Category: theatre

“It’s a total science; it’s a total art,” he says. “And altogether, you’re not supposed to know any of this has happened.”

Funny, snarky, and delivers the goods. (We won’t spoil the winners for you.)

“To nab the spoils, contenders lack the tools of many of the conventions of Hollywood’s annual Oscar rite. For one thing, strict rules prohibit swag.”

“‘No more,’ Baldwin told Zap2it. ‘Broadway has changed. It is not what I remember. It was a very, very, very exhausting experience.'”

“Even once a show’s financing looks solid, and a star and a theater are lined up, it takes time to construct sets, retrofit the theater and finish the creative work on the script or score — often a few months for a play and twice as long for big musicals. So when one show flops, and a theater becomes available, few if any shows are ready to fill the void.”

“The two-time Tony Award winner Mark Rylance will return to Broadway this fall to lead all-male ensembles in a double bill of Shakespeare, playing the besotted noblewoman Olivia in Twelfth Night and the titular monstrous monarch in Richard III.”

Well, they got a good movie out of it back in the day. And this venture has a lot of talent behind it: composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown, playwright Marsha Norman, and director Bartlett Sher along with his design team from the Lincoln Center Theater South Pacific.

I’m not saying we should stop casting skinny white girls. Of course not. They’re talented, wonderful human beings who deserve roles and love and cupcakes and all the good things in life, just like anyone else. But clearly we need to step away from the formula “normal = skinny and white.”

Geoffrey Cowan’s Top Secret: Battle for the Pentagon Papers debuted in China in late 2011. Now it’s touring the country again, including a stop at Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts (a/k/a The Egg), the country’s most prestigious venue.

New York’s the TEAM – Theatre of the Emerging American Moment (they only figured that part out later) – has created shows that “looked at neo-conservatism through the lens of The Wizard of Oz“, that “contemplated the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina via … Gone With the Wind“, and that examine “the pioneer spirit” through Dutch immigrants who end up in Vegas.