Category: theatre

“We believe in the power of imagination to transport audiences across the universe and everywhere in between, but we could do better to reckon with the technological abilities and limitations of our artistic spaces. How does the architecture of those spaces, of rehearsal rooms and theatres, subtly shape the stories we tell? And how might we acknowledge within our work that making theatre extends beyond rooms?”

“You’d think Amy Schumer fans would know where she stands.” But a couple hundred people in Tampa evidently didn’t. Said the comedian in a statement, “I want to thank the 8400 people who stayed. We had a great time! “

He’s bringing “Hamilton” To his London theatre. “I’m putting all my efforts into finding a better way of ensuring that the price originally set for a ticket remains the price you actually do pay. We’re going to stop resale except in genuine circumstances where someone is ill or can’t come and the only permitted resale will then be via the theatre.”

The theatre had intended to auction off experiences in the theatre – opportunities to work there – to the highest bidders. The theatre’s executives said they had set up the auction in good faith, but added: “Since some prizes have been misconstrued, we take responsibility for the misunderstanding.”

“Between now and the end of the year more than 30 plays will make their world premiere in Chicago, which makes 2016 particularly robust for a city that’s never taken its theater scene lightly but is increasingly taking risks with material the coasts won’t touch.”

“After years in the planning stages, next weekend’s grand opening gala will inaugurate the $119 million addition to downtown’s cultural core. It’s the second of three major theater openings in Utah planned this year, a building boom that’s unprecedented in the country.”

“A theatre should behave like a good host. It needs to have eyes in the back of its head, to pull people in and diminish divisions. These should be spaces where you feel at home at any time of the day.”

“Some of the nation’s leading regional theaters, saying it is essential to the art form that writers see work by their colleagues and predecessors, have a solution: They will offer free last-minute seats to their shows. Theaters from Atlanta to Seattle have signed on.”

“This isn’t about imitating Didion. This is about portraying a woman who is dealing with grief, and grasping for life. Facing unimaginable loss, she’s strong, vulnerable and fierce as she struggles to banish self-pity.”

“The protean actress and playwright has spent her career interviewing and then embodying people of different races and divergent points of view — ‘chasing that which is not me,’ as she put it in a recent interview. But her new play, ‘Notes From the Field,’ a prolonged meditation on education and criminal justice, is different.”