Habima is due to perform The Merchant of Venice in Hebrew during the international festival at the Bankside venue in May. It will mark the company’s first visit to the UK. However, the letter calls on Shakespeare’s Globe to withdraw its invitation so that “the festival is not complicit with human rights violations and the illegal colonisation of occupied land”.
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Looking For New Ways To Remind The Audience To Turn Off Their Damned Cell Phones
“Once upon a time, stage actors worried about tomatoes. Now, they worry about T-Mobile. Thus, the ubiquitous reminder to listen up and power down. While some preshow messages are direct and unadorned, many directors and producers view the recording as an occasion for a bit of creativity, an opportunity both to set cellphones on silent and to set the tone for a production.”
Even Mark Rylance Piles On Shakespeare’s Globe Invitation To Habima Theatre
“Shakespeare’s Globe’s former artistic director Mark Rylance has become the latest figure to call on the London venue to withdraw its invitation to Israeli company Habima to perform as part of the London theatre’s Globe to Globe festival this summer.”
Neil Patrick Harris To Host Tonys For Third Time
Harris previously hosted the Tonys last year and in 2009 — the same year he hosted the Emmy Awards. As he did in 2011, Harris will also serve as a producer.
Miss Mark Rylance In Jerusalem? You Can Still Catch It (And A Bunch Of Other Great Performances)
“In fact there is a recording, shot for the National Video Archive of Performance (NVAP) during 2009, while the play was still at the Royal Court, and it’s available for anyone who wishes to view it. Home to over 200 recordings of performances from across the UK, NVAP is now in its 20th year and housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum.”
How Playwright Enda Walsh Depicts His Homeland
“Basically, I wanted to do a rural Ireland that looked like somebody had taken a hammer to it.”
What Do We Want From A Theatre Review? (Well, Who’s This ‘We’?)
“What do we actually want from a theater review? Here’s a catalogue of desires from a few sides.” (Add your own in the comments.)
Who’s Responsible For The State Of Theatre?
Everyone, of course. But more specifically, playwrights – and male playwrights, at that.
Baltimore’s Newest Artistic Director Takes On Some Tough Plays – His Own
“In the insular and collegial-but-touchy world of American theater, his decision to stage both ‘Clybourne Park’ and his as-yet-unwritten response play, ‘Beneatha’s Place,’ is most assuredly not the norm. But the garrulous, opinionated, 45-year-old Kwame Kwei-Armah seems unwilling to let all of his passions take a back seat to his regard for artistic diplomacy.”
Why Is It So Hard To Open A New Play On Broadway?
Money, of course. But all that cash isn’t necessarily going where you may think.