Danny Whitman News

BC/EFA Executive Director Tom Viola To Step Down At the End of 2024

by A.A. Cristi — July 18, 2024

Tom Viola, the longtime Executive Director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, has announced that he will leave his position at the end of 2024.

Photos: Inside Look At Drew & Dane's 31st Annual Festivity Supporting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

by A.A. Cristi — November 28, 2023

On Monday evening, Broadway had its holiday season kick-off at Sony Hall with Drew & Dane’s 31st Annual Festivity, The Festiv-eras Tour.

Photos: On the Red Carpet for BroadwayWorld's 20th Anniversary Celebration

by Genevieve Rafter Keddy — May 23, 2023

Sunday night was a very special occasion here at BroadwayWorld.

Photos: Go Inside the 2022 Fred Ebb Award Ceremony

by Chloe Rabinowitz — November 30, 2022

See photos from the eighteenth annual Fred Ebb Award ceremony.

Photos: Isabella Dawis & Tidtaya Sinutoke Receive the 2022 Fred Ebb Award

by Jennifer Broski — May 3, 2022

The Fred Ebb Foundation in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company presented the seventeenth annual Fred Ebb Award for aspiring musical theatre songwriters to the team of Isabella Dawis & Tidtaya Sinutoke.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gloria Estefan, Judith Light and More Join THE BROADWAY GIVES BACK PODCAST

by Chloe Rabinowitz — January 11, 2021

The Broadway Gives Back Podcast launched on Wednesday, January 6th with five incredible guests which include Gloria and Emilio Estefan (Latin Music Legends), Lin-Manuel and Luis Miranda (Hamilton creator and his political consultant father) and more.

Photo Flash: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF in Yiddish Partnered with YES PROJECT for a Benefit

by Chloe Rabinowitz — November 8, 2019

Fiddler on the Roof, in Yiddish with English Supertitles, partnered with YES PROJECT/Youth Equity Science: Fighting Stigma, Preventing Suicide With Science + Law to raise awareness.

BWW Feature: THE GARDEN STATE LOVES LUCY!

by Michael T. Mooney — February 24, 2019

Had Lucy's family stayed in Trenton, history might have been very different, but the Garden State stayed peripherally involved the Queen of Comedy's life and work.

Photo Coverage: Alan Cumming Presents the 2018 Fred Ebb Award!

by Genevieve Rafter Keddy — November 26, 2018

The Fred Ebb Foundation and Roundabout Theatre Company this week presented the fourteenth annual Fred Ebb Award for aspiring musical theatre songwriters to Will Reynolds and Eric Price.

Photo Coverage: The Stars Arrive at the PHANTOM FASHION 30 Event

by Genevieve Rafter Keddy — October 31, 2018

The #PhantomFashion30 designs were revealed during an exclusive invite-only event sponsored by Bank of America on Tuesday, October 30.

BWW Review: THE CUBAN AND THE REDHEAD at Pegasus Theatre

by Kyle Christopher West — September 24, 2018

One sure sign of a troubled musical is the inability to recall a single tune from the twenty listed in the show's program immediately following the performance.

Photo Flash: Anneliese Van Der Pol and Storm Lineberger Star in THE CUBAN AND THE REDHEAD

by Julie Musbach — July 27, 2018

Pegasus Theatre presents The Cuban and the Redhead, a new musical about Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, with book, music and lyrics by Robert Bartley and Danny Whitman.

Photo Coverage: FOREVER PLAID The Event- A Benefit For Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids at The Laurie Beechman Theatre

by Stephen Sorokoff — April 6, 2018

The West Bank Cafe/Laurie Beechman Theatre became all PLAID last night in a Benefit For Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids and the special production proved that PLAID will happily be on our planet FOREVER! The performance continues for two more nights.

Photo Coverage: Stars Flip-Flop Roles at Broadway Backwards!

by Jennifer Broski — April 3, 2018

Broadway Backwards (#BroadwayBackwards) took the stage last night, April 2, 2018, at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Street, NYC), currently home to the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots.

Photo Flash: Laura Osnes, Nikki M. James, and More Turn Out to Announce New Broadway Cares Partnership

by A.A. Cristi — October 27, 2017

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has announced a partnership with the fashion line La Perla.

Realio Trulio Little Pet Dragon Lands In NYC's Lower East Side

by Julie Musbach — April 2, 2017

Nuyorican Poets Cafe presents family musical based on books by poet Ogden Nash.

WAKE UP with BWW 10/2/2015 - SYLVIA Brings Canine Companionship to Broadway!

by Jessica Khan — October 2, 2015

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? This weekend's big news: SYLVIA starts on Broadway tonight, and Sunday is your last chance to see Sydney Lucas in FUN HOME!