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Playing Favorites With Shakespeare On Broadway
Rylance’s Richard III When it comes to Shakespeare, not all plays are created equal. That’s far from a surprise to anyone who pays attention; Hamlet certainly ranks far ahead of King John in the canon,...
View ArticleThe Stage: “How the stars shine briefly on Broadway”
A star being replaced early in a Broadway show’s run is usually a sign of trouble. They’re unhappy with their role, perhaps, and getting out at the earliest opportunity. Maybe they’ve been offered a...
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The Broadway ‘Soul Train’ Hasn’t Left The Station
Broadway dreams being immediately blown up into pending productions is something that really gets my goat. Why? Because it’s a case of hyperbole becoming ostensible fact in the press, and the only...
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A Whispered Broadway Milestone No One’s Cheering
It’s a funny thing about milestones, the way certain thresholds get set in our minds. If you follow reporting on the movie industry, breaking the $100 million gross barrier is a major achievement (and...
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Why Are There So Few Long Running Plays On Broadway?
There was a time, children, not so very long ago, when hit plays ran much longer than than 131 performances. Why 131? Because in the last ten complete Broadway seasons, that’s the average of how long a...
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We Don’t Need No Stinking Quotes!
“You know, if we all agreed to stop putting critics’ quotes in our ads, they’d lose their power over us, and we could just sell our shows on what we think is best about them.” I will confess to having...
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Broadway’s Associates Are Asking For A Bit of Security
Labor negotiations only tend to break into the news when they concern large public sector unions or when things are going badly. This does not concern the former or, so far as I know, the latter. But...
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The Stage: Ticket bots are wreaking havoc on Broadway prices
“I have a guy.” I used to hear this phrase a lot, from various people not in the theatre industry, who always seemed to be able to acquire tickets to sold-out Broadway shows with ease. I don’t hear it...
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The Stage: When ‘bound for Broadway’ doesn’t mean bound for glory
Ricky Falbo and David Rosenthal in Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Photo by Dan Norman) The day before the new musical Diary of a Wimpy Kid began previews at Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, a...
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The Stage: Will theatregoers buy two years of tickets just to see “Hamilton”?
Christopher Jackson and company in Hamilton (Photo by Joan Marcus) Of all the differences in arts marketing between America and the UK (and Europe), perhaps the most significant is our dearly held...
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