Category: theatre

In fact, performers and activists have been presenting Eve Ensler’s script in the still-socially-conservative People’s Republic off and on for a decade now – with widely varying responses from officials and audiences alike.

“Founded in 1891, Princeton University’s touring musical comedy troupe … has counted among its members luminaries like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jimmy Stewart and Brooke Shields. But one man involved with the prestigious organization allegedly reached a low point and is now accused of treating the club’s purse as a piggy bank to pay off his personal debts.”

“Broadway had its best Thanksgiving week ever at the box office, setting a record of $31.5 million in ticket sales for the 32 musicals and plays running last week.”

“Contemporary theater is largely a false market supported by philanthropy’s phantom seats and unless we want to really invest in letting it fail with the support of funding, we ought to pull the rug out from underneath.”

“It definitely was theatre, but this piece that has no actors and only a paying, playing audience also had as much claim to be reviewed on the gaming or psychology pages. Part of what makes it so fascinating is the fact that it is so hard to define.”

‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder opened last week to some of the best reviews of the fall, but now comes the hard part: increasing its ticket sales. [The show] lacks big-name stars and songwriters who can generate buzz, and it isn’t adapted from a popular film with a built-in fan base like many modern Broadway musicals.”

The 74-year-old actor, currently appearing alongside Patrick Stewart in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Pinter’s No Man’s Land, says that he “night as well go out with a bang.”

The director of the project announces to the assembled artists, “The writers will begin writing at midnight, and will have roughly six hours to make a play about 10 to 15 minutes long, each with about four actors. They then go to bed and you guys come back in the morning. You rehearse from about nine to seven – and then we open the house to 1,000 people.”

“Nobody shouted or got into a fight in our jury room – but I definitely recognised the tense atmosphere. Our foreman was always trying to keep order, and in one of the cases, the majority of jurors initially favoured a guilty verdict, and gradually changed their minds.”

“Theater economics being what they are, actors have grown accustomed to doubling and even tripling up on roles when performing in large-cast plays. But decupling up: playing 10 roles? This is the task facing Eric Tucker on the nights when the Bedlam theater company performs George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.”