But he did it anyway. The visionary theatre artist and director of the company Complicité writes about why, and how, he staged Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity.
Category: theatre
Canada’s Shaw Festival Posts A $780K Deficit
Attendance for last year’s varied playbill – which included admired productions of Engaged and “Master Harold”… and the Boys on the festival’s secondary stages – was 237,471. That was up almost 5,000 from the year before, but still the second-lowest ticket sales in Jackie Maxwell’s 14-year tenure as artistic director.
Playwright Robert Schenkkan, Furious At Trump, Spits Out A Response Play In One Week
Five theaters across the country have already agreed to produce “Building the Wall,” starting next month. “We no longer live in a world that is business as usual — Trump has made that very clear — and if theater is going to remain relevant, we must become faster to respond. … We cannot hope to be useful if we can’t respond until 18 months after the fact.”
Broadway Fave Cherry Jones Is Enjoying Being In London While The U.S. Starts Life Under The New President
Jones, starring in Glass Menagerie on the West End, is also famous for her turn on the show 24. “Jones played President Taylor in two series of 24, from 2009 to 2010. Many saw a distinct suggestion of Hillary Clinton in her appearance and characterisation.”
Theatre – Like Most Of The Arts – Is Struggling With This Sudden Shift In Political Climate
Theatres usually plan seasons at least a year and sometimes several ahead, but they’re starting to reshuffle and change the lineups, partly because “artistic directors and theater producers — positioning themselves as first responders in a time of political and humanitarian upheaval — grapple with how to jump-start a current-events conversation with audiences.”
Next Steps For Middle Eastern Theatre In The U.S.
Though its practitioners say this isn’t a new discussion, the contours of Middle Eastern theatre have taken on sharper focus after the election of Donald Trump. But it’s also very like other theatre for practitioners from communities of color: “The next round is equal parts main stage productions … and expanding to directors and designers of Middle Eastern descent. That would be radical.”
No, British People, European Plays Aren’t ‘Infecting’ Your Precious Theatre
Let’s face it: “In dark times we need each to do what we can from the centre of our individual strength, skill, understanding and experience. Theatre-makers – playwrights, actors, directors and the rest – need to tell the hard, dark, contradictory truths as we see them, as generously and in as grown-up a manner as we can manage.
Amadeus – First It Was A Play, Then A Movie, Now A Play/Movie…
“Britain’s National Theatre has a sold-out hit with a revival of Peter Shaffer’s play about bad-boy genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his jealous rival Antonio Salieri, composer to the 18th-century Viennese court. The production, which mixes actors, opera singers and a 20-piece onstage orchestra, is being broadcast in movie theaters around the world Thursday as part of the NT Live series. There are repeat screenings over the coming weeks.”
One Of Broadway’s Oldest Surviving Theaters Is Now Its Youngest
“When the Hudson Theater reopens on Saturday, Feb. 11 – with Jake Gyllenhaal adding star power to the revival of Sunday in the Park With George – it becomes Broadway’s 41st and newest playhouse, 114 years after it became one of Broadway’s first. (It opened with a production of Cousin Kate starring Ethel Barrymore.)” Erik Piepenburg offers a history of the house, with photos.
Fired Director Of Shakespeare’s Globe Talks About Her Sacking – And Why She’s Still There
The board of the replica 16th-century theatre in London decided to replace Emma Rice last November, just a year into her initial two-year contract. Yet she’s still on the job, and she’s just announced the details of this summer’s season, her last there – and she’s explained why she didn’t just walk away.