Before attending Wednesday afternoon’s matinee performances, nearly 155 New York City public high school students and chaperones gathered in Times Square to commemorate the milestone achieved of Broadway Bridges® welcoming 100,000 students to Broadway since its inception in 2017.
The Jimmy Awards are back! Tonight, June 26, 2023, Corbin Bleu returns to host high school theatre's biggest night. In this video, watch as we go inside rehearsals with all 96 nominees!
The Tony Awards are moving uptown this year and Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin is telling us about why the change matters in this exclusive video interview!
Students from across New York City are taking part in The Broadway League’s 11th annual High School Broadway Shadowing Program- a unique behind-the-scenes theatre experience, learning about non-performance careers in commercial theatre. Watch as we catch up with two of them, plus Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin to hear all about it!
The Broadway League has launched THIS IS BROADWAY, a new initiative to welcome theater lovers back to Times Square following the industry’s 18-month shutdown.
Earlier today, leaders from the Broadway community gathered in Duffy Square to celebrate, what else, but the return on Broadway. 'The reviews are in. We are closer than ever to closing the curtain on COVID-19' said New York Senator Chuck Schumer. 'And when Broadway comes back, New York comes back!'
Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan's THE GREAT SOCIETY, starring Brian Cox (a?oeSuccessiona??) as LBJ, directed by Bill Rauch, will play its final performance, as scheduled, on Saturday, November 30 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65th St) at Lincoln Center. At the time of closing, The Great Society will have played 26 preview performances and 72 regular performances.
On Day 30 of 30 Days of Tony, we're celebrating two time Tony Award winner for Other Desert Cities and The Assembled Parties, the great Judith Light who will receive this year's Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award.
The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) today announced a group of talented actors serving as Ambassadors for the 2019 Excellence in Theatre Education Award.
Twenty-six lucky students, selected from public high schools across New York City, will have the ultimate theatre insider experience by participating in The Broadway League's seventh annual High School Broadway Shadowing Program.
Academy Award-winning composer-lyricists Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez discuss transforming their 2013 mega-hit, Disney Animation's Frozen, to a new Broadway musical adding a dozen new songs. Elisabeth Vincentelli (The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Three on the Aisle podcast) co-hosts with Susan Haskins.
Thomas O'Donnell, President of Teamster Local 817 has fired back at today's lawsuit filed by the Broadway League against multiple casting agencies that have been organizing a union.
Today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, The Broadway League filed a formal legal complaint against what a press release refers to as 'a cartel of casting companies who are violating antitrust laws, jeopardizing Broadway shows, and harming actors, stagehands, musicians, and others who depend on the theatre for their livelihood.'
Welcome to BroadwayWorld's Tony Award Countdown: 30 Days of TONY, a loving look at some of the most memorable moments from Tony's history featuring today's nominees!
It's just days until the 69th Annual Tony Awards, and just last night the nominees gathered at The Diamond Horseshoe at the Paramount Hotel to celebrate the 2015 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre and 2015 Special Award Recipients, including Tommy Tune, Stephen Schwartz, and John Cameron Mitchell (all of whom will accept their awards on Sunday night), as well as honorees Gene O'Donovan, Adrian Bryan-Brown, and Arnold Abramson. Check out their speeches below!
It's just days until the 69th Annual Tony Awards, and just last night the nominees gathered at The Diamond Horseshoe at the Paramount Hotel to celebrate the 2015 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre and 2015 Special Award Recipients, including Tommy Tune, Stephen Schwartz, John Cameron Mitchell, Gene O'Donovan, Adrian Bryan-Brown, and Arnold Abramson. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with the nominees for one last time before the big night. Check out what they have going on this week below!
Today, inspirational theatre educators across the United States have a first-ever chance at the Tony spotlight. The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have announced that nominations are now open for the inaugural 'Excellence in Theatre Education Award.'
As one of his final acts of good will, Robin Williams recorded a video message for New Zealander Vivian Waller, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer in January. Meeting Williams, along with marrying her partner and seeing her daughter's first birthday, made her bucket list. The late actor recently discovered her wish, though Waller had become too ill to travel, according to the Sunday Star Times - instead, sending her the video below that was released yesterday.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson sat down with some of this year's Tony Award nominees in honor his second annual Tie the Knot Tony bow tie. In the video below, watch as Audra McDonald, James Monroe Iglehart, Tom Kitt, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Brian J. Smith, and Sutton Foster, share insider information about their nominations, receive some words of advice from Jesse, and offer a few surprises.