Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Broadway producers and investors made the brave decision to present several new plays without stars this past season. Audiences haven’t followed. Grosses for straight plays (n…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:55PM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2017
Even if Broadway took this week off, 2016-17 would still surpass last season’s record grosses. After 51 weeks, Broadway has sold $1.415 billion of tickets, vs. $1.373 billion for…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2017
In a court battle over money and reputations, the partnership that sought to bring Rebecca the Musical to Broadway won a token $90,000 damage award against its former press agent and failed …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Rebecca Broadway LP vs. Marc Thibodeau went to the jury this afternoon after two weeks of testimony. The five women and one man had a range of information requests out of the gate in order t…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:47PM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2017
At 2:30 pm, Marc Thibodeau was a courageous truth teller. By 4 pm he was a destructive liar. Closing statements at the Rebecca civil trial this afternoon painted opposing pictures of i…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 7, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: The email was sent at 8:21 am Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. Subject line: “Confidential.” “Have you ever Googled Mark Hotton Long Island?” wrote Marc Thibo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:21PM[SHARE]Friday, May 5, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: On Sept. 27, 2012, four days before Rebecca the Musical was to begin rehearsals, it sold 27 tickets. The day’s “wrap,” or sales, was $2,952.50, ac…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The Tony Award for best musical is commercially valuable, but what about nominations for plays? The next few weeks will test how much theatergoers care, with three of the four best play n…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Hello, Dolly! and A Doll’s House, Part 2 got the most Tony Award nominations this morning in their respective categories. Natasha compete…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Friday, April 28, 2017
Producer Ben Sprecher broke down on the stand today at the Rebecca civil trial in lower Manhattan, while recounting being forced to shutter the $12 million musical on the eve of its fi…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:02PM[SHARE]Monday, April 24, 2017
Producer Ben Sprecher’s 11-year quest to bring Rebecca the Musical to Broadway is over. Last year, he lost the license to produce the show and owes his investors about $5.5 million,…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:29PM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2017
Easter week was flush for Broadway’s flashiest star vehicles and dismal for serious new plays, Pulitzer Prize notwithstanding. Two Scott Rudin productions in previews tell the st…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:03PM[SHARE]Monday, April 3, 2017
Broadway plays struggle while musicals sell well ahead of Tony Award nominations
SOURCE: Crain's at 06:56PM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2017
Oslo arrives with a rare asset for a play this season: strong pre-Broadway reviews from a working New York Times critic. Ben Brantley called J.T. Rogers’ drama about the 1993 accord…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:36PM[SHARE]Monday, March 20, 2017
One of the season's most anticipated musical revivals, the Scott Rudin-produced Hello, Dolly!, got off to a fast start in Broadway’s top-selling and best-attended week of the …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:57PM[SHARE]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 be…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:25PM[SHARE]Monday, 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-r…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 t…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:57AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 I…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:34PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:01PM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: 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 th…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:50PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 Pase…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 Nat…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:06AM[SHARE]Friday, 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, isÂ�…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:44AM[SHARE]Monday, 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…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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  th…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:50AM[SHARE] 
