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14 pieces in the fileA Few Good Men Opens October 29 at the Vivian Beaumont
Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama stars Tom Blyth and Bradley Whitford. Previews sold out the Beaumont. The limited run ends January 10, 2027.
2026-10-29
The Book of Mormon Ends Its Chicago Run Nov. 1, Opens at The Venetian Nov. 4
The tour plays its last Cadillac Palace performances this weekend, then plays 15 performances at the Venetian Theatre in Las Vegas, Nov. 4-15.
2026-10-29
Broadway Grosses: $33.97 Million Week Ending Oct. 25, Hamilton on Top at $2.52 Million
Thirty-two shows, 262,928 tickets sold and 93.07% of seats filled. The total held flat week over week and fell 8.1% against the same week last season.
2026-10-29
The Broadway House Itself: 41 Theatres, the Five Demolished in 1982, and the Landmark Law That Followed
Broadway is a count before it is a place: 41 houses. Five theatres were demolished in 1982 to build a hotel. The fight over those five is why most of the surviving 41 are now protected by law.
2026-10-29
Fall 2026 on Broadway by the Numbers: 16 Openings Between Aug. 25 and Dec. 6
Three new musicals against a calendar of plays, revivals and limited runs. Most productions opened with a closing date already announced.
2026-10-29
The Federal Theatre Project, 1935–1939: The Government Put Theatre Workers on the Payroll, and Congress Shut It Down in Four Years
The Federal Theatre Project ran from August 29, 1935 to June 30, 1939. At its peak it employed more than 10,000 theatre workers in 40 states. Its Living Newspapers turned housing, farming and electricity policy into stage plays. Its posters, scripts and photographs sit in the Library of Congress, free to use.
2026-10-29
How a Modern Las Vegas Residency Makes Money: The Guarantee, the Four-Wall, and the Room as Marketing
A residency deal answers one question in three different ways: who carries the risk if the seats do not sell? Published trade reporting puts the guarantee, the rent-the-room deal and the split on the record. The figures that stay private stay private, and this piece does not invent them.
2026-10-29
How to See It for Less, Legitimately: Broadway Lottery, Rush, Standing Room and TKTS, With Current Prices
Hamilton's lottery is $10. Wicked rush is $45 at the Gershwin box office and its digital lottery is $55. TKTS sells same-day seats at up to 50 percent off. Every route in this guide is run by the production, the theatre or TDF. Last verified October 29, 2026.
2026-10-29
Las Vegas Entertainment: From the News Bureau Photographers to the Residency Economy
The Las Vegas News Bureau was created in 1947 to send pictures of entertainers to newspapers across the country. The business those pictures sold — a star, in one room, for weeks at a time — is still the business Las Vegas runs on.
2026-10-29
Phantom of the Opera Plays Its Final Las Vegas Weekend at The Smith Center, Ending Nov. 1
The North American tour closes its Oct. 21 to Nov. 1 run in Reynolds Hall on Sunday. The production moves to Oklahoma City on Nov. 4. Las Vegas last housed Phantom as a sit-down production from 2006 to 2012.
2026-10-29
The Business of the Road: Guarantees, Splits and a $5.7 Billion Touring Economy
The Broadway League counted 38 Equity tours in 145 cities in 2023-24. The presenter pays a guarantee before a ticket is sold. Everything else in the model follows from that.
2026-10-29
The Closing Desk: School Girls Nov. 15, Two Strangers Nov. 29, Three Long Runs End Jan. 3
Five verified final-performance dates, the performance counts each production takes with it, and the cheapest legitimate ticket route still open for each one.
2026-10-29
The Swing's Week, in the Words of Performers Who Have Done the Job
A dozen tracks in the book, eight shows a week, and a call that can come at the half-hour: the cover system that keeps productions running, described by the performers who work it — drawn from the interviews they have given to Playbill, Mental Floss and BroadwayWorld.
2026-10-29
The Touring Stop, Explained: What a One-Week Stand Means for a City, a Cast and a Presenter
The calendar gives the shape of it. The Phantom of the Opera plays the Smith Center in Las Vegas from October 21 to November 1, 2026. Three days later, The Book of Mormon opens at the Venetian Theatre, November 4 to 15. Each of those date ranges is a set of contracts, trucks and subscriptions. This guide reads them.
2026-10-29