If the strike happened, 23 musicals currently playing Broadway would have been put on indefinite pause. The most notable ...

The Academy for the Performing Arts kicks off its 2025–2026 season with Hairspray—a high-energy, feel-good musical set in ...

Plus-sized teen Tracy, with bouffant hair and big dreams, goes from social outcast to star in the stage musical, “Hairspray” ...

Grammy front-runners for Best Musical Theater Album include ‘Maybe Happy Ending,’ ‘Buena Vista Social Club,’ ‘Just in Time’ ...

The actress, who won a Tony Award for her role in the hit musical, said she would “sing the whole show in my head” during ...

The union board has voted to authorize a strike and is handing out strike pledge cards to members, as negotiators prepare for the next session. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Broadway actors are ...

Sept 30 (Reuters) - Broadway actors are preparing to walk off the stage in a strike that would shut down 32 stage productions as theater attendance approaches its peak season, according to their union ...

Are we teaching American history today? What exactly is being taught? What is being left out? How much time is spent, for instance, on slavery? Studies show it varies from state to state. In “Mexodus, ...

NEW YORK — Musical theater, long the bread-and-butter of Broadway, is struggling. None of the 18 commercial musicals that opened on Broadway last season have made a profit yet. Some still could, but ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by With the cost of staging song-and-dance spectacles skyrocketing and audiences drawn to older hits, none of the musicals that opened last season have ...

Marc Shaiman, an award-winning composer and lyricist who worked on “Hairspray” and “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut,” will look back on five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood in his new memoir ...