' Equity Association will begin Production Contact negotiations (Broadway, road and major sit-downs) with The Broadway League this Friday, April 18th and BroadwayWorld.com got statements from both...

On the occasion of The Broadway League's Annual Industry Conference, AUDIENCE REWARDS has been named the official national patron loyalty program for Broadway.

The Broadway League announced the winners of the Touring Broadway Awards today at its annual Spring Road Conference. Wicked was recognized for the second year in a row as the 'Touring Broadway Audience Choice Award' and also took home prizes for 'Best Musical Score of a Touring Production' and 'Best Direction of a Touring Production.' The Lion King earned recognition for maintaining high quality over its long run and Twelve Angry Men was awarded 'Best Touring Play.'

On April 3rd, 2008 John Lithgow and other Broadway stars were honored at a dinner at La Boheme in Hollywood, CA hosted by The American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League. This was the first time and event took place honoring Tony award winners and nominees on the west coast.

The Commercial Theater Institute and the O'Neill Theater Center announce a new joint program, The CTI-O'Neill Summer Workshop.

All Broadway shows will go on and all local businesses in the Times Square area are and will remain open in spite of this morning's incident.

Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway, a new documentary film by East of Doheny with Albert Maysles, premiered on Monday March 3 in New York, hosted by East of Doheny and The Actors Fund at The Paley Center for Media

Rosie O'Donnell, the 13-time Emmy Award-winning comedian, television talk show host, author, film, television, and stage actress kicked off this year's Kids' Night on Broadway, the annual event during which young people ages 6 to 18 can attend a Broadway show for free when accompanied by a full-paying adult.

On Tuesday, December 18, the membership of The League of American Theatres and Producers renamed their organization to 'The Broadway League.'

Local One - the stagehands' union whose labor-stoppage halted Broadway for 19 days - ratified their new agreement with Broadway producers on Sunday, December 9. The contract will last five years.

The Commercial Theater Institute (CTI), now in its 27th year, has extended the application deadline for the 14 week CTI program to Friday, December 7, 2007.

LATEST NEWS: No official news is yet available, though NY1 and other news sources are reporting that optimism is in the air. Both sides spoke positively earlier in the day about reaching a resolution, but no official announcements have yet been made. A press conference is expected later this evening.

THE BROADWAY STAGEHANDS STRIKE OF 2007 HAS OFFICIALLY COME TO AN END! BroadwayWorld offers the most comprehensive information to guide theatre-fans through the mayhem of rescheduled events and ticket information.

LATEST NEWS: The Broadway community holds its breath awaiting the results of a meeting held today (November 25) between The League and Local One in an effort to end the stagehands' strike. Details on the time and whereabouts of the meeting were not announced.

On Monday, November 12 at the Cipriani Wall Street (55 Wall Street), Gerald Schoenfeld, Board Chairman of The Shubert Organization and The Shubert Foundation, received the Joan Warburg Humanitarian Award from The Acting Company. Legendary producer Edgar Lansbury was presented with the John Houseman Award honoring his commitment to the development of classical actors and a national audience for the theater.

A new statement has just been released by Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of the League of American Theatres and Producers.