“Fiddler on the Roof” Begins Previews at the Broadway Theatre
Danny Burstein Stars as Tevye in Fifth Broadway Revival Fiddler on the Roof is a classic of American musical theatre, first performed on Broadway in 1964 in the final work of original direction and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Musical “Daddy Long Legs” Given Live Simulcast
Unprecedented Choice to Stream Theatrical Digital Content for Free At 8:00pm on December 10, 2015, up to 150 people were able to see a live production of the Off-Broadway musical Daddy Long Legs at the...
View ArticleBroadway Show Ticket Sales Analysis w/e 12/13/2015
This week’s notable movements on Broadway are: An Overall Week of Equanimity on Broadway In the week ending December 13, 2015, the overall Broadway industry saw a series of ups and downs across the 37...
View ArticleAndrew Lloyd Webber’s “School of Rock” Musical Opens and Expands
“School of Rock – the Musical” is a Hit with Critics Upon its opening night, School of Rock – the Musical received rave reviews from critics far and wide. The musical was perhaps a surprising choice...
View ArticleColbert Late Show Rocky Ratings May Force CBS To Act
Late Show with Stephen Colbert Dropping to Number Three or Four When Stephen Colbert was tapped from his post at Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report to take over David Letterman’s long time job at Late...
View Article“Grease: Live” Television Special to Air January 31st on Fox
Beloved Teenage Musical Set in 1959 to Have One-Night TV Special Grease the musical first premiered on Broadway in 1971, depicting the life of American high school students in 1959 on the brink of...
View ArticleSix Broadway Shows Close on January 3rd Following Holiday Season
Tony Nominee “Hand To God” Ends Broadway Run and Heads to London On January 3, 2015, Robert Askin’s play Hand to God was among the group of Broadway shows that concluded their runs. Somewhat of a...
View ArticleBroadway Week 2-for-1 Tickets on Sale
28 Shows Participate in Discount Tickets from January 19th to February 5th, 2016 Broadway Week is a semi-annual tradition that takes place every fall and winter, in the typically lower selling seasons...
View ArticleObama Signs Broadway Tax Package Into Law
Investors Can Now Deduct 100% of Their Investment from Income On December 18, 2015, President Barack Obama signed a bill into law that includes provisions very favorable to the Broadway industry. The...
View ArticleBroadway’s Palace Theatre Will Rise Four Floors to Build Retail Space
A Storied History of the Palace Theatre, Present Home of “An American in Paris” Broadway’s 1,743-seat Palace Theatre was built in 1913 by the architects Kirchoff & Rose under the mastermind of...
View ArticleTony Winner “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” Closes
Jefferson Mays Concludes Run As All Eight Members of the D’Ysquith Family This past week, after 935 performances on Broadway, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder closed at the Walter Kerr Theatre. A...
View Article“Grease: Live” is a Hand-Jiving, Lightning Success
TV Musical Trend on an Upsurge with this Welcome Addition from Fox Following the success of several recent NBC productions of musicals produced live for a special television event, Fox entered the TV...
View Article“China Doll” Ends Dramatic Run in Profits
David Mamet’s Latest is a Critical Disappointment, but Recouped This fall season, David Mamet premiered another new play, his latest since 2012’s The Anarchist, a laughing stock which closed after only...
View Article“King Charles III” Concludes Performances on Broadway
Award-Winning London Play Completes Broadway Run Following a very successful run in the United Kingdom, King Charles III tried its hand with Broadway audiences. In London, the play premiered at the...
View ArticleBroadway Show Ticket Sales Analysis w/e 02/14/2016
This week’s notable movements on Broadway are: Valentine’s Day Weekend Very Healthy for Broadway Ticket Sales In the week ending February 14, 2016, which happened to include Valentine’s Day weekend,...
View ArticleEric Schneiderman’s Office Attempts to Clean Up the New York Ticket Industry
New York Attorney General’s Office Tackles Ticket Brokers and Bots For over one hundred years, the Broadway ticketing industry has suffered at the hands of ticket brokers, who buy all the juicy seats...
View Article“She Loves Me” Begins Previews at Studio 54
Third Broadway Production of Award Winning Musical This past week, She Loves Me began previews at Studio 54 in a Roundabout Theatre Company production. With an official opening night scheduled for...
View Article“The Crucible” Begins Previews Starring Oscar Nominee Saoirse Ronan
A Revival of an American Classic by Arthur Miller On March 1, 2016, The Crucible began previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre. This is the sixth production of this classic play on Broadway. When it...
View ArticleMixed Reviews for Forest Whitaker in “Hughie”
A Revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Two-Hander Eugene O’Neill, one of the greatest 20th century American playwrights, wrote Hughie in 1942, but it had its first staging in 1958, and did not premiere on...
View ArticleSteve Jobs Bill Gates Musical “Nerds” Cancels Broadway Run
Loss of Major Investor Leads to Indefinite Postponement Nerds: A Musical Dot-Comedy was scheduled to being Broadway previews on April 1, 2016, with an opening night of April 21, 2016, to run for an...
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