“2013 is a pivotal year. As well as the centenary celebrations, Roxana Silbert has just taken up her post as artistic director, ahead of the Rep’s move back to its current home in Centenary Square, which has been undergoing major redevelopment … [including] a new 300-seat studio theatre, two giant rehearsal rooms and lots of swanky new loos.”
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Two Theatres Used By Shakespeare Could Host Plays Once Again
“The Curtain theatre in Shoreditch, once home turf for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, was discovered last year … [and] would be transformed into a 250-seat open-air amphitheatre … Meanwhile, just around the corner, it could soon be joined by a six-storey theatre with a 235-seat auditorium, on the site of a performance space known simply as the Theatre.”
Persistence (And A Little Chutzpah) Earn Young Playwright His Off-Broadway Debut
How did Paul Downs Colaizzo do it? By, among other things, cold-calling a marketing firm for a job, lobbying erstwhile colleagues to get his script into a play-reading festival, and befriending one of American theater’s hottest directors by walking up to him on the sidewalk.
Can Retooling On The Road Fix Jekyll And Hyde?
The Frank Wildhorn musical, which ran for nearly four years on Broadway in the late ’90s despite widespread critical scorn, is being reworked and (everyone hopes) improved over the course of a seven-month US tour prior to a new Broadway run beginning in April.
Report: More Minority Actors On Broadway But Not Enough
“The percentage of minority actors working on Broadway and at the top 16 not-for-profit theater companies in New York City rose to 23 percent during the 2011-2012 season, but whites continue to be overrepresented, according to a new report.”
The Crowdfunded Broadway Cast Album
“If there are enough people who care about these recordings and who love this community and love these artists and will pay whatever it takes to get these things recorded, and there are tools to do that, then why not use them?”
Rupert Goold To Head London’s Almeida Theatre
“The appointment is a major coup for the Islington theatre. Goold has become one of the biggest names in British theatre following a string of bold and inventive productions. He was frequently tipped as a potential successor to both Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre and, until Gregory Doran’s appointment last year, Michael Boyd at the Royal Shakespeare Company.”
If You Really, Really Love A Play, You’ll Never Let It Go
This 30-year-old woman has seen the Broadway musical ‘Once’ 95 times – but that’s far from her record for a Broadway show.
‘Chinglish’ Finds No Love In Mainland China
David Henry Hwang’s play accidentally (he says) matches last year’s scandal around the murder of a British expatriate businessman – so the play’s opening in Hong Kong instead of mainland China.
L.A.’s Gordon Davidson Wants Kids To Love Theatre (And Take It Seriously, Too)
When the man who founded the Mark Taper Forum asked his USC theatre class students what they wanted to do, they mostly said Hollywood. He was not amused.