Category: theatre

“Arizona Theatre Company expects to post more than a $1 million deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30, the result of a disappointing season at the box office and in fundraising that has sparked dispute and finger-pointing behind the scenes at the state’s largest theatrical producer.”

“For the last 17 summers it has been one of New York’s more offbeat free diversions: … a troupe of actors on a shoestring budget perform Hamlet, Macbeth and other classics in a municipal lot on the Lower East Side.” Beginning this year, due to a rule change, the city’s Transportation Dept. is asking the company to pay the usual parking fees for the empty spaces they use.

“The 140-character messages will begin this Wednesday, continuing until August 29, when Mark Ravenhill’s play – also called Candide – receives its premiere at the RSC’s Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.”

“Entrepreneurial producers are staging musicals that offer atmospherics and alcohol in hopes of attracting a new A-list crowd to fill more theater seats.”

“Behind this is a desire for diversity and experiment, but it also suggests a superhuman tolerance for semi-professionalism.”

“In adapting The Jungle Book for a stage musical, Mary Zimmerman has had to take much into consideration – the Disney film, a mix of music and the possibility of offending audiences.”

“Musical supervisors and orchestrators have secured a victory in their campaign to be honoured at the Olivier Awards, with next year’s ceremony set to include a brand new prize category for which they will be eligible.”

“The audience enters in the dark. The actors are never seen. The ushers wear night vision goggles.”

“In the age of ‘Glee’ and ‘Smash’ and where 80 percent Broadway shows are musicals, this is an untapped market. This new program reinvigorates the O’Neill and will benefit the American theater for years to come.”

“The connection between Shakespeare and nuclear waste might seem tenuous, but Michael J. Sandel, the political philosopher, did his utmost to unite the two at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Monday night, assisted by readings given by the likes of Alan Alda, Vanessa Redgrave, Christine Baranski and Matt Damon.”