WHO: Gallery Players SEEKING: The Gallery Players in Park Slope is seeking designers, stage managers, an ASM, directors and associate producers for its upcoming Black Box New Play festival i…
WHO: Phoenix Entertainment SEEKING: Rock of Ages – National Tour Performers DREW: an appealing, good-guy rocker with great, easy comedic timing, a boyish charm, vulnerability and a ver…
WHO: Â NYC Arts in Education Roundtable SEEKING: Â Managing Director RESPONSIBILITIES:Â Â Developing content and implementing programs and events, including the major annual conferen…
The industry has a lot of big negotiations coming up in the next year or two, including Local 1 (stagehands) and 802 (musicians). Â We’ve had a tough last decade, with both of those …
Well, what do you think? If you're looking at this blog online, you're looking at a whole new look. (If you're reading this via email, then you're also seeing a new look, but click here …
It must be close to the end of the scholastic year, because I've gotten a few more emails than usual from high school and college students (including one from China) asking me for quotes or …
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending April 1, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $590,573 6,576 80.12% $89.81 CHICAGO $580,175 7,119 82.4…
April Fools'. ;-) Did I getcha? (Got a comment? I love 'em, so comment below! Email subscribers, click here, then scroll down, to say what's on your mind!) ------ FUN STUFF: - RSVP to the Sh…
The Broadway industry tends to be pretty insular . . . and the outside business world rarely pokes their head in our world to see what’s going on. But when they do, it’s pretty f…
The Broadway industry tends to be pretty insular . . . and the outside business world rarely pokes their head in our world to see what's going on. But when they do, it's pretty fascinating. …
When I first started my plans for Godspell, I could have only dreamed that there might one day be legislation that would make it easier for startups from all different industries to have eas…
When I first started my plans for Godspell, I could have only dreamed that there might one day be legislation that would make it easier for startups from all different industries to have eas…
Here’s an idea . . . In all fairness, I’m not even sure websites can do this yet. Â Well, I’m sure they can, but I’m not sure they are doing this yet. I know our in…
Here's an idea . . . In all fairness, I'm not even sure websites can do this yet. Well, I'm sure they can, but I'm not sure they are doing this yet. I know our industry isn't . . ....
If Spring is in the air, then that means festival season is right around the corner. What festivals, you ask? Well, we've got NYMF, The Fringe, the Midtown Fringe, The AFO, and by the time I…
So, as a person who can't stand the gym unless it involves a basketball, I forced myself to get a personal trainer recently . . . who then forces me to do things I can't stand. But so far, s…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending March 25, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $584,981 6,828 83.19% $85.67 CHICAGO $566,644 7,179 83.…
Oooh, what a good giveaway we've got this week! Fresh off it's set of raves, Once has set the stage for one of my favorite things - a big David vs. Goliath type Tony Battle, where a small in…
I'll admit . . . sometimes when I start something, I know it's going to miff a few folks. But boy, I had no idea that our tweet seat experiment at Godspell would attract so much attention. W…
The most recent set of Broadway stats had international tourists at about 14% of the entire Broadway audience. While not a majority, it's still a good chunk (and it was actually down this pa…
Spring has arrived and so has the first play of our reading series! As you know (or maybe you don't, if you're a new subscriber), we get a lot of submissions here at the office, so three tim…
Ooooh, here's a fun tip that I started using months ago that has already started paying dividends. Broadway and Off-Broadway shows are fully engaged in the variable pricing war. We used to e…
If you've ever hung around me outside of NYC, then you know I've been known to drool at the site of a Chili's. Maybe it's the bottomless chips & salsa, maybe it's the bottomless cokes, b…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending March 18, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $653,421 7,595 92.53% $86.03 CHICAGO $610,188 7,333 84.…
If you hadn't yet realized, the starting bell has rung on the start of the Spring season of new Broaday musicals. They are off and running! For how long, that's the big questions. One of the…