Tuesday, 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 06:17PMSunday, June 12, 2016
Hamilton won the Tony Award for best musical and dominated the evening as Scott Rudin joined Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeffrey Seller in the winner’s circle. It was indeed a corona…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:28PMLadies and gentlemen, start your bots. Hamilton tickets go on sale to the general public at 11:10 PM, according to Ticketmaster, presumably minutes after it wins the Tony Award for best new …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:23AMFriday, June 10, 2016
As Hamilton prepares for a long run and potentially earning hundreds of millions of dollars in profits, joining the ranks of The Book of Mormon and Wicked, Broadway appears to be richer…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:08AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
On a bet that Hamilton will remain red hot after composer Lin-Manuel Miranda leaves the cast and a second company opens in Chicago, Broadway producers raised the top ticket price by $3…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:02PMMonday, June 6, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Accepting the best musical Tony Award for The Book of Mormon in 2011, co-director and co-writer Trey Parker broke up the Beacon Theater audience by thanking “a co-writer who p…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:24PMMonday, May 23, 2016
UPDATE WITH DRAMA SALES DECLINE: The Broadway season ended on Sunday with record attendance and sales, thanks to Hamilton. But grosses for plays in 2015-16 retreated 27 percent as star…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:45PMMonday, May 16, 2016
Broadway’s poised to report its third consecutive season of record sales — by a nose. With the official 2015-16 season ending on Sunday, grosses are up 0.6 percent from a year earl…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:55PMFriday, May 6, 2016
Tony Award contenders often say it’s an honor to be nominated. For Bright Star, like any struggling nominee, it’s an expensive honor. Instead of potentially folding after ten sl…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:06PMFriday, April 15, 2016
UPDATE to include Hamilton accord: As the cast of Hamilton looks forward to a portion of profits from the blockbuster, The Book of Mormon has paid its workshop actors about $3 millio…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:36PMMonday, March 21, 2016
A musical without musicians is an untested concept on Broadway. Janet B. Rosen, the freshman lead producer of In Transit, a long-gestating a cappella romantic comedy circling Broadway, says…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:49PMFriday, March 18, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Hamilton, the Broadway blockbuster endorsed by the president and first lady, has repaid its investors. Two people with direct knowledge of the musical’s finances confir…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:23AMEXCLUSIVE: On September 15, 2008, hours after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, the Roundabout Theatre Co. signed a lease to take over a third Broadway house. Given the expense of pr…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:21AMEXCLUSIVE: The Last Ship, a failure on Broadway, was a hit for the Public Theater . In the fall of 2013, a year before the musical’s brief run at the Neil Simon Theatre, Sting pla…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:20AMWednesday, June 3, 2015
These days, type “Broadway tickets” in a web browser and it’s easy to get confused.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:40PMMonday, May 25, 2015
In late August, a 32-year-old theater producer named Eva Price found herself in a lower-Manhattan Crate & Barrel talking on her mobile phone to Jerry Seinfeld.
SOURCE: noir.bloomberg.com at 05:58PMThere's something lovable about a woman who loves to play the horses -- unless she cares more for the horses than for you.
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:58PMActors aren't the only ones having their ups and downs at “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:58PM`Compulsion' Review
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:58PMThursday, August 15, 2013
The owners of 54 Below, a grotto nightclub that in a little more than a year has become a favorite of Broadway divas and night crawlers, have told potential investors they need $600,000 “i…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 06:35AMSaturday, May 25, 2013
Broadway enters the final weekend of the 2012-2013 season with its worst attendance record in eight years, despite sold-out audiences for Tom Hanks, Bette Midler and a handful of hit musical…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 07:53AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Even after he leaves “Lucky Guy” on Broadway, Tom Hanks stands to earn as much as $20,000 a week.
For his Broadway debut, Hanks, 56, will get 2 percent of ticket sales should producer…
SOURCE: Business Week at 01:50PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
As Sandy the hurricane swept up the East Coast, Sandy the canine star of “Annie” lay on a couch in upper Manhattan with a rope toy.
“She’s been lounging all day,” said Dustin Hard…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 12:05PMEven with 8 million Twitter followers, pop star Ricky Martin couldn’t make “Evita” profitable.
Undone by high weekly running costs, Broadway’s top-selling show to open in 2012 close…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 12:05PMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Two of Broadway’s biggest players in the growing market to sell tickets online have combined forces, two people with knowledge of the deal said today.
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 09:17PMThursday, December 13, 2012
If Sprecher doesn’t raise the minimum $12 million capitalization by year-end, he must return money “forthwith” to any investors who haven’t waived their right to a refund, according …
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 05:00PMThursday, October 6, 2011
Producers of the raucous Broadway musical "Rock of Ages" have gotten into a courtroom brawl with one of the industry’s most respected managers, disputing advice she gave them as a consulta…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 04:26PM 
