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The virtual edition of Broadway Backwards delivered an emotional and exuberant evening of performances and raised a record $749,555 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.

New York Theatre Barn will continue to host free live streams of its New Works Series on select Wednesday evenings at 7PM ET. Each installment of the live 1-hour series includes excerpts from two new musicals and a conversation with the writers and creative team.

Broadway Backwards, the annual event where gender doesn't matter but love does, made its virtual premiere earlier this week with special appeals from Chasten Buttigieg, Ariana DeBose, Debra Messing, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Tony Shalhoub and Ben Vereen. The stream will be available on demand through 11:59pm tonight, April 3.

Broadway Backwards, the annual event where gender doesn’t matter but love does, is set to make its virtual premiere this Tuesday, March 30, 2021, with special appeals from Chasten Buttigieg, Ariana DeBose, Debra Messing, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Tony Shalhoub and Ben Vereen.

Winners have been announced for the 2020 BroadwayWorld Seattle Awards - which were back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade! 

K-Squared Entertainment will present an online industry reading of Nico Juber’s theatrical debut, Millennials Are Killing Musicals, on January 15, 2021, featuring book, music & lyrics by Juber. Millennials Are Killing Musicals will star Drama Desk Award-winner Asmeret Ghebremichael as Brenda and Diana Huey as Katrina, and more.

New York Theatre Barn will host a free live stream of the 31st installment of its virtual New Works Series on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 at 7PM EDT, featuring excerpts from the new musicals The Ladies Man and Millennials Are Killing Musicals.

New York Theatre Barn will continue to host weekly free live streams of its New Works Series each Wednesday evening at 7PM ET. Available on New York Theatre Barn's YouTube channel and Broadway on Demand, each installment of the live 45-minute series includes excerpts from two new musicals and a conversation with the writers and creative team.

The 5th Avenue Theatre has announced that Half the Sky, a new contemporary American musical with music by Tidtaya Sinutoke and book and lyrics by Isabella Dawis, will be the first of three Musical Radio Plays produced in its 2020/21 digital season.

Ogunquit Playhouse’s virtual benefit reading of the new musical, A VERY BRADY MUSICAL, offered theatre-starved Mainers (and online audiences beyond) the opportunity to enjoy a fresh, charming, nostalgic piece featuring the beloved Brady Bunch characters in a delightful ninety minutes of family fun. The work with book by Lloyd J. Schwartz and Hope Juber and music and lyrics by Hope and Laurence Juber references the original 1970s television series, while adding a contemporary spin using an ethnically diverse cast and slightly comic edgier predicaments.

The musical will star Broadway performers Gavin Lee and Kerry Butler, along with a host of other stars.

In anticipation of the debut of their digital album, The Rocky Horror Skivvies Show, The Skivvies (Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley), Rob Morrison, and Michael Kushner have released a new music video, Super Heroes. The album is set to be released in the last week of October.

A new Brady Bunch musical, called A Very Brady Musical, will be have a virtual benefit reading for the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. The musical will star Broadway performers Gavin Lee and Kerry Butler, along with a host of other stars.

The Off-Broadway rock musical Jasper in Deadlandis being performed live online on Friday, October 9 at 8 pm ET to benefit the Actors Fund, with direct links for viewers to donate.

Featuring new performers with every show, the weekly, award-winning Piano Bar Live! (PBL!)streams this Tuesday, September 15th at 7:15 pm ET, with host Scott Barbarino. PBL! is continuing the long-established tradition of the piano bar-that special place where we can gather, entertain, support and create, as we connect with live music.

A new Zoom presentation of a?oeThe Telephone Houra?? from Bye Bye Birdie, featuring over 50 performers, will premiere today!

While Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out yesterday's highlights from some of your favorites, including Laura Benanti as Melania Trump, Tamyra Gray, Heath Saunders, Nik Walker, and more!

Stars from the worlds of Broadway and American Idol have come together to lend their voices to address the growing divide in America.

New York Theatre Barn will host a free live stream of its New Works Series on Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 at 7PM EDT, featuring excerpts from the new musicals A Crossing and Forget Me Not. The 45-minute presentation will also feature a conversation with the creators of the new musicals.

Chris Mann will be hosting Ballots Over Broadway, an intimate evening of Broadway musical performances by your favorite stars of stage and screen, to benefit Field Team 6 and Higher Heights for America, on Friday, August 7 at 8 pm PST | 11 pm EST.