Category: theatre

“British theatre producer David Cecil, facing conviction in Uganda for ignoring an order not to stage a play with gay themes, has said he and his team have been wrongly represented as political activists.”

Factory is trying to salvage the new season after the strife surrounding this summer’s firing of artistic director Ken Gass; Tarragon, the most established of the trio, is seeking ways to get audiences to stick around a bit after the show; Passe Muraille has taken up site-specific and immersive theatre.

“Camus first read Dostoyevsky when he was 20 years old, and later called it a ‘soul-shaking experience.’ He was moved by the moral weight of Dostoyevsky’s words. When the horrors of Stalin’s purges came to light, Camus refused to look away. As he later said, ‘The real 19th century prophet was Dostoyevsky, not Karl Marx.'”

“I think we are better farmers when we approach agriculture through the arts because we can engage our work holistically where emotion, story, and people matter.”

“The FBI has launched an investigation. Private investigators are on the case. The full truth may take some time to come out, but the lead producer of “Rebecca,” Ben Sprecher, says he now believes he was taken in by an elaborate fraud.”

“The co-founder of Jenin’s Freedom Theatre, a drama group active in the northern West Bank, had been detained in Jericho since 13 May following a wave of arrests by the Palestinian Authority. Charges were not brought against him for more than four months.”

“The financially troubled stockbroker who appears to have played a role in the real-life crime drama that scuttled the Broadway musical Rebecca was to receive a commission on the $4.5 million that he was said to be raising for the show, an unusual arrangement in modern theater financing.”

“Principals from London’s leading drama schools, including RADA’s Edward Kemp, have defended themselves from claims that only “rich kids” can afford to train at their organisations.”

“The Long Island stockbroker who has emerged as a central figure in the spectacular collapse of the Broadway musical Rebecca is the subject of an unrelated federal fraud investigation that grew out of several civil lawsuits filed in recent years.”

“A byword for narcissism and violence, she is abandoned by her husband, and lashes out by killing their children. Yet to hear Rachael Stirling talk about the character she is about to play, you’d think Medea was a role model for the smart, modern woman.” Stirling and three other actresses, including Fiona Shaw, talk about how portraying the character messed with their heads.