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The Chief Operating Officer of live event producer RWS Entertainment and its subsidiary Binder Casting, resigned his position today, stating he had “not lived up to the high standards” of the companies. The circumstances of Bruston Manuel’s departure were not disclosed. Though RWS Entertainment is known chiefly as a…

If Saturday Night Live can do it, why not Off Broadway? That’s one of the arguments in a lawsuit filed by six small New York theaters and two comedy clubs against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over the city’s ongoing pandemic shutdown of such venues. The lawsuit filed in United…

Ming Cho Lee, an innovative and influential scenic designer whose career of more than 60 years included unforgettable creations for Broadway, Off Broadway, regional theater, opera and dance, died Oct. 23 at his Manhattan home. He was 90, and a cause of death has not been specified. A cornerstone of the Yale School of…

EXCLUSIVE The Good Fight executive producer Jacquelyn Reingold has signed with Verve for representation in all areas. The New York-based playwright, TV writer and producer recently developed the pilot Best of Both Worlds for Warner Bros TV, with John Wells attached to produce. Reingold began her TV career writing on…

EXCLUSIVE: Broadway actors have a long history of moonlighting – sunlighting? – on daytime soaps, at least they did in decades past when New York City still had soaps. With theaters now dark, what better time to resurrect the tradition? Tune in today to…As The Curtain Rises. An ongoing fiction podcast set in backstage…

Original cast members of Broadway’s Hamilton have joined the line-up of performers for the annual Arthur Miller Foundation Honors celebrating public school arts education. The third annual gala celebration is set to stream virtually on November 16, and will include performances by husband-and-wife duos such as Hamilton…

The Right Girl, a new musical based on (and co-written by) the real-life story of former screenwriter Louisette Geiss and the sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein she says ended her film career, will be presented in a film version to a live audience for the first time next month. The production features music by…

Refresh for updates Acknowledgements, thank yous, laments for shuttered theaters, pleas for racial justice and get-out-the-vote plugs (for one presidential candidate, anyway) are being offered by this year’s crop of Tony Award nominees. “It is an uncertain time for the theater world and the world at large,” said Jake…

Blame the coronavirus for this year’s drastically reduced roster of eligible Tony Award nominees, and Tony nominators for overlooking at least a few possibilities. Even with only 18 Broadway productions in the running for a 2020 award, feelings were bound to be hurt. Let’s start with the good news: The list of…

Slave Play, Sea Wall/A Life, Grand Horizons, The Inheritance and The Sound Inside will compete in the Tony Awards’ Best Play category, with Moulin Rouge!, Jagged Little Pill and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical up for Best Musical. Such was the scaled back roster of eligible nominees that only one leading actor in a…

EXCLUSIVE: Bedlam, the small, critically acclaimed Off Broadway theater company known for its clever, spare and unconventional stagings of classics like The Crucible and Saint Joan, is developing Bedlam: The Series, an eight-episode New Media mash-up of Shakespeare plays using the Bard’s own language. The series, to…

With Broadway’s shut down at least until June, some producers who had been hoping to open shows this spring are re-setting their sights on fall or even 2022, while others have announced no plans whatsoever. The latest to announce a new schedule is Lincoln Center Theater’s much anticipated production of Flying Over Suns…