As of May 31, 2006 the Upper East Side's 299-seat off-Broadway theatre Playhouse 91, will close.
Broadway counted 12,003,148 heads in paid attendance during the 2005-06 season, a jump of 4.1 percent over the previous season's showing, the League of American Theatres and Producers reported. By Robert Simonson.
`Spamalot,'' ``Doubt'' and other Broadway plays and musicals contributed $4.8 billion to New York City's economy in the year ended in June 2005, the highest since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Broadway's Las Vegas Gamble Isn't Paying Off. Just nine days after the Vegas version of Avenue Q closed after a brief, nine-month run—the Sin City mounting of Hairspray announced an end date of June 11. By Robert Simonson.
New Yorkers and tourists, lured by celebrities such as Julia Roberts and undeterred by a 7 percent increase in average prices, filled Broadway theaters in record numbers over the past year. By Philip Boroff.
New York's theater world suffered greatly in the first weeks of the crisis. Eventually Broadway bounced back, but smaller shows have had a tougher run. By B. J. Sigesmund.
After failing to set records last season, Broadway rebounded this year with new highs for total attendance and total gross, according to figures released Wednesday by the League of American Theatres and Producers.
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