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What Profits an Off Broadway Show?

For three years "Altar Boyz," the little musical about a Christian boy band, playing at New World Stages, has been a classic example of commercial Off Broadway's struggles.

If a show with a cultlike following, stellar reviews, a not insurmountable $1 million capitalization cost ‹ and after some adjustments, a $50,000 weekly running cost ‹ couldn't turn a profit, then what could?
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Theater Review | 'Dividing the Estate': Inherit the Windfall
The problems confronting the sprawling, anxious, compulsively talky Texan clan of 1987 in “Dividing the Estate” will be familiar to many American families at the moment.

Theater Review | 'On the Town': Drop Me Off at Broadway, 1944
The fleet’s in this weekend, at least on 55th Street, where a radiant production of “On the Town” has docked at City Center through Sunday.

A Jersey Boy’s Moment as Broadway’s New Pal
Christian Hoff has his first shot at a major leading role with the lead in Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of “Pal Joey.”

Arts, Briefly: 'American Buffalo' Goes the Way of the Buffalo
The Broadway production of “American Buffalo” has posted a provisional closing notice and is likely to end its run on Sunday, a publicist for the show said.

Theater Review | 'Continuous City': Pulling the Plug on Digital Bonding
Marianne Weems gives a sleek multimedia look to Harry Sinclair’s drama about the creation of a social-networking site.

Theater Review | 'Jester of Tonga': A King Becomes the Fool in a South Seas Scandal
The whimsical “Jester of Tonga” is a rare example of puppet theater about bad investments.

Theater Review: From a Famous Painting, a Jolting Spectacle of Flesh
“Garden of Earthly Delights” is without doubt one of the most eerily hypnotic spectacles of flesh in motion ever put on a New York stage.

Theater Review | 'Carapace Isle': Terms of Estrangement
Jon Courie’s play about a family dealing with cancer is sympathetic but undercooked.

Clive Barnes, Who Raised Stakes in Dance and Theater Criticism, Dies at 81
As a critic in Britain and later for The New York Times, Mr. Barnes helped bring dance to a broad audience with an exuberant style.

Tragedy Tomorrow, Economic Woes Tonight
Those in the industry wonder not only about empty theaters, but also about the effect on the stream of creative work.

Theater Review: Brothers in Flimflammery on a Continental Sojourn
It’s raining greenbacks in “Road Show,” the latest version of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s long-aborning, ever-evolving and eternally slender musical about curdled American dreams.

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