Wednesday, 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 05:57PMFriday, November 19, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Seven years after Hamilton began previews at the Public Theater and gave the business of Broadway and touring a shot in the arm, its lead producer, Jeffrey Seller, is following a …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:25PMWednesday, November 3, 2021
March 2020 ushered in a three-ring crisis for the Equity-League Health Trust Fund, the healthcare plan for theater actors and stage managers. As the industry shut down indefinitely in respo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:22PMThe following is the complete statement from the Equity-league Health Trust Fund, attributed to its trustees, in response to questions from Broadway Journal. A spokesman emailed it in August…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:22PMMonday, September 27, 2021
More than two years after opening on Broadway, Moulin Rouge! won 10 Tony Awards and became the first big-budget best musical winner since 2009. The pandemic-delayed ceremony celebrated the …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:21AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Five months after announcing that he would “step back from active participation” on his Broadway shows, producer Scott Rudin is still negotiating the terms of his exit from his biggest …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:37PMWednesday, August 11, 2021
The producers of the first Broadway revival of Funny Girl, planned for the spring of 2022, confirmed that Beanie Feldstein has been cast to play Fanny Brice, the role that made Barbra Stre…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:50PM 
