Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
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Fiscal Year: 2020
Stream of Chita Rivera Celebration Supports COVID-19 Relief
The illustrious Chita Rivera illuminated screens around the world with a stream of her one-night-only concert Chita: A Legendary Celebration. The evening, which streamed on May 29, 2020, and benefited Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ COVID-19 relief efforts, raised a spectacular $100,036. The original concert celebrated Rivera’s birthday in 2013, taking fans through her storied career […]
Broadway Cares Sends $5 Million to Actors Fund in Response to COVID-19
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS announced that it has sent $5 million from its COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund to The Actors Fund, ensuring thousands who work in theater and the performing arts receive vital, lifesaving support during and after this devastating pandemic. Broadway Cares’ $5 million represents nearly half of what The Actors Fund has awarded […]
Emergency Grants for Pandemic Relief to Support HIV/AIDS and Service Organizations
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is launching Emergency Grants for Pandemic Relief, a one-week fundraising initiative to provide $2 million in grants to vital organizations across the country whose resources are stretched dealing with immediate needs heightened by the COVID-19 crisis. Gilead Sciences Inc., the M•A•C Viva Glam Fund, ViiV Healthcare and the P. Austin […]
30th Anniversary of Broadway Bares Postponed
Broadway Bares‘ 30th anniversary event, scheduled for Sunday, June 21, 2020, is being postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The annual striptease spectacular will return to New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom when it is safe again to do so. If you purchased tickets for 2020 and have not been contacted by email, please reach out […]
Michael Urie Shines in Buyer & Cellar Online Benefit
The incomparable Michael Urie brought joy and delightful irreverence into homes around the world with his live-streamed, site-specific performance of Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar on Sunday, April 19, 2020. The performance raised $209,262 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund. The performance starred Urie as Alex, the sole employee of Barbra […]
Canceled: Easter Bonnet Competition
The 2020 performances of the Easter Bonnet Competition, scheduled for 4 pm on April 20 and 2:30 pm on April 21 at the Minskoff Theatre, are canceled. It would be our fondest wish for these much-loved performances to occur on schedule. But even in the best of circumstances – and with the sincere interests of […]
2020 Food Grants Fund 135 Vital Organizations
As part of its first grant round of 2020, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS awarded a record $2,317,500 to 135 food pantries, congregate meal and meal delivery programs across the country including in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. The grants were awarded by a committee made up of actors and stage managers who were integral […]
Australia Wildfire Relief Gets $100,000 in Emergency Grants
As the worst wildfires seen in decades continue to ravage Australia, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, on behalf of all of Broadway, Off-Broadway and the national tours involved in our recent fall fundraising campaign, is awarding $100,000 in emergency grants to help provide immediate assistance to organizations doing vital, lifesaving, on-the-ground work in the region. […]
Parodies and Powerful Song and Dance Illuminate 2019 Red Bucket Follies
Six weeks of enthusiastic fundraising erupted into two extraordinary performances of lighthearted parodies, inspiring calls-to-action and exceptional dance at this year’s Red Bucket Follies. The show, which was performed December 9 and 10, 2019, celebrated the 58 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies that participated in fall fundraising for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Red […]
Fifth Annual Broadway Run Breaks Fundraising Record
Theater enthusiasts, Broadway stars, industry insiders and passionate supporters ran (or walked) the streets of New York City in this year’s Broadway Run, raising a record-breaking $104,239 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The Broadway Run is a 3.1-mile walk or run through the streets of Manhattan that ends at the famed New York City […]
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