Category: theatre

“Broadway’s powerful stagehands’ union, which usually does all of the staging work at the nationally televised ceremony each year, is planning to hoist one of its inflatable rats and mobilize a picket line of 400 union members to protest a loss of union work organizing the red carpet pageantry at the awards, the theater industry’s biggest night of self-congratulation.”

It was developed following consultation with those working in the sector and is described as a “call to action” to MPs, parents, teachers and practitioners to “unify their efforts and ensure that young people have access to drama and theatre”.

“Of all the Tonys that will be presented Sunday night on CBS, only one — best musical — usually spikes the box office.” But getting a musical number featured on the Tony telecast can also get the box office humming…

“A last-ditch attempt to save the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ prestigious National Theatre Conservatory masters program died today when University of Denver Chancellor Robert Coombe announced his decision not to take the conservatory program under the wing of DU’s theater department.”

“Beau Willimon reached a dream-come-true moment on Thursday afternoon: His cast of 25 actors, drawn from across the country and given just days to work, was rehearsing for the first time in its 15,000-square-foot playing area in a South Brooklyn warehouse where the show was to have its one-night-only run.”

Who will succeed this internationally acclaimed, but controversial director as head of the largest, most overanalyzed theatre company in the country?

“The narrow range of our theatre points to what Tom Wright, associate director at Sydney Theatre Company, calls canonical collapse, suggesting a failure of cultural memory or curiosity.”

The co-creator and original director – until she was very publicly fired – of the notoriously troubled Broadway musical is “apparently is owed six months of pay for her work on the production, and efforts to recover it haven’t been successful.”

“What kind of contrarian am I to complain? A contrarian, I guess, who’s trying to sort out a hodgepodge season that, no matter how you spin it, reveals that Broadway is still in the throes of its 21st century identity crisis.”

“A veritable commune of actors who first came to Colorado to perform in Creede are now infiltrating and invigorating stages statewide, from the Arvada Center to Curious to Miners Alley Playhouse to Paragon and many others.”