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roars back to life this month. Bruce Springsteen has helped keep the lights on since late June, but a bona fide new play, “Pass Over,” opens Sunday night.

The Lincoln Center Theater production of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s award-winning play Pass Over will begin performances August 4 at the August Wilson Theatre, making it first Broadway show in line to hit the stage since the industry’s Covid shutdown in 2020.

Hadestown and Girl From The North Country announced their Broadway returns today, with the Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown set to become the first production to resume performances on Broadway when its curtain rises on Thursday, Sept. 2.

James C. Nicola, whose tenure as artistic director of Off Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop included the development of such prominent stage works as Rent, Once,  Hadestown, What the Constitution Means to Me, Slave Play and David Bowie’s Lazarus, will leave the post next year, the company announced today.

Actors’ Equity Association will hold a town hall event to address issues about safety protocols and get-back-to-work efforts raised in a petition from more than 2,000 union members last week.

Carole Horst Producer Orian Williams makes his directorial debut with Jeff Buckley biopic “Everybody Here Wants You.” Culmination will produce and kick off worldwide sales of the pic at the European Film Market. “Everybody Here Wants You” stars Reeve Carney (“House of Gucci,” “Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again,” “Penny Dreadful,” “Hadestown”) as the singer-songwriter whose career was cut short by his death in 1997.

EXCLUSIVE: Tony-winner Rachel Chavkin is behind a new podcast series aimed at tweens based on Greek myths.

EXCLUSIVE: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has a warrant out, in a manner of speaking, for Broadway actors. Next week’s episode features Tony-nominated Hadestown actor Eva Noblezada and Beetlejuice himself Alex Brightman, and showrunner Warren Leight tells Deadline that’s just the beginning.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is rounding out cast for Julian Fellowes’ period drama The Gilded Age. Joining in recurring roles are Patrick Page (Hadestown), Douglas Sills (The Scarlet Pimpernel), Amy Forsyth (Beautiful Boy), Taylor Richardson (All Together Now), Kelley Curran (The Blacklist) and Ben Ahlers (When the Street Lights Go On). Bill Irwin (Rachel Getting Married) is set as a special guest star.

Michael Appler Theater is fleeting by nature, and as such, those who pioneer the way for inclusivity on stage — who give performances that chip away at inequity role by role — are sometimes forgotten. With performers like Lillias White and André De Shields, those roles are so numerous that sitting them down together, as the Broadway Advocacy Coalition did on Tuesday night in New York City, erects a living monument to Black Broadway. The Broadway Advocacy Coalition, an activist group leading

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEXCLUSIVE: Broadway’s annual I Put A Spell On You concert-slash-party event to raise funds for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will go virtual this year due to the pandemic. The concert event, hosted by characters spoofing the 1993 film Hocus Pocus, will feature performers from such productions as Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Waitress, Mrs.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticIn a lawsuit that offers a glimpse of COVID-19’s economic threat to the Broadway industry, Jujamcyn Theaters, owner of five major Broadway venues, is suing its insurance companies after the insurers offered to pay a mere $250,000 of what Jujamcyn claims should be “tens of millions of dollars” in losses due to the coronavirus shutdown.Jujamcyn, which owns the theaters housing hits Hadestown, The Book of Mormon, Moulin Rouge and Mean Girls (and, until its

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By Greg Evans

By Greg Evans

By Greg Evans

By Anthony D'Alessandro

It took a trio of MacArthur Fellows — composer Matthew Aucoin, playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Mary Zimmerman — to bring to the boards L.A. Opera's world premiere Eurydice, a vibrant and musically of-the-moment take on a tale that has been adapted to the medium roughly 70 times before.

As Eurydice in Broadway's Hadestown, Eva Noblezada has the unenviable task of journeying to the underworld eight shows a week. Hadestown is a musical retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.