Category: theatre

“Julie Crosby’s abrupt departure as the producing artistic director of Women’s Project Theater has led most of its advisory board and several members of the board of directors to quit, saying that her exit endangers the 36-year-old theater.”

Holler If Ya Hear Me “never brought in more than $175,000 a week in gross revenues, becoming one of the worst-selling musicals of recent years.”

“The idea that to be popular is to dumb down [is one that] I completely reject. The audience is smart and witty and wants to be challenged.”

“Although it sometimes feels hard to effect change in any sphere, particularly government thinking, theatre is not helpless. Far from it.”

Unless you’re a theatre junkie, you might not know that hiding behind the acronym is a nationwide organization of almost 75 theatres in all major cities (and many other cities) across the U.S. And oh hey? They pay their actors.

“That the majority of people don’t go to the theatre is fine: it’s a free choice. But when too many people think it’s not for them, that’s a problem. They would have an amazing time if they just rocked up one night.” So this artistic director went to a supermarket parking lot to talk people into coming, one at a time.

Katie Mitchell: “It may be that the work I make is at times too ‘other’ and so won’t always fit tidily into mainstream culture in the UK. That sense of other could be to do with gender, or intellectualism, or wanting to experiment with form, or simply a feeling of Europeanism. I don’t know.”

“Its casual, bare-bones shows downtown contrast with the bigger-budget Shakespeare in the Park, which the Public Theater produces in Central Park. Shakespeare in the Parking Lot patrons sit on folding chairs or the ground.”

“If someone wants to applaud somebody, let them. I get why [people who hate entrance applause] get their panties in a bunch but I just want people to go and experience the show. A good actor is a good actor, and if people want to reward him or her they should.”

“The Howard Street theater proposal envisions three separate venues, each with its own street-level performance space and its own marquee announcing events presented by the likes of Annex Theater, EMP Collective, Acme Corporation and Stillpointe Theatre Initiative. Upstairs areas are envisioned as a beehive of various cultural, social and business enterprises.”