The revival, starring Lea Michele and Tovah Feldshuh, grossed $2,005,696.80 last week, breaking the all-time record set by Mean Girls in 2018. - Broadway News
“Nobody wants to admit that they’re not selling tickets. Because of COVID, now Broadway is sort of admitting … sales are down, audiences are not coming back. - AMNY
In 2020/21, when activities were restricted due to lockdowns, the RSC’s box office income was £94,000. This rose to £12.5 million for 2021/22, and total income for 2021/22 was £39.7 million, 62% of which was self-generated from box office sales, commercial trading and fundraising. - The Stage
"This summer, Actors' Equity Association filed lawsuits against a Paradise Square producing entity in both state and federal court. ... After those lawsuits were filed, producer Garth Drabinsky sued AEA for defamation and related claims. This past week, he filed an amended complaint adding antitrust claims." - Broadway World
"(The just-ratified agreement) provides pay increases for those working on Broadway and, in a move prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, allows producers to make short-term hires to cover absent actors." - The New York Times
Many of the current crop of works can be classified as either “I worked with Steve” books or “I had an ongoing professional and intermittently contentious correspondence with Steve” books. - The New York Times
Sure, it's more sweet than serious, but "behind the glitz, look hard enough and there are reminders that Broadway – now consisting of 41 theatres – is a trouper with the battle scars to prove it." - The Guardian (UK)
Has the predominant Broadway tradition of shows by and featuring white artists, playing to white audiences, created a barrier that makes it harder for shows by and about people of colour to break through? - The Stage
That's exactly what the five-member Improvised Shakespeare Company does: take a suggestion from an audience member and invent an entire play, complete with tragedy, comedy, thwarted love, a prologue, and rhymed couplets. Here's a look at how they do it and the way they train. - The Washington Post
The problem is, Square One is not coming to Broadway (for now, anyway) and the announcement was a hoax. A representative who worked with Sondheim at the time of his passing confirmed to BroadwayWorld that there are no plans for a production of the show at this time. - Broadway World
In 2019, in his hometown of Málaga, Banderas founded a nonprofit company called Teatro del Soho to produce musicals more serious than the blockbuster fare usually seen in Spain. And he's now fulfilled a longtime dream, directing a Spanish-language Company and starring as a 50-year-old Bobby. - The New York Times
At least one Cambodian woman in five suffers from violence by a partner, yet the subject remains taboo, something which the Battambang-based company Lakhon Komnit ("thinking theatre") is working to change, encouraging survivors to role-play and even create and act in their own plays. - The Guardian
"Academics have discovered that women made up a large part of the financial force behind the Fortune Theatre, the great rival to the Globe, partly built by the actor for whom Christopher Marlowe wrote plays, and where Thomas Middleton's dramas were first staged." - The Guardian
The Children's Musical Theatreworks show, which opened to general audiences on Dec. 2, wasn’t some new, explicit, souped-up version of the classic Broadway musical. It’s the same old “Oliver” that community theaters and schools have been performing for decades. - MunroReview
