Category: theatre

“Theaters in New York and elsewhere continue to struggle with revenues, with small ones in constant fear of losing leases as landlords seek to capitalize on the improving real estate market.”

“The Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director Gregory Doran has announced the organisation is entering into a three-year relationship with the Barbican more than 10 years since it ‘walked out’ on the London venue in 2002. … He warned that the two theatres were ‘dating’ and ‘not announcing wedding plans’.”

“Harvey Fierstein, who won Tony Awards for best play and best actor in 1983 for his landmark gay drama, Torch Song Trilogy, but has mostly written musical scripts since then, has a new play coming to Broadway for the first time in nearly 30 years.”

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In a Creative Breakthroughs interview for The Atlantic, she says that she developed her ability to impersonate multiple characters because she couldn’t afford to hire other actors.

“The 44-year-old Zulu [James Ngcobo] is the new artistic director of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. Despite the venue’s celebrated history of protest plays during white minority rule, when it was known as the ‘theatre of the struggle’, Ngcobo is the first black person to fill the position full time.”

“There are, of course, celebrated acting pairs — Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy — who made careers, or at least minicareers, of their chemistry. But sometimes it’s unexpected or unlikely pairings that also entice.”

“One could argue that we all self-define as either the green girl (alienated, misunderstood) or the blond girl (popular, misunderstood) in our minds. One might note the show’s popularity with a youthful demographic that likes to go back again and again.”

Rose Cano’s community extends from the theatre company she co-founded to the homeless people for whom she wrote a new version of Don Quixote to the many Latin Americans in and near Seattle.

“Does this sully critical judgement? I don’t think so. One of the most intriguing things about the most interesting writing from the liveliest bloggers is that it is often a response not just to the performance itself but often also to other writing which has already taken place around the production.”