This Week in Theater News

By Bennett Liebman

Looking at the Grosses

Broadway Grosses Analysis: Discount Tickets Keep Attendance High as Box Offices Battle Winter Lows | Playbill

Appropriate Has Highest Per Ticket Numbers

‘Appropriate’ has highest average paid admission of a play while Broadway’s overall attendance and gross slip (broadwaynews.com)

April on Broadway Is Too Crowded

Let me tell you—Broadway in April is too damn crowded this year (timeout.com)

Sutton Foster in Once Upon a Mattress

Sutton Foster Leads Once Upon a Mattress at New York City Center Encores! Beginning January 24 | Playbill

Dealing With Misbehaving Audiences

Misbehaving audiences want to go viral. Here’s how theater could take the mic back | Datebook (sfchronicle.com)

Obies Ditch Ceremony

Obies Ditch Ceremony In Favor Of Winner Grants, Ending 68-Year Tradition – Deadline

Patriots Set for Broadway

How ‘Days of Wine and Roses’ Became Their Passion Project - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Broadway Alumni with Oscar Noms

Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo and more Broadway alumni recognized with 2024 Oscar nominations (broadwaynews.com)

The Wiz Fills Theater with Color

‘The Wiz,’ in pre-Broadway tryout, floods musical theater with color (sfchronicle.com)

With ‘Days of Wine and Roses,’ Adam Guettel offers profound emotional exploration through music (broadwaynews.com)

How to Dance in Ohio to Close

‘How To Dance In Ohio’ To Close On Broadway – Deadline      

New CEO at Goodman

AMERICAN THEATRE | Goodman CEO Roche Schulfer to Retire, John Collins Will Succeed

Fellowship for Alicia  Keys Musical

Alicia Keys Announces 'Hell’s Kitchen' Broadway Show Fellowship (blackenterprise.com)

A 3-Hour Play About Anti-Semitism in France

How a 3-hour play about antisemitism in France became Broadway’s must-see show - New York Jewish Week (jta.org)

Ivo van Hove’s Jesus Christ Superstar

Review: Ivo van Hove Takes on ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

The Show Went on at Sherman High

The show went on: Inside the fight to perform ‘Oklahoma!’ at Sherman High School (dallasnews.com)

Parking  Problem at Bushnell

Bushnell's CEO: Parking needs 'a problem we need to solve' (courant.com)

Kim’s Convenience in London

Kim's Convenience sets up shop on London stage | CBC News

Beauty and the Beast to Tour

Disney Theatrical to launch new North American tour of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (broadwaynews.com)

New Home for Jackalope

AMERICAN THEATRE | Jackalope’s Journey to Their New (Temporary) Home

Helen Hayes Noms

Helen Hayes nominations: ‘Swept Away,’ ‘Angels in America’ lead all shows - The Washington Post

Josh Radnor Explores Being Jewish

Josh Radnor Is Exploring What It Is to Be Jewish Today | Playbill

Hillary Clinton on Broadway

I was thrilled to exercise my acting chops as a Producer (see hat) on @gutenbergbway last night. Thanks to @andrewrannells and @joshgad for… | Instagram

David Mamet on Trump Greatness

David Mamet says Trump was ‘best president since Abraham Lincoln,’ is a ‘scrapper’ who ‘loves his country’ | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

Titanic Battles in Doubt

Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber Promise a 'Godzilla vs. King Kong' Battle of Stage Titans in Doubt | Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com

Sarah Grochala on Ada Lovelace

‘I felt deep rage’: Sarah Grochala on her prize-winning play about snubbed computer genius Ada Lovelace | Theatre | The Guardian

A Bigger Tick Tick Boom from Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris’s ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ begins ‘this next chapter of my life’ - The Washington Post