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DANCING IN THE DARK: BROADWAY LEAGUE WON’T REPORT SPRINGSTEEN GROSSES

June 25, 2021 by Philip Boroff

Bruce Springsteen’s summer engagement at the St. James Theatre will likely break Broadway records — but we may never know for sure.Continue Reading

SBA TARGETS JULY 4 FOR MOST SHUTTERED VENUE GRANT DECISIONS

June 16, 2021 by Philip Boroff

The U.S. Small Business Administration plans to notify 10,000 Shuttered Venue Operators Grant applicants, or 70 percent of the total, about awards by Independence Day, Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin wrote to members.Continue Reading

SHUTTERED-VENUE PROGRAM IS FLUSH AFTER WEEK ONE (EXCLUSIVE)

May 9, 2021 by Philip Boroff

In a hopeful sign for performing arts organizations, music venues and theater producers seeking help to resume live, in-person programming, the federal government’s shuttered-venue subsidy program had $6 billion remaining after its first week accepting applications.Continue Reading

PRODUCERS WANT UNION CONCESSIONS BEFORE REOPENING

November 16, 2020 by Philip Boroff

Charlotte St. Martin

Broadway seeks givebacks from the industry’s unions before performances resume, the head of the trade group that represents commercial producers and theater owners told an online industry conference Monday.

“There have been general conversations [with unions] about what the contracts might look like, what might be changed,” Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin said during the final day of The TheaterMakers Summit. “We’ll have to get to the changes, if any, toward wages and work rules and all of that to get open, because the producers will have to figure out if they can reopen. If you reopen at 50 percent of your previous attendance, nobody even comes close to recouping at 50 percent of the theater being open. So we’ll have to talk about things.”Continue Reading

BROADWAY LEAGUE EXTENDS SHUTDOWN THROUGH MAY 2021

October 9, 2020 by Philip Boroff

The Broadway League extended the industry’s shutdown through May 30, 2021, bringing theater’s devastating closure to at least 14 months.

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BROADWAY LEAGUE’S $4,000 DUES DEMAND RANKLES MEMBERS

September 28, 2020 by Philip Boroff

EXCLUSIVE: Amidst Broadway’s endless intermission, Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin has a message for the trade association’s members: Pay your dues.Continue Reading

TONYS TO CELEBRATE SHOWS THAT OPENED BY FEB. 19, PUSHING ‘WEST SIDE STORY,’ ‘NORTH COUNTRY’ TO ’20-21

August 21, 2020 by Philip Boroff

The Tony Awards, postponed from June because of the Covid-19 pandemic, will be produced virtually on an unspecified date this year.Continue Reading

BROADWAY LEAGUE CREATES FINANCIAL RELIEF INFO SITES

March 27, 2020 by Philip Boroff

BREAKING: The Broadway League today introduced websites with information about city, state, federal and philanthropic relief packages for employees and employers battered by the covid-19 crisis.

The site for employees is here. The site for employers, here.

League President Charlotte St. Martin alerted members of the trade association to the sites in an email obtained by Broadway Journal.

BROADWAY SHOWS ‘MAY BE THE LAST AREA OF BUSINESS TO COME BACK,’ ST. MARTIN SAYS (EXCLUSIVE)

March 26, 2020 by Philip Boroff

Broadway can’t reopen without New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s permission, and it may be among the last sectors of society to get it, Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin wrote to members and staff of the trade association this morning.

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BROADWAY LEAGUE REACHES SHUTDOWN PAY PACT AS ‘HANGMEN’ CANCELS

March 20, 2020 by Philip Boroff

With no end in sight for the global coronavirus pandemic and U.S. theater shutdown, the Broadway League announced an agreement with the industry’s unions requiring suspended productions to pay an additional two weeks to actors and other workers who lost their incomes. Continue Reading

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