Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Brooke Shields is running for president of Actors’ Equity Association, the labor union that represents about 51,000 actors and stage managers. Shields said in a YouTube video that while wo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:17PMMonday, April 22, 2024
Producer Hal Luftig suffered a setback in his court battle against a wealthy investor over millions of dollars from the musical Kinky Boots, a conflict the U.S. Supreme Court may play a role…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:24PMFriday, March 15, 2024
Producers Orin Wolf and Greg Nobile are preparing to move the acclaimed dance piece Illinoise to the St. James Theater, packing another new musical into the busy 2023-24 season. The transf…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:09PMThursday, March 7, 2024
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which has been busy organizing off-Broadway, has turned its attention to downtown Manhattan’s most storied and prolific producer. …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:19PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Four decades after Gerard Alessandrini introduced his Broadway satirical revue at an Upper West Side cabaret, the ever-changing spoof will finally plant its funny flag in a Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:26PMMonday, February 19, 2024
A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, is preparing to close in June, according to a person familiar with the production. The final performance at the Broadhurst Theatre that’s avail…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:19PMMonday, January 29, 2024
With two shows running on Broadway (Kimberly Akimbo and Days of Wine and Roses) and at least two others on the way (Buena Vista Social Club and English), the Atlantic Theater Co. has affirme…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:19PMTuesday, January 16, 2024
Charlotte St. Martin, who’s led the Broadway League trade association since 2006, will step down on Feb. 16. The sudden departure occurs amid an industry changing of the guard as Broadway …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:27PMFriday, December 22, 2023
Producers are working on two high-profile additions to the busy 2023-24 Broadway season: Stereophonic, an ecstatically reviewed play with music about a fictional mid-1970s rock band creating…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:50PMSunday, December 17, 2023
Last season, 25 to 49-year-olds who attended Broadway shows outnumbered those 50 and up for the first time since 2008-09. It’s too early to proclaim a generational shift. The audience was …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:54PMMonday, December 11, 2023
After opening red hot in October 2019, Little Shop of Horrors at the Westside Theatre had a rough second half of 2022. Box office sales fell short of the revival’s $180,000 to $200,000-a-w…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:51PMSunday, December 3, 2023
A New York judge declined to intervene in a battle for Jujamcyn Theaters’ lucrative concessions business — a win for Ambassador Theatre Group after acquiring control of the Broadway land…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:52PMWednesday, November 22, 2023
The producers of Merrily We Roll Along have raised the revival’s top ticket price to $899 — the most expensive seat on Broadway so far this season. The $899 tickets, which include a $5…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:19AMMonday, November 6, 2023
Water for Elephants, the circus-themed new musical, will be under pressure to make a big splash when it arrives on Broadway. Scheduled to open March 21, 2024, at the Imperial Theatre, it wil…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:56PMThursday, September 28, 2023
The Broadway musical comedy Some Like it Hot will close on Dec. 30, just over a year after the $19.5 million show opened. Producers emailed a closing notice tonight. The lavish adaptation of…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:16PMWednesday, September 20, 2023
Investing in Cabaret at the August Wilson Theatre this spring might seem like a safe bet, after the success of the Kander & Ebb classic in London and earlier productions in New York. T…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:05PMFriday, August 25, 2023
Capitalized for $22 million, the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love dramatizes the rise and fall of the Marcos regime, in a Broadway theater repurposed as a discotheque. Last wee…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:40PMThursday, July 20, 2023
Successful producers rarely publicly discuss filing for bankruptcy. Hal Luftig — whose Kinky Boots had a lucrative six-year Broadway run — said last week that personal bankruptcy may …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:45PMWednesday, June 14, 2023
Ambassador Theatre Group and Underbelly Productions plan to transfer their hit West End revival of Cabaret to Broadway, two people familiar with the production said. Eddie Redmayne has com…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:39PMMonday, June 12, 2023
It doesn’t suck to be David Stone today. Nineteen years after the satiric Avenue Q (“It Sucks to Be Me”) upset the Stone-produced blockbuster Wicked at the Tony Awards, the 56-year-old…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:59AMMonday, May 8, 2023
New York State extended the New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit, a subsidy of up to $3 million per Broadway show, as the industry struggles with rising costs and subpa…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:26PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
The $19.5 million crowd-pleaser Some Like it Hot was nominated for 13 Tony Awards today, the most of any Broadway show this season. In six of the past 10 Tony races, the musical that got the…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:03PMFriday, December 23, 2022
Parade, the 1998 Broadway musical featuring a Tony Award-winning score by the-then 28-year-old Jason Robert Brown, will be revived this spring by Greg Nobile’s Seaview Productions and Amba…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:48PMFriday, November 4, 2022
By their own account, the founders of the Broadway Strategic Return Fund turned an overlooked investment niche into a bonanza. Hunter Arnold, John Joseph and Curt Cronin established their he…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:01PMTuesday, August 23, 2022
Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller is raising as much as $14.5 million to revive Sweeney Todd on Broadway this spring, a test of whether a big-budget Stephen Sondheim revival can succeed in th…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:57PMWednesday, August 10, 2022
In 2020, a year in which theaters were dark for nine and a half months, Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis earned $1.15 million in pay and benefits, more than any other nonprofit…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:37PMThursday, July 14, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: With the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird adjourned indefinitely, a real-life court battle between its producer in exile and original advertising agency is heating …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:51PMMonday, July 11, 2022
People who need to see Lea Michele play Fanny Brice on Broadway are the luckiest people. Lead producers Sonia Friedman, Scott Landis and David Babani announced today the Glee star is replaci…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:04PMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Nearly 20 years in the making, A Strange Loop is having a moment. In the seven days ending on Sunday, Michael R. Jackson’s newly minted Tony Award-winning best musical had its highest-gros…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:42AMFriday, June 17, 2022
More than three decades after the chandelier first plunged at Phantom of the Opera and a helicopter flew out of Miss Saigon, a souped-up DeLorean will star in a planned Broadway transfer of …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:42PMMonday, June 13, 2022
Maybe Usher can finally quit his day job. A Strange Loop — Michael R. Jackson’s deconstructionist portrait of a musical theater artist as a young, Black, insecure gay man — was named …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:46AMSaturday, June 11, 2022
Eight months after winning the Tony Award for best musical, Hamilton’s weekly grosses were up 45 percent. Dear Evan Hansen‘s were higher by a comparable margin after its win. Grosses fo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:58PMFriday, June 3, 2022
As lead producer and landlord of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, Ambassador Theatre Group has bragging rights to the most commercially successful play of the 2021-22 Broadway season. The average…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:49PMSunday, May 15, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Paradise Square has had a bumpy road to Eden. Nominated for 10 Tony Awards, the second-highest total of the season, it was Broadway’s worst-selling musical in the week ending o…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:04PMMonday, May 9, 2022
Two musicals in the past half-century have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama before they were up for Tony Awards: Rent in 1996 and Hamilton in 2016. Both went on to win the Tony fo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:58PMTuesday, March 22, 2022
For the first time in two years, the Broadway League publicly reported grosses for each show. Although the industry and the world have changed in the interim, one thing hasn’t: stars sell …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:58PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
What started as an existential crisis for Broadway’s nonprofit producers turned into an unexpected windfall. Thanks to a resurgent but fickle stock market, insurance payouts, cost-cutting …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:01PMWednesday, February 16, 2022
If MJ The Musical becomes a box office sensation, Paris Jackson, Bigi Jackson, Prince Jackson and the executors of their father’s estate stand to enjoy an unusual windfall. Typically, h…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:04PMFriday, January 28, 2022
The self-described “world’s No. 1 live theater company” has taken a drubbing. The parent company of U.K.-based Ambassador Theatre Group reported a pretax loss of $202 million for the 1…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:36PMSaturday, November 27, 2021
Stephen Sondheim’s death on Friday morning — an unexpected loss to the people in his life and to musical theater — attaches a new significance to the third Broadway revival of 1970’s…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:57PM