The biggest thing on Broadway isn’t some showstopping musical, and it isn’t Stranger Things . It’s a straight play about the history of television news. Granted, it happens to star George Clooney, and there are a few jazzy interludes to boot. But even so, the success of Good Night, and Good Luck has been nothing short of astonishing. With only a few performances left—Sunday’s matinee, hours before the Tonys, where it’s up for five awards, will be the last—the play is still breaking records, racking up an unprecedented $4.2 million in box-office grosses in a single week. Movie-star productions have driven ticket prices to record heights this season, with the best seats at the Denzel Washington–Jake Gyllenhaal Othello going for nearly $1,000. (Before that production opened in March

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