351 stories from Broadway Journal
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 t…
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…
Two musicals in the past half-century have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama before they were up for Tony Awards: Â Rent in 1996 and Hamilton in 2016. Both went on to win the Tony …
In The Minutes, Tracy Letts' timely and unnerving dark comedy, Noah Reid (Schitt's Creek) plays Mr. Peel, a wide-eyed, newly elected city councilman in the fictional small town o…
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 ti…
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 an…
If MJÂ Â 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,…
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 12 mont…
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 Comp…
Uzo Aduba, of In Treatment and Orange Is the New Black, plays the hilariously tyrannical proprietor of her self-named truck-stop diner in Clyde's. She lords it over her crew of short-o…
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 …
In Morning Sun,  a world premiere presented by Manhattan Theatre Club, British playwright Simon Stephens precisely captures 60 years of history, local custom, and mother-daughter dy…
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 res…
The 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…
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 th…
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 hi…
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's one-act drama, Pass Over, Broadway's first play in 18 months, is a bleak yet funny and poignant mash-up of Waiting for Godot  and the Book of Exodus. Two poor…
The producers of the first Broadway revival of Funny Girl, Â planned for the spring of 2022, confirmed that Beanie Feldstein has been cast to play Fanny Brice, the role that made Barbra St…
"It's been a long, hard year," John Falstaff (Jacob Ming-Trent) complains in Merry Wives, Jocelyn Bioh's update of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Delacorte Theatre. "Been st…
Broadway producers are people who need people " especially courageous people willing to congregate indoors during a pandemic. And maybe even get excited about a new take on a classic musical…
The Broadway League said it will require audiences show proof of vaccination and wear masks except in designated areas for eating and drinking. The mandate by the trade association of theate…
Actors' Equity Association and the Broadway League mandated that actors and other employees at Broadway theaters be fully vaccinated " with a few exceptions " while unvaccinated audience mem…
Ivo van Hove's video-heavy revival of West Side Story, Â which was originally produced by Scott Rudin and opened a month before Broadway was shuttered, has scored a $10 million Small Busin…
Broadway is usually a risky business " but the remount of Waitress looks like an excellent bet. Pop star Sara Bareilles, who wrote the musical's acclaimed score, will return to the lead …
The first post-pandemic preview of the highly anticipated revival of Company, Â the groundbreaking Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical, has been rescheduled to Nov. 15, more than a month…