Category: theatre

“With only 15 seconds and the small field of vision offered on Instagram, capturing an elaborately staged scene from ‘Hamlet’ is a technical challenge.”

“In 1980, 400,000 children under 18 attended a Broadway show. By last year, that number had nearly tripled, growing to 1.12 million.”

“On stage there are no nets. There’s nothing you can do for an actor in the theater once that curtain goes up.”

“The perception of L.A. theater as merely an actor’s showcase (as opposed to a cultural venture) has faded.”

“Authorities sought to reassure theatergoers Friday that London’s elegant but aging venues are safe after chunks of ornamental plaster fell from a ceiling of the Apollo Theatre, showering patrons with dust and debris and injuring 79 people.”

“JK Rowling will not write the stage piece — however, she will co-produce and collaborate with a playwright.”

Audience member Rachel Williams gives an eyewitness account.

Why, they just don’t have any – as L.A.’s Antaeus Company shows us in their annual fundraising video. (Sorry, folks, it’s pixellated.)

Valley of Song wasn’t yet finished when Novello died in 1951; it was completed by longtime collaborator Christopher Hassall. The world premiere will be just after New Year’s at London’s Finborough Theatre.

“Baby steps” and “elbow grease” were phrases that were resorted to by leaders who would like to be agents of progressive change yet don’t want to be responsible for bringing about the downfall of these “old theaters,” as a panelist called the larger institutions represented here.