Good Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and directed by David Cromer, has broken its own all-time record for highest grossing play in Broadway history and is the first play to surpass a gross of $4 million in a single week.
For the week ending May 4 2025, the production grossed $4,003,482 for 8 Performances.
Good Night, and Good Luck is currently playing at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it surpassed the previously held record by The Music Man (with 9 performances) and is now the highest-grossing production in the history of the Shubert Organization.
The production recently received 5 Tony Award nominations, including Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for Clooney. In addition, it was recently announced that, in partnership with TodayTix, 2,000 tickets are being subsidized by the production to New York City Public School students – including those studying journalism.
Based on the 2929 Entertainment and Participant film of the same name distributed by Warner Bros. and written by the same authors, the following actors are portraying real life figures alongside Clooney as Murrow: Mac Brandt as Colonel Anderson, Will Dagger as Don Hewitt, Christopher Denham as John Aaron, Glenn Fleshler as Fred Friendly, Ilana Glazer as Shirley Wershba, Clark Gregg as Don Hollenbeck, Paul Gross as William S. Paley, Georgia Heers as Ella, Carter Hudson as Joe Wershba, Fran Kranz as Palmer Williams, Jennifer Morris as Millie Green, Michael Nathanson as Eddie Scott, Andrew Polk as Charlie Mack, Aaron Roman Weiner as Don Surine with R. Ward Duffy, Joe Forbrich, Imani Rousselle, Greg Stuhr, JD Taylor, and Sophia Tzougros rounding out the ensemble.
In Good Night, and Good Luck, we tune in to the golden age of broadcast journalism and Edward R. Murrow’s legendary, history-altering, on-air showdown with Senator Joseph McCarthy. As McCarthyism casts a shadow over America, Murrow and his news team choose to confront the growing tide of paranoia and propaganda, even if it means turning the federal government and a worried nation against them. The play chronicles a time in American history when truth and journalistic integrity stood up to fearmongering and disinformation—and won.
Good Night, and Good Luck is produced by Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jean Doumanian and Robert Fox.
Good Night, and Good Luck was one of only eight shows – out of 40 productions – to report gains during Tony Award nominations week. In fact Good Night, with a $62,540 increase over the previous week, didn’t score the biggest gain, that honor belongs to Just In Time, the Bobby Darin bio-musical starring Jonathan Groff. Filling Circle in the Square, Groff and Just In Time gross $1,119,011, a $213,494 bump over the previous week. Clooney and Groff are in the running for Tonys, of course.
Other shows that seemed to have gotten some nomination boost include Buena Vista Social Club, up $32,713 to $1,075,909. Dead Outlaw jumped by $41,953 to $484,689, and the ever popular Glengarry Glen Ross was up $19,904 to $2,326,856.
Some other shows making gains: Maybe Happy Ending was up $10,655 to $903,408, filling 97.33% of seats at the Belasco. The Picture of Dorian Gray was up $25,612 to $1,344,831, filling all seats at the Music Box. Sunset Blvd. was up too, but that’s likely the result of returning to a full-eight-show week (remember, the previous week saw a Wednesday matinee canceled due to tech issues). In any case, Sunset grossed $1,020,971 last week.
Othello slipped a bit receipts-wise, down $56,317 to a still-massive $3,065,728.
Redwood, the first show out of the post-nom shutout gate to announce an early close, was down $77,758 to $565,169. About 77% of seats were filled at the Nederlander.
In all, the 40 productions grossed $43,063,490 for the week ending May 4, a slip of about 8.28% from the previous week but up about 24% over last year at this time. Attendance for the 40 shows was 332,820, about 4% less than the previous week but 15% greater year over year.
Season to date, Broadway, in the 50th week of the 2024-25 season, has grossed $1,757,522,457, up about 20% over last year at this time, with total attendance of 13,645,836 up 17%.
All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For complete box office visit the League’s website.