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“MJ,” the Michael Jackson stage musical headed for Broadway, will begin previews next March, an eight-month postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. The new dates were announced today by producers Lia Vollack Productions and The Michael Jackson Estate. The world premiere of “MJ,” featuring Jackson’s music, will begin previews on Monday, March 8, 2021, …

With Broadway now shut down until Labor Day due to the coronavirus pandemic, Neil Simon’s play “Plaza Suite” has been pushed back a year. The revival will now run from March 19, 2021, through July 18 at the Hudson Theatre, with David Byrne’s “American Utopia” returning to the theater this fall. The show, starring real-life …

Broadway stages will remain dark at least through Labor Day. The additional three-month closure announced by the Broadway League on Tuesday is the longest extension yet for Broadway’s 41 houses in response to the coronavirus. Broadway was initially closed on March 12, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned gatherings of more than 500 people, with plans …

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal posted a video on Friday of him singing a song entitled “Across the Way” as part of a monologue series. The four-and-a-half minute song was written especially for Gyllenhaal by the composer of the Tony Award-winning musical “Fun Home,” Jeanine Tesori, and playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gyllenhaal singing …

Ruthie Anne Miles, the Broadway star whose child and unborn baby died after a driver ran a red light in Park Slope, Brooklyn, has given birth to a daughter. Miles, 37, announced the news on Instagram Saturday just in time for Mother’s Day along with an image of baby feet under the text, “Welcome to …

For the past seven decades, the show has always gone on for the Tony Awards, which honor the best Broadway performances and productions. But with the 74th edition being postponed from its planned June 7 date due to the coronavirus, there’s a real chance that the ceremony will be scrapped altogether this year, multiple sources …

Broadway actor Nick Cordero, who has been battling the coronavirus since March, had a “rocky night” Monday, his wife Amanda Kloots said. In an Instagram story on Tuesday, Kloots, 38, said that her husband’s oxygen level dropped and doctors were called to help clear away some of the infection in the actor’s lungs. “Hey everybody, …

When audiences finally return to Broadway, it appears frontline workers will be first in line for tickets. Popular ticket site TodayTix has unveiled an initiative to provide first responders to the COVID-19 pandemic with free tickets to Broadway shows once theaters reopen, according to Variety. The initiative, called Save a Seat Fund, launched Tuesday when CEO …

Rosalind Elias, a mezzo-soprano who at 24 began a 42-year association with the Metropolitan Opera but didn’t make her Broadway debut until she’d turned 81, died Sunday, May 3, in New York. She was 90. Her death was reported by the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s Opera News. No cause was given. Elias, though long known to …

“Les Miserables” Tony nominee Judy Kuhn was three weeks away from being eligible for health insurance when rehearsals for her off-Broadway show shut down because of the coronavirus. Still, she considers herself one of the luckier ones in New York’s tight theatrical community — at least she has a nest egg and her husband’s medical …