Category: theatre

“I do think it reveals a fundamental shift in the social contract between citizen and state. And it might be fine. We might say, ‘D’you know what, my right and my freedom to not get blown up might be worth a slight shrinking of my privacy.’ We might decide that. But we’ve not been asked.”

“The new wrinkle comes with the chance to do shows in a nightclub setting, where cult shows and rock musicals play more effectively and where a few hundred — not a few thousand — seats need to be filled.”

“When I see smashing new theatres that have come up in the last few years that are now just providing one-nighters, it’s tragic. I don’t know what you do about that – it is a huge, huge problem.”

“I sat next to a woman who told me she had children and normally rushed home after work, but that she liked the idea of seeing a 50-minute show in her lunch hour. Tellingly, as a result of seeing a lunchtime show she was planning to see an evening show later in the month.”

David Ward recounts what he found among the 3,100 items about the play in the Brian Friel archive at the National Library of Ireland.

“The Stratford Festival has generated a surplus of $1.4 million and an increase in attendance of 50,000 theatregoers in 2013, a year after posting a deficit of $3.4 million.”

“Every year, thousands of paupers’ funerals – for those without the means to pay for burial – take place across the UK. The Nine O’Clock Slot pieces together the stories of those who die alone.”

“Today PlayhouseSquare manages more than 2.3 million square feet of office and retail space in northeast Ohio. Just under half of that is in the PlayhouseSquare district, which includes five historic theaters, dating back to the 1920s, that after decades of neglect were renovated as part of a 27-year, $55 million campaign of public and private funds.”

The 25% tax rebate (up to $4 million) “will be granted to shows that ‘tech’ in the state before they embark on a national tour.”

“Charles Dickens thought Americans weren’t very funny. ‘They certainly are not a humorous people,’ he wrote in 1868, ‘and their temperament always impressed me as being of a dull and gloomy character.'” That was before burlesque and vaudeville …