“Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group has announced a new partnership with one of China’s largest live entertainment groups to develop the country’s musical theatre industry. Among the first projects to be announced are the first Chinese-language production of Tell Me on a Sunday and a training course taught in collaboration with Arts Educational Schools.”
Category: theatre
Not Enough Good Roles For Actresses? A New 36-Woman Theatre Company Is Addressing That
Following 12 months of workshops and training for the participants, the London-based project, called Dangerous Spaces, will commission half a dozen playwrights to write scripts for six actresses each. Those scripts will be produced, along with an all-female Shakespeare staging, in the 2018-19 season.
There Is No Money In American Theatre. So How Is It Going To Continue?
“At a time when funding for the arts is in absolute peril, how will we inspire the next generation of theater artists to still see the theater as an art form worth dedicating their lives to? How can theaters keep the focus of not only their audiences, but now their artists too? Perhaps playwrights could bounce seamlessly between stage and screen. But as so many are finding themselves fulfilled both artistically and monetarily by other mediums, will the theater become what it often does for successful TV and film actors, something they return to here and there when their shooting schedule allows it?”
Michael Moore Puts His Broadway Audience On Buses And Takes Them To Protest At Trump Tower
“Like any Broadway spectacle, the excursion was a splice of authentic emotion and fabrication. It seemed equal part an earnest bid to get people off the sidelines and into a picket line and equal part showbiz hoopla aimed at bolstering a show that opened last week to mixed reviews and that has not yet caught fire with ticket buyers.”
Bitter Novelist Whose Play Got Bad Reviews Says Critics Shouldn’t Get Free Tickets And That Theatre World Despises Him
Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider teen spy novels and some Sherlock Holmes and James Bond sequels, and whose comedy Dinner with Saddam had a less-than-successful run at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory in 2015, went on quite the rant at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Hal Prince To Recreate Original ‘Evita’ Production For World Tour
The staging makes its debut in October in Johannesburg, followed (so far) by runs in Cape Town, Tokyo, and Sydney, where Opera Australia will present it at the Opera House. Prince is said to be ‘determined’ to bring the project to Broadway, though no such arrangements have been announced.
“Hamilton” Tries New Plan To Fight Bots, Scalpers
“This is a new effort to put tickets into the hands of theatergoers at regular prices,” said Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of “Hamilton.” “We’ll always be fighting the resellers because their incentive to keep trying is so powerful. Are we making progress? Yes. But is it foolproof? Not at all.”
Surveying The State Of Russian Theatre At The Country’s National Performing Arts Festival/Competition
“That fearlessness on the part of Russian theatre artists has led to an increase in audiences, including that most coveted of demographics: the under-40 set. One had only to look at the audience at Gogol Center, where I saw Kafka on a Saturday night.” Diep Tran visits the Golden Mask Festival, where Russia’s top companies present their best work of the season over two months, at the end of which a jury awards a Russian national equivalent of the Tonys or Oliviers.
Producers Cast An Asian-American Actress As Ariel In “Little Mermaid”. Some In Middle America Don’t Like That
One journalist from a southern publication, he added, asked him how it felt to be “saddled” with a non-white actor in the role of Ariel. “Saddled?” he responded, “I cast her!”
Show Closes In San Francisco After Theatre Makes Unauthorized Cuts
“Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has revoked the rights to the Shelton Theater’s production of his “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,” citing the show’s script cuts, which violate federal copyright law, as well as the theater’s response after he found out about the cuts.”