Category: theatre

“Is the National Theatre School of Canada on its way to becoming the national theatre school of francophone Quebec?”

“Summer tourism and the PR boost of the Tony Awards combined to land 11 Broadway shows in the millionaires’ club last week, with the four trophies scored by “Pippin” helping that revival to break the $1 million barrier for the first time.”

“The regional Tony Award, which began from an initiative from the American Theater Critics Association to recognize theater outside New York, is the only chance for these theaters to get significant national attention — which many then parlay into a fund raising tool for their institution.”

“Luring millennial generation theatergoers has meant experimenting with a variety of outside-the-box events and tactics that center around a single conviction: Young patrons, Woolly believes, aren’t content to show up at theater and passively watch a production.”

“Probably this world of theatres and galleries is the strange fantasy, and most people in the world live lives closer to those desperate people on the verge of collapse every day.”

“It is a long way from Broadway and the people have a sort of Scandinavian freshness.”

“You can’t blame movie stars for thinking twice about the whole Broadway affair. In addition to the lower pay and smaller audience — some of the least-watched films or TV shows will still get in front of more eyeballs than the most-watched Broadway plays — the stage has that crazy work schedule.”

“The dive-bar geezer pouring shots with a surly flourish is offering a solo show, as is the nightclub barmaid popping open a Bud Light grasped between her thigh and calf.”

“Seven alumni from Carnegie Mellon University took home Tonys in five categories, a glittery haul that was both a school record and a huge source of pride for a theater department that turns 100 next year.”

Tennessee Williams “spent nearly two decades writing and rewriting, long after productions had opened and closed, long after film adaptations and printed texts appeared. There are an eye-watering numbers of performable versions. In some of them characters survive, in others, they don’t. Endings are sometimes hopeful, in others gruesomely tragic.” James Graham writes about sorting through them all for a new production at the Old Vic.