The Broadway League extended the industry’s shutdown through May 30, 2021, bringing theater’s devastating closure to at least 14 months.
BROADWAY LEAGUE’S $4,000 DUES DEMAND RANKLES MEMBERS
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
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 OFFICIALLY CANCELS ALL 2020 PERFORMANCES
The Broadway League said theaters are offering refunds through Jan. 3, 2021, as the industry officially canceled performances for the rest of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Continue Reading
ACTORS’ EQUITY SAYS MEMBERS WILL BE NO-SHOWS UNTIL PANDEMIC IS ‘UNDER CONTROL’
EXCLUSIVE: The coronavirus epidemic must be “under control” and testing be frequent and accurate before it’s safe for actors and stage managers to return to work, the executive director of Actors’ Equity Association, Mary McColl, wrote to members today. Continue Reading
BROADWAY SHUTDOWN WILL LAST THROUGH LABOR DAY; ‘PLAZA SUITE’ BOOKS MARCH 2021
Broadway has given up predicting when it will be back.
With no indication about when it will be safe to produce theater in New York or when audiences will feel comfortable returning, the Broadway League, the trade association of theater owners and producers, made its shutdown open-ended, announcing Tuesday that its 41 theaters will be dark through at least Sept. 6.Continue Reading
BROADWAY LEAGUE EXTENDS SHUTDOWN THROUGH JUNE 7
The Broadway League extended its shutdown through June 7, the original date of the Tony Awards, guaranteeing that Broadway will be closed at least three months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A BROADWAY MAVERICK CONTEMPLATES A POST-COVID FUTURE: INTERVIEW
Producing theater is quixotic in the best of circumstances. Weathering the industry’s longest-ever shutdown, which has halted shows and cut off incomes, makes the endeavor that much more daunting.
“Cameron Mackintosh has said, ‘theater has always survived on mavericks who go their own way,’ and we need more of them out there,” producer Ken Davenport said in a Zoom interview earlier this week from his Upper West Side apartment.
BROADWAY LEAGUE CREATES FINANCIAL RELIEF INFO SITES
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)
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.
