Category: theatre

The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, a piece developed by the National Theatre of Wales and premiered last year, has a high-profile spot in the British Council’s showcase at Edinburgh this summer. “The production’s timing could hardly be better.”

“The £10,000 award is the first of a new drama category of Britain’s oldest literary awards. It was launched last year by the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the National Theatre of Scotland and in association with the Traverse Theatre. More than 180 playwrights from around the world submitted their work for consideration.”

“Not a lot of people actually suffer from a debilitating phobia of clowns; a lot more people, however, just don’t like them” – including young children. And this has been true, to a greater or lesser extent, for centuries.

“The Black Rep has to move anything it has from the theater by Friday, August 16. A liquidator will empty the theater completely at the end of the month.”

At the Rockaway Theatre Company, which lost everything in the hurricane: “There was the darkness part of the story, all storm songs and rain and wind songs. And then the other side is the comeback, the light that we would be coming into.”

The 23-year-old says “he wasn’t thinking when he discarded the fake bomb while cleaning out his Manhattan apartment Tuesday.”

Let go and enjoy the wackiness.

The high court awarded the theatre “a payout of more than £1.1m from its insurers a decade after its building contractor went bust during refurbishments. The victory … means the arts venue will be able to clear its debts, not least to Hackney-born entrepreneur Alan Sugar, … who provided an interest-free loan that allowed the Empire to complete renovations.”

The actor “has roundly endorsed the director-curated seasons currently being staged in the West End by Michael Grandage and Jamie Lloyd. … ‘It seems that a group of plays performed together under one umbrella might be the best way to put demanding drama on in the West End.'”

“‘What a pity people can’t fly like birds.’ These lines from a monologue by Katerina, the heroine of the play The Storm, are known to everyone in Russia, as is the name of the author, Alexander Ostrovsky, a dramatist and theater reformer.”