“More than 1,000 people watching Les Miserables and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time were evacuated on to the streets.”
Category: theatre
Writers Are Suddenly Moving Back And Forth Between TV And Theatre
“For hungry playwrights, TV presents financial offers difficult to refuse, and the medium grows more prestigious and creative every year. And for TV writers used to the difficulties of collaborating on a script, the theater offers them a chance to have the final say on their own words.”
What Large-Scale Puppets (And Theatre That’s For Fun) Mean To Audiences
“Over time, I’ve narrowed it down or finessed it to: A puppet is an inanimate object that’s manipulated in such a way that an audience believes it is alive and thinking.”
The 100 Most Influential People In British Theatre For 2015
Topping The Stage 100 for the sixth year running are the co-founders and co-CEOs of Ambassador Theatre Group, Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire. In fact, eight of the top ten slots are held by duos rather than individuals.
Two Of Paris’s Most Important Theatres Will Go Dark For Two Seasons
“The Théâtre de la Ville and the Théâtre du Châtelet … will close for extensive renovations at the end of the 2016 season, darkening the houses for one and a half to two years. The theaters, which face each other on the Place du Châtelet, next to the Seine in the heart of the city, were designed by Gabriel Davioud and constructed between 1860 and 1862.”
The Art Of Great Theatre Posters
“Whether it’s the sexed-up photograph of Neil Patrick Harris on Broadway or the pared-down treatment of a domestic drama in a regional theater, the best posters convey the conceptual complexities of the plays they serve.”
Another Theatre Agrees To Pay Living Wage To Its Workers
“We think it’s a good thing to aspire to, and we’re able to pay that. Our staff work long hours, often unsociable hours, and they work very hard. They’ve been key to the success of the Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall in recent years, and we think it’s only right that is recognised.”
Penny Arcade: Here’s What It Takes To Have An Art Career These Days
“Art was done the same way for a long time — you were young, you came, you watched a lot of other people and you started to struggle to make your own work, and eventually people came to see you and you made a little bit of money. Now that economic structure is totally broken. Young people only go to see a few other people; they only go to see people whose careers they want to emulate. And they mostly stay within their own age group. So you have tons of people who are all 22 who make their work with other 22-year-olds. You can’t get much mileage out of that. You need the inter-generational thing, I believe: the energy of the young and the wisdom and experience of the old.”
Eileen Atkins Remembers “The Killing Of Sister George”
She and Beryl Reid played the leads in the first British play about lesbians, touring the country to stone-silent audiences (when they weren’t walking out). Then they got to London.
The Apartment Building That’s Been Home To Broadway Types Since The Days Nobody Else Would Rent To Them
“For all the changes that have come to Broadway, where the only thing more drastic than the astronomical ticket prices are the astronomical rents for apartments in the area, the Whitby has largely remained a bastion for performers and their patrons. But rather than being a haven for struggling artists, the building is now much more a home for successful ones.”