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New York Theatre Workshop announces programming for next two seasons
Initial work has also been slated for the 2022/23 season, including the postponed Three Sisters .
June 9, 2021
Full programming for New York Theatre Workshop’s 2021/22 season has been announced, as well as productions that will feature in the following season.
Ahead of the season, artistic director James C. Nicola and managing director Jeremy Blocker said: “As we considered our return to live performance, we realized that in addition to the interrupted commitments we d made, the artists in our community had not stopped creating there was even more work that demanded our attention…
February 22, 2021
Business was booming. Nearly 15 million people had seen Broadway shows during the 2018-19 season. The total box office gross was $1.8 billion. And as the calendar pages flipped to January 2020, every theater had been booked for what was expected to be a prosperous spring, with 21 productions scheduled to open between the first of the year and the late-April Tony Awards cut-off.
By Friday, March 13, that was all moot. The curtain had unceremoniously fallen the afternoon before by order of New York State, as cases of the novel coronavirus ravaged the city and rapidly filled hospitals beyond capacity. There were hundreds of different ways to have seen this eventuality coming audiences began to thin, whole companies and other theater personnel were getting sick but Broadway lives by one motto: The show must go on.