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EXCLUSIVE: Turns out the road to nowhere is paved with gold. Investors in David Byrne’s Broadway concert American Utopia have been repaid and profit checks are imminent, according to a…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:02PMEXCLUSIVE: Six, the sizzling pop musical in which British Royals meet #MeToo, may be able to repay investors within 11 weeks of its first preview. That’s assuming the production can sust…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:25PMIdina Menzel is in talks to play Fanny Brice this fall in the first Broadway revival of Funny Girl, the hit 1964 Jule Styne-Bob Merrill-Isobel Lennart musical that starred Barbara Streisand.…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:39PMThe producers of Sing Street are in talks to transfer their musical to the Shubert Organization’s Lyceum Theatre this spring, in time to qualify for Tony Award nominations. The adaptatio…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:49PMStephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber were among the collaborators and friends who spoke about the legendary director and producer Hal Prince at his memorial today at the Majestic Theatre…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:27PMThe world is in crisis. Jagged Little Pill is on it. Gun violence? “Fear has no place in our schools,” an onstage placard reads. Climate change? Name-checked in another sign. Rape? The…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:23PMThe last week of July 2019 was business as usual for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. Sales rose less than 2 percent to $1.4 million, according to data from the Broadway Lea…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:57PMJohn Simon, the theater, movie and music critic who died last night at 94, took erudition to another level. Never mind that English was his fifth language — after German, Hungarian, French…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:57PMTootsie , the Broadway musical adapted from the 1982 movie about a struggling actor whose career takes off when he plays a woman, will close on Jan. 5, the production announced tonight. Cap…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:14PMEXCLUSIVE: For the first time in more than four years, Broadway’s biggest blockbuster is opening its doors to bus tours, schools from out of town and other groups. Beginning on Monday, Ham…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:14PMAndré Bishop, head of Lincoln Center Theater, earned pay and benefits valued at $1 million in 2017. It’s likely the biggest one-year compensation for a New York nonprofit theater leader. …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:11AMEXCLUSIVE: The Public Theater has earned tens of millions of dollars for its role developing Hamilton — and is spending as little of it as possible on two ambitious projects. The venerab…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:31AMThe Broadway League and Actors’ Equity Association reached a tentative pact that will raise the weekly minimum for Broadway actors 3.5 percent to $2,168. The current Production contract, w…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:41PMAfter an acclaimed run at New York Theatre Workshop, Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play begins previews on Tuesday at the John Golden Theatre. I spoke to lead producer Greg Nobile of Seaview …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:20PMCAMBRIDGE, MASS — Six, the pop-concert musical featuring the wives of Henry VIII cracking wise and woeful about their tragic destinies, is an inventive and exuberant take on 16th-century…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:14PMEXCLUSIVE: Scott Rudin knows the territory — the Broadway territory, that is. Visiting River City with Hugh Jackman in Rudin’s upcoming revival of The Music Man won’t come cheap. A y…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:51PMChristie’s auction house said it will offer three original drawings by the legendary Broadway portraitist Al Hirschfeld that were owned by Terry Allen Kramer, the prolific Broadway produ…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:07AMEXCLUSIVE: Tickets for Broadway’s Belle Époque hit have gone from pricey to pricier. Moulin Rouge! grossed $2.1 million last week, little changed from the previous seven days. The adapt…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:35PMBen Sprecher, who spent six years in court trying to clear his name following the pre-opening collapse of Rebecca the Musical, was accused in a Federal complaint of possessing and distribu…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:03PMJeremy Gerard, Frank Rich and Jesse Green published valuable reminiscences of Hal Prince, the prolific and hugely successful and influential producer and director who died yesterday, at 91. …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:41AMThree decades after The Phantom first dropped his chandelier in New York and Jean Valjean took up pursuit here, along comes another Paris-based musical spectacle and prospective blockbuster.…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:13AMAlan Fox’s Safe Space at Bay Street Theater is a provocative exploration of academic freedom in our call-out culture — and a three-character cage match to control the narrative during …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:23PMThe Prom, the $13.5 musical comedy that developed a cult following but not a mass audience since opening in November, will close on Aug. 11. It’s the first musical to announce its closur…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:06PMDid he really just say that? And sing that? Scott Rudin, Tyler Perry, Disney, critics, and the composer-lyricist-librettist Michael R. Jackson himself are among those skewered and scrutin…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:08PMEXCLUSIVE: With investors to repay and resellers on the prowl, the producers of Hadestown increased ticket prices by as much as 47 percent, coinciding with the show’s best musical win a…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:19PMHadestown’s strong sales and its Tony Award for Best Musical may advance the cause of female theater artists more effectively than any speech advocating for industry inclusiveness. The in…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:17AMEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive Tony Awards contest, can producers who vote for their own show make a difference? I obtained a list of voters in the 2017-18 season — which I’m told is largel…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:41PMEXCLUSIVE: Broadway’s oddest and most enduring financing-scandal-turned-courtroom-drama has closed. After six years, 471 legal filings, one trial and another that had been on tap, Rebecca…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:54PMThanks to Hamilton, The Lion King, Harry Potter and other blockbusters that draw fans from around the world, Broadway reported a record $1.8 billion in sales — up 7.8 percent — for t…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:40PMWhat the Constitution Means to Me and Hadestown, two of the most of the acclaimed Broadway shows of the season, were both developed at New York Theatre Workshop. Last night, Artistic Dire…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:20PMWhile accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Obies last night, Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz described how an apartment fire helped him create the nonprofit Theatre for …
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