Alternative Matinees
Oct 20
2025, 08:39:31 PM
On Broadway.com, you can search by date and it lists all the shows and their performance times for that day.
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RAGTIME 2025 Reviews
Oct 17
2025, 11:25:06 PM
Every director has strengths and weaknesses. While Lear may not be the most inventive in terms of blocking, staging & stage pictures, I think the fact that this (to be fair, I haven't seen Ragtime yet but going on what I have read) and Into the Woods (which I did see with the original revival cast) have had such exceptional performances from the cast is no fluke. We have seen star-studded things underwhelm or even fall apart many times. She deserves credit for the cast being as good a
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/12/25
Oct 14
2025, 08:41:49 PM
There's really not much to say about this week. Everything doing really well aside from a few new plays. Even with the holiday, I feel like this is an exceptionally good October week for numbers
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/28/25
Sep 30
2025, 07:00:01 PM
witchoftheeast2 said: "I hate doing this, but anyone have any predictions as to what could be closing soon? Aside from limited engagements"
I think Hell's Kitchen (despite the pop up in sales this week), Gatsby and Mincemeat are the most likely January closings while I'm also keeping an eye on Six and & Juliet.
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SCHMIGADOON! headed to Broadway?
Sep 30
2025, 06:54:42 PM
I'm personally very excited to see this but, yeah, unless they have some casting trick up their sleeve, this is gonna be a tough sell I'm afraid.
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10 Best Musicals of the 21st Century
Sep 27
2025, 02:12:15 AM
My list would be (not in order): - Hamilton
- Kimberly Akimbo
- Matilda
- Hadestown
- Aida
- The Drowsy Chaperone
- Come From Away
- Maybe Happy Ending
- Hairspray
- The Book of Mormon
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/14/25
Sep 16
2025, 03:28:35 PM
What a relief that we are not in the final year of Broadway's existence...
Those Hamilton numbers are WILD.
Even though most everything improved, I still think the shows that are close-ish to announcing a closing date are the same: Gatsby, Hell's Kitchen, Mincemeat, & Juliet, maybe Six, maybe Moulin
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/14/25
Sep 16
2025, 03:28:10 PM
Double post
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7/25
Sep 9
2025, 04:54:53 PM
It's interesting how some shows crashed and burned while others held up just fine and it doesn't seem to totally line up with new vs. old or family/teen vs. not.
Time is ticking for Hell's Kitchen and Gatsby. I also know Six is cheap to run but I feel like it's gonna transfer Off Broadway sooner rather than later.
I kept thinking Netflix will keep Stranger Things running into the spring and possibly summer but I really don't know if it's worth keeping ope
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 9/7/25
Sep 9
2025, 04:42:39 PM
malcs98 said: "Kad said: "malcs98 said: "With numbers like these, I think it could be safe to assume that the 2025/26 season could be Broadway's last..."
Broadway has survived the Great Depression, wars, NYC's near-bankruptcy in the 70s, AIDS, 9/11, Hurricane Sandy, COVID, but, yeah, sure, let's call it based off of this week's grosses.
But can it survive the policies implemented by the second Trump administration
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The Marriott Marquis, which revamped Times Square, turns 40 today
Sep 7
2025, 06:50:07 AM
Those elevators though...
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Audra's Life in the Theatre
Sep 3
2025, 09:32:59 PM
I haven't watched this yet, I look forward to it. But just came on to say that if anyone from Playbill is reading this, keep doing these! Every single one is so interesting. I especially loved Christian Borle and David Hyde Pierce.
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Show Closures Before Spring (speculation)
Sep 3
2025, 09:28:51 PM
At this point, I feel like Moulin Rouge has been running so long that it will get a long runway from announcement to closure (same with Hadestown and Mormon and of course Chicago, not that Chicago will ever close). So if we don't hear anything soon, I don't think MR is closing before spring since it'll probably be several months between announcement and actual closing date with possibly an extension if an announcement boosts sales back up.
I think Hell's Kitchen or Gats
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/31/25
Sep 2
2025, 06:51:10 PM
Purpose really had a nice run. It played well through the whole summer.
It was a solid week overall. Now for those post Labor Day grosses. Hope shows hold on well.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/24/25
Aug 26
2025, 01:31:36 PM
I feel like most shows, old and new, have been pretty steady this summer. It'll be interesting to see what happens when the calendar turns to September.
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Billy Porter out of Cabaret 8/20
Aug 21
2025, 12:35:30 AM
I don't love the toxic piling on here and other places but I do think this is different from the Beanie situation in that Beanie shouldn't have been put into the situation (or put herself in the situation) that she clearly wasn't up to no matter how hard she tried or how much work she put in. Whereas, Billy COULD be fine in this role and is not. I put much more blame on Billy's own choices than I did on Beanie.
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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 8/17/25
Aug 19
2025, 02:06:38 PM
John Proctor dropped after Sadie but has been so steady since then. I wish it wasn't closing.
That's a near all time low for & Juliet and it's still August. Its three lowest full weeks of all time were in Sep of last year.
Buena Vista has been a major overperformer and it had a fantastic summer but there's no denying that it's on a bit of a downward trend now.
Embarrassing for Cabaret - to be just slightly ahead of Call Me Izzy? YIKES.
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MAMMA MIA! 2025 Reviews
Aug 14
2025, 11:32:26 PM
Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere and I missed it but will this be eligible for Tonys for Best Revival since it's sort of a "return engagement." I know it's same Director, Choreographer & Designers so they'd all be ineligible.
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How Bad Will the Kennedy Center Honors Be
Aug 14
2025, 12:43:05 PM
The one thing about any of these honorees turning it down is it may lead to even worse selections in the future like Kid Rock or Vince McMahon or Dean Cain or Scott Baio (I'm semi-joking about the last two, i hope). That would completely devalue that honor whereas as it stands now, it might still be salvageable when (if?) the Trump presidency comes to an end.
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How Bad Will the Kennedy Center Honors Be
Aug 13
2025, 12:12:21 PM
There's so much that's terrible about all of this but the list of honorees is not as bad as I thought it might be.
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