Category: theatre

“The producers of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark have brought on a veteran musical supervisor and conductor, Paul Bogaev, as a consultant to help improve the performance, vocal and orchestration arrangements, and sound quality of the songs and numbers.”

“For over 25 years, Bartabas has been creating his own unique brand of equestrian theatre. It’s an art form that defies easy description: a fusion of dance, music, poetry, classical dressage and shamanistic magic.”

Out of the 100 plays that Mark Masterson produced at Louisville, 96 of them were world premieres that went on to show around the country… Besides his time in Louisville, Masterson spent 20 years as the producing director at the City Theatre in Pittsburgh. In 1998, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pittsburgh New Works Festival.

Trey Parker: “My first serious girlfriend was a Mormon. I remember going to family home evening at her house, and just being like, ‘What are you people doing?’ But in a good way. I was actually going home to my parents and being like, ‘Can we play a board game?’ They were like: ‘What? No, we’re watching TV’.”

“Danny Boyle’s hotly anticipated production of Frankenstein… opens next week at the National theatre. The show’s two leads, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, will be alternating the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature … But is this doubling up just an astute marketing ploy? Or is it, perhaps, a broader commentary? Can the relationship of Frankenstein and the Creature tell us anything about the symbiotic relationship of stage and audience? Even about the theatre itself?”

“The producers of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark have asked Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, a playwright who [has] also written Spider-Man stories for Marvel Comics, if he is interested and available to help rewrite the script for the big-budget, critically assailed musical.”

“What Parker and Stone do isn’t religion-bashing. It’s religion-teasing. And it’s born more from fascination than disdain. … Adding to Parker and Stone’s fascination is the fact that Mormonism is itself a young religion. ‘It’s like Darwin’s finches of religion – we can watch it evolve,’ says Stone.”

“[W]ith firm guidance from a New York director with a long career in avant-garde theater,” the Comedie Francaise’s new staging of A Streetcar Named Desire takes place in “a fantasy world of dogugaeshi, sliding Japanese screens painted with menacing waterfalls and warriors, masked kurogo figures in black, and a long-haired Stanley in baggy pants and a satin tiger jacket.”

“Spider-Man” grossed $1,330,014, an increase of almost 3 percent over the previous week, and was the second-highest-grossing show on Broadway behind the musical “Wicked,” which grossed $1.44 million for the same number of performances as “Spider-Man.”

“New Yorkers are instant-gratification junkies. They don’t like to wait when something is hot. But unless you’ve got a walletful of cash to give a scalper or want to stand on the cancellation line, you’re going to have to.”