Category: theatre

“In the films, Hermione was played by Emma Watson, a white woman, but [Noma] Dumezweni’s casting continues a tradition of imagining the character as a woman of color — her race isn’t specified in the novels and her status as ‘Mudblood’ in the wizarding world puts her in a similar position to many marginalized people in white institutions today.”

“I have found an artistic home in Detroit as it has launched my professional theatre career in many ways. It is the first place I was paid to act, direct, and write. Without Detroit, I would probably still be in SoCal working at the YMCA, and hoping for a big break … or any break.”

“The change, part of a broader tax-cut measure approved by the House on Thursday and the Senate on Friday, extends to live theater a tax benefit already provided to the film and television industries.”

“TheatreWorks board members, who are responsible for artistic decisions, were not aware of the copyright infringement until they received the email to cease and desist. The board accepted responsibility for the error.”

“A British theater magnate has acquired a long-term lease to a onetime playhouse in Times Square and has begun refurbishing it as Broadway’s next stage. The Hudson, owned by Millennium Hotels and Resorts and used in recent years for meetings and events, will become the 41st Broadway theater.”

“Two sign-language specialists switched off every 15 minutes translating the show’s onstage signing onto his palm, while another stationed herself behind Mr. Odland, using his back as a proxy for the stage to communicate the show’s complex choreography. ‘His back is like a canvas,’ said Marilyn Trader, who is trained in an emerging field known as touch or haptic signals.”

Architect Inigo Jones’s design for the Cockpit Theatre would be used for the playhouse and education centre on the site of an Elizabethan-era theatre – England’s only freestanding, purpose-built playhouse outside London at the time – in the Merseyside town of Prescot.

“The staging of the play, No Villain, a nakedly autobiographical story that Miller wrote in 1936 as a 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Michigan, was scheduled to open on Thursday night, capping a banner year for the playwright in England.”

“When’s the last time you’ve seen an older adult who isn’t a wealthy senator/CEO/pundit share their perspective on the issues in a public forum? Or, how often do you see an older adult portrayed in film, theatre, or on TV as not only a dynamic character, but as one who doesn’t die in the end? How often are those stories written by or with older adults, as opposed to younger adults reflecting on their relationships and guessing about what is to come?”