Friday, March 27, 2020
Producing theater is quixotic in the best of circumstances. Weathering the industry’s longest-ever shutdown, which has halted shows and cut off incomes, makes the endeavor that much more d…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:05PMBREAKING: The Broadway League today introduced websites with information about city, state, federal and philanthropic relief packages for employees and employers battered by the covid-19 cri…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:31PMThursday, March 26, 2020
With no way of knowing when New York’s cultural life will resume, Lincoln Center Theater has suspended production of its summer shows. Two plays scheduled to open in July have been postpon…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:11PMBroadway can’t reopen without New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s permission, and it may be among the last sectors of society to get it, Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin wrote to …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:02AMWednesday, March 25, 2020
The Broadway League and American Theatre Wing indefinitely postponed the 2020 Tony Awards, which was scheduled for June 7 at Radio City Music Hall. This afternoon’s announcement follows th…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:28PMSaturday, March 21, 2020
With no indication of when New York and Broadway will reopen for business amid a worsening public health and economic catastrophe, producer Scott Rudin cancelled his revival of Edward Albee�…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:57AMFriday, March 20, 2020
With no end in sight for the global coronavirus pandemic and U.S. theater shutdown, the Broadway League announced an agreement with the industry’s unions requiring suspended productions to…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:04PMThursday, March 12, 2020
Broadway will go dark for at least a month — its longest shutdown in modern times — as U.S. performing arts and professional sports screech to a halt in an attempt to limit the public he…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:57PMWednesday, March 11, 2020
The National Basketball Association announced it will suspend its season, after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for the coronavirus. Los Angeles Times story here. The announcement may put…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:09PMMonday, March 9, 2020
The musicals Ain’t Too Proud, Moulin Rouge, Frozen, Jagged Little Pill and The Tina Turner Musical posted their worst sales since opening as tourists increasingly stay home in response…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:54PMThursday, February 20, 2020
Video has a starring role in the dazzling new revival of West Side Story. Live close-ups of the charismatic young cast in the Arthur Laurents/Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim classic are …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:57PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: A month before previews start on Broadway, the limited run of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite is approaching full occupancy. The advance sale for the revival with husband-and-wife st…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:14PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Broadway Musicals are running longer and making more money ever — which is on display in these eye-catching interactive graphics below. Seven of the top 10 highest-grossing musicals since …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:05PMFriday, January 31, 2020
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 02:02PMThursday, January 16, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: 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 05:25PMTuesday, January 14, 2020
Idina 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 04:39PMMonday, January 6, 2020
The 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 04:49PMMonday, December 16, 2019
Stephen 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 07:27PMFriday, December 6, 2019
The 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 12:23PMSunday, December 1, 2019
The 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 07:57PMMonday, November 25, 2019
John 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 12:57PMMonday, November 11, 2019
Tootsie , 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 06:14PMFriday, November 1, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: 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 03:14PMTuesday, October 29, 2019
André 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 11:11AMMonday, October 7, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: 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 10:31AMTuesday, September 24, 2019
The 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 01:41PMThursday, September 5, 2019
After 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 07:20PMMonday, August 26, 2019
CAMBRIDGE, 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 02:14PMThursday, August 22, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: 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 08:07AMMonday, August 19, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: 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 03:35PM 
