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The storm of openings has begun on Broadway, as we prepare for what will be an even busier April leading into the conclusion of the 2023-2024 Broadway season. Amidst that storm, great work continues off-Broadway, as Cara Joy David reminds us when she pays a visit to Dead Outlaw.

Zal Owen, Ashley Loren, and Elizabeth Teeter are set to star in a private industry reading of Autopilot: A New Musical. Learn more about the musical.

Patricia Cruz will step down from her leadership position as Artistic Director and CEO of Harlem Stage and take on a special advisory role on July 1.

BSMS has announced the five stage managers receiving the 2024 Charlie Blackwell Symposium Scholarships. Learn more about the recipients here!

You Gotta Believe has announced that actor Ta'Nika Gibson will join its Board of Believers, a group of passionate volunteer advocates who dedicate themselves to helping the organization find loving, permanent parents for older children in foster care.

The American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE), a national nonprofit organization that serves youth theatre education artists, scholars, and educators, will host its 37th Annual National Conference from July 17-20 at the Swissotel in Chicago.

Aspiring musical theatre creators have the chance of a lifetime to workshop their new musicals at the upcoming 2024 ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Librettist Workshop. Submissions are now being accepted and will be considered for this workshop taking place in Los Angeles. 

WAY OUT EAST,  a new play written by Andrew Stein and directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt will have two special reading presentations. Learn more about the play!

Stock and amateur performance rights for the new musical Austen’s Pride will be available for one year only starting this summer through the summer of 2025.

CircusTalk and TheaterArtLife are launching StageLync, a new online platform designed to broaden audience reach and boost visibility in the live performing arts.

As the unionization wave continues to move through theatrical workers across the country, two developments last week highlighted the movement: the Public Theatre declined to voluntarily recognize the unionization effort of their workers, and workers at the Goodman Theatre sought their own union affiliation.

The New York Landmarks Conservancy has announced the winners of the 2024 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards, the Conservancy's highest honors for excellence in preservation. Learn more about the winners here!

Works & Process presents Experiments in Opera: The Lives and Dreams of Nikola Tesla as summoned by the Honorable Spirits of the Grand Gotham Hotel by Phil Kline and Jim Jarmusch, featuring Anthony Roth Costanzo on Monday, April 15, 2024 at 7pm.

The American Theatre Wing has revealed the panel of judges and eligibility details for The 68th Obie Awards. Learn more about the awards here!

The College for Creative Studies has announced the first Industry EXPOsion week-long immersion event. Learn more about the event here!

Join Nadina Hassan, Steven Telsey, and more in the premiere staged reading of THANKSGIVING, a new musical play by Julian Henry Lowenfeld. Presented by Yonder Window Productions, this industry presentation showcases promising talent in New York's theatre scene.

The Invisible Theatre Managing Artistic Director Susan Claassen will pass “the torch” of Artistic Leadership to Betsy Kruse Craig, Associate Managing Artistic Director.

The American Theatre Wing has revealed the 2023 recipients of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative’s programming. Learn more about the recipients!

After what has felt like weeks of covering cuts in funding to UK Arts budgets, some great news on two fronts from across the pond - a recent study of 2023 ticket buyers in the UK found that more than half of them were first time theatregoers.

March 15: Deadline for Lowest Price and 3-for-1 to New York Marketing & Fundraising Conference

Two new play commissions were announced by the independent publishing company Stage Partners, with the goal of engaging professional playwrights to create inspiring new works especially for school theatre programs.

Jamila Ponton Bragg has been named the new manager of the Broadway Women's Fund. Learn more about Bragg here!

Director and theatre visionary Anne Bogart will receive Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation's 2023 Gordon Davidson Award. Learn more about Board and about the award!

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has announced that Dot & the Kangaroo JR. is now available for licensing.

Mayor Eric Adams, the Honorable Letitia James, and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine were among the list of esteemed honorees as well as the visionary founders of BroadwayHD: Bonnie Comley and Stewart F. Lane.