Tony nominees Hadestown, The Ferryman and Bryan Cranston for his performance in Network took top honors at the 85th annual Drama League Awards, which were unveiled at a gala luncheon Friday at the Marriott Marquis Times Square. The awards, the nation’s oldest theatrical honors, recognize the year’s best distinguished…

Network, All About Eve, West Side Story – a really good day’s Netflix queue as well as the latest entries on the resume of Belgian-born theater director Ivo van Hove. Tony-nominated for his direction of Broadway’s Network, the artistic director of the Toneelgroep Amsterdam has built a reputation for experimental…

Bryan Cranston might have had to dig just a little deeper these last few days to get to the pit-bottom despair that has audiences at Broadway’s Network recognizing a performance for our times. In the hours after he was Tony-nominated on Tuesday (leading actor in a play), Cranston, who portrays Howard Beale, the…

Update with $7.8 million capitalization figure Network, the Broadway production starring Bryan Cranston as the imploding newsman Howard Beale, has recouped its reported $7.8 million capitalization just 15 weeks into its limited engagement. One of this Broadway season’s clearest successes, the play, directed by Ivo van…

Broadway’s Network starring Bryan Cranston as newsman on the verge of a nervous breakdown Howard Beale has extended its run for the second and final time: The play will now run through Saturday, June 8 at the Belasco Theatre. The limited engagement, which opened Dec. 6, had initially been set to close March 17, then…

Update, with amended Lyceum house record stats Be More Chill arrived on Broadway to a big welcome, beginning previews and breaking the seven-performance house record at the Lyceum Theatre with a gross of $738,384, a virtual sell-out with 98% of seats filled for those first seven previews. The strong performance – the…

With New York City temperatures hitting single digits, virtually every Broadway show saw at least some decline at the box office last week, and with two fewer productions on the boards than the previous week, total revenue took a 12% slide to $26.5 million. Total attendance for the 27 productions during Week 36 of the…

Broadway box office found a mid-winter groove as departing shows departed and recent openers moved beyond the comps and press seat period, leaving ticket buyers to buoy the 31-show roster with a $31,699,190 box office take, a tiny 1% slip from the previous week. Attendance for Broadway’s Week 34, ending Jan. 20…

An Oscar nominee who leaped into the Wes Anderson ensemble with Isle of Dogs, Bryan Cranston knows how to paint a picture. Before signing on for the director's second stop-motion outing, Cranston had never met the director; he'd only seen him in photos, and looking to understand the nature of one of the industry's…

With record-breaking newcomers like To Kill A Mockingbird, Network and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child joining long-running stalwarts including Chicago, Wicked and The Lion King in smashing various year-end weekly box office records, Broadway finished 2018 with bragging rights of its own: The calendar year was the…

Apart from the blazing start for To Kill a Mockingbird, overall Broadway grosses for the week ending December 23 reflected a holiday-season gravitation to familiar crowd-pleasers. Total box office came in at about $41 million, up 3% from last week and a stout 19% from the same week a year ago, according to the…

Fair or not, when I think of movies that made the screen-to-stage transition, two notorious flops come to mind. The great screenwriter Bud Schulberg himself adapted his 1954 classic Brando morality tale On the Waterfront for Broadway in 1995, but neither Brando nor the film’s director Elia Kazan were around to help…