Should playwrights be making theatre that caters to twentysomethings? Or should theatres simply spend more time putting any play they do in context? Or is this all pandering? “We don’t want to create a nation of inactive blobs who passively sit by; we want to create a community of activists who, when they see someone being victimized, jump up and speak out.”
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‘The Shakespeare Of The East’, And How China Uses The Shakespeare Of The West To Promote Him
“Tang [Xianzu] is well known in China, though even in his home country he does not enjoy anything like the literary status of his English counterpart – he wrote far fewer works (four plays, [including The Peony Pavilion,] compared with Shakespeare’s 37), and is not as quotable. But no matter. The timing was perfect. Tang died in 1616, the same year as Shashibiya, as Shakespeare is called in Chinese.”
Oskar Eustis On Protecting America’s ‘Ramshackle Ecology’ For Developing New Plays
Says the director of the Public Theater, “I feel like I’ve spent the last couple of years outlining very big problems that American theater has to tackle and now we’ve moved into an environment where it will be more difficult to solve those problems.”
Cameron Mackintosh Gives Up On Attempting To Salvage ‘Martin Guerre’
“The producer said he had given the Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil musical ‘three shots’ and acknowledged that the writing team had ‘unfinished business’ with it. But he added: ‘I firmly believe there is something wonderful in there but I am not the person that will ever get it out of them.'”
An Interactive Visualization Of Every Line In “Hamilton”
Want to better see and understand the relationships and interactions of the characters and plot lines of the musical “Hamilton?” This engaging interactive scrollable exploration of the show will drop you down a rabbit hole if you’re not careful…
Motion Capture, The High-Tech Cinema Process, Comes To Live Theatre – To Shakespeare, No Less
For a new staging of The Tempest starring Simon Russell Beale at Stratford-upon-Avon, the Royal Shakespeare Company is using the same techniques and equipment, including a costume filled with digital sensors, for the character of Ariel that Hollywood has used for Gollum and King Kong.
The Stage 100 For 2017: Sonia Friedman Leads The List Of The Most Influential People In British Theatre
The producer of the West End’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Dreamgirls, Funny Girl and Nice Fish (starring Mark Rylance) is only the third woman ever to top the roster. (See the full list here.)
The Story Of Broadway’s Favorite Prop Baby Doll, Passed From Show To Show For Years
Twan Baker – “an 18-inch-long, 10-pound (just a guess) blue-eyed doll with an alert expression” who has appeared in at least five Broadway shows and two “Encores!” productions as well as plays and musicals as far afield as Kansas City and Vermont – was born in the prop shop of Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, where the prop master figured out the secret that makes actors want to work with Twan.
Broadway Just Had The Biggest Box-Office Week In Its History
“Boosted by premium ticket prices, a crowd of tourists, a favorable calendar, some extra scheduled performances, and relatively good weather, … the 33 Broadway shows took in $49,677,279 … for the week ending January 1.”
We’ve Been Completely Missing The Message Hidden In ‘Hamlet’, Says Scholar
Gary Taylor, editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare and professor at Florida State, thinks that the figure of Fortinbras, the Norwegian king and deus ex machina who takes over Denmark after Hamlet has killed what’s left of the Danish royal family, is meant to be a flattering allusion to James I coming from Scotland to take the English throne.