“Over a year ago, Molly Smith, artistic director of Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage Theater, scheduled a new play, Roe, to open in the nation’s capital in January 2017. The stars, it seemed, would be perfectly aligned. January would mark both the 44th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision legalizing abortion, and a historic presidential inauguration. ‘We thought it would be our first woman president,’ Smith said, ‘I expected the play to open in a celebratory feel.'” Well …
Category: theatre
This Actress Won A Tony For Playing A Middle-Aged Woman At Endless War With Her Mother – Two Decades Later, She’s Playing That Mother
Marie Mullen – star, then and now, of The Beauty Queen of Leenane – talks about what she did and didn’t borrow from her colleague, fellow Tony-winner and predecessor as Mag Folan, the late Anna Manahan.
How Does A Straight Play On Broadway Gross $1 Million In A Single Week?
Cast Cate Blanchett.
Despite Everything They’ve Tried, ‘Hamilton’ Tickets In London Still Got Snapped Up By Scalpers
The producers went to a lot of trouble to institute a paperless system that would keep tickets off the price-gouging resale market. That worked for (literally) less than two hours.
‘Fun Home’ Book/Lyrics Writer Lisa Kron Wins $100,000 Kleban Prize
Kron, who took home two Tony Awards for Fun Home, received the 2017 Kleban for “most promising musical theater librettist”; the prize for “most promising musical theater lyricist” went to 36-year-old Daniel Zaitchik (Picnic at Hanging Rock).
One Of Europe’s Last Professional Yiddish Theaters Hangs On In Bucharest
These days many of the actors have to learn the language after they get cast, and they spent two years out of their building after the roof fell in, but the plays (now with titles in Romanian) keep coming, as they have since 1940 – and the company is now run by one of the country’s great actresses, Maia Morgenstern.
Bankrupt Big Apple Circus For Sale
“The circus said its debts amounted to $8.3 million, against assets of $3.8 million, in its Chapter 11 filing. The Big Apple Circus began in 1977 and at its height staged more than 300 shows per year.”
After 146 Years Ringling Brothers Circus To Fold Its Tents
“Ringling Bros. ticket sales have been declining, but following the transition of the elephants off the road, we saw an even more dramatic drop. This, coupled with high operating costs, made the circus an unsustainable business for the company.”
The Obamas’ Top Eight Broadway Moments (Yes, You Know What Number One Is)
One of the non-Hamilton-related moments: When the president presented Audra McDonald with the National Medal of the Arts. (And that’s just number six.)
With A New Director, Can The Bed-Stuy Theatre Survive Gentrification?
The theatre – which features alumni like Samuel L. Jackson, Debbie Allen, Dick Gregory, Smokey Robinson and Wendell Pierce – has been reorganized, with dance and visual arts and other offerings, into the Center for Arts and Culture, with new executive director Indira Etwaroo, who founded “NPR Presents” and WNYC’s Greene Space in Manhattan. Will that be enough to save the historic theatre?