Category: theatre

“What does it say that the playwrights who have been through it, and arguably made it to the other side, that these artists are writing about the failure of art and more specifically the failure of the artist?”

“He took over in 2003 when there was a sense that the National was drifting comfortably along without any sustaining vision. One of Hytner’s great achievements – along with that of his executive director, Nick Starr, who will also be leaving in 2014 – is that he has restored to the theatre a strong sense of purpose.”

“Producers of the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” and their former director, Julie Taymor, announced on Wednesday that they had reached a settlement in their acrimonious legal battle over profits, copyright claims, and artistic credit for $75 million show, the most expensive in history.”

“The 56-year-old, who has been at the theatre for a decade, said he would leave at the end of March 2015.”

“The idea for the collaboration, unique among American theaters, developed organically in discussions between the artistic and managing directors of the two theaters, then came to fruition as teams from the production, casting, marketing and box office departments of both organizations got involved.”

A coversation with the two stars, both appearing in Eisenberg’s play The Revisionist – a script he sat on until he could convince Redgrave to appear in it.

“The song, Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher, kicks off the second act of the musical which is set during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. It was included in the performance as normal after the audience voted “overwhelmingly” to keep it in.”

“Then the play finally goes up, and — if the writer really nails it — there’s this feeling of inevitability about the whole thing, as if every false start and shaky draft had been building to this point all long — which, in a way, they were.”

“If you have walked down London’s South Bank in the past month, or even been near Waterloo Bridge, you can’t have missed it. A bright red building with four chimneys, it has landed in the theatre’s grey forecourt like a big, mischievous block of Lego.”

“Is anything ever easy with Alec Baldwin?” He and the other two cast members of the play, now in previews on Broadway, talk about getting the show back together.