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While the data from the early winter show that Broadway’s reopening didn’t go as planned, and the January closing announcements were an emotional blow after the Omicron surge, the slate of opening dates announced on Broadway for early to mid-April, have many in the industry starting to feel optimistic that this time a corner has truly been turned.

NYC & Company, New York City's official destination marketing organization and convention and visitors bureau, today announced the extension of NYC Broadway Week 2-for-1 tickets to 15 participating shows for an additional two weeks, through February 27.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Golden Globe-winner Andrew Garfield stopped in for a chat about Netflix's award-winning film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's 'tick, tick...BOOM!'

Chicago indie quintet The Walters made their television debut last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, performing “I Love You So.” The quintet s made of Luke Olson [lead vocals, guitar], Walter Kosner [lead guitar], MJ Tirabassi [rhythm guitar, vocals], Danny Wells [bass], and Charlie Ekhaus [drums].

Theatre Pro Rata is producing Orlando by Sarah Ruhl at The Crane Theater this spring under the direction of Carin Bratlie Wethern. Ruhl’s theatrical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel premiered in New York City in 2010 and artfully plays with the attributes of gender, sexuality, identity, and freedom in both blithe and earnest ways.

Wright State Theatre will stage Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Sweat, as its first play of 2022, running February 3-13th. As if lifted from our own local headlines, this gripping drama takes us into the lives of middle-American industrial workers facing the end of their livelihoods as their factory jobs disappear and their families and friendships struggle to survive. Lynn Nottage has written an exquisite, devastating contemporary tragedy.

 Co-founders T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reginald “Reggie” Van Lee, along with Executive Director Olivia Jones and Program Director Lico Whitfield, announced today the members of their inaugural cohort of General Management Fellows as part of the Black Theatre Coalition Fellowship Program.

The global smash continues its explosive success into the new year, landing its most impressive chart position to date at #28 on Spotify’s US Top Global chart, and #19 on the Top 50 US chart, with more than 336 million global streams to date and over 635K user-created videos on TikTok. Listen to the new remix now!

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

We're giving one reader a chance to win a copy of the brand new graphic novel adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera, adapted by Cavan Scott with art by José María Beroy. Check out the giveaway, live now on our Instagram!

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

MJ has cancelled all performances through December 26 due to multiple positive COVID test results within the company.

A brand-new studio cast recording of the beloved holiday musical, The Christmas Schooner, featuring Tony Award-winners Jessie Mueller (Beautiful – The Carole King Musical; Waitress) and James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin; Hamilton), will be released in 2022.

North Coast Repertory Theatre presents Richard Dreyfuss in A Benefit Reading of The Soap Myth: More than a half-century after WW II, a young investigative reporter (Emily Goss) finds herself caught between numerous versions of the same story as she befriends a Holocaust survivor (Richard Dreyfuss) on a crusade about the atrocity of 'soap' - did the Nazis make soap from the corpses of murdered Jews?

Today, a digital lottery for MJ was announced for all performances starting tomorrow. MJ, inspired by the life and art of Michael Jackson, is now playing preview performances on Broadway at the newly refurbished Neil Simon Theatre.

tick, tick... BOOM! is the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionized theater as the creator of Rent. The film stars Academy Award nominee & Tony Award winner Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Tony Award nominee Robin de Jesús, Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry, MJ Rodriguez, Emmy Award winner Bradley Whitford, The Roots' Tariq Trotter, with Emmy and Tony Award winner Judith Light, and Vanessa Hudgens.