351 stories from Broadway Journal
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 st…
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…
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 yo…
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-wee…
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 landlord…
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 $50 …
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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 …
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 c…
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 won h…
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…
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…
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 Ambass…
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…
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…
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 nonprof…
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 heat…
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…
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-grossi…
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 …
Maybe Usher can finally quit his day job. A Strange Loop "Â Michael R. Jackson's deconstructionist portrait of a musical theater artist as a young, Black, insecure gay man " was named best…
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 for …
