“Over the past five theater seasons Asian-American actors were cast in 2 percent of the roles in Broadway and major Off Broadway productions … Asian-Americans were found to be the only minority group whose share of New York acting roles declined slightly, and they were also the least likely to be chosen for characters that would traditionally be played by white actors.”
Category: theatre
Why Do So Many Ticket-Discounting Schemes Discriminate Against Grown-Ups With Day Jobs?
“[If] you work 9 to 5, and aren’t under 26 or over 60, it’s much harder to find affordable ways of seeing a show – even more so when it comes to commercial theatre.”
The Agony And Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs Now Available For Free – As Download Or Performing Script
“On Monday, after nearly 200 performances, the monologuist Mike Daisey was to release a theatrical transcript of his latest one-man show … through his Web site, mikedaisey.blogspot.com. It will be free to download and in a rare twist, if an aspiring performer should want to mount a production of the show, Mr. Daisey will not ask for payment.”
Pygmalion In Rhodesia
“In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins takes a poor flower girl named Eliza Doolittle and teaches her to speak the king’s English. In [Zimbabwean-American writer Danai Gurira’s] The Convert, Jekesai, a young woman from the Shona people, runs away from an arranged marriage and is taken under the wing of a black Catholic missionary named Chilford.
How Can Audiences Fall For New Plays? Passion – And Marketing
“We need to choose stories for that part of the human soul much more often than we do. We need to learn how to market those stories to people, too. We need to expand this city’s understanding of what going to the theater can be: not only familiarity, but discovery; not only comfort, but a healthy rattling of the cages.”
An Off-Off-Broadway Revival? Is That Done? Yes, For ‘The Navigator’
The director: The “process includes readings, staged readings, the opportunity for a small production, and finally for a main stage production. I don’t see this sort of development happening enough in these days of limited finances.”
Oh, Let’s Just Move Outside – The Bristol Old Vic Renovates And Innovates
“The Bristol Old Vic is finally getting a much-needed £19.28m refurbishment and refit. With the main auditorium out of action, the team at BOV had to come up with ingenious ways of keeping the theatre alive during the works.”
The Secrets To Lighting Up The Stage
“The intensity of the colours in the new lighting is really completely different. If we were to go back 20 years, the world would look so different, lighting wise. I spend a lot of time in China and the light there is very different, so that inspires me. But I guess, like every lighting designer, most of the inspiration we get comes from the sun.”
Sondheim’s ‘Merrily’ Is Rolling Back Toward Broadway – Maybe
“On Wednesday night, a semi-staged ‘Merrily’ was presented at New York’s City Center, placing the problematic show closer to Broadway both in spirit and location — only four blocks from its original theater — than it’s been in 30-plus years. How did ‘Merrily’ get here after all its drama — it was the ‘Spider-Man’ of its season, with postponements, creative replacements and plenty of ill will — and after all these years?”
A Call To Employ More Older Women Actors
“The older actress barely walks our British stages and it would seem, unlike the British public, our theatre community does not think this state of affairs warrants any changes.”