Finn, 46, who will report to Robert van Leer, the center’s senior vice president for artistic planning, said in an interview that part of what made the job so attractive was the commitments Rutter and van Leer made to commissioning more theater pieces and in the center producing more original projects.
Category: theatre
What The Goodman Theatre Is Finding Out With Its Audience Engagement Experiments
Engagement isn’t just a simple matter of making more information available. It’s a mindset. “What if a person pays $50 for a show they end up hating? Or what if a person is organizing a night out with friends, or a date, or a family gathering—and everyone has a poor experience? Our goal is to show them that a new play is exciting because it’s untested, not in spite of its lack of production history. Who wouldn’t want to be part of something new? Letting the audience learn more about process allows them to share in our excitement.”
Doing Queer Theatre In Lebanon – But Keeping Very Quiet About It
“It was both liberating and frustrating for us to create this space where we could finally express ourselves in our city, but that had to be zoned off from the public in order to protect the safety of the actors. Many of them were not out at work or in their families.”
Theatres – Without Getting Partisan – Get Out The Vote
“I’m really interested in not dictating how someone should vote, but there is a way to voice and to extend what you see and how you experience something—you have a form of expression, and sometimes that form of expression is artistic, but what we all have is the power to vote and to have our voices heard. So taking advantage of that journey from heart to head to action.”
The Guy Who Started A Shakespearean Theatre Company When He Was 8 Years Old
“We sprint to the dressing room, throw off our Vans and put on Elizabethan boots, toss tunics straight over our Nirvana T-shirts, and run around the woods to make our entrance on Shakespeare & Company’s verdant outdoor stage in Lenox, Mass.”
Theatre And Politics In A Time Of Political Theatre
Can theatre serve the political moment? Some recent works on stage in New York all attempt it.
Is Michael Grandage About To Become The Next Julie Taymor?
“From 2002 to 2012, director Michael Grandage was the head of London’s Donmar Warehouse. The position he inherited from Sam Mendes was long on prestige, artistic achievement, and honors. But money? Not so much. But now the director, who long labored in the not-for-profit world, stands to enter the big money as the newly-tapped director of the forthcoming Broadway stage adaptation of the Disney film Frozen.”
A Battle Over The Future Rages At A Historic African-American Theatre Company
As the New Freedom Theatre in North Philadelphia begins its 50th anniversary season, its debt has been reduced, it’s paying its actors, its productions are getting great reviews – and three longtime staffers have been abruptly fired, several attendees at a post-forum reception were forcibly removed and arrested, and protestors are demanding the replacement of the executive director.
Is It Possible To Be President Of Actors’ Equity And Do A National Tour At The Same Time? This Woman Is About To Show Us
“Kate Shindle is compiling quite the résumé. Once she was Miss America. Now she’s a labor leader, the president of Actors’ Equity. And this week she began playing the nation’s most famous lesbian cartoonist, Alison Bechdel, in the touring production of the Tony-winning Fun Home.”
Two Brothers Play The Same August Wilson Role At The Same Time On Opposite Coasts
“The work of August Wilson has for years sustained Brandon and Jason Dirden, actor brothers who have found themselves turning again and again to his plays for meaning and inspiration. Now, for the first time, the two are playing the same role, at the same time, on opposite coasts: Levee, the angrily ambitious trumpeter in one of Wilson’s best-known plays, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. … The two spoke in a joint telephone interview about their relationship with Wilson and with each other.”