Monday, June 13, 2022
Maybe Usher can finally quit his day job. A Strange Loop — Michael R. Jackson’s deconstructionist portrait of a musical theater artist as a young, Black, insecure gay man — was named …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:46AMSaturday, June 11, 2022
Eight months after winning the Tony Award for best musical, Hamilton’s weekly grosses were up 45 percent. Dear Evan Hansen‘s were higher by a comparable margin after its win. Grosses fo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:58PMFriday, June 3, 2022
As lead producer and landlord of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, Ambassador Theatre Group has bragging rights to the most commercially successful play of the 2021-22 Broadway season. The average…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:49PMSunday, May 15, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Paradise Square has had a bumpy road to Eden. Nominated for 10 Tony Awards, the second-highest total of the season, it was Broadway’s worst-selling musical in the week ending o…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:04PMMonday, May 9, 2022
Two musicals in the past half-century have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama before they were up for Tony Awards: Rent in 1996 and Hamilton in 2016. Both went on to win the Tony fo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:58PMTuesday, March 22, 2022
For the first time in two years, the Broadway League publicly reported grosses for each show. Although the industry and the world have changed in the interim, one thing hasn’t: stars sell …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:58PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
What started as an existential crisis for Broadway’s nonprofit producers turned into an unexpected windfall. Thanks to a resurgent but fickle stock market, insurance payouts, cost-cutting …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:01PMWednesday, February 16, 2022
If MJ The Musical becomes a box office sensation, Paris Jackson, Bigi Jackson, Prince Jackson and the executors of their father’s estate stand to enjoy an unusual windfall. Typically, h…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:04PMFriday, January 28, 2022
The self-described “world’s No. 1 live theater company” has taken a drubbing. The parent company of U.K.-based Ambassador Theatre Group reported a pretax loss of $202 million for the 1…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:36PMSaturday, November 27, 2021
Stephen Sondheim’s death on Friday morning — an unexpected loss to the people in his life and to musical theater — attaches a new significance to the third Broadway revival of 1970’s…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:57PMFriday, November 19, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Seven years after Hamilton began previews at the Public Theater and gave the business of Broadway and touring a shot in the arm, its lead producer, Jeffrey Seller, is following a …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:25PMWednesday, November 3, 2021
March 2020 ushered in a three-ring crisis for the Equity-League Health Trust Fund, the healthcare plan for theater actors and stage managers. As the industry shut down indefinitely in respo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:22PMThe following is the complete statement from the Equity-league Health Trust Fund, attributed to its trustees, in response to questions from Broadway Journal. A spokesman emailed it in August…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:22PMMonday, September 27, 2021
More than two years after opening on Broadway, Moulin Rouge! won 10 Tony Awards and became the first big-budget best musical winner since 2009. The pandemic-delayed ceremony celebrated the …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:21AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Five months after announcing that he would “step back from active participation” on his Broadway shows, producer Scott Rudin is still negotiating the terms of his exit from his biggest …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:37PMWednesday, August 11, 2021
The producers of the first Broadway revival of Funny Girl, planned for the spring of 2022, confirmed that Beanie Feldstein has been cast to play Fanny Brice, the role that made Barbra Stre…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:50PMMonday, August 9, 2021
Broadway producers are people who need people — especially courageous people willing to congregate indoors during a pandemic. And maybe even get excited about a new take on a classic music…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:01AMFriday, July 30, 2021
The Broadway League said it will require audiences show proof of vaccination and wear masks except in designated areas for eating and drinking. The mandate by the trade association of theate…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:31AMThursday, July 29, 2021
Actors’ Equity Association and the Broadway League mandated that actors and other employees at Broadway theaters be fully vaccinated — with a few exceptions — while unvaccinated audien…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:54PMMonday, July 12, 2021
Ivo van Hove’s video-heavy revival of West Side Story, which was originally produced by Scott Rudin and opened a month before Broadway was shuttered, has scored a $10 million Small Busin…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:47PMWednesday, July 7, 2021
Broadway is usually a risky business — but the remount of Waitress looks like an excellent bet. Pop star Sara Bareilles, who wrote the musical’s acclaimed score, will return to the lea…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:29PMTuesday, July 6, 2021
The first post-pandemic preview of the highly anticipated revival of Company, the groundbreaking Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical, has been rescheduled to Nov. 15, more than a month e…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:40AMFriday, June 25, 2021
Bruce Springsteen’s summer engagement at the St. James Theatre will likely break Broadway records — but we may never know for sure. The Broadway League won’t report grosses for the ret…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:41PMWednesday, June 16, 2021
The U.S. Small Business Administration plans to notify about 10,000 Shuttered Venue Operators Grant applicants, or 70 percent of the total, by Independence Day, Broadway League President Cha…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:00PMFriday, May 21, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: The company producing The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway has been removed from a lawsuit by the advertising agency SpotCo, simplifying the show’s return to New York after the Cov…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:07AMSunday, May 16, 2021
As Scott Rudin steps back from the entertainment industry following reports that he abused his staff, all indications are that his once-formidable influence on Broadway is being dispersed. A…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:50PMMonday, May 10, 2021
In comes Company — again. Marianne Elliott’s revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s revered 1970 musical will resume previews on Dec. 20 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre ah…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:05AMSunday, May 9, 2021
In a hopeful sign for performing arts organizations, music venues and theater producers seeking help to resume live, in-person programming, the federal government’s shuttered-venue subsid…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:41PMFriday, May 7, 2021
Some of the first Broadway shows to return in the fall will restart gradually. Six , the pop concert musical that was poised to open when Broadway shut down in March 2020, is offering ticke…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:38PMWednesday, May 5, 2021
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today that Broadway can resume performances at 100 percent capacity on Sept. 14 and recommends that Broadway require Covid-19 vaccinations for entry to theaters. “Th…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:41PMTuesday, April 20, 2021
As Broadway faces the unprecedented challenge of reopening after at least 18 dark months, producers have proposed cutting back the standard eight-performance week while demand for tickets ra…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:40AM 
