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A streaming Broadway-themed fundraising special scheduled to air on Sunday, June 7 – the night that originally had been set for the annual Tony Awards – has been postponed in the wake of national unrest over the police killing of George Floyd. “We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter,” said an executive producer of …

Larry Kramer, the pioneering New York AIDS activist who used pamphlets, novels, Broadway plays and ire to spread his lifesaving message, has died. He was 84. His husband, David Webster, told the New York Times that Kramer, who was HIV positive, had been suffering from pneumonia. Kramer, who lived in Manhattan, co-founded the Gay Men’s …

The show might go on sooner than we think, but the reopening of the Great White Way comes with a few guidelines that The Actors Equity Association (AEA) will be following when the lights go back on. The guidelines, which were released Tuesday, will be implemented to ensure the safety of the actors and stage …

Broadway actor Nick Cordero, whose battle with COVID-19 has made him one of the most public faces of the pandemic, is still “fighting” despite a recent setback, according to an Instagram Stories update from his wife Amanda Kloots. “When things look down, we look up,” Kloots, 38, wrote in a separate Instagram post — “I …

Talk about meta. “Smash,” the TV series about backstage drama that attracted a rabid but small fanbase when it aired for two seasons on NBC, has inspired an upcoming show that is eyeing a Broadway run. “Smash, A New Musical” is setting its sights on the Great White Way and its mega-watt producing team includes …

Broadway types are fuming after CBS announced that a singalong version of the 1978 film “Grease” will replace the Tony Awards on the network next month. One theater insider even sent us an email with the eye-catching subject line “Grease is the turd!” — adding, “a rough season for Broadway types just got a whole …

Thank you, Dolly. Renowned Broadway and Film veteran Bette Midler has promised to match donations up to $100,000 for the Broadway Cares/ Equity fights AIDS’ Covid-19 fund says Deadline. Broadway Cares launched the fund in early march with an initial donation of $250,000. Since then, initiatives to raise money for the fund have included The …

A new musical based on the classic film “Some Like It Hot” will premiere on Broadway in the fall of 2021. The show, which features a book by “The Inheritance’s” Matthew Lopez and music and lyrics from the “Smash” and “Hairspray!” team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, was originally scheduled to debut in Chicago …

The Broadway shutdown continues with the coronavirus pandemic affecting some 87,000 jobs in the process. The Actors Fund, which launched its COVID-19 emergency relief fund in March, has come to the community’s rescue — distributing more than $10 million to displaced theater personnel in just eight weeks. The record-breaking fund, which totals $10,500,000, provides basic …

“Frozen the Musical” will close on Broadway, Disney announced Thursday, making it the biggest theatrical demise caused by the coronavirus pandemic so far. The $30 million musical becomes the third show to prematurely shutter during the crisis, following the plays “Hangmen” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” starring Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett. Those shows, …