Category: theatre

The company Oily Cart “specialises in creating spectacular productions for young people with complex disabilities. These are vivid, multisensory and interactive performances, using touch, taste, smell, sight and sound, designed to appeal to youngsters with a wide range of abilities.”

“Salt Lake City’s theater community first reacted with caution at news of … [the] proposed 2,500-seat ‘Broadway-style’ theater, slated for construction [downtown]. Now that the $110 million Utah Performing Arts Center seems increasingly likely to become reality, that same community wants to ensure there might be something in it for cash-strapped local producers, actors, directors and playwrights.”

It’s Lyn Gardner. But relax, she’s talking about Christmas pantomimes, not King Lear.

“I tell you this to just let you know that an evening like last night was something I have been unable to give my wife but was one that now I know I have to no matter what.”

“Thursday night’s performance of the 1920s musical was its 6,681st. The other two longest-running shows are Cats, with 7,500 performances, and The Phantom of the Opera, which is still running after more than 10,300 shows.”

Vicky Featherstone, the company’s founding artistic director, talks about the challenges of building a national company from scratch and getting it established on the world stage – and about when her own Englishness became an “issue” and even degenerated into “bullying”.

Berwick Kaler: “I’m a man dressed as a woman who you think doesn’t really want to be dressed as a woman. … In fact it’s not the children who would be embarrassed by a dame if he was effeminate or wore really wonderful [flamboyant] Danny La Rue-type costumes. It’s the men. They would feel uncomfortable.”

“The director behind the National Theatre of Scotland’s biggest hit, Black Watch, has announced that he is to leave the company. John Tiffany, who was named best director at this year’s Tony awards for his production of the musical Once, has stepped down as associate director for the National Theatre of Scotland, having held the role since 2005.”

“The calamitous moments inside the New York hotel that cost Dominique Strauss-Kahn his career, his dignity and possibly even his wife have now been turned into theatre. Some say bad theatre.”

“Total attendance, which includes tickets to shows and workshops, was 425,932 — up from 421,982 last year. The Guthrie has 20,822 subscribers, up by 322 from the previous year. Its $42 million endowment remains unchanged.”