Christmas week was reliably bountiful for Broadway, with early reports of record-breaking grosses for the holiday period coming in hours before the official numbers are released by the Broadway League this afternoon.

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The First Shadow' grossed more than $2.5 million in one week over Christmas, a record for the Marquis Theater.

The First Shadow broke the 9-performance house record at the Marquis Theatre with a gross of $2,510,948.00 for the week ending Sunday, December 28, 2025.

When Stranger Things premiered in 2016, none of us knew we’d be waiting almost ten years for the finale. While the show took its sweet time between all the five seasons, fans found their own ways to prepare for the last season before the first volume dropped this November.

Amid mixed reviews, the actor explained to The Hollywood Reporter that the highly anticipated moment was "a weight off my chest."

Will’s sexuality had subtly been threaded into the narrative since Season 1, with various hints in the dialogue and subtext. In “The Bridge,” he finally tells his friends he’s gay, a moment the actor Noah Schnapp described as leaving him “in tears” when he first read it.