The Public Theater News

Billy Porter took to Instagram to issue a fashion challenge to his followers with the instructions: Be creative!

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 3/26/2020 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

Gloucester Stage Company Artistic Director Robert Walsh and Managing Director Christopher Griffith are proud to announce Gloucester Stage's 2020 season of professional theater on Boston's North Shore.

AMC announced today that it has greenlit National Anthem, an 8-episode anthology series created by writer/director Scott Z. Burns (The Report, Contagion) and executive produced by Oscar® and Emmy® Award-winner Mark Johnson (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Rectify, Rain Man, The Natural, Bugsy).  The musical dramedy is the first series greenlit under Johnson's multi-year overall deal with AMC Studios, through which he will continue to develop new series for the company's Entertainment Group as well as projects for potential sale to other content companies. National Anthem is the tragically funny story of a middle class midwestern family tumbling down the ladder of American society; periodically bursting into song as they struggle to catch themselves.  Award-winning musician T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart, The Hunger Games) is attached as the series' music producer with words and music by Craig Finn (The Hold Steady).

After last week's successful launch of JOE'S PUB LIVE!, Joe's Pub, a program of The Public Theater, will continue itsa??free series of live-streamed and archived performances from their iconic stage in New York City.

Alan Menken has revealed that Hercules will return to the stage!

Billy Porter will voice the character of Desmond on tonight's episode of The Simpson's!

After being postponed at Joe's Pub due to the unforeseen pandemic, Justin Sayre brings his wild and witty comedy variety show The Meeting* to Livestream on March 22 at 8:00 PM EST. The Virtual show will be filmed in Julian Fleisher's 'Gay-sement,' a fully working stage and salon room in his home in Bovina Center, New York.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 3/19/2020 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

Classic Stage Company, in response to new restrictions on mass gatherings due to COVID-19, has suspended rehearsals and ticket sales for its revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins, directed by John Doyle.

In 2009, four decades after it originally rocked the world, Hair returned under the direction of Diane Paulus. The production, which started at the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park the previous summer, opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theater on March 31, 2009. The cast included some of Broadway's best, including Cassie Levy, Will Swenson, Sasha Allen, Allison Case, Kacie Sheik, Bryce Ryness, Jay Armstrong Johnson and future Tony winner, Gavin Creel.

Today, Joe's Pub, a program of the Public Theater, announced Joe's Pub Live!, a free series of live-streamed and archived performances from our iconic stage in New York City.

Ideastream has reported that Great Lakes Theater Legend Gerald Freedman has passed away at age 92.

Krysta Rodriguez opened her September 2019 concert with Lake Street Dive's 'Good Kisser.'

On World Theatre Day, Friday 27 March 2020 at noon GMT the Royal Court Theatre and The Space will make Cyprus Avenue, the film adaptation, available to watch for free on their website, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages for one month.

Ryan Raferty presents his fifth celebrity biomusical, IVANKA 2020, which will open at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater in NYC. Check out a number from the show below!

Unfortunately, due to the spread of coronavirus, Roberto Fonseca's shows at Joe's Pub tomorrow night have been cancelled.

Which productions are currently running, cancelled, and postponed in NYC? We've got a comprehensive list of all the changes.

Beginning today, New York's Public Theater will suspend all programming through April 12 due to the Covid-19 outbreak. 

BroadwayWorld has reached out to the city's numerous Cabaret venues for information on their response to the COVID-19 outbreak which has shuttered Broadway through April 13th.