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Category: theatre
New Policies Aim To Calm The Hamilton Lines, And Resale Fees, Down A Bit
First, Ticketmaster canceled the tickets of entities that had bought too many – and sold them to Hamilton fans who saw the tweet about new tickets in time. Them, “producers also announced via Twitter new rules for people waiting in line, often round-the-clock, outside the Richard Rodgers Theater, hoping to buy the few tickets released by the box office just before each show.”
Is It Time To Do Away With Artistic Directors For Theatres?
“Even though I have been an artistic director myself, we should see the end of artistic directors. The idea that one person has the knowledge, vision and know-how to create all the necessary work that a building needs in terms of output is a bit old-fashioned.”
Bend, Curtsy, Or Dip? Broadway Actors Talk About How They Bow
Laura Benanti, on when she was in the 2003 revival of Nine: “I’d scurry out onto the stage, tip my head for one second, then walk backward to my place in line and turn my face from the audience. Chita [Rivera] was like, ‘You look crazy.’ … She told me I needed to be in the tabletop position for three whole seconds. She’d stand in the wings during my bow and yell ‘One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand! Release!'”
Robert Wilson Stages A Hermès Furnishings Show
“The man with the parrot on his shoulder was preening as he examined necklaces before a vanity’s mirror. The woman in a feathered dress was clutching a crystal on the floor. All around them, under a canopy of suspended couches, chairs and wicker baskets, expensively suited executives of Hermès, the French luxury-goods company, were beaming.”
Using Shadow Puppets To Recreate A Medieval Persian Epic
Iranian-American graphic artist Hamid Rahmanian has combined computer generated background with the centuries-old techniques of shadow puppetry – common in the medieval Near East but since lost – to perform an adaptation of a Romeo-and-Juliet-style episode from the Shahnameh.
Actors Theatre Of Louisville Gets A New Director
Kevin Moore replaces Jennifer Bielstein who stepped down in March 2016 after 10 years at Actors Theatre to take the position of Managing Director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A Couple Of Times Critics Sittin’ Around And Talkin’ Broadway
“The theater critics for The New York Times, Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood, along with the theater editor, Scott Heller, recently compared notes on the year that was, and what it might mean for Broadway’s future.”
Michael Billington: Why Star Ratings Are A Very Bad Idea For Theatre
“For works of art it is extremely unhelpful as we all know works of arts are enigmatic, complicated things.” He went on to argue that stars did not leave much room for “ambiguity” with certain productions, where a “wonderful play has been given a poor production” or vice versa.
New York’s Bloody Shakespeare Riot Of 1849
“The affair began as a grudge match between two actors, but escalated into a street riot outside the Astor Place Opera House in which at least 22 people died. The Astor Place Riot still counts as one of the bloodiest episodes in New York’s history. The cause of the incident seems, by contemporary standards, hard to credit: who played the better Macbeth – an Englishman or an American?”