356 stories by "Philip Boroff"
Rebecca Broadway LP vs. Marc Thibodeau went to the jury this afternoon after two weeks of testimony. The five women and one man had a range of information requests out of the gate in order t…
At 2:30 pm, Marc Thibodeau was a courageous truth teller. By 4 pm he was a destructive liar. Closing statements at the Rebecca civil trial this afternoon painted opposing pictures of i…
EXCLUSIVE: The email was sent at 8:21 am Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. Subject line: “Confidential.” “Have you ever Googled Mark Hotton Long Island?” wrote Marc Thibo…
EXCLUSIVE: On Sept. 27, 2012, four days before Rebecca the Musical was to begin rehearsals, it sold 27 tickets. The day’s “wrap,” or sales, was $2,952.50, ac…
The Tony Award for best musical is commercially valuable, but what about nominations for plays? The next few weeks will test how much theatergoers care, with three of the four best play n…
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Hello, Dolly! and A Doll’s House, Part 2 got the most Tony Award nominations this morning in their respective categories. Natasha compete…
Producer Ben Sprecher broke down on the stand today at the Rebecca civil trial in lower Manhattan, while recounting being forced to shutter the $12 million musical on the eve of its fi…
Producer Ben Sprecher’s 11-year quest to bring Rebecca the Musical to Broadway is over. Last year, he lost the license to produce the show and owes his investors about $5.5 million,…
Easter week was flush for Broadway’s flashiest star vehicles and dismal for serious new plays, Pulitzer Prize notwithstanding. Two Scott Rudin productions in previews tell the st…
Broadway plays struggle while musicals sell well ahead of Tony Award nominations
Oslo arrives with a rare asset for a play this season: strong pre-Broadway reviews from a working New York Times critic. Ben Brantley called J.T. Rogers’ drama about the 1993 accord…
One of the season's most anticipated musical revivals, the Scott Rudin-produced Hello, Dolly!, got off to a fast start in Broadway’s top-selling and best-attended week of the …
Starry musicals got off to a strong start in what was the industry’s best seven days since the first week of the year. Sales were $27.7 million, up 16 percent from the week be…
Sunday in the Park with George, which began a more experimental phase for Stephen Sondheim when the musical debuted off-Broadway in 1983, is doing big business in its latest go-r…
Amid the commotion over the New York Times review of the Encores! revival of Big River revolving around context and criticism, the nonprofit Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of t…
In an unusual reversal caused by the departure of its No. 2 theater critic, the New York Times relinquished its support of Significant Other once it arrived on Broadway. What Charles I…
EXCLUSIVE: With a search underway to fill one of the highest-profile jobs in theater criticism, influential playwrights are pressing for diversity. They’re among more…
INTERVIEW: Is the moderately successful commercial Broadway production in danger of extinction? “There are still many shows doing exceptionally well, but it seems there are more …
Broadway audiences can't get enough of Glenn Close or Andrew Lloyd Webber. A new revival of Sunset Boulevard grossed an impressive $834,000 in its first five previews last week at the …
EXCLUSIVE: The rumors are true. Charles Isherwood, the influential theater critic who’s been at the New York Times since 2004, has left the paper, a person familiar with th…
 In Transit, the low-grossing new musical that Bill and Hillary Clinton saw Wednesday night, is losing less money than you might think. As Broadway’s first acapella musical…
Dear Evan Hansen, the new show by the lyricists of La La Land, had a record week on Broadway as their movie musical got 14 Academy Award nominations. With music and lyrics by Benj Pase…
EXCLUSIVE: Hamilton, Next to Normal, War Horse and South Pacific have something in common besides acclaim and awards. They share a patron in the federal government. The Nat…
EXCLUSIVE: For anyone in need of a diversion, Broadway is presenting its busiest season for musicals in 36 years. Nineteen new musicals and revivals have opened or are scheduled …
EXCLUSIVE: A star of the new heyday of television is taking a swing at a golden age musical. Bryan Cranston, the Breaking Bad actor who loves baseball and theater, is…
