COVID-19 Cancellations
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Awards
By Ryan McPhee | 07/08/2020The virtual event, featuring Cynthia Erivo, Heidi Schreck, and more, will take place on YouTube. -
Broadway News
By Dan Meyer | 07/01/2020The Second Stage production will star Jesse Williams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Patrick J. Adams.
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Broadway News
By Olivia Clement | 06/29/2020Here are updates from shows during the extended closure of the New York theatre scene.
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Broadway News
By Ryan McPhee | 06/29/2020Productions have remained shuttered since March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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London News
By Ryan McPhee | 06/29/2020In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the buzzy show has found a new approach to a royal tour.
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London News
By Ryan McPhee | 06/26/2020The show, simply titled Sleepless, aims to begin August 25 at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.
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Broadway News
By Olivia Clement | 06/26/2020RTC's 2021 Broadway lineup includes Trouble in Mind, Birthday Candles, 1776, and Caroline, or Change.
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Classic Arts News
By Ryan McPhee | 06/24/2020The organization hopes to reopen in April with Breaking the Waves and The Sound of Music.
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Regional News
By Ryan McPhee | 06/24/2020The Boston venue will lay off or furlough about two thirds of its staff in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Broadway News
By Ryan McPhee | 06/24/2020The production was to open in October at the Winter Garden Theatre.
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Broadway News
By Ruthie Fierberg | 06/24/2020The Broadway musical and Off-Broadway opera had originally been slated for spring 2020 before being postponed to the fall.
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Chicago News
By Ryan McPhee | 06/23/2020The Chicago theatre company has virtual and in-person programming lined up for the coming months.
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Regional News
By Andrew Gans | 06/23/2020The 43rd annual Kennedy Center Honors has been postponed until March 2021.
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International News
By Andrew Gans | 06/19/2020The composer and theatre owner is adapting guidelines implemented at a production of The Phantom of the Opera in South Korea.
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Classic Arts News
By Ryan McPhee | 06/18/2020The New York City venue will resume programming in January 2021.
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Dance News
By Andrew Gans | 06/18/2020The famed company has also canceled its annual engagement of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker.
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Classic Arts News
By Andrew Gans | 06/18/2020The David Rubenstein Atrium Fall Season and the 2020 White Light Festival have also been canceled due to the ongoing pandemic.
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Classic Arts News
By Ryan McPhee | 06/17/2020The organization aims to reopen the War Memorial Opera House in spring 2021.
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London News
By Dan Meyer | 06/17/2020Cameron Mackintosh Limited and the shows’ producing teams will keep all of their shows closed for the rest of 2020.
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Regional News
By Andrew Gans | 06/17/2020Canceled performances include all 2020 Mainstage performances, the ACTLab season, and the Young Playwrights Program.
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Los Angeles News
By Dan Meyer | 06/16/2020The Ahmanson will return with the already planned staging of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Classic Arts News
By Andrew Gans | 06/16/2020The Chicago company has established The Joffrey Crisis Stabilization Fund.
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Classic Arts News
By Ryan McPhee | 06/16/2020The company aims to reopen in January 2021 with Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s Blue.
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Regional News
By Andrew Gans | 06/15/2020The Houston venue will launch its 2020–2021 season in December with Disney's The Little Mermaid.
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Regional News
By Ryan McPhee | 06/09/2020Padrón reshapes his planned 2020–2021 lineup through the Connecticut company’s One City, Many Stages initiative.
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Regional News
By Andrew Gans | 06/08/2020The 102-year-old venue will produce a series of online shows to be announced.
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Classic Arts News
By Damian Fowler | 06/05/2020The company will furlough over half of its administrative staff.
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London News
By Andrew Gans | 06/05/2020Performances were scheduled to begin in July at the Duke of York’s Theatre.
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London News
By Dan Meyer | 06/03/2020The Society of London Theatre continues to keep theatres shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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London News
By Dan Meyer | 06/02/2020The London company hopes it can present the already suspended spring and summer programming in its place.
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Benefits and Galas
By Andrew Gans | 05/29/2020The daily series from Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley benefits The Actors Fund.
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London News
By Andrew Gans | 05/29/2020Performances of the Jerry Herman classic were scheduled to begin in August at the Adelphi Theatre.
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London News
By Dan Meyer | 05/29/2020Jac Yarrow and Jason Donovan are set to reprise their roles from the 2019 production.
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Awards
By Ryan McPhee | 05/27/2020From the Tonys to the Obies, here’s what’s happening with the spring awards season.
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International News
By Andrew Gans | 05/27/2020The production was scheduled to tour for 14 months; those plans have been scrapped due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Off-Broadway News
By Olivia Clement | 05/21/2020The Off-Broadway theatre will expand the ways it supports early-career writers artistically, financially, and emotionally.
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Classic Arts News
By Damian Fowler | 05/20/2020The festival is taking a cautious approach by offering live performances for low-density audiences, as well as live streamed events.
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Regional News
By Dan Meyer | 05/19/2020The San Diego theatre still plans to mount Hair, Dial M For Murder, and more once the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided.
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Broadway News
By Ryan McPhee | 05/15/2020The new stage adaptation of the 1959 comedy features a score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and a book by Matthew Lopez.
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Regional News
By Logan Culwell-Block | 05/15/2020Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer-winning musical had been scheduled to play Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in September.
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Industry News
By Ryan McPhee | 05/15/2020The slate arrives on the heels of the announcement that Frozen would not return to Broadway following the coronavirus shutdown.
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Film & TV News
By Ryan McPhee | 05/14/2020The CBS All Access series, featuring a slew of Broadway veterans, will wrap up its current season sooner than scheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Broadway News
By Andrew Gans | 05/14/2020The 2018 Disney musical will have played its final performance in March.
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Los Angeles News
By Dan Meyer | 05/13/2020The Los Angeles amphitheatre was scheduled to present School of Rock, a Cynthia Erivo concert, and more.
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Los Angeles News
By Dan Meyer | 05/13/2020As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the globe, companies are pushing their start dates back further.
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Broadway News
By Ryan McPhee | 05/13/2020Prior to the coronavirus shutdown, previews were to begin this summer at the Neil Simon Theatre.
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Broadway News
Broadway Revival of Plaza Suite, Starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Pushed to 2021By Dan Meyer | 05/12/2020The Neil Simon comedy was set to begin previews in March prior to the coronavirus shutdown.
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Broadway News
By Ryan McPhee | 05/12/2020Shows will remain dark as New York City grapples with the pandemic.
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National Tour News
By Andrew Gans | 05/11/2020The limited run at the Washington, D.C., venue was scheduled to begin August 25.
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London News
By Olivia Clement | 05/11/2020The entire London season, set to originally kick off in May, has been rescheduled due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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