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 struggling to…
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 practice. …
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 H…
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 doc…
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 mil…
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…
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…
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-autob…
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 a…
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 consol…
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…
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…
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 " have be…
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 manager…
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…
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 Fe…
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 cas…
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…
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 work…
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…
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 tran…
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. On…
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…
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 availab…
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…