Category: theatre

This means London box office receipts have more than doubled since the turn of the century. In 2000, total box office across SOLT members was £286.6 million.

“A Northern Irish borough council has reversed its ban on the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s The Bible: the Complete Word of God (Abridged), allowing scheduled performances in Newtownabbey’s Theatre at the Mill later this week to go ahead as planned.”

There are certainly teenaged boys who could do it, and J.M. Barrie originally wanted the stage role to be filled by a male. So how did we end up with Mary Martin and Cathy Rigby? A combination of historical happenstance and English labour law.

“Actors shared personal stories about life on tour and financial challenges, but there were no formal proposals or negotiating strategies offered that might lead to higher salaries, according to the three members at the meeting.”

Stunt coordinator Richard Ryan, currently working on the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus, walks us through the process.

“The regional theater movement that was formed in opposition to the commercialism of Broadway is now employing the same commercialist tactics it once deplored.”

My guess is that “original practices” – which, when done in London or at Stratford, is part of a larger conversation about the classics – is a bigger sell on Broadway due to the increasingly elite nature of its audiences.

“it turned out to be a really good idea, as the adrenalin goes up, and we pick up a vibe from the audience and learn about timing.”

Adam Blanshay, “born and raised in the affluent Montreal enclave of Westmount, is part a pack of Quebec cultural entrepreneurs who have suddenly and somewhat surprisingly become behind-the-curtain stars of a whole lot of Broadway theatre.”

“While ‘American Hustle’ and ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ have the kind of grandiose titles, A-list actors and based-on-a-true-story subject matter associated with prestige dramas, they are, at their best, flamboyantly savage comedies.”