Casting directors could finance their own big-budget play or musical for what they may spend defending themselves against the Broadway League’s antitrust lawsuit. Merely complying w…
Call it the Hamilton effect or just supply and demand. Producers of Waitress have raised the top ticket to $600 with pop stars Sara Bareilles and Jason Mraz in the leading roles. That’…
Thanks to ever-rising prices, 2017 ended on a frosty high note. It was Broadway’s best-selling year, at $1.64 billion; its top-grossing week — $50.4 million; and the best week fo…
EXCLUSIVE: The year isn’t over, but it’s already demolishing records. As of Dec. 24, Broadway grosses for 2017 totaled $1.59 billion, vs. $1.37 billion for all of 2016, which had…
EXCLUSIVE: Don’t be shocked if Hamilton reports extra-huge holiday numbers. Tickets this week are going for a record $1,150. With the increase, Hamilton is the first on Broadway to …
Broadway can be thankful for big-spending tourists, as grosses soared 11 percent from a year earlier in its bestselling Thanksgiving week ever. Among the musicals posting weekly records were…
The girl with the lower back tattoo can put butts in seats. In its first full week of previews, Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower, starring Amy Schumer, grossed a cool $1 million, according…
EXCLUSIVE: The Public Theater could earn upwards of $10 million a year for helping to develop Hamilton: An American Musical. But don’t expect it to do anything flashy with the…
The $8 million-plus to bring The Band’s Visit to Broadway looks like money well spent, based on its first full week of previews. The David Yazbek and Itamar Moses musical set in a s…
Only Bruce Springsteen can overshadow Hamilton and Hello, Dolly! After just five performances, Springsteen’s mostly solo show at the Walter Kerr Theatre grossed $2.3 million, with an a…
PRESS RELEASE:Â THE BMIÂ Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, whose alumni include Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen) and Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (Next to Normal), isÂ…
It was a tough seven days on Broadway — except for Dear Evan Hansen and a few perennial tourist draws. With July 4 falling on a Tuesday and many locals away, Hello, Dolly!, A …
There’s nothing like a closing notice to get playgoers’ attention. Sustaining that isn’t easy. Indecent grosses soared 60 percent to $606,000 last week, according to data f…
The Tony Awards delivered at the box office. Many winners at Radio City Music Hall on June 11 had their bestselling weeks to-date after being recognized for achievement and, in the case of m…
Eric Falkenstein, who helped finance the nonprofit Manhattan Theatre Club revival of August Wilson’s Jitney, is trying to give it another life on Broadway in a commercial production. &…
ANALYSIS: Kevin Spacey opened the 71st annual Tony Awards as Evan Hansen in a goofy polo shirt and cast around his left arm. It ended moments after an acceptance speech by Dear Evan…
EXCLUSIVE: The 71st annual Tony Awards may be the site of a Broadway rebellion. On Sunday, the Tonys — a joint venture of the American Theatre Wing and Broadway League —Â�…
“Like Christmas Day and sex with supermodels, Broadway seasons are often far more exciting during the anticipation stage.” So began Jess Cagle’s December 1997 review of Bro…
EXCLUSIVE: The producers of Rebecca aren’t giving up on their four-and-a-half-year campaign to force their former press agent to pay for the musical’s collapse. Re…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…