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…

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…

Good Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and directed by David Cromer, has broken its own all-time record for highest grossing play in Broadway history and is the first play to surpass a gross of $4 million in a single week. For the week ending May 4 2025, the…

Broadway box office stayed strong last week, slipping a bit – about 8% – from the previous week’s record-setting tally of $51 million, settling in at $46,949,262 for the 40 productions. That’s a healthy 25% more than last year at this time. Top earners for the week ending April 27 were the…

Broadway had what appears to be its best non-holiday (Christmas and New Year) week ever last week, with major hits like Good Night, and Good Luck, Glengarry Glen Ross, Othello and longrunners The Lion King, Wicked and Aladdin helping push the total box office figure to $50,874,940 for the week ending…

Good Night, and Good Luck, the play about Edward R. Murrow written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov adapted from their 2005 film, grossed $3,784,200 last week at Broadway’s 1,537-seat Winter Garden Theatre, breaking its own previous $3.3 million record as the highest grossing non-musical play in…