41 stories by "Allison Reitz"
Ticketmaster has integrated its Facebook application with music streaming service Spotify to make event recommendations based on its users' listening habits. The integrated app could advance…
A recent partnership between music intelligence platform The Echo Nest and social media giant Twitter will help to build artist-to-fan interaction. The real question is whether it also may l…
Broadway ticket sales fell another $3 million through the week ending January 15, bringing the cumulative haul to $20.9 million across 29 productions.
January is traditionally a slow sales m…
Ticket sales on Broadway dropped 36 percent last week, as New York's legitimate theatre district entered its traditional January doldrums.
Through the week ending January 8, sales dropped to…
In two week's time, ticketing industry professionals will once again converge in New York City for Ticket Summit®. The conference and trade show will stage its fourth annual event in the…
The ticketing industry is one of the most misunderstood industries in America. Unfortunately, the role and function of a ticket broker is even more misunderstood. It's worth taking a minute …
"Stick Fly" made headlines earlier this year when pop songstress Alicia Keys stepped on as co-producer. Now the Broadway play is under lights again, following its December 8 opening at Cort …
"Bonnie & Clyde" blasted its way through its Broadway opening last night, December 1. The historical musical is booked into an open-ended schedule at Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
As its ti…
As expected, the Thanksgiving frame was a profitable one for Broadway box offices. Through the week ending November 27, ticket sales surged by more than $5 million to reach a cumulative $28,…
Broadway welcomed a new comedy to its fold with the November 20 opening of "Seminar" at the John Golden Theatre. The Theresa Rebeck play is a limited engagement, running only through March 4…
The curtains rose over a newly revived comedy at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway last night, November 17. The latest staging of Noel Coward's classic "Private Lives" will run through Febru…
Hugh Jackman transforms from Hollywood action star to old-fashioned song-and-dance man in "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway," which opened November 10 at the Broadhurst Theatre. The highly pra…
Broadway's latest It-girl Nina Arianda is back in action with the November 8 opening of "Venus in Fur." The David Ives-penned drama is settled into a limited run at Samuel J. Friedman Theatr…
Cumulative ticket sales for Broadway's current 30-show roster dipped ever-so-slightly to close the week ending November 6 at $21,189,810.Production gains in some places were counter-balanced…
Curtains rose November 7 on this season's latest Broadway arrival — a new production of "Godspell" at Circle in the Square Theatre. Daniel Goldstein helms this revival of the early tun…
Jon Robin Baitz's new family drama "Other Desert Cities" opened November 3 at Broadway's Booth Theatre. Directed by Joe Montello, the limited engagement play only runs through January 8, 201…
Roger Waters is relaunching The Wall Live Tour in North America next year. And, as expected, the summer 2012 trek includes at least one previously speculated outdoor staging.
The Wall Live T…
With a little help from a Hollywood action star, the Broadway box office again stayed flat in a week otherwise marked by sliding ticket sales.Cumulative ticket sales for the Main Stem's 28 p…
Theater returned to the top of TicketNews' exclusive Top Events rankings for the week ending October 30, with an especially strong showing by this season's holiday-themed shows.Broadway's lo…
In an otherwise flat week for Broadway ticket sales, the season's newer productions remained the box office's standout performers.
The week ending October 23 drew a cumulative $21,527,954 in…
Just-opened productions and new previews drove a boffo Broadway sales surge through the week ending October 16. With 26 shows now playing, ticket sales for the frame totaled $21,328,673 &mda…
Broadway ticket sales remained steady through the week ending October 2. The current 22 production slate saw a slight increase in cumulative gross — up to $18,748,191 — with week…
Broadway ticket sales are back at pre-Labor Day levels after another serious uptick through the week ending September 25. Across the board, productions rallied by $2.5 million for a strong $…
The post-summer slump arrived on Broadway in full force last week as students returned to school and tourists returned home. Main Stem box office receipts plunged $4 million from the previou…
Transplanted after a spring run at the Kennedy Center, the latest Broadway revival of "Follies" opened September 12 with Bernadette Peters center-stage. Helmed by Eric Schaeffer at the Marqu…
