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Jordan Fisher and Dove Cameron Will Lead HBO Maxs FIELD NOTES ON LOVE The screen play will be written by author Jennifer E. Smith and Lauren Graham.by BWW News Desk Dear Evan Hansen and Hamilton star Jordan Fisher and Hairspray Live!s Dove Cameron will lead HBO Maxs adaptation of Jennifer E. Smith 2019 young adult novel, Field Notes on Love, according to Deadline. The film will be adapted for the screen by Smith and Broadway veteran Lauren Graham. In Filed Notes on Love, two teens are thrown t...

Rejected Broadway posters on sale to help theater community MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer April 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5This combination of photos shows rejected theatrical poster art from "Cabaret, from left, "Equus," and "Matilda The Musical," designed by Frank Verlizzo and available for purchase. All proceeds go to the aid organization Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. (Frank Verlizzo via AP)Frank Verlizzo/APShow MoreShow Less 2of5This combination of photos ...

A Tireless Actress, Back at the Scene of the ‘Crime’ Before the pandemic, Catherine Russell had missed only four performances of an Off Broadway perennial since 1987. She was onstage for its reopening. Catherine Russell backstage at the Theater Center after performing in “Perfect Crime,” which began its New York run in 1987.Credit...John Taggart for The New York Times By Darryn King Published April 19, 2021Updated April 20, 2021 On Sunday, before a small, masked, spaced-apar...

BY JOANNE GRECO ROCHMAN | REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN April 14, 2021 BY JOANNE GRECO ROCHMAN | REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN The Republican-American is saying farewell to our long-time theater columnist and critic Joanne Greco Rochman. To salute Rochman, here is a classic column from Dec. 13, 201 that illustrates her approach to the Connecticut theater scene. I’m not going to beat a dead horse, but you know, dear reader, that I have been telling people to introduce yourselves to the people sitting nea...

Amanda Green Announced as First Woman Council President of The Dramatists Guild of America Amanda will serve with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins as Vice President, Kristoffer Diaz as Secretary, and Christine Toy Johnson as Treasurer.by BWW News Desk The Dramatists Guild of America has announced that Amanda Green has been elected to be their incoming Council President succeeding outgoing President Doug Wright. She will be the first woman president in the Guilds 100-year history. Amanda will serve with ...

Save this story for later. If you want to see “Blindness,” a new show created by Donmar Warehouse and up at the Daryl Roth Theatre— up not on some Web site but in the antediluvian sense: at a place other than your home, scheduled for a non-negotiable time—you’ll have to submit to the weird rigors of COVID screening. If you’ve eaten at a restaurant or gone to the dentist lately, you can probably rattle off the questionnaire by heart: Have you coughed? Are you hot? ...

A Theater Photographer Senses a Broadway Bloom For Sara Krulwich, who has shot productions for The New York Times for more than two decades, a series of recent assignments hinted at an industry revival. From left, the monologuist Mike Daisey, an attendee at “Blindness” and the dancer Savion Glover.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. On the first evening in April, Sara K...

Performing Arts Make a Cautious Return in New York More than a year after the pandemic abruptly shuttered theaters and concert halls across the city, limited audiences were welcomed back inside. Ashwin Rathie taking a selfie before entering the first live show inside the Comedy Cellar in over a year. Credit...Jeenah Moon for The New York Times April 4, 2021, 2:05 p.m. ET The days are getting longer. The sun is out. The number of vaccinated New Yorkers continues to grow every day. And now, more...

Arthur Kopit, Whose ‘Oh Dad’ Shook Up the Theater, Dies at 83 A three-time Tony nominee, he first became known for avant-garde works, many of them christened with rambling titles, that sparked spirited reactions. The playwright Arthur Kopit with the cast of his play “Wings” in 1978. Constance Cummings, second from left, won Tony, Drama Desk and Obie awards for her performance as a woman who has had a stroke.Credit...Jack Mitchell/Getty Images April 3, 2021Updated 11:00 a.m. ET Art...

Encouraging leaders of the city’s 76 Business Investment Districts to expand support for local arts and arts education Holding “the biggest festival the country has ever seen” once it is safe to do so, including “arts organizations from every borough”   Dianne Morales, 2021. Courtesy of Dianne Morales for NYC. “Dianne understands that NYC has lost nearly 35,000 jobs in the arts and culture industry since the pandemic began, which has devastated our economy and ravaged an industry...