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Tony Award-nominated Broadway star Nick Cordero’s condition is improving as doctors prepare to wean him off the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine which has been helping keep him alive.

As Nick Cordero's frightening battle with COVID-19 continues, the Broadway star's wife, Amanda Kloots, is keeping his friends and fans up to date on his condition.

Nick Cordero continues to fight for his life.

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Broadway actor Nick Cordero “needs your prayers,” his wife, Amanda Kloots, has revealed on Instagram. He is now unconscious and in ICU after being misdiagnosed. 

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The coronavirus continues to devastate Broadway. Two highly anticipated plays — “Hangmen” and the revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — have been scuttled.

Terrence McNally, a prolific playwright whose love of opera and compassion for human frailties wove their way into many of his works, died March 24 from complications of the coronavirus in a Sarasota, Fla., hospital. He was 81, and had lived with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for some time.

As Broadway grapples with the coronavirus crisis, producers have concluded that the Great White Way will not reopen in April, as they’d hoped. The best-case scenario right now is the summer, and that means many new shows aren’t going to survive.

is back, with Steven Spielberg bringing the hit Broadway musical to life on screen for the first time since the 1961 classic starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer. Newcomer Rachel Zegler and Ansel Elgort will take over as Maria and Tony, two teens on opposite sides of a gang feud in 1950s New York City, in the upcoming movie slated to open this winter.  

Broadway is going dark, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Thursday. The news comes as the coronavirus, COVID-19, continues to spread throughout the state, with more than 200 confirmed cases. 

Jesus Christ, Superstar at the Kennedy Center

The Roots’ lead MC Black Thought will contribute music and lyrics to a stage adaptation of George S. Schuyler’s 1931 novel Black No More, as Rolling Stone points out. According to RS, Black Thought will also star in the musical version of Schuyler’s Harlem Renaissance-era book. Black No More is slated to premiere at Pershing Square Signature Center in October 2020 during the New Group’s 2020 to 2021 theatrical season.

The cast of Timon of Athens — Photo by Henry Grossman

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Sarah Jessica Parker is returning to Broadway! The former star will be joined by her husband, Matthew Broderick, in the first-ever New York revival of Neil Simon’s marriage comedy. And ET has your exclusive first look at the actors as three different pairs of couples visiting the famed Manhattan hotel. 

David Byrne’s hit stage show American Utopia ends its first run tonight (February 16), following 121 performances at Hudson Theatre on Broadway. Now, Byrne has announced the popular musical’s second run, which will kick off September 18, 2020, and continue for 17 weeks through January 17, 2021. The second run will return to the Hudson Theatre.

As far as I can tell, the one and only time an Antônio Carlos Jobim song was heard on Broadway was in Twyla Tharp’s “Come Fly Away.” The song was “Wave,” which, as I write this, makes me want to be on a beach right now.

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The cast of Spring Awakening, photographed on the set by Todd Franson for Metro Weekly. .

Silent Sky — Photo: Scott Suchman

Since the beginning of my career, I have made it my mission to tell authentic queer-female stories for the female gaze with a feminist point of view.

is making the leap from the stage to screen thanks to an upcoming presentation of the original Broadway production created by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda. 

The New York Musical Festival was created to give new writers a start. So isn’t it “ironic,” says Josh Canfield, whose “Alive! The Zombie Musical” played NYMF last year, that it “stabbed us in the back.”

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Within our smartphones is a world of smiley faces, flowers, royals . . . and a pile of poo. And now many of them have come alive, in the off-Broadway musical “Emojiland.” Several key players tell us how — and sometimes why — they bring a digital character to life.

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could be headed to Broadway. The hit ‘90s sitcom starring Fran Drescher is being developed into a new musical by the actress and her ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, who both created the series. 

Tony Award-winning composer Jerry Herman has died aged 88.

To explain may be doing a disservice to the magical wonderment that is humans performing as a group of felines competing to be the chosen one. Honestly, the less said the better. “It’s a big joyous romp,” tells ET. “It really should not be taken too seriously.” But now that director has adapted ’s hit musical into a movie, ET is breaking down everything you need to know about the Broadway show, the cast of cats and what the whole thing is about.