stop clause

noun

1. a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.

Example Sentences

In setting a deadline for the musical to leave the theater, the Shubert Organization is invoking a “stop clause” that allows it to oust a show whose grosses fall below an agreed upon level for two weeks in a row.

From New York Times

The Shubert Organization notified “Beetlejuice” in June — after the Tony Awards — that it had hit the stop clause.

From New York Times

The show brought in $818,904 in its first full week after opening, which was below its stop clause.

From New York Times

“To give an Author to a text,” he writes, “is to impose upon that text a stop clause, to furnish it with a final signification, to close the writing.”

From Salon

Those two factors led the musical’s landlord, Jujamcyn Theaters, to threaten to invoke the so-called stop clause in the rental agreement for “Side Show,” according to executives involved with the show.

From New York Times