Inspired by the stagehands’ strike, I did some poking around and discovered that the top price of a ticket to a Broadway show, controlled for inflation, has gone up 100% since 1968. Has Broadway really gotten twice as good in the past 39 years? Curious, I pulled out my New Yorker CD-ROMs, looked up the “Goings On About Town” theater listings for the issue of November 23, 1968…and quickly realized that I’d come up with the makings of a “Sightings” column.
Is Broadway worth it–or are there better theater-related entertainment deals to be had elsewhere, both in and out of New York? To find out, pick up a copy of Saturday’s Journal and turn to my “Sightings” column in the Weekend Journal section, in which I ask some hard questions about the current state of the Great White Way.
UPDATE: To read the whole thing, go here (I think!).
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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