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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Bruce Springsteen's summer engagement at the St. James Theatre will likely break Broadway records " but we may never know for sure. The Broadway League won't report grosses for the return of…
The U.S. Small Business Administration plans to notify about 10,000 Shuttered Venue Operators Grant applicants, or 70 percent of the total, by Independence Day, Broadway League President Cha…
EXCLUSIVE: The company producing The Lehman Trilogy on Broadway has been removed from a lawsuit by the advertising agency SpotCo, simplifying the show's return to New York after the C…
As Scott Rudin steps back from the entertainment industry following reports that he abused his staff, all indications are that his once-formidable influence on Broadway is being dispersed. A…