“[Sorkin’s] version will open differently than the novel and will include new dialogue and fleshed-out scenes that are alluded to in the novel but not fully depicted.” Observes the director, Bartlett Sher, “The conversation between Harper Lee and Aaron Sorkin is going to be an interesting one.”
Category: theatre
Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer-Winning Playwright, Talks Research, Collaboration, And The Fracturing Of America
“One of my frustrations with what happens on the stage a lot of the time when working class people are put up there, it’s like poverty porn. They’re laughed at, or they’re the villains, or they’re ridiculous. I think the struggles folks are going through are really real. It affects you physically and emotionally.”
“Hamilton” Is Being Used By Teachers All Over America
Yes, it takes creative liberties—the Founding Fathers didn’t really spit rhymes or use phrases like “John Adams shat the bed”—but the story is historically sound.
Forest Whitaker Makes His Broadway Debut
“The role will be the first time in decades that Mr. Whitaker, an in-demand film and television actor who won an Oscar for his work in The Last King of Scotland, has acted in a play. It will also be the first time that a black actor has played Erie Smith on Broadway.”
The Play That Samuel French Tried To Stop An Hour Before Curtain? Here’s What Happened Next
The show went on – with some ingenious last-minute adjustments by the show’s creator/performer, Erin Pike. For instance, the performance started with the voicemail message a Samuel French executive left Pike saying that the performance was “illegal” and the agency would “go after [their] presenter.” (includes audio of voicemail message)
Steering The National Theatre In A New Direction
“That requires what Power describes as ‘two types of gardening at the same time: planting really deep and at the same time growing stuff quickly. Not quicker than it needs, but being instantly responsive and finding a place in the repertoire as quickly as possible, so that artists and audiences understand what we stand for and what we want to be.'”
The Year Carol Channing Starred In The First Super Bowl Half-Time Show
“Channing wasn’t the center of attention. The show was mostly built around the Southern University marching band performing a tribute to Mardi Gras. And the highlight was not Channing or the band, but a bizarre re-enactment of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, waged by actors dressed in period costume firing cannons and pretending to fall dead on the turf.”
How Did This Chicago Theatre Go From Playing To 60 People In A Bookstore To Getting A $28 Million Complex?
“An interesting paradox: The fewer seats you have in a theater, the less money you can bring in at the box office, but the more you can connect with your audience, and your audience includes your best donors. No arts organization can fund a building of this scale from ticket sales. It can from donors.”
Totally Not A Review Of The Pinter Play That Samuel French Didn’t Want Reviewed
Call it an evaluative essay instead. Charles McNulty: “Pinter may have felt as strongly as Beckett about the sanctity of a playwright’s work, but he was also a ferocious champion of artistic expression. The theater, the most public of literary art forms, depends on such freedom.”
Football Teams Aren’t The Only Ones Facing Off Today
“The losing theatres will incorporate an element of the winning team into the scenic design of an upcoming production; the staff of the losing theatre must wear the winning team’s colors to work the following Monday and post evidence on social media; and the defeated theatres must decorate their main box offices with a stuffed version of the winning team’s mascot.”