Waterford―Wendy C. Goldberg, the first female artistic director of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in its six decades, has left the post after 18 years.
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54 Below will host SUGAR, BUTTER, REUNION: CELEBRATING THE JENNAS OF WAITRESS, featuring Stephanie Torns, Christine Dwyer, and more on October 9th. This one-night-only concert event will have two performances at 7pm (doors open at 5:30) and 9:30pm (doors open at 9pm).
Next week, 54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.
54 BELOW will welcome back three-time Tony Award® winner Patti LuPone. Following her critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning performance as Joanne in the recent revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, the theatrical icon will play 9 performances from December 20-30, 2022.
We hear a lot about making Broadway accessible. Broadway ticket prices have outpaced inflation over the decades (by a lot) and cheap preview tickets were abandoned years ago, all leading to the impression that Broadway was not accessible for those with average, or below average, incomes. There have at least been attempts to combat that impression in recent years. But something that is still largely seen as an older rich people game is investing in Broadway. However, a bunch of people have been trying to change that in the last decade, with attempts heating up more recently.