Their show just missed the frontrunner list for grosses, but the original cast of God of Carnage—Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Jeff Daniels—exited Broadway with a bang, hauling in $1,107,302 and topping the percentage-of-capacity list in their final week at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Overall grosses remained steady from the previous week ...

Did a World Series victory for the Yankees put visitors to New York in a theatergoing mood? Who knows, but Broadway box offices experienced a welcome uptick, with Shrek the Musical jumping more than $275,000 and newcomer Finian’s Rainbow leaping more than $180,000 from the previous week. Numbers were up pretty much across the board, with A ...

The casting directors for the Broadway productions of Billy Elliot, God of Carnage and All My Sons were among the winners of the Casting Society of America’s New York Artios Awards, presented on November 2 at the Times Center. Janeane Garofalo hosted the 25th annual event, with guest presenters that included Christine Ebersole, Patrick Wilson and Bill Pullman. In ...

Blame Halloween or the World Series, but with only a handful of exceptions, Broadway box office totals dropped across the board, in some cases more than $100,000 less than the previous week. The fall season had its first casualty, as the revival of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs closed after just a week of performances at the Nederlander ...

The economy may be struggling, but Broadway box offices are holding up nicely, thank you! In a month that boasts 10 Broadway openings, the top five grossers remained unchanged from the previous week, with three more shows topping $1 million and another three surging past $900,000. The week's biggest leap came from a play that just missed the ...

Broadway box offices were humming on a lovely Columbus Day weekend, with numbers up across the board and seven shows topping $1 million for the week. For the first time in memory, the top two frontrunners for percentage of capacity were plays (God of Carnage and its next-door neighbor A Steady Rain, a statistic that would have pleased the men ...

Talk about star power: In spite of the play’s serious subject matter, the still-in-previews A Steady Rain is literally packing them in at the Gerard Schoenfeld Theatre. The new play topped the magic $1 million mark in grosses as theatergoers flocked to see Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig. Three plays began previews on during the last official week of ...

Hooray for the fall season! The first three productions have begun previewing on Broadway and, as expected, the superstar team of Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig is already playing to full houses in the new drama A Steady Rain. In addition to Rain, Jude Law's revival of Hamlet and Roundabout's revival of Bye Bye Birdie, the post-Labor Day ...