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Adorable, Adoptable Animals Grab Broadway Barks Across America Spotlight

  Broadway Barks Across America, the world’s most star-studded animal adoption event, trotted back to screens on May 23, 2021, for its second virtual edition, hosted by Barks co-founder Bernadette Peters. The streaming evening featured adoptable animals from shelters across the country with the stage and screen stars who love them. Throughout the stream, 34 […]

Six Celebrity Supporters Lead Red Bucket Match-Up

  A spirited two-week competition among six of Broadway and Hollywood’s most charitable stars raised $1,919,254 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ annual National Grants Program, supporting organizations nationwide that provide lifesaving medication, health care and emergency assistance for those affected by HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other critical illnesses. The first Red Bucket Match-Up online fundraising campaign, […]

Broadway Luminaries Celebrate Anniversary of RWQuarantunes

  Three dozen of the best from Broadway and the entertainment industry saluted the one-year anniversary of RWQuarantunes, a pandemic-inspired series of invite-only online concerts, by coming together April 11, 2021, for a five-hour celebration of Broadway and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. To celebrate RWQuarantunes‘ one-year anniversary – and it’s 44th edition, the Weitzes selected […]

Stream of Broadway Backwards Breaks All-time Fundraising Record

  The 2021 virtual edition of Broadway Backwards provided an emotional and exuberant evening of musical theater performances as it explored how an isolated New Yorker faced the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic and ultimately found hope. The unprecedented stream, which included new performances blended with favorite onstage numbers from the past, raised a record […]

Record-breaking Food Grants Reach 131 Programs Nationwide

  Despite pandemic-induced challenges to traditional fundraising efforts, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS provided a record $2,452,500 in grants to 131 food service and meal delivery programs as part of its 2021 National Grants Program. The 2021 total tops the 2020 pre-pandemic support of $2.3 million, a notable 6% increase over what was then a record […]

ABC Daytime Stars Reunite, Revisit Favorite Performances

The fan-inspiring, steamy stream of ABC Daytime: Back on Broadway, a nostalgic evening of song and conversation with the stars of All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital, raised a stellar $130,565 to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the philanthropic heart of Broadway. The online event, which debuted February 11, 2021, and […]

Three Hotels Stream Serves Emotional Wallop

  Two-time Emmy Award winner Bobby Cannavale and Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei delivered tour de force performances in a streamed reading of Jon Robin Baitz’s lauded and deeply stirring play Three Hotels. The special presentation on January 26, 2021, was directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Moisés Kaufman and produced by Tectonic Theater Project. […]