Category: theatre

– opens in London to raves. BBC

Credit card company Visa signs a deal to market Broadway theater across the US. The theater industry is looking to broaden its audience. We’ll promote it just as we do our sports portfolio, says a Visa exec. Backstage

Minnesota’s Twin Cities have seen an explosion of theater in the past few years. Collaboration is the key, says one director. Christian Science Monitor

A list of the most-performed plays in America in the 1999/2000 season. Chicago Tribune

…can screw up great plays. Or make them better. The London Times talks to five great writer/director teams and asks what makes them work. London Times

Even after spending $1 billion on new arts facilities in the past decade, Seattle still has a theater housing crisis. Theaters are clamoring for performing space. Seattle Times

Alan Ayckbourn’s 53rd play opens in the West End next week, his 55th goes to the National next year and his 56th is underway. Only Shakespeare is performed more often. London Telegraph

Why is there no black-run theater company in the nation’s capital? Washington Post

Earlier this month playwrights John Guare, Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, Paula Vogel, Jon Robin Baitz, Wendy Kesselman, August Wilson, A.R Gurney and Christopher Durang got together to talk about the biz. New York Times

As arts groups chase after the youth audience, Theatre Communications Group director Ben Cameron suggests theater needs to reinvent the linear narrative. Chicago Tribune