Category: theatre

Broadway and London producers are in talks about a New York run of the hit British play Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the historical novels by Hilary Mantel about Henry VIII and his adviser Thomas Cromwell … Both plays are running in repertory in London’s West End, where they have enjoyed critical acclaim and record-breaking ticket sales.”

Those are the superfans of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Sarah Larson joins them for an old-style (as in 1990s) punk concert with the Hedwig band – called The Angry Inch for the show but, when on their own, performing under the name Tits of Clay.

“Five Sydney and Melbourne theatres have been criticised for an absence of curatorial ideas in their 2015 seasons, failing to engage with contemporary Australian and world politics and for being ‘very cosy and white.'”

The creation of the €22.5 million Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre “was inspired by a playhouse built in Gdansk in the 17th century for English Shakespearian actors, and [it] will now host the city’s annual Shakespeare festival.”

“The plush space is meant to host auditions for Broadway touring productions, which the union has been working to get moved from New York to its regional centers in Chicago and Los Angeles.”

“‘Oh, our poor community,’ said BJ Jones, the artistic director of the Northlight Theatre, too overcome to say much more. ‘This is devastating.'”

“Results of the first wave of a ‘tracking study’ conducted by King’s College London’s Culture and Major Events Consortium, commissioned by KCL as part of its Culture at King’s programme, showed that 46% of respondents went to the theatre as children, compared with 86% who went to libraries and 75% who visited museums and art galleries.”

The revenge tragedy Love’s Sacrifice, “published in 1633 during the reign of Charles I and hardly performed since, was chosen out of 16 works proposed by four academics for the [RSC’s] Scholars Pitch programme,” in which experts nominate a neglected play from Shakespeare’s era for revival.

“Changing people’s perceptions of mental illness has been a longtime mission for Dario D’Ambrosi, an Italian avant-garde actor and author. For the past five years, he has led Teatro Patologico, or the Pathological Theater, an innovative drama school here that offers classes to people with mental disabilities. Now Mr. D’Ambrosi is trying to turn his school into a full-fledged university.”

The prize committee announced on Wednesday that Mr. O’Brien’s “The Body of an American” received the award for outstanding new American play, while “Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3)” by Ms. Parks was selected for promising new American play.