Broadway box office survived the New York chill last week, with receipts dropping a small 5% despite the loss of two productions and some widely spread, if undramatic, downturns. Total receipts for the 29 productions were $29,982,380, with attendance of 259,574 showing a small 3% drop from the previous week.

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Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird joins this week’s Broadway box office roster, taking in $520,357 for three preview – and sold-out – performances. The play, starring Jeff Daniels in the iconic role of Atticus Finch, had a total attendance of 4,321 — that’s 10 more than the 4,311…

Kenneth Lonergan, along with his Manchester by the Sea discovery Lucas Hedges and Lobby Hero star Michael Cera, team with the astonishing Elaine May and Joan Allen for The Waverly Gallery, a vital comic drama that dares us to laugh before delivering the gut punch we know is coming.

Opening tonight at the Golden Theatre…

Broadway was shaking off whatever summer blues lingered last week, with an expanding roster and a 12% jump in revenue from the previous week. Total box office for Week 18 (ending Sept. 30) was $29,521,717, with attendance of  233,389 at 87% of capacity for the 29 Broadway productions.

New to the line-up was The Waverly…

Elaine May, Lucas Hedges and Michael Cera have been cast in Scott Rudin’s production of Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery, a 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist set for its Broadway premiere next season, Rudin announced today.

Directed by Obie Award winner Lila Neugebauer, in her Broadway debut, The Waverly Gallery will…