Category: theatre

“The decision, the most newsworthy result of a busy committee meeting, sets aside a controversial precedent from 2009 when the three teenage boys sharing the lead role in ‘Billy Elliot’ were deemed eligible for a joint best actor nomination — and went on to win that June.”

“Should theater be on that list too? Hell no. Theater should teach that list a lesson.”

“Modernize the subscription model? Or scrap it altogether and try something completely different? If I knew, I’d start a theater company. But I do know that if regional theater wants to save its soul, it’ll have to find new ways to sell tickets.”

Guillermo Calderón: “Chile is a country where one doesn’t speak that much, where ideas aren’t expressed very well, because it is a country that’s a little more silent and a little more violent … I like to create characters who talk, because to me this is a reaction against the culture of self-censorship and secrecy of the dictatorship.”

“More than 25 years after Roddy Doyle wrote The Commitments, the bestselling book-turned-movie is bound for London’s West End.”

“The American Repertory Theater has plucked its next managing director from off-Broadway: William Russo, currently the managing director of New York Theatre Workshop.”

“Shakespeare’s Globe plans ‘authentic’ illumination for its new indoor Jacobean playhouse – what next, bear-baiting before the play?”

“The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse will open its season with a production of The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster and a co-production with the Royal Opera House of Cavalli’s opera L’Ormindo.”

The Donmar’s artistic director: “Sometimes, its necessary for the actors to get the jitters. … But you’re the calm person at the centre of that. No one wants to see a director panic.”

“A bigger problem is our willingness to leave work ‘unfinished,’ to leave edges rough not by choice and design but because time or money ran out, and to later offer the explanation that we would have of course done better, had we had more of this resource or that crew.”