Category: theatre

“Jenin, a camp in the north of the West Bank with more than 16,000 registered Palestinian refugees, is at the heart of a cultural resistance movement. … And tucked away within the camp is Freedom theatre, founded in 2006 by Juliano Mer Khamis, who believed in using cultural resistance to fight against occupation. He was killed in 2011 by a masked gunman outside his theatre.”

More than 155,000 bought tickets to see the play in local movie theatres. “National Theatre Live broadcasts theatre productions to cinemas around the world. Since it began in 2009, more than two million people globally have watched more than 30 broadcasts of different productions.”

“For Radical Hospitality to truly be a mission-based initiative, it can’t just be about giving our audiences free tickets, it’s also about providing our audience access to our space, to the artists, access to our process. So from those realizations we created a program called Free Speech.”

“Text is only a very small part of the experience, unlike the stage adaptations of old, which were often merely an attempt to provide a substitute for the novel.”

“Most successful Woolf adaptations play fast and loose with their own medium.”

“Its rebirth comes as Liverpool City Council plans to cut its culture budget by 50% by 2017, although the council said the Everyman would be protected.”

McNally’s 1988 play Andre’s Mother is a cry of rage and pain by a man who just buried his lover at his lover’s ever-disapproving mother. His new Broadway outing, Mothers and Sons, “dramatize[s] the head-spinning changes in gay America since that earlier play, affecting not only same-sex couples but also people like [that still-disapproving mother].”

“A venue has four walls, but that doesn’t mean that your whole audience has to fit inside them.”

“It was a stunt that Daniel Curry had performed many times before in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark: Plant himself firmly on a hydraulic lift in the pit beneath the stage, then remain steady as he rose a dozen feet to emerge for the start of Act II. … Then, in a split second, something solid pressed down against his right foot, then crushed it.”

“[John] Bant and his co-producer Gavin Kalin are seeking to raise £200,000 for The Pajama Game‘s West End transfer – about 14% of its total capitalisation costs – through the online crowdfunding platform Seedrs, which allows people to invest as little as £10. They hit £40,000 within 24 hours.”