Category: theatre

“Whenever there’s a survey of the theater community about what the community needs, this idea has always been in the top five.”

Let the actors do their thing. That’s how the plays gain any meaning.

“Wearing velveteen slippers with ‘Yes’ embroidered on one and ‘No’ on the other, she walked the creaky pine floors of Horton Foote’s homestead and roamed the town square where his father owned a clothing store.”

“You really can be 25 and have an idea and put a show up for a little while that people will come to without going broke.”

“Often, a theater’s creative work is outsourced, and those folks (essentially, all temps) rarely have the same kind of recourse that even a job candidate at a law firm would receive if her superior behaved inappropriately.”

“The campaign is lobbying major manufacturers to continue production of tungsten lamps, following concerns that legislation banning retailers from selling incandescent light bulbs to domestic users has resulted in manufacturers producing fewer of them.”

Alyssa Rosenberg: “Romeo & Juliet – a play about children – is full of terrible, deeply childish ideas about love.” And the ending “is an adolescent fantasy of death solving all problems.”

Isaac Butler: “Romeo & Juliet is a great play that goes much deeper than the story of lovesick teenagers killing themselves. It’s tightly plotted, multilayered, filled with incredible lines and complicated characters, and far smarter than it often gets credit for on the subject of young love.

Noah Berlatsky: “In Romeo & Juliet play-acting with the categories of adult and child can lead to exhilarating delight, pleasurably moralistic revulsion and, sometimes, to tragedy.”

“The regional theater boom, as it spread across the country, was largely a manifestation of the funds that flowed from The Great Society policies of president Lyndon B. Johnson. Never before in the history of the United States had such large quantities of cash been unleashed on the arts – and, unfortunately, never since. Among the ruthless realities for our theater is that our current economically harsh conditions merely represent a return to the norm.”