“Rufus Norris is planning to scale back Sunday openings at the National Theatre and reduce the number of actors employed on its main stage as part of measures to make the organisation ‘leaner’. The NT director also spoke for the first time about the sudden departure of Tessa Ross from the theatre as executive director, claiming the theatre should be run by an ‘artist’.”
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Reviving A Near-Dead Theatre Through Sharing The Burden Openly
“ARTshare works like this: For an $18 per month membership, people can see as many shows at the Southern as they like. The companies, which range from dance groups to theater and comedy, perform in repertory. Each gets a little money and technical support for shows.”
NPR Snags The ‘First Listen’ To The Broadway Cast Recording Of ‘Hamilton’
And “Hamiltunes” is already trending on Twitter. Go ahead, listen to the hottest ticket in New York.
Maybe Theatres That Mess Up Diversity Are Simply Scared Of Getting It Wrong
“Even the most art-forward of theatre’s institutional leaders are beholden to demanding boards, disapproving patrons, an often hostile press, and a dwindling pool of single ticket buyers. We live in a tough moment to produce theatre—a moment which has maybe lasted about four hundred years, but still. The desire to produce a bulletproof season is, in that context, understandable. And the fear of doing otherwise is significant.”
A New Artistic Director For A Formerly Modest Company In The Midst Of Transformation
“Smith is now two days away from the opening of the first show of his first season at the Flea, Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Fulfillment,’ a comic drama about New York strivers and a supposedly perfect downtown apartment. The season also happens to be one of the last before the Flea — founded in 1996 by Mr. Simpson and others, to raise ‘joyful hell in a small space’ — itself trades up to a new $21 million home. It’s tempting to spot a sly metaphor.”
What Are The Limits Of Culture When Hedda Gabler Starts Tweeting?
“The internet is clearly changing ideas around different art forms and how they are delivered and experienced – and where they are experienced – including pressing issues such as: how do you clap on Twitter?”
Philadelphia Theatre Company Gets Its Theatre Back After Bank Foreclosed
“The troupe on Thursday bought its space at Broad and Lombard Streets for $5 million from TD Bank, which had taken possession of its Suzanne Roberts Theatre after PTC stopped making mortgage payments in 2012; the bank later foreclosed.”
The 11 Longest-Running Shows On Broadway
Mama Mia closes this week after 14 years and more than 10,000 performances on Broadway. So which are the longest running shows?
‘War Horse’ To Close On West End After Seven-Year Run, Despite Ongoing Popularity
Said Rufus Norris, director of Britain’s National Theatre (which originated the production), “We could keep it going for longer, we could put a new cast in and drag it out, but our subsidy is to make work here and to reach out to audiences around the country.”
‘Brokeback Mountain’ To Be Made Into Stage Play
“It started as a short story, became an Oscar-winning film and then an opera, and now Brokeback Mountain is going to be adapted for the legitimate stage. Producer Tom O’Connell has acquired the rights to Annie Proulx’s short story … and the production is expected to premiere in London’s West End in 2016.”