Actors’ 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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:33PMSTEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO — The main event here: 502 Ford Mustangs, both late-model show cars and immaculately restored classics. The 30th-annual Rocky Mountain Mustang Roundup compe…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:17PMThere’s cause for celebration in Bet Hatikva and Petah Tikva. The Band’s Visit, a drama about acceptance, missed connections and the romance and ennui of everyday life, won 10 T…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:46AMThere’s cause for celebration in Bet Hatikvva and Petah Tikvah. The Band’s Visit, a quietly political drama about acceptance, missed connections and the romance and banality of e…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:23PMEXCLUSIVE: On Broadway, selling out isn’t a prerequisite for cleaning up. The Band’s Visit, which is considered a lock for best new musical at the Tony Awards tomorrow, has repai…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:57PMEXCLUSIVE: Conventional wisdom dictates that a new play needs an off-Broadway or out-of-town tryout before it’s Broadway-ready — unless it’s by David Mamet or stars Bette M…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:51PMEXCLUSIVE: Jed Bernstein, a Broadway producer and former leader of the industry’s trade association, earned $3.3 million in pay and benefits during the 27 months he ran Lincoln Center…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:09PMThe Broadway season that ended on Sunday was strong but not stellar. Overall attendance: up 4 percent to 13.8 million, according to the Broadway League. Grosses rose 17 percent, to $1.7 bill…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:06PMThe New York Drama Critics’ Circle voted not to give a prize for best musical this season, implicitly endorsing The Band’s Visit‘s Tony Award ambitions and rejecting Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:41PMBEST MUSICAL SUSPENSE: There were just seven new musicals on Broadway this season, the fewest in at least a decade. Only one received “Critic’s Pick” from the New York Time…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:07PMEXCLUSIVE: Maybe Frozen isn’t critic-proof after all. Following mixed reviews and turmoil in the secondary market, Disney has been slashing prices for the musical — one of the mo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:44PMLAST OF A SERIES: When the cast of Hamilton visited the White House on March 14, 2016, President Obama joked that the musical was the only thing he and Dick Cheney agreed on. The excursion…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:18PMSECOND IN A SERIES: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop juggernaut is the first single-author show to win a Tony Award for best new musical since Jonathan Larson’s Rent, in 1996. With …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:25PMPART ONE OF A SERIES: Nearly three years after storming Broadway, Hamilton remains unrivaled in its moneymaking. The original production, which began previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatr…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:44AMEvery year there’s New Year’s week, when the city is packed with tourists and some shows present nine performances, and every other week. Last week was a record for the latter. B…
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