Category: theatre

“The actors and creative team behind a play that depicts Jesus Christ and his apostles as gay face charges of blasphemy in Greece, according to court officials.”

“The financially troubled Reprise Theatre Company says it has hired Stephen Eich, an L.A. theater veteran, to help lead its efforts to reorganize during its self-imposed hiatus. The company is hoping to relaunch sometime in the summer of 2013, said actor Jason Alexander, who is Reprise’s artistic director.”

“Actors Michael Shannon, Paul Rudd, Ed Asner, and Kate Arrington were well into performing the story of a cynical, atheist science professor when an unidentified man in the balcony began to loudly and violently vomit. The disgorge went over the balcony, showering the prime orchestra section seats directly below.”

The Kitchen is still storm-ravaged (even its phones don’t work), but the theatre will produce a final closing weekend for Richard Maxwell’s Neutral Hero, which was up when Hurricane Sandy hit.

“The actors and creative team behind a play that depicts Jesus Christ and his apostles as gay face charges of blasphemy in Greece, according to court officials.”

“McKellen suggested that there would be no more actors to match the likes of himself and Judi Dench in the future because the experiences that challenged and moulded them were no longer in such fruitful supply.”

The closing of Loserville, playing in London was “almost entirely due to those slightly overweight white, male, middle-class critics in their late-50s who closed it.”

“Artistic directors from the UK’s leading regional venues have joined with Olympic opening ceremony director Danny Boyle and National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner to warn that Britain’s local theatres are facing a ‘very real’ threat to their futures.”

“Britain will produce no more actors of the calibre of Dame Judi Dench or Sir Derek Jacobi because repertory theatre has died out, according to Sir Ian McKellen. Sir Ian said he would not have the career he has today without a grounding in regional rep … ‘The situation is desperate. There are no [resident] companies in this country’.”

“Over 2000 years may have elapsed since masked Greek tragedies had their heyday on stage in Athens, but some of the most modern neuroscience may be able to give classicists a better understanding of how the ancients watched and thought about those plays.” The key concept: “embodied cognition”.