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While 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 …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:17AMFor female musical theater composers, this season has been a mixed bag. Of eight original Broadway scores, just one, Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, was written by a woman. Yet with its stan…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:21PMIt’s been a few years since an old-fashioned mainstream comedy won best musical at the Tony Awards. Tootsie could change that. Its primary challenger appears to be the acclaimed New Orl…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:37PMStudents of Rupert Murdoch may wonder why an 88-year-old multi-billionaire would devote his last years to destabilizing democracy, promoting division and thwarting efforts to slow climate ch…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:58PMDisturbing, timely and leavened by dry wit, What the Constitution Means to Me is an impassioned play about American governance that may renew your faith in Broadway. Heidi Schreck, who wr…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:08PMAin’t Too Proud isn’t too original, but it should appeal to fans of the Temptations, the most successful African-American recording group in history. The musical’s five leads gorgeou…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:50PMCementing his position as Broadway’s most prolific and arguably most powerful producer, Scott Rudin said today that he’s reviving The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman, in October 2020…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:58AMSet in suburban Jersey and based on Ned Vizzini’s out-there 2004 novel, Be More Chill is about a frustrated high school junior named Jeremy (Will Roland, best-known for Dear Evan Hansen…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:44PMMorrissey’s seven-night engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre sold well in the first hour of general public availability, suggesting a bright future for rock stars on Broadway. As of 11 …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:16AMEXCLUSIVE: Ben Sprecher‘s six-year campaign to hold his former press agent accountable for the collapse of his musical and reputation has been cleared for another courtroom showdown. Earl…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:22PMAfter 33 days, Actors’ Equity has ended its strike against the Broadway League over how its members are compensated for developing new work. Actors sought revenue or profit share when …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:30PMEXCLUSIVE: Ken Davenport’s eponymous theater is no more. “As of the end of January 2019, the Davenport Theatre has closed,” according to an announcement on Davenport Theatr…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:31PMEXCLUSIVE: Ticketmaster and Telecharge say they refund theatergoers for cancelled performances. It’s a different story for investors in shows that get cancelled before opening night. …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:37PMFans of HBO’s Succession might be surprised that Stewy, the conniving cocaine-snorting private equity operator, is played by an emigré from Iran who co-founded a civic-minded theate…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:12PMActors’ Equity Association, which has been negotiating a new contract for play and musical development, authorized a strike today to halt collaboration in rehearsal rooms known as deve…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:20PMBroadway celebrated 2019 with a slew of milestones: highest-grossing week and year in history and best-attended week and year since at least 1984, according to the Broadway League. Long-runn…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:00PMEXCLUSIVE: Ben Sprecher raised and spent millions on a Broadway musical version of Rebecca that never opened. For his next act, he wants to recreate an Old World family restaurant, update…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:42PMEarly in The Cher Show, Sonny Bono reprimands Cher when she complains about the rigors of stardom. “You bought the ticket; take the ride.” The target audience at the Neil Sim…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:17PMBroadway sold $43 million of tickets in the week ending on Sunday, up 10 percent from a year ago and its best Thanksgiving ever. In an ugly week for stocks but fine one for tourism and premi…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:00PMMike Birbiglia likes lists. Early in his irresistible one-man comedy The New One, he cites seven reasons why he never wanted a child. “Number 1: I’ve never felt like there should…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:38AMWith a top-ticket (so far) of $119, Lin-Manuel Miranda and three co-producers are mounting an engagement early next year of Freestyle Love Supreme, the improv hip-hop group that the Hamilt…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:52PMThe set designer and Yale professor Ming Cho Lee is officially synonymous with excellence in theatrical design. Last week at the Palm West Side restaurant, Lee was recognized for lifetime ac…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:43PMNinety minutes, no intermission has its appeal. But Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, with two dozen actors, a rabbit, goose, and a real-life baby dramatizing plot lines that explosivel…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:07AMDerren Brown‘s challenge: make a vacant Broadway theater appear out of thin air. In a conversation with Adam Green at the New Yorker Festival on Sunday, the British illusionist said …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:40PMEXCLUSIVE: Can’t afford to spend $1,551, including Ticketmaster fees, for two center orchestra seats to Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers Theatre? How about 12 monthly payments of $138…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:03PMCHICAGO — “Being a woman is no job for a man,” Michael Dorsey (Santino Fontana) concludes in the winning but inconsistent Broadway-bound musical comedy Tootsie, which ope…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:32PMShane O’Regan is going places — for starters, Philadelphia, Chicago and Austin, Texas. He and the 24 characters he plays in the World War I drama Private Peaceful tour the U.S…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:08PMSales of Frozen and Mean Girls took a hit last week as children returned to school from summer vacation and Broadway contended with oppressive heat and competition from the latter rounds of…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:34PMEXCLUSIVE: Investors in Scott Rudin’s celebrated revival of Hello, Dolly! have earned a profit of 5 percent, according to two people familiar with the production. In a flop-filled bus…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:24PMPulitzer Prize-winning collaborators Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey have a new musical that airs tonight on the Disney Channel. The pair say their adaptation of Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel Fre…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:51PMINTERVIEW: The last five weeks have been busy for Jason Robert Brown, the 48-year-old composer, lyricist, arranger, orchestrator and performer. There was an acclaimed Encores! run of his 199…
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