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Category: theatre
Meryl Streep Does Donald Trump Even Better Than She Did Margaret Thatcher
“She may have already played inspiring political figures like Margaret Thatcher and Emmeline Pankhurst on the big screen, but let’s face it: this is the role of a lifetime. At New York’s Shakespeare in the Park gala on Monday night, Meryl became the Donald.” (includes video clips)
Sydney Theatre Company At A Crossroads
With such momentous, truly original works that cut to Australian identity, greatness walks the stage of the STC, which was formed in 1978 and generated $38.3m in revenue last year. But now the company is scrambling to complete the programming of Jonathan Church’s unfinished 2017 season, to be announced early September, only after which the board will start looking for his replacement.
Lin-Manuel Miranda: Ticket Bots Are Ruining Broadway
“The markup on resale tickets is so lucrative, earning brokers millions of dollars per year, that they happily risk prosecution and treat civil penalties as the cost of business.”
Women Make Progress – Slowly But Steadily – In Stand-Up Comedy
“There’s a lot more work to be done before the comedy world reaches real gender parity, but as more paths to recognition have opened for stand-ups around the country, there have already been heartening results.”
‘Shuffle Along’ Wins Best Musical At Drama Desk Awards
“The awards were for Broadway, Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions that opened during the 2015-16 season. Excluded was ‘Hamilton,’ which is up for a record-breaking 17 nominations at the Tony Awards on June 12 but originally opened during the 2014-15 season at the Public Theater Off Broadway. (It won seven Drama Desk Awards last year.)”
The Public Theater Has Had A String Of Hits, But Will That Last Next Season?
“What’s really impressive is the way the company, which was founded by Joseph Papp 62 years ago, has prospered artistically, doing fresh, challenging and entertaining work, while staying faithful to a mission to reflect the multicultural fabric of society. It should also be mentioned that the theater keeps a shrewd eye on the box office.”
Are Sung-Through Musicals (Yes, Like Hamilton) Just Concerts With Benefits?
“Maybe we’re supposed to understand it as a theatrical depiction of a concert, although it’s hard to figure out the difference.”
Can The Big Apple’s Biggest Circus Save Itself Through Crowdfunding?
“The Big Apple Circus, conceived when the two men were itinerant jugglers who drove cabs and picked grapes, was born of something almost antithetical to material interest, a raw creative anarchy coupled with a desire to provide children, whether they were from Park Avenue or the South Bronx, a shared sense of cultural experience.”
Will ‘Hamilton’ Change The Supreme Court?
“How judges imagine the original meaning of the Constitution depends on their intuitions—half historical, half mythical—about the Founding narrative. If you can change the myth, you can change the Constitution. And ‘Hamilton’ is changing the myth.”