Category: theatre

“The company, famed for its Gilbert and Sullivan operas, stopped producing work in 2003 after it was unable to secure funding to enable it to continue. Since then it has operated a music hire library, which supplies the orchestral parts for Gilbert and Sullivan operas to professional and amateur societies.”

Michael Billington: “Doran is, in the words of a fellow critic, ‘a true Shakespearean’. He knows the plays inside out. He has been in and around the RSC for 25 years, first as an actor and latterly as [his predecessor’s] chief associate director (almost acting as deputy artistic director). And, from my knowledge of him, he is one of the good guys.”

Gregory Doran, who joined the company 25 years ago – as an actor – is currently chief associate director at the RSC.

One reason is “the business considerations of modern Broadway: a desire among theater owners to keep their houses booked (even if seats are heavily discounted), and the belief among producers that they can negotiate better deals for road tours of musicals that can still claim to be so-called Broadway hits.”

“Their country is less than nine months old and still coping with the aftermath of decades of war, widespread poverty and an education system badly in need of repair, with around 80% of the population illiterate. But a theatre company from South Sudan wants to show a different side of the country when it participates in the World Shakespeare festival at the Globe theatre in London.”

“After four days of nonstop media coverage, Mike Daisey is still standing his ground and refusing to retreat. In fact, he is taking the counter-offensive, blasting the media for what he sees as their skewed obsession with him.”

“The [20-part] series, called Shakespeare’s Restless World, is being presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor and will use objects to discuss ‘how Elizabethan playgoers understood and made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing world in which they lived’.”

“They’ve been bailed out already, the City of Vancouver gave them $1-million. It didn’t work,” James Moore told The Globe and Mail on Monday. “They tried fundraising. They didn’t get the kind of financial support that they were hoping for. It’s just really disappointing and sad.”

The National Theatre of Scotland is hard at work on a production about the phone-hacking scandals in the U.K. – and the play’s to be called Enquirer, of course.