Category: theatre

“Award-winning director Rupert Goold is to court controversy with a theatrical spectacular exploring the legacy of 9/11 on its 10th anniversary. He is working with international writers Tony Kushner, John Logan and Paul Laverty, Ken Loach’s long-term collaborator, to produce the show.”

“The rejection by the Department of Canadian Heritage of SummerWorks’s 2011 grant, worth about $47,000 to $48,000, can affect the entire feeder system for new Canadian plays to reach larger audiences.”

“For nearly two weeks the space has been occupied by a changing cast of theater workers — actors, seamstresses, lighting technicians and prop masters — who are protesting the privatization of a stage once graced by some of Europe’s greatest thespians, from Sarah Bernhardt to Vittorio Gassman.”

“Toronto’s SummerWorks theatre and music festival, which was criticized by the Stephen Harper government in the past for staging a play related to the Toronto 18 terrorist plot, has lost its funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage.”

The latest numbers, released Monday by The Broadway League, show the comic book musical was the third-highest-grossing show on Broadway after “Wicked” ($1.83 million) and “The Lion King” ($1.74 million).

Yuri Lyubimov, 93, founded Moscow’s Taganka Theatre in 1964 but fell out with its actors over pay during a Czech tour. “I have no intention of working with this troupe. Let them be led by their trade union. I’ve had enough of this disgrace, these humiliations, this lack of desire to work, this desire just for money.”

The theater where Pirandello’s Six Characters In Search of an Author premiered “has been occupied by a changing cast of theater workers – actors, seamstresses, lighting technicians and prop masters – who are protesting the privatization of a stage once graced by some of Europe’s greatest thespians, from Sarah Bernhardt to Vittorio Gassman.”

“More than a tonne of material on the career of Sir Alan Ayckbourn, from school exercise books to CDs tracking his meticulous revisions, has been bought by the University of York for £240,000 … with conditions to encourage its widest possible use.”

Pia Catton: “Cirque du Soleil is not theater, dance or any sort of performing art that expresses thoughts and emotions. It’s a traveling Las Vegas act … Just don’t kid yourself that you’ve experienced the performing arts. You’ve been to the circus – at opera prices.”

“Theatre for a New Audience has broken ground on its first permanent home, the first new classical theater performance space to be built in New York City in almost 50 years. It will be the only theater built exclusively for Shakespeare and other classical drama since the Vivian Beaumont Theater was created at Lincoln Center in 1965.”