Jed Bernstein News

2005 is Broadway's highest grossing calendar year ever, and the highest in paid attendance in two decades, according to the League of American Theatres and Producers

Reporting on the effects thus far of the NYC Transit strike on Broadway, Variety notes that reports have TKTS down over 20% as well as an eroding audience, especially for the Wednesday matinees.

During the New York City transit strike, Broadway shows will continue to run on schedule; exchanges, but not refunds, will be offered to those who cannot attend

The writers of 59th Annual Tony Awards, Dave Boone and John Macks, were honored today with a Writers Guild of America nomination in the Comedy/Variety - Music, Awards, Tributes, Specials category.

Week 26 of the current Broadway season, which ended on November 27, was the highest grossing Thanksgiving week and the third highest grossing week ever in recorded history, according to The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. Broadway paid attendance for the week was the fourth highest Thanksgiving week in recorded history.

Tickets for this year's 'Kids' Night on Broadway: 10th Birthday Edition' -- that once-a year-opportunity for young people, age 6-18, to attend a Broadway show for free when accompanied by a full-paying adult - are on sale for select shows from now through December 15.

Tony Award winner John Lithgow and Spelling Bee's Sarah Saltzberg and Deborah S. Craig celebrated the launch of Kids' Night on Broadway: 10th Birthday Edition at Madame Tussauds.

Grosses for the week ending October 9 (Week 19) were $15,412,092, up from last year's week 19 gross of $12,689,084, a 21.5% increase, and up 29.1%, from the same period in 2003-04's total of $11,933,974.

Jed Bernstein, the president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, will leave his post at the end of the current Broadway theatre season

A six percent increase was marked in the attendance of children and teenagers at Broadway show this summer

The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. today announced the new fall season, highlighted by big names, up-and-coming talent, classic shows, and new works.

Christina Applegate and John Lithgow co-hosted the 14th annual BROADWAY ON BROADWAY, a free outdoor concert in Times Square on Sunday, September 18 and BroadwayWorld was there!

The 2006 Tony Awards, which will mark the awards' 60th year, will be held at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast on CBS on June 11th of next year

Star-Studded Charity Performance, Featuring Idina Menzel, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Bernadette Peters, Patrick Wilson, Trace Adkins, Raul Malo, Lee Ann Womack and Trisha Yearwood, Is A Fundraiser For The Actors' Fund of America and the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund

The pair will co-host the 14th annual BROADWAY ON BROADWAY, a free outdoor concert in Times Square on Sunday, September 18 at 11:30am. Performances are expected from All Shook Up, Avenue Q, Beauty and the Beast, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hairspray, Lennon, The Light in the Piazza, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, The Producers, Rent, Sweet Charity, Sweeney Todd, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Wicked. New shows The Color Purple, Souvenir and In My Life will perform as well.

Broadway is having its best season-to-date, according to The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc., with ticket sales and paid attendance the highest ever for the first 13 weeks of any season.

The past 22 weeks of the Broadway theatre season have been healthier with grosses and attendance than the corresponding weeks of last season

Non-musical plays have more than doubled in attendance since March 21st, and musicals aren't doing too badly either

According to the League of American Theatres and Producers, Broadway ticket sales and attendance have been on a tremendous upswing over the past 20 weeks, marked by a particularly sizzling summer.

The official news is out on what each show is performing on Sunday night.