Monday, March 13, 2017
Starry musicals got off to a strong start in what was the industry’s best seven days since the first week of the year. Sales were $27.7 million, up 16 percent from the week before a…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:25PMMonday, March 6, 2017
Sunday in the Park with George, which began a more experimental phase for Stephen Sondheim when the musical debuted off-Broadway in 1983, is doing big business in its latest go-round. Sa…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:34PMSaturday, March 4, 2017
Amid the commotion over the New York Times review of the Encores! revival of Big River revolving around context and criticism, the nonprofit Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Ameri…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:57AMFriday, March 3, 2017
In an unusual reversal caused by the departure of its No. 2 theater critic, the New York Times relinquished its support of Significant Other once it arrived on Broadway. What Charles Isher…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:47AMTuesday, February 28, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: With a search underway to fill one of the highest-profile jobs in theater criticism, influential playwrights are pressing for diversity. They’re among more than 800 i…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:54PMFriday, February 10, 2017
INTERVIEW: Is the moderately successful commercial Broadway production in danger of extinction? “There are still many shows doing exceptionally well, but it seems there are more show…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:34PMMonday, February 6, 2017
Broadway audiences can’t get enough of Glenn Close or Andrew Lloyd Webber. A new revival of Sunset Boulevard grossed an impressive $834,000 in its first five previews last week at the Pa…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:01PMEXCLUSIVE: The rumors are true. Charles Isherwood, the influential theater critic who’s been at the New York Times since 2004, has left the paper, a person familiar with the situat…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:46PMThursday, February 2, 2017
In Transit, the low-grossing new musical that Bill and Hillary Clinton saw Wednesday night, is losing less money than you might think. As Broadway’s first acapella musical, it doe…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:50PMMonday, January 30, 2017
Dear Evan Hansen, the new show by the lyricists of La La Land, had a record week on Broadway as their movie musical got 14 Academy Award nominations. With music and lyrics by Benj Pasek an…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:16PMThursday, January 26, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Hamilton, Next to Normal, War Horse and South Pacific have something in common besides acclaim and awards. They share a patron in the federal government. The National Endowm…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:12PMFriday, January 20, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: For anyone in need of a diversion, Broadway is presenting its busiest season for musicals in 36 years. Nineteen new musicals and revivals have opened or are scheduled to open …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:06AMFriday, January 6, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: A star of the new heyday of television is taking a swing at a golden age musical. Bryan Cranston, the Breaking Bad actor who loves baseball and theater, is in talks to hea…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:57AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
The producer of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler recently raised its top ticket to $525, the most expensive seat on Broadway that isn’t for Hamilton. Introduced after runawa…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:44AMMonday, November 14, 2016
Broadway’s unofficial post-election strategy: hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Citing Donald Trump’s campaign statements, commercials and recent appointments, many the…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:12AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
Broadway performers and writers, who lampooned Donald Trump and his wife during the presidential campaign and raised millions for Hillary Clinton, expressed despair and defiance as the de…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:50AMSaturday, November 5, 2016
Patti LuPone and Jesse Tyler Ferguson have taken themselves out of the running for a Presidential Medal of Freedom in a Donald Trump administration. LuPone (War Paint) and Ferguson (Fully C…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:40PMThursday, November 3, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: While expanding Broadway’s boundaries, Scott Rudin is reining in his investors. The daring and powerful producer is requiring backers to sign away their right to critici…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:52PMEXCLUSIVE: The first investor non-disparagement clause we found was for the Scott Rudin-produced revival of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. (Click on the text for easier reading.) Ope…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:42PMSunday, October 30, 2016
The Associated Press raved, the Hollywood Reporter was mixed and Ben Brantley at the Times panned while questioning whether Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereu…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:25PMThursday, October 6, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: The producers of Hamilton are selling a new block of tickets for performances around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays for $998 each, setting a Broadway record four months…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:01PMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Laura Benanti gained 8 million YouTube views and the wrath of Donald Trump’s angriest devotees when she satirized his wife on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert during the Republic…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:00AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Donald Trump may be the only major-party presidential candidate in history with a Broadway producing credit, but that hasn’t won him much support in theater circles. “All he was …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:02PMFriday, September 9, 2016
Jason Robert Brown said a tweet from a fan inspired the Sept. 12 benefit concert of his two-character musical The Last Five Years. The composer, lyricist and performer has worked independent…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:54PMFriday, August 19, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Second Stage Theatre has less than two years to repay a $16.5 million mortgage on its new Broadway home. In April 2015, the nonprofit completed its long-awaited purchase…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:10AMMonday, August 8, 2016
As ticket prices for Broadway musicals consistently rise, independent record labels like Sh-K-Boom, which preserves musical theater scores, must grapple with the proliferation of free musi…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:15PMTuesday, July 19, 2016
Jayne Houdyshell was okay missing Melania Trump’s live speech at the Republican National Convention Monday night. It conflicted with the New York Civil Liberties Union’s su…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:41AMFriday, July 15, 2016
Summer is the off-season for Manhattan fundraising. But with headlines consumed by hate crime, police conduct and race relations, the New York Civil Liberties Union says its July 18 Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:47PMFriday, July 1, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: The Culture Project, a 20-year-old, perennially cash-strapped East Village theater company that’s best known for the anti-death-penalty drama The Exonerated, filed for bankr…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:11PMWednesday, June 29, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Andre Bishop, Lincoln Center Theater’s longtime leader, earned pay and benefits of $911,670 in 2014, one of the richest compensation packages at a U.S. nonprofit theater. A…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:54PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Jeremy Gerard, a prolific and widely read arts reporter and critic, was laid off by Deadline.com two years and two months after the news outlet hired him to oversee its expansion of New Yo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:17PM 
