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ticketed live performances have returned to New York City after more than a year of dark, locked-up venues and out-of-work actors, creatives and staff. However, what’s onstage today — like our waistlines — looks a little different from the art form we waved goodbye to on March 12, 2020.

LOVE/language covers everything from romantic love to self-love, and from love of family to love of community. It opens Rep Stage’s 28th season with streams available this weekend.“I wanted to create an event for this moment we find ourselves in and create an opportunity for local regional artists in our industry, who have been deeply affected by the pandemic,” says Joseph W.

the first time in a year Friday with a live performance to mark the anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic — as well as the theater industry’s forthcoming “rebirth.”The Times Square Alliance hosted the “We Will Be Back” pop-up show in Duffy Square, with a host of “celebrities, performers and dozens of art workers from the Broadway community.”“The event aims to provide a sense of hope as the industry and city move forward from the challenges brought on by the past year, by shining a spotlight on

shutdown of Broadway in New York City.

The Viral Storm.A virus hunter dedicated to predicting and preventing pandemics, Wolfe makes for timely subject matter in the fascinating new one-person show The Catastrophist by Lauren Gunderson, who just happens to be married to him.For award-winning actor William DeMeritt, performing the role of Wolfe in Round House Theatre and Marin Theatre Company’s world premiere production required doing his homework.

is now nominated for two Golden Globes thanks to the film version that debuted on Disney+ last year. This comes six years after the hit musical first debuted on Broadway in 2015 and made stars of its creator and lead performer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as cast members Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr.

Dark City, an episodic video game conceived, written, and programmed by Strasser that will also feature the voices of local theater artists, plus an original score by Friend.Dark City is part of a new slate of bold, diverse programming dubbed “4615 Go” that officially launches this week with It’s For You. The work of iterative, slightly improvised poetry takes shape during hour-long phone conversations between local playwright Britt A Willis and one audience member at a time.

and, the 29-year-old queer actress of Puerto Rican descent is bringing authenticity to a new era of inclusive movie musicals centering marginalized voices. “I have always wanted to make art that I thought was a conversation starter,” DeBose tells ET.

plays the titular role in NBC’s telecast, airing Dec. 9 from 8 to 10 p.m.

74th annual Tony Awards to be postponed, the nominees for the shortened 2019-2020 theater season were finally revealed during an announcement hosted by award-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart. While the eligibility for any given year is typically near the end of April, it was previously announced that only 18 shows — both musicals and plays — that opened before Feb. 19 would be considered for the 2020 ceremony.

Tony Award winner Ari’el Stachel portray two princes, Rupert and Amir, eager to settle down into their happily ever after in season 3 of the fantasy podcast,. Of course, the only way to express their feelings is through song — and ET has the exclusive debut of the original number, “In Just Three Days.”  After seasons 1 and 2 saw Rupert and Amir come to terms with their feelings and falling in love, all while saving their realms from evil magic forces, the two are ready to get married.

Drew Droege, that meant cutting short his hilarious and witty production of, the follow-up to Patterns, which was directed by longtime friend and creative partner, Michael Urie. The theater actor and former star opens up to ET about the inspiration to capture the show on screen for Broadway HD, his own return to TV on the upcoming final season of , and his hopes for the 2020 Tony Awards. , which is now streaming and is presented by Urie, is a one-man show telling the story of Doug (Droege), who

Ben Brantley, the influential New York Times theater critic, will leave the job next month. “This pandemic pause in the great, energizing party that is the theater seemed to me like a good moment to slip out the door,” Brantley said in a statement.News of Brantley’s departure was announced on Twitter by the newspaper’s theater reporter, Michael Paulson.Brantley joined the Times as its second-string theater critic in 1993, taking the chief critic job three years later.

Bid for Roundabout,” a fund-raiser to support the company and its portfolio of venues that, like many artistic institutions, have been hard hit by the COVID-19 shutdown.Tony Award winners Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth and Kelli O’Hara are offering 30-minute private voice lessons.

The 2020 Helen Hayes Awards are being presented in a series of individual award events held on Zoom and posted to YouTube — with upcoming dates Friday, Sept. 4, Tuesday, Sept.

GARRETT CLAYTON’S A GAY IN THE LIFE Former Disney Channel star and out Hollywood actor Garrett Clayton (King Cobra) recently launched a weekly LGBTQ series on YouTube with the long-term goal of humanizing the stories and struggles of contemporary LGBTQ rights and peoples around the world. Co-created and co-hosted by Clayton’s fiancé Blake Knight, the series also intends to reveal how LGBTQ identities, attitudes, and experiences vary greatly from one country and culture to the next.

Princess Diana is getting the musical treatment. The story of Lady Spencer’s life as a royal and relationship with Prince Charles is the subject of the musical,, which Netflix will film ahead of its Broadway debut in 2021.From director Christopher Ashley and writers Joe DiPietro and David Bryan comes a story about a young princess thrust into the world stage.

Annie Get Your Gun, the musical the familiar phrase is drawn from. “That production really stuck with me,” she says.

a lengthy hospitalization and numerous health complications due to COVID-19. He was 41.Cordero's wife, Amanda Kloots, shared the heartbreaking news on Instagram.«God has another angel in heaven now,» Kloots captioned a photo of Cordero.

first debuted on Broadway in 2015, it was an immediate hit.

Our Town,” to be directed by Bartlett Sher (“To Kill A Mockingbird”).Hoffman will play the role of the Stage Manager in the classic Thornton Wilder play, sources close to the production say.The production will be Hoffman’s first Broadway role since his Tony Award-nominated performance of Shylock in 1989’s “The Merchant of Venice.” He played Willy Loman in an acclaimed 1984 revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” and appeared in several productions during the 1960s, including “Jimmy

never truly left. But after a smash run on Broadway — temporarily halted by theater closures after the coronavirus outbreak — the bio-musical is now headed to the screen with a new film on Disney+.

, Damon Lindelof’s TV adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel starring Regina King, Jean Smart and Hong Chau, has no shortage of real-world references. Taking place over 30 years after the events of the graphic novel, the HBO series continues to expand the alternate timeline that parallels America’s ongoing 200-year-plus history.

“The Decameron basically is designed for community, it’s meant for community,” says Paata Tsikurishvili. “I have to say I’m amazed how creative minds can really push the boundaries.

Before there was or, Lin-Manuel Miranda was the co-founder and member of a hip-hop improv troupe called Freestyle Love Supreme alongside director Thomas Kail and beatboxer Anthony Veneziale. Their performances eventually went from the streets to screen, for a short-lived TV series on Pivot, and finally to the Broadway stage, where the three reunited with performers like Christopher Jackson for a limited run at Booth Theatre in New York City during the fall of 2019. 

Nick Cordero is pushing through his recovery from COVID-19 after suffering a setback earlier this week. On Wednesday, in an update to her Instagram Stories, Nick’s wife Amanda Kloots tearfully told fans that her husband’s condition had been “going downhill” and asked for “mega prayers right now,”after the actor and singer suffered a setback in his coronavirus recovery.

Nick Cordero is pushing through his recovery from COVID-19 after suffering a setback earlier this week.

Frozen has become the most high profile casualty of Broadway’s coronavirus shutdown — the show will not return when New York’s theatres reopen in September.

Broadway stages will remain dark at least through Labor Day.

Comatose Nick Cordero is continuing to make progress after the award-winning Broadway actor had a tracheostomy tube fitted to help him breathe, his wife Amanda Kloots has shared.

EXCLUSIVE: Despite recent, scattered press reports suggesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was snubbing Broadway by shutting the industry out of his New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board, the state and the theater industry are working closely on how to re-start, Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, tells Deadline.

Before there was or, Lin-Manuel Miranda was the co-founder and member of a hip-hop improv troupe called Freestyle Love Supreme alongside director Thomas Kail and beatboxer Anthony Veneziale. Their performances eventually went from the streets to screen, for a short-lived TV series on Pivot, and finally to the Broadway stage, where the three reunited with performers like Christopher Jackson for a limited run at Booth Theatre in New York City during the fall of 2019. 

Bernard Gersten, a pioneering force in New York City’s nonprofit theater movement, died today at his home in Manhattan of pancreatic cancer. He was 97.

Nick Cordero’s wife Amanda Kloots is concerned that the Broadway star has yet to regain consciousness from his sedation, after doctors told her he “should have woken up by now.”

Phoebe Waller-Bridge suffered an awkward encounter with a delivery driver after he spotted artwork in her hallway depicting 12 giant penises.

Broadway star Nick Cordero may never walk again after spending weeks fighting for his life in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center amid a battle with COVID-19.