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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Broadway Box Office Has Finally Recovered, Overtaking Pre-Pandemic Returns for First Time
Last week, Broadway grosses for the season-to-date surpassed 2018-2019's record season-to-date box office for the first time. Total industry box office hit $1.8 billion for the season, propelled by hits such as Good Night, and Good Luck, starring George Clooney, which was last week's highest earner, with $3.8 million, followed by Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, with $3.2 million and Glengarry Glen Ross, starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr, with $2.4 million. More from The Hollywood Reporter Cynthia Erivo to Star in One-Woman Version of 'Dracula' in London Tom Francis Is Ready to Flex His Muscles for Hollywood Nicole Scherzinger on How Her "Pop Star Mentality" Prepared Her for 'Sunset Blvd.,' "Manifesting" a Film Adaptation and First Tony Nom Good Night, and Good Luck and Glengarry Glen Ross both announced that they had recouped their capitalizations, with Glengarry Glen Ross breaking the Palace Theatre box office record with a gross of $2.4 million. Some shows also appeared to get a boost from the Tony nominations, including Death Becomes Her, which saw its grosses shoot up close to $270,000 from the prior week to $1.3 million, Buena Vista Social Club, which saw a close to $90,000 gain to $1.2 million, Maybe Happy Ending, which shot up close to $100,000 to $1 million. All three tied for having the most Tony nominations. Among the plays, Purpose, which is Tony nominated and was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, saw its grosses increase by about $100,000 to $522,691 last week, and the Tony-nominated play John Proctor is The Villain, starring Sadie Sink, also increased close to $100,000 to $596,511. The milestone of surpassing the 2018-2019 season is significant as that season is the highest on record for Broadway grosses and attendance and has been viewed as a benchmark to measure post-pandemic recovery. At this point in the 2018-2019 season, Broadway had brought in $1.79 million. However, Jason Laks, president of the Broadway League noted that the numbers are driven by a few productions – namely the recent celebrity-driven titles, with high ticket prices – and that otherwise the economics of Broadway are making it harder for productions to survive. Othello commanded the highest average ticket price on Broadway last week at $387. 'Broadway audiences are responding to the remarkable and diverse slate of productions this season. These grosses and attendance numbers are a testament to, and a reflection of, the efforts of every person working both on stage and off to turn the dream of each show into a reality,' Laks said in a statement. 'While we celebrate this milestone, we also need to be clear-eyed about where this industry stands today. Among other factors, these record grosses have been buoyed by the tremendous success of a few specific productions this season, without which we would still trail our pre-pandemic numbers. While we are, of course, thrilled by their successes, we also have to look at our industry as a whole,' the statement reads. 'Every show, no matter how acclaimed, is grappling with rising costs across every facet of production. Shows have an ever-shorter window to get on their feet, find an audience, and determine their future. This is a major challenge shows face as they seek out investors, without which a production will never make it to the stage,' Laks said. Best of The Hollywood Reporter How the Warner Brothers Got Their Film Business Started Meet the World Builders: Hollywood's Top Physical Production Executives of 2023 Men in Blazers, Hollywood's Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Broadway Sees Highest Grossing Season on Record
Broadway's 2024-2025 season grossed $1.89 billion across all productions, marking the highest season on record and a recovery from the pandemic. The gross totals are up 23 percent from last season, and, significantly, the numbers also come in above Broadway's 2018-2019 season, which had held the record for $1.83 billion in gross revenue and had been the benchmark against which Broadway was measuring its post-pandemic recovery. Broadway first overtook the 2018-2019 season grosses in early May. More from The Hollywood Reporter Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, Nicholas Christopher to Lead Broadway Revival of 'Chess' James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale to Star on Broadway This Fall Broadway Box Office: 'Redwood' Ends Run With Momentum, Clooney Stays on Top In the prior two seasons, Broadway grossed $1.54 billion and $1.58 billion respectively. The 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 seasons were both shortened due to the pandemic. The 2024-2025 season began May 20, 2024 and ended May 25, 2025. Attendance for the 2024-2025 season came in at 14.66 million, below the 14.77 million from the 2018-2019 season, suggesting that increased ticket prices played a part in the higher grosses this past season. Average ticket prices were up 3 percent from last season and up 4 percent from the 2018-2019 season. While Broadway League president Jason Laks celebrated the grosses achievement, he also underlined the trend. 'As we look to next season, we have to be sober about the challenges Broadway faces. We can't be satisfied with 2019's definition of success anymore. With rising costs hitting every facet of production, it is becoming harder and harder to bring live theatre to the stage. Shows today have an ever-shorter window to get on their feet. The investment that fuels Broadway is something we can't ever take for granted,' Laks said in a statement. Among the high earners this season, Good Night, and Good Luck yet again broke its own record for highest weekly gross for a play on Broadway, bringing in $4.2 million last week and playing to more than 100 percent capacity at the Winter Garden Theater. The average ticket price for the play was $337.59. The play is currently scheduled to end its run June 8. The next highest earners last week were Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, with $3.3 million and the highest average ticket price of $398, and Glengarry Glen Ross, starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr, which earned $2.7 million across a nine-performance week. Wicked and The Lion King rounded out the top five, with $2.3 million and $2 million respectively. Overall, Broadway grosses were up 7 percent over the prior week, as the industry races toward the June 9 Tony Awards ceremony and as many shows, including several best musical nominees Death Becomes Her (up $229,324) Maybe Happy Ending (up $87,044), Dead Outlaw (up $62,530) and more saw boosts in their grosses over the prior week. Call Me Izzy, a one-woman show starring Jean Smart, also joined the boards last week, playing two previews at Studio 54 and playing to 94 percent capacity. Best of The Hollywood Reporter How the Warner Brothers Got Their Film Business Started Meet the World Builders: Hollywood's Top Physical Production Executives of 2023 Men in Blazers, Hollywood's Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire
Irish Independent
3 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Letters: ‘Sensitivity readers' would do a lot better to focus their efforts on common sense
If the injustice-seekers get their way, we may soon be reading nothing but blank pages: Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew retitled Respectful Dialogue Between Equals, or Othello reduced to A Workplace Disagreement, Mediated by HR. One shudders to think how Dickens would fare under the gaze of the modern sensitivity reader. Even Christy Moore might find himself in trouble – Lisdoonvarna would need a full equality, diversity and inclusion audit before the first verse. I'm reminded of my time as a young teacher in the East End of London. I once held the door open for a slightly pompous vice-principal and was told: 'I don't need your permission to walk through this door.' Only for the manners my mother instilled in me I might have replied in a language that shouldn't grace any pages. Those old bedfellows, respect and common sense, deserve renewed attention. Enda Cullen, Tullysaran Road, Armagh GAA self-sabotage is clear recipe for the slow death of hurling as we know it It's difficult not to conclude that the GAA is undertaking an exercise in self-sabotage in the extraordinary way it is demoting hurling in the sporting calendar. As summer arrives and conditions are ideal for playing this unique sport, we are now deprived of seeing Clare, last year's All Ireland champions, and hurler of the year Shane O'Donnell, who had just returned to playing after injury. Lee Chin, an outstanding player this season with Wexford, is also gone from the championship, as are Waterford, Offaly and Antrim. This is incomprehensible from a sporting, promotional and financial perspective. Young children, who are the lifeblood of the GAA, cannot see their heroes, and the GAA loses that vital promoter of its game: 'If you cannot see it, you cannot be it.' So there will be no opportunity for supporters to see their heroes until the league returns in nine months' time, in the depths of winter. This is a recipe for the slow death of hurling and the increasing drift of children towards other, more visible sports and is a shocking indictment of GAA administration and the custodians who are asleep at the wheel. Tomás Finn, Ballinasloe, Co Galway We're right to condemn Israel's actions in Gaza, but what are we doing? Responding to Sinn Féin in the Dáil, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe claimed Ireland has been vocal in calling for Israel to comply with international law; that we condemn the catastrophic humanitarian situation arising from Israel's war in Gaza; and that Ireland continues to push for action at an EU level. This raises the questions of how many killings of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army has Ireland prevented? How many children suffering hunger-related deaths have we saved? How many hospitals have we saved from Israeli destruction? How many aid trucks have we managed to get through the Israeli blockade? Art Ó Laoghaire, Bray, Co Wicklow Trump's record since his inauguration doesn't look too promising for future President Donald Trump took office last January 20. Since then, the US has experienced the following: Petrol and grocery prices are up. The stock market is down. Russia and Ukraine are still at war. Israel and Hamas are still at war. Inflation is still burdening US citizens. Recession odds are rocketing. The Epstein client list is still not released. It is said that past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour. John O'Brien, Clonmel, Co Tipperary Ireland seriously needs to consider its position when it comes to neutrality Ireland's foreign policy must in the final analysis be determined by its strategic self-interest. Unarmed neutrality and reliance on organisations such as the UN to safeguard international law while also availing of the de facto protection of Nato is one such option. There is no denying that, along with our practical commitment to sometimes very robust peacekeeping and peace enforcement missions, such policy has served us well in the past. However, given the total failure of the UN to prevent the Russian invasion of Ukraine, plus the US-backed Israeli takeover of Gaza, reliance by a small trade-dependent country on the strength of international law and the tolerance of its neighbours is unlikely to be a wise policy in changed geopolitical circumstances. In the absence of an effective UN, unarmed, and a de facto Nato protectorate, our ability to champion peace-building initiatives would be, at best, minimal. Unwilling to join a much-weakened Nato and constitutionally prohibited from joining any EU common defence arrangement, Ireland needs to seriously consider its options. It is clear that, along with our EU partners and the UK, we are not neutral in the current war between Ukraine and Russia. Neither do we take a neutral view in respect of a Palestinian state, and have managed to influence our European partners into taking a more critical stance towards Israel's reprehensible actions in Gaza. Located in the North Atlantic, we are dependent for trade and investment on the EU, UK and US. Our geographical and trade links are primarily with our nearest neighbours. It is with them that we should seek to co-operate in advancing our interests, including our own security, as well as international peace and security. Given the failure of the UN, the weakening of the US commitment to Nato and our membership of the EU, it seems to me our interests lie in supporting greater European strategic autonomy, including defence and security co-operation, Michael O'Dwyer, Clogheen, Co Cork Please bring back the sun so we can get tucked into those choc ices of summer As a follow-up to M O'Brien's letter ('Hopefully, we'll scoff choc ices again before summer's end', May 27), we await the return of the sun. Whoever took it, please bring it back.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Special filing period for Adams Co. offices coming
May 27—RITZVILLE — A three-day special filing period will be announced for Adams County elective offices that didn't attract candidates during the filing week earlier in May. Elections administrator Jacque Laird said it was tentatively scheduled for July. "We haven't set a date yet," Laird said. Offices that didn't attract any candidates include one position on the Washtucna School Board and the Town of Washtucna council. One position on the Lind Park and Recreation board failed to attract candidates, and so did all five positions on the Othello Parks and Recreation board. The district administered PJ Taggeres Park and the Othello Community Pool, but the park was annexed into the city of Othello. The city also administers the pool, which is in poor repair and was closed last summer. City officials are in the process of assessing the options for its repair and replacement. However, the Parks and Recreation district is the organization managing the bond approved by voters to pay for the pool. Because of that, the district is still active. The bond will be paid off this year. Adams County Auditor Heidi Hunt said in an earlier interview that parks and recreation district commissioners would have to vote to disband, and that hasn't happened yet. Three seats on the Othello cemetery district board failed to attract candidates, and one on the Lind cemetery board. Two seats on the Othello water district board also failed to attract candidates. Laird said that once an elected official's term is done, it will be done. "If nobody files for those positions, they stay open," Laird said. "They just stay open until filled." In those cases, the governing body would have to appoint a replacement, she said. People would have to apply for the position, even incumbents. Anyone appointed to a seat after the filing period would stay in the job until the next election for local and junior taxing district offices in 2027.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Denzel Washington Is Moved to Tears by Surprise Honor
With his legendary career spanning more than 40 years, the phrase "Denzel Washington is having a great year" is starting to become repetitive, but it's true—Denzel Washington is, indeed, having a great year. Aside from starring alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Othello, the broadway revival of Shakespeare's tragedy (a production that became the highest-grossing play revival in history, by the way), Washington also has a highly anticipated film coming out with longtime directorial partner Spike Lee. Entitled Highest 2 Lowest, the film is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 classic movie High and Low, and sees Washington taking on the role of a legendary music mogul known for having "the best ears in the business." Things turn dangerous, however, when he becomes the target of a ransom plot and suddenly finds himself caught in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Highest 2 Lowest is the fifth collaboration between Washington and Lee, following their iconic movies Malcolm X, Mo' Better Blues, He Got Game and Inside Man. The film premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on Monday, where Washington was given the ultimate surprise—an honorary Palme d'Or, a prestigious lifetime achievement award. Other notable recipients of the award include Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, Jeanne Moreau and Agnès Varda. The award was presented by Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Frémaux and handed to Washington by Lee, who told the crowd, 'This is my brother, right here." "This is a total surprise for me," said Washington, who was moved to tears. The actor then praised Lee and finished his speech by expressing his gratitude to the crowd, "I'm blessed beyond measure and from the bottom of my heart, I thank you all." Highest 2 Lowest, will be released in theaters by A24 on Aug. 22. If you can't catch it in theaters, it will be available to stream on Apple TV+ beginning Sept. 5. Nicole Kidman Posts Rare Pic with Her Mother & Two Daughters PureWow's editors and writers have spent more than a decade shopping online, digging through sales and putting our home goods, beauty finds, wellness picks and more through the wringer—all to help you determine which are actually worth your hard-earned cash. From our PureWow100 series (where we rank items on a 100-point scale) to our painstakingly curated lists of fashion, beauty, cooking, home and family picks, you can trust that our recommendations have been thoroughly vetted for function, aesthetics and innovation. Whether you're looking for travel-size hair dryers you can take on-the-go or women's walking shoes that won't hurt your feet, we've got you covered.
