Friday, December 13, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway’s box office union, which is in contract negotiations with the Broadway League, claims that the industry’s embrace of TodayTix Group represents an unfair labor practi…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:35PMWednesday, November 20, 2024
As Sleep No More prepares to close after a historic 12-year run, the producers of the immersive show are in an epic battle against their landlord. Producers Arthur Karpati and Jonathan Hoc…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:26AMWednesday, September 25, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Producers of Operation Mincemeat are raising at least $11.5 million to transfer the critically acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning musical to Broadway, according to financial docum…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:23PMThursday, September 5, 2024
Broadway investors stand to lose about $200 million on the 2023-24 season’s flops. For Jujamcyn Theaters, the Broadway landlord, it was a different story. Jujamcyn earned a profit of $34 m…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:43PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Before the Public Theater fired a fifth of its staff, the downtown institution faced a financial crisis. When it disclosed layoffs last July, the renowned nonprofit company said t…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:20PMFriday, July 12, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Newly minted Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff will play the 1950s and ’60s crooner Bobby Darin in a staged reading next month, ahead of a planned Broadway opening in spring 202…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:47PMWednesday, July 3, 2024
In a tough time for big Broadway productions, Hell’s Kitchen is burning up the box office. Despite its surprise loss to The Outsiders for the Best Musical Tony Award, Alicia Keys’ semi-a…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:06PMMonday, June 17, 2024
The Outsiders may have had the inside track at the Tony Awards after all. In awarding Best Musical to the $22 million adaptation of the S.E. Hinton novel and Francis Ford Coppola movie abo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:21AMFriday, June 7, 2024
Tony Award leaders today affirmed their decision to bar Broadway co-producers from the stage of the David Koch Theater on June 16, while offering the investors and bundlers a consolation …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:53PMFriday, May 31, 2024
While working an arts reporter for Bloomberg News, I met Caroline Prugh in March 2006 at the now-defunct Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky. She was there on behal…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:53AMThursday, May 30, 2024
Donald J. Trump, the former president who received a Broadway producing credit in 1970, was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal. For further infor…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:45PMTuesday, May 28, 2024
The Tony Awards are enmeshed in a high-stakes dispute over who gets stage time on Broadway’s big night. Some co-producers — whose primary role is to invest or raise money for shows — h…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:26PMFriday, May 24, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Celebrity prevailed over experience at Actors’ Equity Association, where Brooke Shields was elected president of the labor union representing about 51,000 actors and stage manag…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:57AMWednesday, May 22, 2024
The frenetic 2023-24 Broadway season officially ended Sunday. Notwithstanding encouraging results this Spring amid back-to-back openings ahead of the Tony Award nominations, industry statist…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:28PMFriday, May 10, 2024
In an out-of-the-box hire to revive one of the nation’s preeminent summer theaters, the playwright, producer and actor Jeremy O. Harris has been tapped to program the Williamstown Theatre …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:18PMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Production workers at Little Shop of Horrors have unionized. Producers of the off-Broadway musical had sought to delay an election and disputed the eligibility of two crew members to cast …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:57PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
In an era of ever-bigger Broadway budgets, the pressure is on newly minted Tony Award-nominated productions to capitalize on the buzz. First, a word about budgets. I added up the capitalizat…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:46PMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Brooke Shields is running for president of Actors’ Equity Association, the labor union that represents about 51,000 actors and stage managers. Shields said in a YouTube video that while wo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:17PMMonday, April 22, 2024
Producer Hal Luftig suffered a setback in his court battle against a wealthy investor over millions of dollars from the musical Kinky Boots, a conflict the U.S. Supreme Court may play a role…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:24PMFriday, March 15, 2024
Producers Orin Wolf and Greg Nobile are preparing to move the acclaimed dance piece Illinoise to the St. James Theater, packing another new musical into the busy 2023-24 season. The transf…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:09PMThursday, March 7, 2024
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which has been busy organizing off-Broadway, has turned its attention to downtown Manhattan’s most storied and prolific producer. …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:19PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Four decades after Gerard Alessandrini introduced his Broadway satirical revue at an Upper West Side cabaret, the ever-changing spoof will finally plant its funny flag in a Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:26PMMonday, February 19, 2024
A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, is preparing to close in June, according to a person familiar with the production. The final performance at the Broadhurst Theatre that’s avail…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:19PMMonday, January 29, 2024
With two shows running on Broadway (Kimberly Akimbo and Days of Wine and Roses) and at least two others on the way (Buena Vista Social Club and English), the Atlantic Theater Co. has affirme…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:19PMTuesday, January 16, 2024
Charlotte St. Martin, who’s led the Broadway League trade association since 2006, will step down on Feb. 16. The sudden departure occurs amid an industry changing of the guard as Broadway …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:27PMFriday, December 22, 2023
Producers are working on two high-profile additions to the busy 2023-24 Broadway season: Stereophonic, an ecstatically reviewed play with music about a fictional mid-1970s rock band creating…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:50PMSunday, December 17, 2023
Last season, 25 to 49-year-olds who attended Broadway shows outnumbered those 50 and up for the first time since 2008-09. It’s too early to proclaim a generational shift. The audience was …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:54PMMonday, December 11, 2023
After opening red hot in October 2019, Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theatre had a rough second half of 2022. Box office sales fell short of the revival’s $180,000 to $200,000-a-w…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:51PMSunday, December 3, 2023
A New York judge declined to intervene in a battle for Jujamcyn Theaters’ lucrative concessions business — a win for Ambassador Theatre Group after acquiring control of the Broadway land…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:52PMWednesday, November 22, 2023
The producers of Merrily We Roll Along have raised the revival’s top ticket price to $899 — the most expensive seat on Broadway so far this season. The $899 tickets, which include a $5…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:19AMMonday, November 6, 2023
Water for Elephants, the circus-themed new musical, will be under pressure to make a big splash when it arrives on Broadway. Scheduled to open March 21, 2024, at the Imperial Theatre, it wil…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:56PM 
