Category: theatre

“It’s not easy being the top non-Jew in the Yiddish theater. There are those letters to ‘Miss Sheyna Baker’ and the constant questions about why he would want to steep himself in Yiddish.”

“Facts are just facts and as a society, with a touch of the calculator or a hit of Google, kids can find a factual answer. But that can’t teach a mind to be subtle and flexible.” Practitioners and studies say that theatre can – and despite hits to the arts after No Child Left Behind, children’s theatre thrives in many U.S. cities.

The grant from the Pershing Square Foundation will allow Signature to keep admission at its new Frank Gehry-designed theater complex at $25 for the next ten years.

“Although the report found that 81% of respondents are out in their professional life, and that 94% are honest about their sexuality to their fellow performers, only 57% list their agent as someone they are open about their sexuality to. Comments left by respondents highlight how actors feel that telling agents and casting directors will limit the parts they are offered.”

“With its subtitle – six towns, one project, one joint theatre – this four-year programme funded by EU money grew out of an observation ‘that the tragedy of Europe is that it built itself starting with the common market. If only we had started with culture’.”

“[It] is a fugitive form, lacking a permanent home, rarely available on the page. Yet for all that it seems to me a very good way into any writer’s work – released from the armature of plot, the playwright is compelled to invest the moment with intense theatrical energy. In those precious minutes the dramatist’s toolkit of rhythm, voice and image is ruthlessly exposed.”

“For the past two years, the Royal Court has led the winners’ lists at these awards but the venue was not recognised in any category this year. Meanwhile, there was only one West End win – for Sheridan Smith for her performance in Flare Path at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.”

“The Sydney Morning Herald ran a story that suggested that the theater company’s board of directors was less than satisfied with the couple’s tenure” and decided not to renew their contract as artistic directors. Both Blanchett’s PR people and the STC’s board insist the suggestion is entirely false; the Herald has appended a half-correction.

Actress Lisa Dillon: “[Kate] is as much a victim of her own behaviour as she is of the society she lives in. … Nobody can exist in a patriarchal society or outside one where your behaviour is so rebellious, vulgar, crass: you will always be the outsider unless something changes. … It’s a question of how you break that cycle. In that sense her story has parallels with addiction.”

“More than 216,000 people saw the Broadway revival of “Follies” by the time it ended its five-and-a-half month run on Sunday, and most major theater critics raved about the production, which added three weeks of performances in response to ticket demand. Yet all of this was not enough to recoup the show’s capitalization and turn a profit.”