774 stories from Theater Advisor
Did you know that Ethel Merman once had a guest role on the Adam West “Batman” television show? Or that Stephen Sondheim almost pursued a completely different career path in coll…
The Broadway Grosses for the week ending 6-26-2011 came in stronger than the previous week rising by over $1M. Two shows joined the millionaire club and the average ticket price rose by $4 w…
The June 22nd evening performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying was cancelled after a stage hand overdosed on drugs in a bathroom of the theater prior to the performanc…
Ever wondered who is sitting in the audience while waiting for the curtain to rise? Check out these tweets by and about celebrities who have gone to see Broadway shows this season! View …
By Samantha Dupler In 1962, Abe Burrows' How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying won both the Tony Award for Best Musical and Pulitzer Prize in Drama. This year, the current product…
The grosses are in for the week ending June 12, 2011. Overall the numbers increased by almost $1M with attendance increasing by 8K theatergoers. We had 6 shows reach the $1M club with 7 belo…
At the 65th Annual Tony Awards, Mark Rylance and Frances McDormand won big for leading actor/actress for Jerusalem and Good People, respectively, as well as The Normal Heart‘s Ellen Ba…
At last night’s 65th annual Tony Awards, seasoned pros Sutton Foster, Norbert Leo Butz and John Laroquette took home Tony Awards for their outstanding performances in Anything Goes, Ca…
The Tony Awards are the one place where every year, millions of people no matter how far away from New York City they are, can witness a bit of Broadway magic just by turning on their televi…
Amazon is having a great promotion right now selling MP3 downloads of Broadway show cast albums for only five dollars. We thought you’d like to check them out and have a chance to get …
We came across this PSA from the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas and it made us want to get your opinions of what to do and what not to do to enjoy a night at the theater.  The e…
The numbers are in for Broadway from last week. The good weather seemed to take a toll on the grosses as it seems people would rather be outside than sitting in a theater.  In a reversal …
By Samantha Dupler This week's cover of Newsweek, featuring the head of politician Mitt Romney pasted atop of the leaping body of a missionary, is sparking unsettling reactions from Latter-d…
Catch Me If You Can, a new musical written by four-time Tony award winner Terrence McNally with music by Hairspray's Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, flew into theaters earlier this year with…
Broadway’s box office grew by nearly $2M last week as Spiderman Turn Off the Dark resumed a full week of performances and accounted for more than 60% of the increase. Overall the atten…
In case you missed it last night, here is theater legend, John Lithgow, performing Newt Gingrich’s press release on the May 19, 2011 episode of  The Colbert Report. The Colbert Repo…
The hit Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet (4.25 Stars) wants to know “Do You Have What it Takes?” to be in their show.  They’ve launched an online casting co…
The grosses for the week ending May 15, 2011 are in and the numbers are up nicely from the prior week. Spiderman Turn Off the Dark returned to performances and took in a tidy $800K for…
The 2010-11 Outer Critics Circle Awards winners were announced on May 16, 2011. The Awards honor the best of Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre. War Horse and The Book of Mormon, were named O…
For anyone who follows theater, we know it has been impossible to escape the inordinate amount of hype surrounding Broadway's latest hit The Book of Mormon, starring Andrew Rannells and Josh…
Nina Arianda It is nearly impossible to escape the media coverage of this celebrity-stricken Broadway season with names like Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Edie Falco, Kathleen Turner, V…
Broadway grosses fell for the week of May 8, 2011 by more than $1.37M while losing 12K theatergoers in attendance. So, what is happening?  There were no openings or closing last week, onl…
Taking a page from the marketing book of Chicago, THE BOOK OF MORMON, nominated for 14 Tony Awards including Best Musical, will present a free fan performance on Friday, July 1 at 2:00 PM. Ã…
Here is new commercial for Catch Me If You Can produced by Spotco. What do you think? Does it make you want to see the show?
Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures, a four hour, dynamic family drama studded with politics and American u…
