This Week in Theater News

By Bennett Liebman

The Theatre Season Heats Up

The Theatre Season Heats Up | The New Yorker

What to Know About the Crazy Broadway Season

What to Know About This Crazily Crowded Broadway Spring Season - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Crunchtime on Broadway

Broadway’s Crunchtime Is Also Its Best Life - The New York Times (nytimes.com)     

The State of off-Broadway

The state of off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway in the city (ny1.com)

Atlantic Theater Workers to Join IATSE

A Growing Movement Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Workers Vote Overwhelmingly to Join IATSE - IATSE

Explaining the Theater Tax Credit

NYS Theater Tax Credit: Who Benefits and How (broadwayworld.com)

LaChanze on Diversity

LaChanze on expanding diversity behind Broadway's curtains - CBS News

Broadway Cares and Israel

Theater charity Broadway Cares to fund relief for Israelis after Gaza aid 'confusion' | The Times of Israel

On the Road with the Outsiders

On the Road With ‘The Outsiders,’ Where the Greasers and Socs Rumbled - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

The Latest Boomer Musical

Review: A Sign of the Times Is the Latest Boomer Nostalgia Jukebox Musical - TheaterMania.com

Barbie on Broadway?

Could Barbie Work on Broadway? Oppenheimer? 10 Best Picture Nominees of 2024 as potential plays or musicals – New York Theater

A Perfect Peace Postponed

Off-Broadway's A Perfect Peace Indefinitely Postponed, Citing 'Insurmountable Production Obstacles' | Playbill

Broadway Box Office Boost

Broadway box office sees biggest Presidents Day weekend boost since 2017; nearly all shows increase in gross and attendance (broadwaynews.com)

The Full Story of Harmony

The full story of the lost singing group that inspired Broadway’s ‘Harmony’ (broadwaynews.com)

Paper Mill and Broadway

Paper Mill's 'Gatsby' goes to Broadway, and it's not the first (northjersey.com)

Beautiful Noise Sets Closing

Broadway's 'A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical' Sets Closing (deadline.com)

Becoming an Influencer,

How to Be a Broadway Theater Influencer (variety.com)

Tyne Daly Recovering

Tyne Daly Expected to Make 'Full Recovery' After Hospitalization (Exclusive) (people.com)

Old Log Set to Close

Old Log Theatre, Minnesota longest-running theater, set to close (aol.com)

The Gwyneth Paltrow Musical

Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial musical sets snowy US premiere (nypost.com)

Sarah Snook to Broadway?

Sarah Snook: The Picture of Dorian Gray is 'unmissable', theatre critics say (bbc.com)

Bayless Family Foundation Issues Grants to Theaters

Bayless Family Foundation issues $670,000 in grants to Chicago theaters - Chicago Sun-Times (suntimes.com)

Gershwin Musical Found

Long-lost Gershwin musical found by University of Michigan researcher - mlive.com

Getting Stereophonic to Broadway

Getting ‘Stereophonic’ to Broadway — fast (broadwaynews.com)

The Avett Brothers  Going to Broadway

Why the Avett Brothers Are Taking 'Swept Away' to Broadway (variety.com)

SF Theater in Danger of Closing

Another S.F. theater is in danger of closure (sfchronicle.com)

Writing Plays in Ukraine

Of death – and laughter: how to write plays in Ukraine during wartime | Theatre | The Guardian