Category: theatre

“Major changes are being planned for the judging process behind the Olivier Awards to give members of the Society of London Theatre a greater say over who wins.” Unlike the Tonys, Oscars and BAFTAs, a small panel of judges had been choosing the winners; Society members voted only in the nominating process.

He’s been behaving (in his weird way) as if he has, posting colleagues’ personal e-mails to him about his departure on Twitter and posting his audition tape on Vimeo. The messages seem to indicate a conflict with the famously hot-headed Alec Baldwin, but others involved with the production say the problems were with LaBoeuf.

“Old Vic Tunnels, the 30,000 square feet performance space situated underneath Waterloo train station, will close next month after hosting arts events for three years.”

The company, one of New York’s few devoted largely to staging classic plays, has a cash-flow crisis. The company’s artistic director says Pearl needs to raise $250,000 to have an “immediate future”.

Thursday, premiering next week at the Adelaide Festival, depicts the disaster through the eyes of the victims; the bombers themselves are not shown.

“I shared the concern that everything I’d done would actually cause more damage than good, but I spent a lot of obsessive time tracking all of it, and it’s clear at this point that that’s simply not the case at all,’ Daisey says, citing reports that pressure from Apple, and agitation by Chinese workers, has improved their lot.”

“Shia LaBeouf won’t be making his Broadway debut this season after all. The 26-year-old actor has quit the upcoming revival production of the play Orphans in New York over ‘creative differences’.”

“With the kind of young audience that theater producers have long courted and a bustling school (costing about $400 a class), the Upright Citizens Brigade — which has three sites on two coasts and has inspired competitors like the PIT and the Magnet, creating a new theater sphere in New York — is one of the great success stories of the new comedy boom.”

“A British theatre producer deported from Uganda after staging a play with a gay character has vowed to fight on and legally win the right to return to a country he calls home. David Cecil has been forced to leave behind everything, including his girlfriend of six years and two children aged two and one.”

“The National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene is announcing a new play contest to encourage writers and directors to conceive and develop new works in Yiddish. The winning play or musical will be showcased during the first New York International Festival of Jewish Performing Arts, in 2015 to commemorate the centennial of Folksbiene (Yiddish for ‘people’s theater’), the longest continuously running Yiddish theater in the world.”