Category: theatre

“In his lawsuit Brett Michaels said the accident had led to a hemorrhage he had near his brain, for which he was treated in early 2010 and which required him to cancel several concerts (though it did not prevent him from winning “Celebrity Apprentice”). He also said CBS could have chosen not to show the accident, which became a widely circulated Internet clip.”

The acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company staging of As You Like It “included a scene where a dead rabbit is skinned and beheaded on stage. The moment was meant to underscore Shakespeare’s description of the no-nonsense nature of country life.” Country life is too much for New York audiences, it seems.

“The numbers suggest as much: This year, only 37 percent of the productions offered by the 10 leading Shakespeare festivals in North America were written by their namesake.”

“Melbourne’s musical theatre scene today seems a house divided: at one end lurk the multi-million-dollar extravaganzas whose presence is hard to ignore, while at the other nestle the countless amateur productions that fill local halls and community centres.”

“The acclaimed company has built and shipped a replica of its home stage in Stratford-upon-Avon and is assembling it inside a 55,000-square-foot hall within an armory on Park Avenue.”

“Two in five respondents to a survey of theatres and arts centres in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland revealed they had suffered bullying in the workplace. This is the highest reported incidence in any single employment sector in the country.”

Marilyn Michaels: “This is one role even Sutton Foster shouldn’t play. Fanny Brice … got her start in burlesque, and created her character strongly based on her Jewish roots. … Barbra Streisand and I had a leg up in this respect … Perhaps a young Meryl Streep would have done it justice. … But then again, Meryl would have required extensive vocal coaching.”

“A revamped version of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, – with a book by Suzan-Lori Parks and a cast featuring Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier – “will go to Broadway soon after it completes its run … at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.”

“Do theatremakers have a duty to warn the audience of any potential after-effects of a performance?”

Last week, Ireland’s Druid Theatre Company performed McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan for some of the roughly 150 people who live on the tiny island off Ireland’s west coast where the play is set.