Category: theatre

“Broadway is never a homogenous affair, but this year the mix of shameless commercialism and daring (if sometimes incongruous) experimentation was enough to give theater observers whiplash.”

Jason Zinoman: “[Even l]egends like Tony Kushner and Edward Albee didn’t get their most recent works produced on Broadway. … [But] Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Motherf****r [With the Hat] and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People remind us that ambitious, relevant, and entertaining plays by American writers can still open on Broadway.”

“Shakespeare’s Globe played to 91% capacity across its Kings and Rogues season last year, which the venue claims is a record. …
The Globe’s annual review 2009/10 states that approximately 40% of the audience paid £5 for groundling tickets and estimates around half of the audience was under 35.”

“I think it’s very important to be true to your heart and true to your vision. I am passionate about the projects that I do, and I would hate, even if they fail in certain ways … [trails off] There are many questions about why things don’t work.”

“Nottingham Playhouse has joined the city council, the regeneration body One Nottingham and many of the city’s other arts venues … to present a range of radical theatre, music, film and visual art from across Europe between 26 May and 12 June.”

Says the playwright of Art and God of Carnage: “I would say that above all, my plays are about people who are well-raised but who lose control of themselves. My characters are for the most part impulsive by nature. You could describe my plays as being a theater of nerves.”

“Theatre heavyweights Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb argued at trial, and continue to argue on appeal, that some of their accounting staff perpetrated the fraud without their knowledge.”

“The producers of a new Broadway musical about the 1960s girl group the Shirelles have been hit with a lawsuit, charging them with pilfering the names and likenesses of the original members.”

The $10 milllion gift doubles the size of the Huntington’s endowment. The Calderwood Charitable Foundation is making the Huntington its biggest beneficiary with this donation, aimed at providing stability for the theater, which it has long supported.

“They are very disciplined, very open, and because of the condition of the English theatre, they work very quickly. In France, we have a lot of time. Actors there like to wait for inspiration to arrive. … France is the country of the directors; here, you are the country of the writers.”