Tonywatch: Clint Ramos on designing a better Broadway

Broadway will reopen.But now, a year into a shutdown that began March 12, 2020, the road map to recovery has begun to take shape. The pace and scope of vaccinations continue to accelerate and expand.

The early weeks of spring 2020 and Broadway’s pandemic shutdown already seemed like a distant, bygone era by summertime. Initial hopes for a two- or three-week hiatus had morphed into talk of maybe a few months and then even that seemed like wishful thinking.

Ilana Glazer is going to be a mom! The Broad City alum shared her pregnancy news on Wednesday, March 17.

After a full year of New York musicals and plays being dark, Broadway artists commemorated the occasion by putting on a starry surprise concert for a small-but-mighty crowd in the middle of the Theater District.Its defiant message for an industry that has been pummeled by the COVID-19 pandemic was made clear by the event’s title: “We Will Be Back.” “It’s a time to reflect on what we’ve lost and who we’ve lost over the past year, and recall how far we’ve come,” Tom Harris, acting president of the

Ahead of the big Grammys show this weekend, The Weeknd has said that he will never take part in the awards again.

At the 25th annual Art Directors Guild Awards, production designer Stuart Wurtzel will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, the guild announced today.

NEW YORK -- Oh, the books that sold last week by Dr. Seuss.More than 1.2 million copies of stories by the late children's author sold in the first week of March — more than quadruple from the week before — following the news that his estate was pulling six books because of racial and ethnic stereotyping.

almost exactly a year since Broadway went dark due to the coronavirus pandemic — but now there’s light on the horizon of the Great White Way. Broadway insiders are finally looking toward re-opening after months of delayed optimism.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBoosting one of the key upcoming titles coming out of Latin America, renowned Haitian-American actor-producer Jimmy Jean-Louis (“Desrances,” “Rattlesnakes,” “Heroes”), also an increasing driving force on the Latin American and African production scene, is coming on board to executive produce director José María Cabral’s historic drama “Parsley” (“Perejil”).In parallel news, New York-based Visit Films is handling world sales rights on the feature,

A select number of now-dark Broadway venues will begin opening in April for a series of live- performance pop-up events that could establish the safety protocols needed for the theater industry’s eventual return.

NEW YORK -- With homebound nominees appearing by remote video and hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on different sides of the country, a very socially distanced 78th Golden Globe Awards trudged on in the midst of the pandemic and amid a storm of criticism for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, with top awards going to “Nomadland,” “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “The Crown” and “Schitt's Creek.”The night's top award, best picture drama, went to Chloé Zhao's elegiac road movie “Nomadland," a

Patti Smith is set to celebrate Bob Dylan‘s 80th birthday with a special outdoor performance this spring.According to Rolling Stone, Smith will take to the stage at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s outdoor Spring Festival which will be held at a 153-acre campus in Tivoli, New York across the last two weekends in May (20-23 and 27-30).The singer-songwriter will perform alongside her longtime bandmate Tony Shanahan on May 22 – two days before Dylan turns 80 (on May 24).

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NEW YORK -- With homebound nominees appearing by remote video and hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on different sides of the country, a very socially distanced 78th Golden Globe Awards trudged on in the midst of the pandemic and amid a storm of criticism for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, with top awards going to “Nomadland,” “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “The Crown” and “Schitt's Creek.”The night's top award, best picture drama, went to Chloé Zhao's elegiac road movie “Nomadland," a

NEW YORK -- The New York Times says it needs a culture change to become a better place to work, particularly for people of color.The newspaper told its employees in a report Wednesday that it will take steps to be more inclusive and welcoming, saying its study of the workplace culture represents a “call to action.”Like many news organizations, the Times looked inward following a national reckoning on race triggered by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police last spring.

US fashion designer Alexander Wang has been accused of groping a student on a nightclub dancefloor in the latest claim of sexual misconduct to emerge. Keaton Bullen, 21, alleges he was invited to a private table at the Fishbowl club in New York by the designer, drinking vodka before they went to dance.

As Broadway continues to be shut down amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, author Caseen Gaines is giving readers a chance to experience opening night again in his new book.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMaven Media, which runs the publishing businesses of Sports Illustrated and TheStreet, has tapped digital-media veteran Rob Barrett as president of media.Barrett reports to Maven CEO Ross Levinsohn. All of the company’s media brands, including SI and TheStreet, and editorial teams report to Barrett, who will remain based in the New York area.

The future seemed to bright for Britney Spears and then men in her life as she celebrated her 18th birthday with those who loved her, in new photos that have emerged. Her boyfriend Justin Timberlake was by her side, and her dad Jamie Spears was also there at the New York bar Halo for her party on Dec.