This Week in Theater News

By Bennett Liebman

Broadway Grosses Analysis

Grosses analysis: ‘Buena Vista,’ ‘Real Women,’ ‘Pirates!’ and more have highest-grossing weeks as 2024-2025 season concludes

Highest Grossing Season on Record

Broadway Grosses Analysis: 2024-2025 Broadway Season Is the Highest-Grossing in Recorded History | Playbill

Aaron Tveit and Lea Michelles Returning in Chess

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher to lead a Broadway revival of ‘Chess’

Cast Additions for Ragtime

Nichelle Lewis, Shaina Taub, Colin Donnell and more join Broadway revival of ‘Ragtime’

Stars Align for Art

James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale to star in Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s ‘Art’

Patti Lu Pone Is Done with Broadway

Patti LuPone Is Done with Broadway—and Almost Everything Else | The New Yorker

Explaining the Patti L Pone Audra McDonald Drama

The Patti LuPone Drama With Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis, Explained - The New York Times

Audra McDonald as Our Greatest Living Actor

Audra McDonald Is Our Greatest Living Broadway Actor | TIME

Christopher Jackson  Joining Hell’s Kitchen

Christopher Jackson will join the cast of ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ on Broadway

Graham Phillips Reunites with Elizabeth Gillies

Graham Phillips to Reunite with Teen Broadway Co-Star Elizabeth Gillies in Little Shop of Horrors | Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com

Criss and Goldsberry to Host Tony Awards Preshow

Darren Criss and Renée Elise Goldsberry to Host The Tony Awards: Act One | Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com

Questions for  Kara Young

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with record-breaking Tony winner Kara Young - DC Theater Arts

Michael Arden Is No Longer a Secret

Director Michael Arden is no longer Broadway's best kept secret - Los Angeles Times

Hoe Doe Tony Award Voting Work?

How Does Tony Awards Voting Work? One Tony Voter Responds | Playbill

What Broadway Orchestrators Do

What Broadway orchestrators want you to know about their craft

Brining Pirates to New Orleans

How Pirates! The Penzance Musical Brings Gilbert and Sullivan to New Orleans, and a New Generation | Playbill

Counting the Previous Tony Awards Won by Nominees

Counting Up the Tony Awards Already Won by the 2025 Nominees

Slue Man’s Longtime Home Will Stage Shows

Blue Man Group’s Longtime Home Will Stage Off Broadway Dramas - The New York Times

Diversity and Its Discontents

AMERICAN THEATRE | Diversity and Its Discontents: It Was Never About the Money

Improving the Theater Experience

Broadway Producer Greg Nobile Wants to Improve the NYC Theater Experience - Bloomberg

Too Many BFAs?

Musical Theater Professor Says There Are Too Many B.F.A.s

What If Broadway Shows Avoid the Kennedy Center?

The Kennedy Center needs Broadway shows. But what if they stay away? - The Washington Post

LA Theatre Works Keeps Adapting

L.A. Theatre Works, citadel of audio drama, keeps adapting to changing times - Los Angeles Times

San Diego Theaters Still Recovering

5 years after COVID, San Diego theaters are still recovering, but hope endures – San Diego Union-Tribune

The  Man Behind the Posters

From nude Harry Potter to a scribbled Hitler: meet the man behind theatre’s most eye-grabbing posters | Stage | The Guardian

Fiddler and Tradition in the West End

Fiddler on the Roof is in my DNA’: how the west end revival dances on the edge of tradition | The Independent