Category: theatre

NT Live is a “fantastic thing” in allowing people to access shows they might not be able to otherwise see and the screenings are cheaper than a trip to London to see a play. “But it is not the same experience as being in the theatre.”

“Fine dramatic architecture does not require transferability to the screen. A camera does not shed a scorching light on the “bald spots” of theatrical writing. The two media are fundamentally different.”

The double-bill of Twelfth Night and Richard III has now earned back its $3.1 million capitalization – by no means a sure thing on Broadway, even for critically-acclaimed Shakespeare productions.

“He is planning to set up a new concern with the National’s executive director Nick Starr when the pair leave in 2015.”

“Michael Price, who has led Goodspeed Musicals in Connecticut since 1968, producing more than 200 shows and sending 19 of them to Broadway” – including Annie, By Jeeves and Shenandoah – “will retire at the end of the year, the theater company’s board of trustees announced on Thursday.”

A Brooklyn theater company is mounting a site-specific production of Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith – “which by most evidence is based on an apocryphal account of how Smith, the black, early-20th-century blues singer, was denied treatment at a whites-only hospital” – at a struggling community medical center.

“When I heard about the Apollo I said, ‘That’s it, we’re going to see some damage here’. But we’ve had a better [Christmas] period this year than we did last year – and that was when we were in our honeymoon period.”

Apparently, all Ontarians wanted for Christmas was musical theatre, as audience demand helped break records at theatres across the province over the holidays.

“Live theater and live sports are kind of the same emotional experience — you have that emotional connection to whatever’s happening onstage, and I think the same thing happens with sports.”