Broadway’s 2025–26 season finished at $1.91 billion and about 14.6 million attendees, with big weeks for hit plays helping keep receipts steady. Ticket price and a few heavy earners mattered most.

Vermont capped ticket resale markups at 110% after advocacy from Noah Kahan and venue groups. The law bans speculative listings and gives the attorney general enforcement powers.

Hudson Valley Shakespeare opened the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center in Garrison: a 451‑seat mass‑timber house on a rewilded 98‑acre campus targeting LEED Platinum.

Rachel Zegler will reprise Eva Perón in Jamie Lloyd’s Evita when the revival opens at the Winter Garden in spring 2027. Previews begin Feb. 27; opening March 25.

Sonny Rollins, the towering tenor saxophonist behind "Saxophone Colossus," died at 95 in Woodstock. His restless style and huge tone reshaped modern jazz.

May’s New York auction slate rang up roughly $2.5B, led by a record Pollock and high‑ticket Rothkos and Brâncuși works.

Rob Base, the Harlem MC behind "It Takes Two," died May 22 after a private battle with cancer. His family said he passed peacefully surrounded by loved ones.

Lee Mendelson Film Productions sued GameMill in Manhattan on May 20, 2026, saying the publisher used Vince Guaraldi’s Peanuts music without permission in a Snoopy video game.

A rural Wisconsin theater just won the 2026 Regional Theatre Tony Award and a $25,000 grant, a national nod for decades of repertory work on the Hill. The award will be accepted at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2026.

NYBG turns its Bronx grounds into a 1960s‑themed festival with Warhols, giant daisies and ticketed liquid‑light night shows. The exhibition runs this weekend through October.

Daddy Yankee will head the 69th National Puerto Rican Day Parade, and Anthony Ramos is among this year’s honorees. The march is set for June 14 up Fifth Avenue.

Gucci staged its 'GucciCore' Cruise 2027 show in Times Square on Saturday, closing with Cindy Crawford and featuring Tom Brady as the house pushes to reset the brand. The spectacle was beamed across the neighborhood’s billboards.

High schoolers marched to City Hall on Friday as the district moved to undo cuts that would have ended elementary band and orchestra.