Category: theatre

“Theatremakers may be employing digital technology that creates breath-taking effects, but most of the shows are just not using the technology in particularly interesting ways.”

“Dancer Daniel Curry, an Equity member, was taken to Bellevue Hospital after his leg became trapped in a hydraulic stage lift.”

“Theater is just one kind of storytelling technology, and it’s been losing market share steadily for a century. We artists have all sorts of digital tools we can play with now. And if we want to be prosperous, like Erol, we really ought to play with them more.”

“I worry for the young journalists who should be ramping up to take my place. The new managerial passion to minimize payroll puts them in a permanent limbo, at least until people discover ways to make the Internet a paying market for writers who can think deeply about a subject. Just now the Web is all about breadth, not depth.”

“We are intellectually stuck: our familiar political narratives about the conjunction of liberalism and democracy do not seem to work when it comes to Egypt.”

Terry Teachout: “Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Molière. They are our lifelines to the wider world of theater. Yet literary translators are the perpetually unsung heroes and heroines of literature. (If you doubt it, try naming a half-dozen of them off the top of your head.)”

During a performance of Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter, Bryn Jones had a severe allergic reaction to an audience member’s perfume. But the only way out of the small theatre was through the audience, whom Jones didn’t want to disturb …

“Nazi symbols and gestures are banned in Germany, but Jonathan Meese’s lawyers had argued that the constitution protects artistic freedom.”

“The King’s Head theatre in Islington has commissioned verbatim playwright Tess Berry-Hart to create a play examining the law – which has made it illegal to give under-18s information about homosexuality in Russia – as well as its implications and consequences.” The piece, titled Sochi 2014, premieres Sept. 1 and 2.

“The one thing I wanted to take a crack at is how do we make theater accessible to everyone, and get past the idea that it’s only for someone in a certain economic bracket.”