The planned new building will house two expanded spaces: a flagship 700-seat theatre and a 250-seat space. A new cafe and restaurant are planned, along with extra rehearsal spaces, a creative arts hub and expanded office space for staff. A spokeswoman for the theatre said the group believes the “current building is inadequate for artists, audiences and staff. We have been seeking to find a solution to improve this situation for more than 10 years.”
Category: theatre
Why Do Straight Plays On Broadway Have Such Trouble Filling The House?
Well, the problem is understandable, really: “Broadway serves both a local market and a tourist one, theater snobs and theater newcomers. If you go to a Broadway show only once a year and your ticket likely costs upwards of $100, do you choose the intellectually engaging drama or the [musical] with the lights and back handsprings and sequins? … Why do a play on Broadway at all?” As Alexis Soloski explains, there are some good reasons.
Pub Theatre In Britain Faces An Identity Crisis, Even As It Grows
For a start, there are growing pains (though “pains” isn’t really the right word): really successful pub ventures morph into actual theatres, even as established theatres (including subsidized ones) open their own pubs with separate stages. Even so, writes Matt Trueman, there’s still a lot of vitality in the movement.
Arizona’s Largest Theatre Gets A New Director
David Ivers was artistic director of the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City from 2011 until stepping down earlier this month to accept the same title with Arizona’s leading producer of live theater. He takes over on July 1 from David Ira Goldstein, who has led the company for 25 seasons — including the current one, which was nearly canceled in the midst of a financial crisis.
See Something, Say Something?
“We knew that there was going to be a water feature but we didn’t know there would be a 30-foot long exposed electric circuit along the drip edge of this pool which had three- to 4,000 gallons of water.”
Why Hotspur Makes Sense As A Woman In ‘Henry IV, Part I’
At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this year, the role of Hotspur is played by Alejandra Escalante, and it works brilliantly. “She’s too much. She’s too blunt and too loud and she never stops talking. She knows what she’s worth, and she’s worked hard to prove it, but these days that isn’t enough anymore. Now everyone says she needs to be quieter, needs to be gentler, needs to not be the things – aggressive, impulsive, passionate, utterly wholly constantly sincere – that have helped her claw her way to where she is. Which Shakespeare heroine? Why, Harry Percy.”
How Can Theatres Best Sell New Plays, Or New Kinds Of Plays, To Their Audiences?
Basically, says a theatre-maker who had the experience and then did the research, theatres doing what she calls lesser-known work “must paint a detailed picture of the experience with information that appeals to both the practical and adventurous sides of our audience members.”
The Classroom Where It Happens, With The ‘It’ Being Hamilton For Education
These students get to perform history-class-inspired songs on stage at the Rodgers before they see a special matinee of “Hamilton.” WOW. “Ashley Avallos and Angie Salvador from Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies made an impassioned and moving plea for advancing women’s rights. Their piece, ‘Dont Forget About Us,’ echoed Angelica’s line in the show demanding that Thomas Jefferson ‘include women in the sequel’ to the Declaration of Independence, but took as its main inspiration the words of a historical figure not featured in the play, Abigail Adams.”
How Europe’s Refugee Crisis Is Playing Out On German Stages
Germany has a long history of political theater. But the influx of refugees since 2015 – what some have called the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of our era – has created new challenges for depicting crisis on stage, from striking the right balance between political activism and artistic creation, to figuring out the best way to reflect events as they unfold. The result has been a German theater scene that has doubled as a platform for political action – one that blurs the lines between social work, radical activism and art.
Ben Brantley And Jesse Green Debate The Entire Broadway Season
Jesse uses the phrase “morally bankrupt” to describe one of the season’s top new musicals. Ben says, “Bette was Beyoncé for the old folks.” They (not quite) completely disagree on Come From Away, and they both think the season’s best new musical wasn’t on Broadway at all.