Monday, October 22, 2018
Ninety minutes, no intermission has its appeal. But Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, with two dozen actors, a rabbit, goose, and a real-life baby dramatizing plot lines that explosivel…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:07AMFriday, October 12, 2018
Derren Brown‘s challenge: make a vacant Broadway theater appear out of thin air. In a conversation with Adam Green at the New Yorker Festival on Sunday, the British illusionist said …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:40PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Can’t afford to spend $1,551, including Ticketmaster fees, for two center orchestra seats to Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers Theatre? How about 12 monthly payments of $138…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:03PMMonday, October 1, 2018
CHICAGO — “Being a woman is no job for a man,” Michael Dorsey (Santino Fontana) concludes in the winning but inconsistent Broadway-bound musical comedy Tootsie, which ope…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:32PMFriday, September 21, 2018
Shane O’Regan is going places — for starters, Philadelphia, Chicago and Austin, Texas. He and the 24 characters he plays in the World War I drama Private Peaceful tour the U.S…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:08PMMonday, September 10, 2018
Sales of Frozen and Mean Girls took a hit last week as children returned to school from summer vacation and Broadway contended with oppressive heat and competition from the latter rounds of…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:34PMThursday, August 23, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Investors in Scott Rudin’s celebrated revival of Hello, Dolly! have earned a profit of 5 percent, according to two people familiar with the production. In a flop-filled bus…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:24PMFriday, August 10, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning collaborators Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey have a new musical that airs tonight on the Disney Channel. The pair say their adaptation of Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel Fre…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 04:51PMWednesday, August 1, 2018
INTERVIEW: The last five weeks have been busy for Jason Robert Brown, the 48-year-old composer, lyricist, arranger, orchestrator and performer. There was an acclaimed Encores! run of his 199…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 12:33PMFriday, June 22, 2018
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO — The main event here: 502 Ford Mustangs, both late-model show cars and immaculately restored classics. The 30th-annual Rocky Mountain Mustang Roundup compe…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:17PMMonday, June 11, 2018
There’s cause for celebration in Bet Hatikva and Petah Tikva. The Band’s Visit, a drama about acceptance, missed connections and the romance and ennui of everyday life, won 10 T…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:46AMSunday, June 10, 2018
There’s cause for celebration in Bet Hatikvva and Petah Tikvah. The Band’s Visit, a quietly political drama about acceptance, missed connections and the romance and banality of e…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:23PMSaturday, June 9, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: On Broadway, selling out isn’t a prerequisite for cleaning up. The Band’s Visit, which is considered a lock for best new musical at the Tony Awards tomorrow, has repai…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:57PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Conventional wisdom dictates that a new play needs an off-Broadway or out-of-town tryout before it’s Broadway-ready — unless it’s by David Mamet or stars Bette M…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:51PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Jed Bernstein, a Broadway producer and former leader of the industry’s trade association, earned $3.3 million in pay and benefits during the 27 months he ran Lincoln Center…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:09PMTuesday, May 29, 2018
The Broadway season that ended on Sunday was strong but not stellar. Overall attendance: up 4 percent to 13.8 million, according to the Broadway League. Grosses rose 17 percent, to $1.7 bill…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 10:06PMThursday, May 3, 2018
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle voted not to give a prize for best musical this season, implicitly endorsing The Band’s Visit‘s Tony Award ambitions and rejecting Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:41PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
BEST MUSICAL SUSPENSE: There were just seven new musicals on Broadway this season, the fewest in at least a decade. Only one received “Critic’s Pick” from the New York Time…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:07PMMonday, April 30, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Maybe Frozen isn’t critic-proof after all. Following mixed reviews and turmoil in the secondary market, Disney has been slashing prices for the musical — one of the mo…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:44PMFriday, April 27, 2018
LAST OF A SERIES: When the cast of Hamilton visited the White House on March 14, 2016, President Obama joked that the musical was the only thing he and Dick Cheney agreed on. The excursion…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 01:18PMThursday, April 26, 2018
SECOND IN A SERIES: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop juggernaut is the first single-author show to win a Tony Award for best new musical since Jonathan Larson’s Rent, in 1996. With …
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 02:25PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
PART ONE OF A SERIES: Nearly three years after storming Broadway, Hamilton remains unrivaled in its moneymaking. The original production, which began previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatr…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:44AMMonday, April 9, 2018
Every year there’s New Year’s week, when the city is packed with tourists and some shows present nine performances, and every other week. Last week was a record for the latter. B…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 07:37PMMonday, March 19, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: This season, every night is kids’ night on Broadway. While theatergoers still pay up for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s historical hip-hop, Broadway’s fastest-growing onst…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 05:00PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: The Frozen fractals appear to be falling into place for Disney. Reviews aren’t out until the March 22 opening of Disney Theatrical Productions’ adaptation of the 2013…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:49PMMonday, March 5, 2018
Disney’s Frozen and Scott Rudin’s revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel performed promisingly in an otherwise wet and dismal week. Frozen was a near sellout, grossi…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:29PMMonday, February 12, 2018
Jeremy Gerard has left Deadline.com, the theater critic and reporter said in an email. Gerard said his contract was not renewed and he was told that Deadline, officially called Deadline Holl…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 11:11PMThursday, February 8, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: A promising Broadway courtroom drama may be closing out of town. Scott Rudin and the University of the South have agreed in principle to settle the University’s lawsuit alle…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 03:16PMMonday, February 5, 2018
U.S. stocks aren’t the only market under pressure. Yesterday’s Super Bowl and the mid-Winter funk contributed to Broadway lowest grosses in four months. Sales last week dipped 10…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 06:47PMWednesday, January 31, 2018
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 wit…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:52PMMonday, January 22, 2018
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’…
SOURCE: Broadway Journal at 09:38PM 
