The fast success of this play, about the children’s author Roald Dahl, is a rarity on Broadway, where most shows lose money.
Category: Theater
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Bobby Darin Musical Reaches a Rare Broadway Milestone: Profit
“Just in Time,” which for a year starred Jonathan Groff, is the first new musical from last season to make money for investors.
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When Mark Consuelos Wants to Escape New York, He Goes Here
“The midcentury architecture is fascinating. It’s also a place where I’m outside almost every waking hour of the day.”
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Is It an Art Gallery? A Museum? A Theater? A Dream?
The Ministry of Awe, a new immersive experience in a former bank in Philadelphia, aims to help locate the wondrous in the everyday.
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Presto! In Chicago, a High-End Magic Palace Appears
The entrepreneur Glen Tullman is betting people want to dress up and watch magicians in a luxury setting. Either it will work or $50 million will go poof.
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Theater Tickets Are Cheaper in London Than New York. What Gives?
For half the price of a great seat at a Broadway show, you can see “Paddington” in the West End (if you can find a ticket) and snack on a marmalade sandwich.
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Fed Up With High Costs, American Theater Takes a Trip to London
Skyrocketing budgets and falling profitability have driven a new form of offshoring, with U.S. producers staging shows across the Atlantic.
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How Lesley Manville Is Leaving ‘Oedipus’ Audiences Spellbound
Personal history emerges by painful degrees in “Oedipus,” whose language and story, the actress Lesley Manville says, “wreck me every time.”
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Roger Allers Dies at 76; Helped Put ‘Lion King’ on Screens and Onstage
A Disney fan who once “flew” off his couch as a 4-year-old Peter Pan, he was a co-director of the animated film and a co-writer of the Broadway musical, both of them megahits.
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‘The Outsiders’ Musical Recoups on Broadway
“The Outsiders” is the first new musical to open since 2022 to become profitable.