Category: theatre

“Over the past four years, almost 1,000 of the company’s Twitter followers from across the U.S. have written more than 4,900 one-tweet plays.”

“The economics of Broadway have become prohibitive. Roughly 75 percent of shows on Broadway never turn a profit.”

“What I’m trying to figure out here is, how do you create a special place where artists will want to come and hang out, and where they will happen to see things that aren’t immediately related to their own medium.”

“The play has acquired a remarkable record for being performed in very different international settings. No disaster or civil strife is complete without its own Godot.”

Without special low rates for the young, Plummer says, theatres will lose their audiences in the future.

The Broadway League reported Wednesday that the nine-year-old “Wicked” took in a whopping $2,947,172 over nine performances last week, which is the highest single-week gross of any show in Broadway history.

“A Ugandan court has dismissed the case against a British theatre producer who faced two years in jail for staging a play about homosexuality. David Cecil was charged with ‘disobeying lawful orders’ from Uganda’s media council after performances of the play went ahead despite intervention from the regulators.”

“The New York producer of the scandal-plagued musical Rebecca said on Wednesday that he would try to open the show later this year on Broadway, where a planned production fell apart this fall when several investors were revealed to be concoctions of a rainmaking middleman.”

“The Mother****** With the Hat is a play that has a marketing challenge built directly into its title. How do you say a name that contains the mother of all obscenities? How do you use a title that can’t be printed in most newspapers? As it turns out, each theater company has its own way of coping.”

“The most outrageous aspects of the show – its copious nudity, grinding simulations, exceptionally blue language – tend to overshadow both its social importance and the sweet, rather innocent messages about sex at its core. The revue ran during a time when ideologies from the 1960s sexual revolution were being absorbed into the American mainstream.”