Category: theatre

employment days/earnings hit all-time highs last year. Variety

Herewith one critic’s resolutions for the New Year in the hopes of making the theater a safer, saner place for all of us. Backstage

Not much theater going on in 1000, so on to the 20th Century and highlights in show biz. Backstage

but no one knows quite why. Toronto Star

Consortium of producers and venture capitalists has put together a website to release a series of videos of classic theater productions filmed originally for television. Backstage

As in After-Lloyd-Webber. He’s dominated the British musical theater scene  for a generation. But now a new crop of musical theater practitioners have come on the scene and made their presence felt. London Telegraph

Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has topped $3 billion at the world-wide box office, the most revenue of any stage or film production in history. BBC

“The latest extravaganzas are of a different order: pageants so rich and strange that they refresh our concept of what operatic stagecraft might be, potentially as influential as the ceremonies of Robert Wilson once upon a time (but a lot more fun).” New York Times

The Noel Coward centenary is upon us, and some wonder whether his work still speaks to us. Los Angeles Times
And: Happy birthday Noel. New York Times

“How is it possible for a musical to be so beautiful and so vulgar, to have such spectacular scenes and be such a mess, to launch such a promising star discovery and give her so little guidance, to produce such full-cry songs and wind up with a humdrum score?” Chicago Tribune