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Fire Island Dance Festival Celebrates In-Person Return with Four World Premieres
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Broadway Barks Brings Adoptable Pets Back to Shubert Alley
Dozens of playful puppies and cuddly kittens joined enthusiastic theater artists and fans on July 9, 2022, for the in-person return of Broadway Barks, the annual pet adoption event founded by Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters. Broadway’s Shubert Alley was filled with the precious pets from 20 New York City area shelters and rescue […]
National Grants Restored to Pre-Pandemic Levels
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS awarded $2,135,000 to 262 social service providers earlier this month. After two COVID-affected years, the grant amounts supplied to these organizations restored annual funding to the pre-pandemic levels of 2019. These social service organizations provide essential resources for their clients in the form of direct services, emergency assistance, harm reduction services […]
Special Grants to Help Ensure Access to Reproductive Health Care
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS announced $300,000 in special grants for Planned Parenthood Federation of America and NARAL Pro-Choice America to help ensure access to critical reproductive health care after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Broadway Cares is sending these grants on behalf of the Broadway and theater community to the […]
Broadway Bares: XXX Enthralls with Exuberant In-Person Return
The 30th anniversary of Broadway Bares filled New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on June 26, 2022, with an abundance of “community, unity and nudity” as the venerable modern-day burlesque spectacular wrapped up Pride Sunday with a raucous return to in-person performances after a pandemic-induced three-year hiatus. Two standing-room-only performances of Broadway Bares: XXX raised […]
Broadway Backwards Makes Triumphant Return to In-person Performance
Broadway luminaries and cheerful audience members united in full and jubilant force May 23, 2022, lending their light to celebrate LGBTQ+ lives, culture and contributions with the in-person return of Broadway Backwards. The 16th edition of the show, which had not been performed live since 2019 because of the coronavirus pandemic, raised a record-breaking […]
Record-breaking Red Buckets Return During 2022 Spring Fundraising Campaign
Broadway Cares’ traditional in-theater red bucket fundraising made its long-awaited return with 40 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring productions raising $4,288,994 to provide meals and medication, health care and hope for those living with HIV/AIDS, dealing with COVID-19 or facing other debilitating illnesses. Broadway Cares’ Spring Fundraising Campaign took place over a six-week period […]
Three Humanitarian Organizations Working in Ukraine Receive Emergency Grants
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is awarding $300,000 in emergency grants to immediately help the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. On behalf of the entire Broadway and New York City theater community – those onstage, offstage and in the audience – Broadway Cares announced on March 3, 2022, that it is providing $100,000 each to Global […]
$2.5 Million in Food Grants Awarded to 127 Programs Nationwide
Theater lovers and theater artists rallied together to help Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS provide a record $2,532,500 in grants to 127 food service and meal delivery programs in New York City and nationwide. Despite the absence of full in-theater fundraising efforts for more than two years, this remarkable first step in Broadway Cares’ 2022 National […]
Fred Ebb Legacy Grows with Largest Gift Ever, Again
The foundation created by legendary lyricist Fred Ebb awarded $2.6 million to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS as 2021 ended, topping the foundation’s previous record donation in 2020 and cementing its place as the largest single donor in Broadway Cares history. The year-end gift was put to work immediately with $1.5 million in additional support […]
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