How Female Playwrights Are Making the Industry Better
Other than a handful of playwrights 30 and under, all the playwrights spoken to for this piece believe their sex has impacted their careers in the theater...
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Where Are All of the Female Theatre Critics?
In this, the second installment in our series on women playwrights, the playwrights speak about critical interpretation of their work and the lack of powerful...
Stage Dooring (Re)Halted on Broadway; When Might It Be Back?
Stage dooring. Fans love it. Actors are split, and were even before the pandemic. And then the pandemic hit. When Broadway returned, stage dooring did not. It...
Women Playwrights Speak Out on Life in the Theater: Part 1
In this three-part series, BroadwayWorld spoke to over 20 female playwrights who have been produced in major NY theaters about what life in the theater is...
Chet Walker's Impact Remembered by Broadway's Most Influential Dancers and Choreographers
Dancer/choreographer/teacher Chet Walker - a Fosse dancer who later co-conceived FOSSE and choreographed the 2013 PIPPIN revival - died on October 21 from a...
Bruce Vilanch Departs A SIGN OF THE TIMES
Last week A SIGN OF THE TIMES -- was announced for a new developmental reading. The release stated the musical had “several script revisions” and the...
Inside the Fight for Adult Dancers to Join Actors' Equity
In August, when Actors’ Equity first announced it was seeking to represent adult dancers (aka strippers) at a California night club, many members expressed...
GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR, The Behind-the-Scenes Battle Splayed Out In Public
It surprised the industry this week when playwright David Adjmi went public about his own tale of developing an Oscar Levant play with Sean Hayes – and not the...
What Is Papering and How Does it Fill Seats on Broadway?
In all of Broadway’s efforts to promote accessible tickets, there is little talk of “papering.” There is good reason for this – if people capable of buying...
How to Invest in a Broadway Show
We hear a lot about making Broadway accessible. Broadway ticket prices have outpaced inflation over the decades (by a lot) and cheap preview tickets were...
Backstage COVID Protocols (And How They Have Changed)
Much publicity was given to the Broadway League’s decision to cease requiring vaccinations to enter a Broadway theater, but less attention was given to the...
Industry Editor Exclusive: Unions Push Back on 'Closing' vs. 'Hiatus' for MRS. DOUBTFIRE
Everyone knows it is tough times for the theater industry. Broadway’s indeed thankfully back, but amid rising Covid cases wreaking havoc on casts and keeping...
Industry Editor Exclusive: The Complicated Relationship Between Actors' Equity Association and Spanish Language Theatre
It is 2021, but some in the Spanish speaking community still feel like they are not properly represented by Actors’ Equity Association (AEA). And they’ve been...
Industry Editor Exclusive: What's the Plan for Broadway's Return? The Broadway League, Producers & Insiders Speak Up
We investigate what the plan is for the return of Broadway, with insight from the Broadway League, Broadway producers, industry insiders, and more!
Industry Editor Exclusive: Still No Gigs... So What Now?
The theater shutdown has been hard on everyone in the industry. That is true even of actors. While the average naïve reader might think of acting as a...
Industry Editor Exclusive: Behind the Unusual Tonys Race for Best Score
As readers know by now, the 2020 Tony Awards are going ahead based on a severely abbreviated season. Many were hoping there would be elimination and/or...
Industry Editor Exclusive: Many Broadway Actors Face a New Loss... Health Insurance
One thing you want in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic is health insurance. But many theater actors are in danger of losing theirs because of the theater...
Industry Editor Exclusive: How Will Off-Broadway Non-Profits Survive?
This week, I asked representatives from ten theatrical nonprofits in New York to speak with me. Most said yes, but many asked to speak off-the-record because...
Industry Editor Exclusive: Where Do Broadway Bootlegs Come From?
This fall, I began looking into the overt sale of Broadway bootlegs. There were a couple of well-known sites selling them and I contacted the owners of those...
Industry Editor Exclusive: Jerry Herman and the Catalog He Leaves Behind
A producer cannot just license any property s/he wants. Yes, MAME is available for licensing on the Concord Theatricals website, but if I wanted to mount it on...
Industry Editor Exclusive: Broadway 'Blackouts' and Making Theatre More Diverse
The discussion about how to get more diverse audiences--in terms of age, race, pretty much everything--in the theater has been going on for decades. Recently...
Industry Editor Exclusive: The Evolution of Cell Phones Use at the Theater (And What to Do About It)
Years ago, when the popularity of cell phones started exploding, theaters in other countries started experimenting with the idea of using signal jammers to...
Industry Editor Exclusive: The Rise of the Broadway Concert
It used to be young Broadway performers rarely did their own shows, at least not in NYC. Some of them found a place-and there are examples to be cited for...
Industry Editor Exclusive: Filming a Broadway Show From Your Seat - Is It Ever Allowed?
Last week, many fans who couldn't fit in the theater got to enjoy part of the final performance of THE PROM courtesy of Beth Leavel's personal publicist. Lisa...
Industry Editor Exclusive: Closing Time on Broadway
Of course, everyone has been freaking out about the amount of closings announced in recent months. From the acclaimed musical THE PROM to the cult show BE MORE...
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