At around 6:30 Wednesday morning, hotel security from the neighboring Marriott Marquis shooed the line it had tolerated for months from its property, saying, according to fans in attendance, they were “banned.”
Category: theatre
The Website Where People Post Their Darkest Secrets Anonymously Gives Birth To A Play
“The only reason I’m with him is to see if you care enough to fight for me …”
“At first, PostSecret was an art project. Then it was a blog site. Now, the ‘community art project’ is an official website, a TED talk, multiple books, museum installations, and, thousands of secrets later, a dramatic event on tour.”
Martin Charnin Is Still Directing ‘Annie’, Four Decades After Its Premiere
“The fun of it for me is that every time I do it, I learn something new about it, and in theory every production that precedes the one I’m doing makes the one I’m doing the beneficiary of the stuff that I’ve learned. So it keeps growing, it keeps changing.” (includes memories of being in the original West Side Story)
Problematic: When Critics Impose Their Own Cultural Biases On Theatre
“There is no singular Latina/o experience, nor is there a litmus test that identifies a person as Latina/o. Our cultural community has a vast spectrum of experiences which span from recent immigrants to those who have been in the US for multiple generations.”
New York City Allocates $2 Million To Promote Diversity Backstage
“Guidelines are being sent out to more than 1,000 arts groups and individuals in the five boroughs of New York, seeking applicants for the funds … Specifically, the grants are being offered to provide training for production and technical personnel.”
Broadway’s ‘Wicked’ Breaks $1 Billion Barrier
“The long-running musical imagining the Wicked Witch of the West’s back story has just passed the $1 billion mark at the Broadway box office. The musical is one of only three shows ever to reach that milestone.”
The Theater Of Violence And The Violence Of Theater (And Sports)
“The great virtue of ancient tragedy is that it allowed the Greeks to see their role in a history of violence and war that was to some extent of their own making. It also allowed them to imagine a suspension of that cycle of violence. … From the beginning to the end, Shakespeare’s drama is a meditation on political violence.”
Stephen Sondheim Says UK Audiences Listen Better Than Americans
“Of course British audiences are different from Americans: they listen. You have many centuries of being interested in the language. That’s true, and not as true as the United States. And when you care about the language like I do, it’s so much more gratifying.” (includes buried lede)
High School Production Of ‘The Producers’ Forced To Remove Swastikas
“After someone posted a rehearsal photo on social media last week showing giant Nazi flags over the Tappan Zee [High School] stage, some parents were offended, and let the administration know they were offended.”
How ‘War Horse,’ Which Just Closed, Changed British Theatre Forever
“No one expected a hit — it started with actors running around a National rehearsal room in 2005 with cardboard horse heads and newspaper tails — but a hit it became.”