Grosses, deals, real estate, labor: the stage as an industry, reported at trade standard. The spine is the Ledger — the Broadway League’s published figures, and our own arithmetic on them.
Latest week on record: 2026-10-25 — $33,966,016 across 32 productions. The Ledger →
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.
Three new musicals against a calendar of plays, revivals and limited runs. Most productions opened with a closing date already announced.
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.
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.
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.
The tour plays its last Cadillac Palace performances this weekend, then plays 15 performances at the Venetian Theatre in Las Vegas, Nov. 4-15.
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.