Category: theatre

“Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatre company is considering closing its West End shows during next year’s Olympics, with a massive slump expected to hit tourism bookings during the Games fortnight next July and August.”

“Playwright Joan MacLeod leads a busy life: teaching writing full-time at the University of Victoria – and currently serving as acting department chair – while raising, with her husband, a 15-year-old daughter.” The $75,000 award, she says, “marks the end of full-time teaching for me.”

The Tony-winning theatre canceled this season because of money woes. Its theater at Seattle Center has been used by other groups since. Whether the company can get it together to produce a 2012 summer season is unclear.

“The cost of using a Broadway theater became more expensive after the production experienced delays and one woman who put up collateral for the show is still waiting for her money.”

“Rumors of the Loring Theater’s demise have been exaggerated” – reports appeared Monday afternoon that all of this fall’s scheduled acts at the 1920s-era jewel box had been cancelled and that the theater was closing. Says the theater’s director, “We are not going out of business … [we’re] trying to hang on as best we can.”

“Plays in New York haven’t been noted for their sweeping social consciousness in recent years (or even decades). But in the past couple of seasons the theater has seemed to remember the inherent dramatic value within the dialogue, or lack thereof, between classes.”

“Few theater companies seem better qualified at this moment than the Pasadena Playhouse to dramatize disruption amid straitened circumstances and the faith and tenacity it takes to carry on.”

Is it August: Osage County? Take Me Out? What about The Motherfucker With the Hat? No: Try a Kenneth Lonergan piece instead.

Three months after riots shocked parts of London, a radio play takes on the drama — and it’s just the first in this season’s list of riot scripts greenlit for theatre audiences.

If a playwright thinks too much about playwriting, might she lose her non-playwright audience? And is there a playwright’s playwright’s playwright out there somewhere?