“Sure, there are funding challenges, but when haven’t there been arts funding challenges? We live in a time with new technologies that can be used to enhance our art form and new technology that can be used to reach new audiences for marketing and development.”
Category: theatre
Are Pot Dispensaries Threatening Hollywood’s Theatre Row?
Rising commercial rents are a threat, but “some also pointed to a recent influx of marijuana dispensaries and a resurgence in criminal activity in the area, including prostitution.”
British Theatres Reconsider Pricing For Patrons With Disabilities
One large venue promoter “has promised to introduce a uniform ticket policy for disabled people who need to be accompanied by a carer after a legal challenge was launched by a wheelchair-bound customer who claimed the York Barbican had discriminated against him.”
How A New Zealand Theatre Rose From The Dead After An Earthquake
“We were far too busy gathering family, collecting what we could from our devastated home and fleeing the city to notice that the Court Theatre – the largest theatre company in the country – was effectively dead. No home, no show.”
Yes, Fund More Theatres Outside London, But Do It Carefully
Lyn Gardner: “Hacking away at London funding and simply throwing it at the big regional theatres outside the M25 would be easy but not helpful. The right help needs to be targeted in the right places … Get it wrong, and we might just as well sit around burning £50 notes.”
Staging Gay Liberation
“As two plays set amid the 1960s gay rights movement open in London, their writers, Jon Bradfield and Thomas Hescott, discuss charting gay life before their time and why theatre is a good place to explore oppression.”
Want Your Show To Make It On Broadway? It’s All About The Branding
On the Broadway of the 21st century, especially in the very risky and very expensive arena of musicals, it’s not enough just to have a gimmick. If you want the crowds to come, you gotta have a brand name.
Five Things Movie Directors Never Say To Actors
“When actors only concern themselves with making something real, it usually ends up being boring for the camera and the audience, no matter how genuine it feels to the actors.”
A Panel Of Washington DC Theatre Heads Turns Uncomfortable When The Subject Of Diversity Comes Up
“Are the current heads of these organizations really incapable of implementing change? No. It’s a choice. It’s passing off responsibility and accountability to the next generation.”
Shakespeare’s Globe Posts Record Year, With £21 Million in Income
Virtually every category is up by mid-to-high double-digit percentages, the outdoor Shakespeare season played to 96% capacity houses, and the indoor Sam Wanamaker was built and opened without any government funding.