“The Shakespeare’s Globe production of Titus Andronicus, which was so bloody it caused more than 100 audience members to faint or leave during its theatre run, is to go global as it is screened in cinemas across the world.”
Category: theatre
Olivier Awards Invite Civilians To Become Judges
“Members of the public can now apply to become judges of the 2016 Olivier Awards, after the Society of London Theatre opened applications. Alongside professional panellists, members of the public are required to judge four different categories: theatre, affiliate – which covers smaller, non-West End theatres – opera and dance.”
The Sneaky Contract Language That Lets Broadway Owners Push Out Shows That Aren’t Hits
“Many of Broadway’s 40 theaters are off the market because they house long-running hits, giving landlords the upper hand and creating pressure for productions like ‘Side Show’ to click quickly with audiences, or at least demonstrate that they might.”
Stage Manager Paralyzed In Theatre Accident Is Awarded Millions In Compensation
“She went through a standard, unmarked door, which had no warning signs or notices. When she opened the door she was met with a black curtain, which she assumed was a light blocker. She went in what she thought was a room but stepped into open air above the stage.”
Staging A Performance Piece With – Or On – The NYPD
“It became clear, over the course of listening to a variety of experiences, that the exercise worked not so much to disarm cops against us, but to disarm us against cops.”
Why Would A Journalist Leave The Theatre At Intermission? Well…
“The objections to the column seemed to fall in two camps. People in the business, who feel they are wasting their money, and impassioned theatergoers who say they would never ever leave a show, no matter what. I understand both points of view, though I’m not wedded to either side.”
Michael C. Hall on Being Hedwig
“You get [from audience members] the stand-offish, I’m-not-gay-don’t-look-at-me-that-way vibe; you get the I’m-not-gay-but-I’m-kind-of-feeling-funny-in-a-way-that-I’m-not-entirely-uncomfortable-with vibe; you get the I’m-gay-and-I-entirely-approve-of-your-behavior vibe … And I think it’s compelling for a woman to see a man behave as a woman, and it might be liberating for her to watch a man jump off of hoods of cars in platform heels.”
Oops! Scottish Theatre Mistakenly Sends Porn DVDs To Children
“The theatre had meant to send recordings of its summer schools for children. But the DVDs were reported to have featured explicit sexual content.”
A Dismaying Idea Of What Theatre Is
“To say the kind of theatre performed in the West End (which is what she believed she was talking about) is one invented by white people is one thing, to say white people invented theatre ignores a whole host of other storytelling and performance traditions from Kabuki to Indian dance.”
Janet Suzman Defends Statement That Theatre Is “A White Invention”
The South African-born actress – a longtime campaigner against racism who had a famous anti-apartheid activist for an aunt – drew some outrage on Monday by saying that theatre is a “European invention and white people go to it. It’s in their DNA.” She clarified her remarks with a call for more work from black and Asian playwrights – and then said “theatre is a pretty white way of spending an evening – and expensive.”