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IS BLACKSTONE BROADWAY’S NEXT BIG LANDLORD?| Broadway Journal
EXCLUSIVE: The billion-dollar question on Broadway and the West End: Who will buy ATG Entertainment, an increasingly dominant force in live theater. Blackstone Inc., the private equity and real est…| Broadway Journal
EXCLUSIVE: A key subsidy for commercial plays and musicals is out of money. The Broadway League held a video meeting with members on Tuesday afternoon to disclose the depletion of the four-year-old New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit program. Shows that begin public performances by Sept. 15 may still receive the subsidy — of […]| Broadway Journal
EXCLUSIVE: In July 2023, when the Public Theater cut 19 percent of its staff, Artistic Director Oskar Eustis vowed to significantly reduce his own pay as a gesture of solidarity amid the austerity.…| Broadway Journal
Maybe Happy Ending achieved an unlikely Broadway rebound. During previews last fall, the beguiling one-act musical about love and loss in the digital age failed to crack $300,000 a week at the box office. It likely lost money every week for its first 10 weeks at the Belasco Theatre, based on an early production document […]| Broadway Journal
Jonathan Groff is scheduled to perform twice at the Tony Awards on Sunday. The enviable television exposure should confirm his show, Just in Time, as the most commercially successful new musical to-date of the 2024-25 Broadway season. Groff, 40, who was Tony-nominated for playing King George III in Hamilton, will join other original company members […]| Broadway Journal
EXCLUSIVE: A Federal judge has ordered producer Joey Parnes and two of his companies to pay more than $200,000 owed to designers of his short-lived, 2023 revival of Bob Fosse’s Dancin.’…| Broadway Journal
EXCLUSIVE: Good Night, and Good Luck has repeatedly set weekly records as the highest-grossing play in Broadway history. Nonetheless, the George Clooney blockbuster projected it will qualify for a …| Broadway Journal
Broadway’s blockbuster numbers indicate that the box office has recovered from the pandemic. But as production costs continue to soar, the investment climate for everything besides star-drive…| Broadway Journal
Lear deBessonet is preparing to stage a Broadway revival of Ragtime at the Vivian Beaumont Theater this fall, in her debut as artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater. Previews are scheduled to …| Broadway Journal
Successful producers rarely publicly discuss filing for bankruptcy. Hal Luftig — whose Kinky Boots had a lucrative six-year Broadway run — said last week that personal bankruptcy may b…| Broadway Journal
EXCLUSIVE: A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a reorganization plan for Hal Luftig Co. that gives the busy producer breathing room in his six-year court battle against a deep-pocketed investor…| Broadway Journal
With concerns about Covid on the wane, aging theatergoers returned to Broadway last season, according to a new report by the Broadway League. As the audience shrank modestly for every age group und…| Broadway Journal
EXCLUSIVE: The highest-stakes succession race on Broadway appears to be over. Jeff T. Daniel is being positioned to take the reins at the Shubert Organization, Broadway’s largest landlord, pe…| Broadway Journal
EXCLUSIVE: The prolific production company Seaview plans to reopen the 296-seat venue that Second Stage relinquished, a vote of confidence for off-Broadway theater as nonprofit companies retrench. …| Broadway Journal
EXCLUSIVE: Signature Theatre Co. — which raised the bar off-Broadway by devoting entire seasons to the work of major dramatists while offering $25 tickets across the board — is struggli…| Broadway Journal
EXCLUSIVE: Broadway’s box office union, which is in contract negotiations with the Broadway League, claims that the industry’s embrace of TodayTix Group represents an unfair labor pract…| Broadway Journal
As Sleep No More prepares to close after a historic 12-year run, the producers of the immersive show are in an epic battle against their landlord. Producers Arthur Karpati and Jonathan Hochwald ow…| Broadway Journal
