“Thriving at the heart of live theater, the ensemble is a true representation of a team effort. Without it, the show wouldn’t go on. Dance Magazine spoke with Sarrah Strimel, Paloma Garcia-Lee, and Bahiyah Hibah to investigate the crucial work of ensemble women” in Broadway musicals.
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Is There Any Kind Of Play Marianne Elliott Can’t Direct Brilliantly?
We may know her best for War Horse, but Michael Mopurgo selected her to direct the staging of his book after seeing her production of Shaw’s Saint Joan. She directed Kim Cattrall in Sweet Bird of Youth for Kevin Spacey’s Old Vic, and her National Theatre staging of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won seven Olivier Awards.
Is Theatre Criticism Really In Crisis? Not Necessarily
Despite the shrinking word counts and business-model problems, writes Lyn Gardner, “the pendulum may yet swing the other way. There was a time back in the early 1990s when newspapers barely went near regional theatres; now they wouldn’t dream of not reviewing the latest show at West Yorkshire Playhouse.”
American Theaters Are Finally Coming Around To Hearing Loops
The technology, which magnetically transfers the sounds picked up by a microphone and transmitter to a special coil in a hearing aid or cochlear implant, has been used widely in Europe for years. Now a critical mass of venues in the U.S. are coming around to installing the equipment.
Canada Revives $100K Theater Prize
“The first protégé who shared in the inaugural edition of the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize in 2001 is among the trio of nominees for the 2013 edition of the revived Canadian theatre honour.”
“Carlos Danger” Gets His Own Stage Tragedy (Complete With Bad-Pun Title)
“The strange summer of Anthony D. Weiner is about to have its curtain call: The Weiner Monologues, a play that imagines the erstwhile congressman and mayoral candidate as a tragic hero of the stage, will make its Off Off Broadway debut next month.”
University of Mississippi Investigating Anti-Gay Slurs At Play About Matthew Shepard’s Death
“Using hate-filled words to interrupt a play about anti-gay hate is a sad irony.”
Ole Miss Football Players Disrupt Performance Of ‘The Laramie Project’
After calling out homophobic slurs, the football players “were subsequently asked to apologize for their actions but were ‘taking pictures of cast members while making fun of them, talking on their cell phones, hollering at the females in the cast and talking to other audience members during the acts,’ per the play’s performance report.”
What Happens When A Theatre Town Like Chicago Loses Some Major Criticism Venues?
“Without the support, the audience reach, and visibility to these smaller groups that established critical resources provide, the game changes significantly. A huge aspect of what has been drawing young, exciting artists to Chicago has shrunk.”
Shocker: It’s Not So Easy Transforming A Movie Into A Musical
“As more and more films are becoming Broadway source material, the graveyard is littered with musicals in which screenwriters have proved incapable of separating themselves from their original scripts to meet the demands of the stage.”