Category: theatre

“Despite the one about the Higgs boson that goes to church (you can’t have mass without him) and the atom certain it lost an electron (it’s positive), physics isn’t exactly renowned for its jokes. However, the CERN laboratory in Switzerland [hosted] its first standup comedy night on Friday night with six research scientists.”

“But what is actually difficult to say is this: why do we want to watch sexual violence on display? What we are silent about, in fact, is that some of us get along together perfectly well. But it is rare to find a happy relationship on show.”

Glen Berger’s upcoming tell-all book “chronicles the ugly slide of the once close creators, the director Julie Taymor and the composers Bono and the Edge, of U2, into a morass of betrayals, lawsuits, and petty slaps, like a producer’s yanking Ms. Taymor’s tickets for the show’s opening night.”

Despite praise from everyone from literary managers to the New York Times and Village Voice, Margulies’s The Model Apartment suffered from years of bad luck, bad timing, and (occasionally) bad faith. Maybe it’s because, as the playwright puts it, “This isn’t your bubbe‘s Holocaust play.”

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Amélie, who says he sold the rights to aid a cardiac charity: “I hate Broadway. I think it is the very incarnation of tackiness … I can tell you that I will not go to see it, I don’t even want to hear about it, I won’t listen to what they do, but if it brings in some money, well maybe I can save a few lives, and that’s the only reason I accepted.”

“Shakespeare-on-the-run productions–in which actors move around a designated area and the audience follows along, by running–are quite fun, and more common than you might think.”

“The financial picture, for so many years, is something we’ve tried to get in order. But the numbers in this last fiscal year were just too large.”

“As the fringe drew to a close on Monday, it said that an estimated 1.94m tickets had been sold or issued over the past 25 days. This was 5% more than last year’s festival, which was hit by lower demand as it clashed with the final stages of the London Olympics.”

“Kevin Spacey has said that despite his Oscar winning career in film, and his current commitment to making and starring in the second 13-part series of House of Cards for Netflix, he still finds theatre a ‘more liberating’ artistic form.”

In Edinburgh, both fees and prices for lodging have skyrocketed. Can making your name there be worth it?