Category: theatre

Director Nick Bagnall “has edited the three parts of Henry VI into a series of two-hour dramas, each of which can be seen independently and will tour the country before a run at the Globe in London. But it is the battlefield days, in which all three plays will be presented in order, that are the biggest challenge.”

Paulette Randall, whose staging of August Wilson’s Fences is now at the Duchess: “It’s my biggest achievement, ‘course it is, but you never know what’s around the corner, do you? I’m nowhere near done. … But I am still so disappointed that there aren’t more of me out there.”

“Producers estimate that more than 15 million theatergoers in over 70 cities across North America have seen the show since 2002.”

The Manchester International Festival production of the Scottish play “is scheduled to be broadcast live to cinemas in England on July 20 as part of the NT Live series. A pre-recorded version will be broadcast to movie theaters in the U.S. and around the world starting Oct. 17, with encore screenings to follow.”

“The company managed to draw top-notch Broadway actors and directors, and developed a reputation for mounting quality productions on non-Broadway budgets and rehearsal schedules.”

“Saturday 29 June was supposed to be the day that Cirque du Soleil turned the page on recent financial and artistic setbacks, and sent a message that it was still the most powerful player in live entertainment in Las Vegas. Instead, it ended with the worst tragedy in the French-Canadian circus company’s history.”

They like to take their time. “In all these years, [the two men] have collaborated on just five plays, only three of which were ever formally staged. … Such sparseness is very much a result of the way they work. Mr. Gregory, 79, a pioneer of avant-garde theater, often rehearses a play for months, even years.”

“Make no mistake: Drayton Entertainment is one of the country’s biggest theatrical successes. Its circuit of not-for-profit theatres in southern Ontario has expanded to seven.”

One of the gathering’s implicit tasks, participants say, will be trying to come up with a reasonable working concept of what Latino theater is, particularly in a region as culturally complex as Southern California.

“She estimated that around 8 – 12 per cent of today’s plays are written by women, compared with 18.4 per cent in 1923, 20.4 per cent in 1936, and 22 per cent in 1945.”