Video has a starring role in the dazzling new revival of West Side Story. Live close-ups of the charismatic young cast in the Arthur Laurents/Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim classic ar…
EXCLUSIVE: A month before previews start on Broadway, the limited run of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite is approaching full occupancy. The advance sale for the revival with husband-and-wife st…
Broadway Musicals are running longer and making more money ever " which is on display in these eye-catching interactive graphics below. Seven of the top 10 highest-grossing musicals since 19…
EXCLUSIVE: Turns out the road to nowhere is paved with gold. Investors in David Byrne's Broadway concert American Utopia  have been repaid and profit checks are imminent, according …
EXCLUSIVE: Six, the sizzling pop musical in which British Royals meet #MeToo, may be able to repay investors within 11 weeks of its first preview. That's assuming the production can su…
Idina Menzel is in talks to play Fanny Brice this fall in the first Broadway revival of Funny Girl, the hit 1964 Jule Styne-Bob Merrill-Isobel Lennart musical that starred Barbara Streisand.…
The producers of Sing Street are in talks to transfer their musical to the Shubert Organization's Lyceum Theatre this spring, in time to qualify for Tony Award nominations. The adaptatio…
Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber were among the collaborators and friends who spoke about the legendary director and producer Hal Prince at his memorial today at the Majestic Theatre…
The world is in crisis. Jagged Little Pill is on it. Gun violence? "Fear has no place in our schools," an onstage placard reads. Climate change? Name-checked in another sign. Rape? The m…
To the editor: There are important reasons to have a specific gross potential when a show begins performances. Investors are solicited based on a theoretical model created by the producers a…
The last week of July 2019 was business as usual for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. Sales rose less than 2 percent to $1.4 million, according to data from the Broadway…
John Simon, the theater, movie and music critic who died last night at 94, took erudition to another level. Never mind that English was his fifth language " after German, Hungarian, French a…
Tootsie , the Broadway musical adapted from the 1982 movie about a struggling actor whose career takes off when he plays a woman, will close on Jan. 5, the production announced tonight. C…
EXCLUSIVE: For the first time in more than four years, Broadway's biggest blockbuster is opening its doors to bus tours, schools from out of town and other groups. Beginning on Monday, Hamil…
André Bishop, head of Lincoln Center Theater, earned pay and benefits valued at $1 million in 2017. It's likely the biggest one-year compensation for a New York nonprofit theater leader. To…
EXCLUSIVE: The Public Theater has earned tens of millions of dollars for its role developing Hamilton " and is spending as little of it as possible on two ambitious projects. The vener…
The Broadway League and Actors' Equity Association reached a tentative pact that will raise the weekly minimum for Broadway actors 3.5 percent to $2,168. The current Production contract, wit…
After an acclaimed run at New York Theatre Workshop, Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play begins previews on Tuesday at the John Golden Theatre. I spoke to lead producer Greg Nobile of Seavie…
CAMBRIDGE, MASS " Six, Â the pop-concert musical featuring the wives of Henry VIII cracking wise and woeful about their tragic destinies, is an inventive and exuberant take on 16th-century…
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Rudin knows the territory " the Broadway territory, that is. Visiting River City with Hugh Jackman in Rudin's upcoming revival of The Music Man  won't come cheap. A year …
Christie's auction house said it will offer three original drawings by the legendary  Broadway portraitist Al Hirschfeld that were owned by Terry Allen Kramer, the prolific Broadway produ…
EXCLUSIVE: Tickets for Broadway's Belle Époque hit have gone from pricey to pricier. Moulin Rouge!  grossed $2.1 million last week, little changed from the previous seven days. The ad…
Ben Sprecher, who spent six years in court trying to clear his name following the pre-opening collapse of Rebecca the Musical, Â was accused in a Federal complaint of possessing and distri…
Sparkling lead performances help make Bay Street Theater's new Annie Get Your Gun a warm, nostalgic visit to an earlier era. Alexandra Socha, late of Broadway's Head Over Heels,  is a…
Jeremy Gerard, Frank Rich and Jesse Green published valuable reminiscences of Hal Prince, the prolific and hugely successful and influential producer and director who died yesterday, at 91. …