Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Broadway’s blockbuster numbers indicate that the box office has recovered from the pandemic. But as production costs continue to soar, the investment climate for everything besides star-dr…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:20PMMonday, April 7, 2025
Lear deBessonet is preparing to stage a Broadway revival of Ragtime at the Vivian Beaumont Theater this fall, in her debut as artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater. Previews are schedu…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:50AMMonday, March 10, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a reorganization plan for Hal Luftig Co. that gives the busy producer breathing room in his six-year court battle against a deep-pocketed i…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:44PMThursday, February 20, 2025
Sia, the Australian pop star whose songs are featured in the jukebox musicals Moulin Rouge! and Hell’s Kitchen, is developing a theater score of her own. The singer-songwriter behind “Ch…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:54PMTuesday, February 4, 2025
With concerns about Covid on the wane, aging theatergoers rebounded on Broadway last season, according to a new report by the Broadway League. As the audience shrank modestly in 2023-24 for…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:14AMFriday, January 24, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: The highest-stakes succession race on Broadway appears to be over. Jeff T. Daniel is being positioned to take the reins at the Shubert Organization, Broadway’s largest landlord,…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:28PMMonday, January 13, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: The prolific production company Seaview plans to reopen the 296-seat venue that Second Stage relinquished, a vote of confidence for off-Broadway theater as nonprofit companies ret…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:21AMTuesday, January 7, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Signature Theatre Co. — which raised the bar off-Broadway by devoting entire seasons to the work of major dramatists while offering $25 tickets across the board — is strugglin…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:36PMFriday, December 13, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway’s box office union, which is in contract negotiations with the Broadway League, claims that the industry’s embrace of TodayTix Group represents an unfair labor practi…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:35PMWednesday, November 20, 2024
As Sleep No More prepares to close after a historic 12-year run, the producers of the immersive show are in an epic battle against their landlord. Producers Arthur Karpati and Jonathan Hoc…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:26AMWednesday, September 25, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Producers of Operation Mincemeat are raising at least $11.5 million to transfer the critically acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning musical to Broadway, according to financial docum…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:23PMThursday, September 5, 2024
Broadway investors stand to lose about $200 million on the 2023-24 season’s flops. For Jujamcyn Theaters, the Broadway landlord, it was a different story. Jujamcyn earned a profit of $34 m…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:43PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Before the Public Theater fired a fifth of its staff, the downtown institution faced a financial crisis. When it disclosed layoffs last July, the renowned nonprofit company said t…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:20PMFriday, July 12, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Newly minted Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff will play the 1950s and ’60s crooner Bobby Darin in a staged reading next month, ahead of a planned Broadway opening in spring 202…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:47PMWednesday, July 3, 2024
In a tough time for big Broadway productions, Hell’s Kitchen is burning up the box office. Despite its surprise loss to The Outsiders for the Best Musical Tony Award, Alicia Keys’ semi-a…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:06PMMonday, June 17, 2024
The Outsiders may have had the inside track at the Tony Awards after all. In awarding Best Musical to the $22 million adaptation of the S.E. Hinton novel and Francis Ford Coppola movie abo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:21AMFriday, June 7, 2024
Tony Award leaders today affirmed their decision to bar Broadway co-producers from the stage of the David Koch Theater on June 16, while offering the investors and bundlers a consolation …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:53PMFriday, May 31, 2024
While working an arts reporter for Bloomberg News, I met Caroline Prugh in March 2006 at the now-defunct Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky. She was there on behal…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:53AMThursday, May 30, 2024
Donald J. Trump, the former president who received a Broadway producing credit in 1970, was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal. For further infor…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:45PMTuesday, May 28, 2024
The Tony Awards are enmeshed in a high-stakes dispute over who gets stage time on Broadway’s big night. Some co-producers — whose primary role is to invest or raise money for shows — h…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:26PMFriday, May 24, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Celebrity prevailed over experience at Actors’ Equity Association, where Brooke Shields was elected president of the labor union representing about 51,000 actors and stage manag…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:57AMWednesday, May 22, 2024
The frenetic 2023-24 Broadway season officially ended Sunday. Notwithstanding encouraging results this Spring amid back-to-back openings ahead of the Tony Award nominations, industry statist…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 08:28PMFriday, May 10, 2024
In an out-of-the-box hire to revive one of the nation’s preeminent summer theaters, the playwright, producer and actor Jeremy O. Harris has been tapped to program the Williamstown Theatre …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:18PMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Production workers at Little Shop of Horrors have unionized. Producers of the off-Broadway musical had sought to delay an election and disputed the eligibility of two crew members to cast …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:57PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
In an era of ever-bigger Broadway budgets, the pressure is on newly minted Tony Award-nominated productions to capitalize on the buzz. First, a word about budgets. I added up the capitalizat…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:46PMTuesday, 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 11:19PM 
