Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Miranda Family Fund Pledges $1 Million Towards New Washington Heights Theatre

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Written by: Logan Culwell-Block

Off-Broadway News

Ground has been broken on The People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Immigrante, which will be the neighborhood’s first flexible theatre.

New York City is getting a new theatre, specifically Washington Heights and Inwood. Lin-Manuel and Luis A. Miranda Jr.’s Miranda Family Fund and NewYork-Presbyterian have each pledged $1 million towards the building of The People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Immigrante, which will become the neighborhood’s first flexible theatre. The theatre is expected to open its doors in 2026.

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A Musical About Star Wars’ Extends Off-Broadway Return

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Written by: Margaret Hall

Off-Broadway News

The musical previously enjoyed successful 2019 engagements Off-Broadway at Theatre Row and St. Luke’s Theatre.

A Musical About Star Wars—or Why Star Wars is the Greatest Thing in the Galaxy, Much Much Better than Star Trek has extended the run of its Off-Broadway return. The production will now run through January 21, 2024.

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Actors’ Equity Seeks to Unionize Broadway Production Assistants

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Written by: Michael Paulson

The position is one of the few nonunion segments of the theater industry’s work force.

Actors’ Equity, the labor union representing American stage performers and stage managers, is seeking to unionize Broadway production assistants, one of the few nonunion segments of the industry work force.

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A.I.-Scripted Stories, and a Counterpoint, Take the Stage Off Broadway

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Written by: Laura Collins-Hughes

“Prometheus Firebringer” and “Bioadapted” test the waters, while the abstract “Psychic Self Defense” is a warm and pulsing counterpoint.

Seated behind a plain wooden table, the theater maker Annie Dorsen is not costumed to catch our gaze, or lit dramatically. In the performance-lecture that is her A.I.-focused show “Prometheus Firebringer,” at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, you might assume she’d be the boring part.

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Jordan Fisher, Charity Angél Dawson, Adam Pascal, More Set for Free Broadway Forever Concerts

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Written by: Andrew Gans

Cabaret & Concert News

The concerts, also featuring stars from & Juliet, Harmony, Here Lies Love, and more, will be held in Manhattan and the Bronx.

Broadway Forever, a series of free pop-up concerts and community service opportunities, will return for a second year with events in Manhattan and the Bronx.

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How Broadway Is Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month

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Written by: Playbill Staff

National Hispanic Heritage Month begins September 15, but celebrations are starting early with the concert ¡Viva! Broadway: Aquí y Allá (Here and There). “I celebrate my Hispanic heritage all year long with the food I cook, the music I listen to, and the fantastic conversations I have in Spanish with friends and family,” says Broadway actor Andréa Burns, before asking, “How will you spend it?”

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