Sunset Blvd. went out on a high note Sunday, packing the St. James Theatre and handily breaking a couple of that venue’s house records with a weekly gross of $2,481,018. With its final week performance, Sunset now holds the St. James’ record for highest grossing single performance ($514,515…

Broadway box office was on the rebound last week, with the total gross for the 30 productions up about 8% over the previous week, with a tally of $32,813,389. Attendance of 260,530 held even, leaving a $9 uptick in the average ticket price ($125.95) to do the heavy lifting. Some of the biggest…

Broadway wilted a bit in last week’s summer heat, with 23 of 30 shows taking a hit at the box office, some significantly. No doubt playing a part in Broadway’s overall decline last week was the July 4th holiday – all productions but one canceled performances on that day (no competing with those…

Broadway thinned its summer roster a bit last week, with five shows playing their final performances (and each one posting significant box office gains as last-chancers bought up seats). Three of the closers were planned as limited engagements. Glengarry Glen Ross ended a very strong run on June…

Several Broadway shows – Smash, Floyd Collins and The Last Five Years – went out on high notes last week, with last-chancers boosting box office for all three productions. Smash, the musical based on the TV series, saw the most significant jump, with grosses climbing $401,499 to $977,805 for the…

With the star-driven megahits Good Night, And Good Luck (George Clooney) and Othello (Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal) having exited the stage, Broadway saw a drop of nearly 15% at the box office last week. The 38 shows on the boards grossed a total $39,204,872, down from about $46M from the…

Of course it’s too soon to determine what impact Sunday’s Tony Awards will have on Broadway box office – we’ll get a better sense of that with next Tuesday’s numbers covering the first post-Tony week – but neither Good Night, And Good Luck nor Othello need worry. Both mega-smashes played their final…

Broadway began its new season last week with a negligible dip at the box office, understandable given that the previous week had the included the tourist-friendly Memorial Day weekend holiday. Last week – Broadway’s Week #1 of the 2025-2026 season – saw the 40 productions grossing a combined $44,949,8…

Broadway’s 2024-2025 season is officially the highest-grossing in the industry’s history, with total grosses of $1.89 billion surpassing the previous – and pre-Covid – record-holding 2018-2019 season’s $1.82 billion, according to statistics released today by the Broadway League. Even…

Heading into the final stretches of Tony season – the awards are June 8 – it’s interesting to see what contender shows have benefitted from their nominations the most, the least and how the shut-outs are holding up (in the case of Othello, just fine thank you). For the week ending May 18, about…

UPDATE, with additional figures Broadway reached a major post-pandemic milestone last week, with season-to-date box office receipts of $1,801,023,860 for the 2024-2025 season surpassing the same week of the record-setting pre-Covid season of 2018-2019. The figure is in no small part due to the…

Glengarry Glen Ross, the hit Broadway revival of the David Mamet play starring Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk, has recouped its investment, producers announced today. The recoupment marks the third such announcement in recent weeks, following similar announcements for Othello…