Category: theatre

The regional theatre’s newest theatre building has been called “The New Theatre” for a decade. But a large donation has secured naming rights for a beloved former staff member – along with the chance to expand and renovate other spaces.

“I think it’s just fine to manipulate an audience, to tell them half truths, even to make up events entirely in order to get at those emotions.”

“Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater, where the monologue is being performed, said Saturday that Daisey has ‘eliminated anything he doesn’t feel he can stand behind’ from the show and added a section at the beginning in which he addresses the questions raised by critics.”

The Edinburgh International Festival’s Jonathan Mills has overseen a dramatic expansion of the festival and two extensions of his original four-year contract – but he announced that it will soon be time to go.

“Not only did Matilda have more nominations than any other production, it was shortlisted in every possible category.”

Ben Brantley: “The return of Gatz to New York got me to thinking about other attempts to capture the essence of books on stage. … Mostly, interpreting written words into spoken dialogue is an act of translation in which something is invariably lost, though are there are sometimes compensations that only theater can provide.”

“I hope that with the provisional defeat of SOPA and PIPA, we are in a moment where we as an industry can finally question the current copyright and intellectual property regimes under which we labor. We must dream together new systems that encourage creativity and move away from our current privatized, exclusivity-based system.”

“The Belarus Free Theatre troupe faces closure in three months unless it gets significant funding, warns its founder.” The company, which is formally banned in its homeland and performs there in secret, “needs about £200,000 a year to pay staff and cover costs, and raise funds from small and large donors to produce shows.”

“The on-again, off-again movie adaptation of Gypsy, with Barbra Streisand in the lead, is officially on again. Universal announced Tuesday that the movie project is moving forward with Downton Abbey creator and writer Julian Fellowes coming on board to pen the screenplay.”

“The eminent Shakespearean scholar John Barton has suggested that Shakespeare’s accent would have sounded to modern ears like a cross between a contemporary Irish, Yorkshire and West Country accent. Others say that the speech of Elizabethans was much quicker than it is in modern day Shakespeare productions. Well, now you can judge for yourself.”