Category: theatre

That is what actress Bojana Novakovic and her colleagues are aiming to find out, in an improvised theater piece performed every Wednesday night in an L.A. karaoke bar.

“Certain art forms lend themselves to the Israel-Palestine conflict: epic, despondent, near-silent cinema, say, or interminable sagas about intransigent politics. But a camp, twinkle-eyed cabaret fronted by a man in gold lamé evening dress?”

Michael Billington considers Oh, What a Lovely War.

The Apollo, where the ceiling fell in during a performance of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in December, will reopen with a new show on March 26.

Nica Burns: “I pushed past everyone into the theatre and straight into the auditorium. It was unimaginable. About 112 years of thick black dust had come down. … It was like a stricken ship – that’s the only image I can think of with all the debris.”

“There was an audible thud when Ari Loeb fell on his backside in the midst of a scrappy, eight-against-one brawl … [while] rehearsing the finale of Kung Fu, the new play by David Henry Hwang about the martial arts master Bruce Lee.”

Simon Tait: “When a plea has to go out [to the audience] for someone who can do Windows 8 and the visual still won’t go, it really doesn’t work … I don’t want to sneer at that misfortune, but to ask where the creativity sits with the technology.”

“Poetry doesn’t have such a great reputation in the theatre, although I reckon that’s changing. Even 17th-century rhyming couplets can be made to sound wonderfully conversational and witty in great translations.” And, well, Shakespeare.

Can the Globe’s outdoor Summer Shakespeare Festival be reshaped into a national center for the very best in American Shakespeare?

“Faced with uneven ticket sales that have yet to rebound fully five years after the recession, nonprofits are taking unusual, even drastic, measures. Roundabout is facing the biggest squeeze after a $5.5 million deficit last year on a $60 million budget, a loss that previously had not been made public.”