Robert Wankel News Today

Entertainment Community Fund is launching the $160 million ESSENTIAL Campaign, combining all of the organization’s fundraising, allowing the Fund to serve more people in more places. Learn more!

Last night at the Entertainment Community Fund, (formerly The Actors Fund) gala, they announced the $160 million ESSENTIAL Campaign: a bold and comprehensive effort that will combine all of the organization’s fundraising, allowing the Fund to serve more people in more places.

The most award-winning musical of the 2022-2023 Broadway season, Some Like It Hot is coming to the West End in 2025.

Some Like It Hot, the musical stage adaptation of the classic 1959 film comedy, will play its final Broadway performance on December 30

Some Like It Hot, the Tony-winning musical based on the 1959 MGM and United Artists film of the same name, is closing on Broadway in December.

The season kicks off with 'Mean Girls,' and includes favorites like 'Wicked,' 'Mamma Mia!,' 'Hadestown,' and more.

For Robert Wankel, who was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, theater wasn’t historically a big part of his life. But since he joined the Shubert Organization, apart from his family, it is his life.

The John Cort Theatre on West 47th Street will soon be known as the James Earl Jones Theatre.

The Shubert Organization has renamed Broadway's Cort Theatre in honor of the eminent actor who has won many accolades over the course of a career that spans more than six decades.

The Shubert Organization has renamed Broaway's Cort Theatre in honor of the eminent actor who has won many accolades over the course of a career that spans more than six decades.