Category: theatre

“One of the Edinburgh Fringe’s leading venue operators, Remarkable Arts, is being wound up, owing tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid box office receipts to companies who staged work at its two theatres during this summer’s festival.”

“Edward G. Robinson’s professional accomplishments include roles in 100 motion pictures, scores of plays and exactly one writing credit, for Kibitzer. He helped steer that play to critical and commercial success when it ran on Broadway for 120 performances in early 1929.” A New York theater company has unearthed the script and given it public readings.

“Penumbra Theatre has cancelled two of the five plays in its current season, the St. Paul company announced Tuesday. The programming cuts come as the theater disclosed that it has a $500,000 shortfall on its $3.2 million budget.”

“Kevin Spacey has won praise for a series of in-character attacks as Richard III on unruly audience members in Sydney, including a cutting rebuke of the owner of a ringing mobile phone.”

“How to write about these scoundrel times? WH Auden dubbed the 1940s ‘the age of anxiety’, but it feels a better term for now than then. … Hard times can generate great writing, but they can also freeze the imagination in a rictus of fear.”

“My wrists are tied, I’m in total darkness and a man very close to my face is shouting: ‘Get on your knees, bitch!’ I do what he says. It’s when he puts a cold, wet hood over my head, tips my head back and pours water into my face that I start hyperventilating.” (She paid $60 for her ticket.)

“This is the Teatro Valle, Rome’s oldest theatre. And right now the place itself is playing a central role in its own, very political drama. For the past five months, the theatre has been occupied in the name of the people.”

“Shakespeare no longer seemed impenetrable. And I had a sneaky feeling there was nothing going on in my life that he didn’t have an angle on. If I showed up every month, I’d discover them all.”

L.A. Theatre Works was in the middle of performing “Top Secret: Battle for the Pentagon Papers” at Peking University when the fiat came by text message: Kill the talkback.

“It will be the first time the council has charged for parking after 6.30pm or on Sundays, with London theatres claiming it could put audiences off coming to the theatre and cost them as much as £70 million in ticket sales annually. “