“A new Chinese-produced musical set to open Friday in Hong Kong is poised to become an all-singing, all-dancing test of China’s sensitivity to criticism. Wrapped within Broadway-style production values, the show holds a mirror to the country’s social problems and is centered around an Asian pop icon formerly banned in China.”
Category: theatre
Critics Jump The Gun On Reviewing “Spiderman”
“This past weekend theater insiders were surprised when two critics, Jeremy Gerard of Bloomberg News and Linda Winer of Newsday, crossed an unspoken line and published their takes on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, more than five weeks before opening night on February 7th.”
Getting Those Playbills to the Theater, Blizzard or No Blizzard
The recent East Coast snowstorm left several cars and buses stranded on the street in front of Playbill’s printing plant in Queens – meaning the delivery trucks couldn’t get out to deliver the programs to New York’s theaters. But the show must go on, and with its Playbills …
Melbourne Theatre Scene Is Booming
“Melbourne theatre is in a golden age. Our stages offer more stimulating performance than anyone can comfortably experience. It’s an exciting, exhausting time to be a theatre critic.”
Theatre – When Everyone’s A Critic
“Over the past 12 months, blogging and tweeting audience members managed to get under the skin of the world’s top theatre-makers in a way professional critics haven’t for years.”
Boxing Day Blizzard Wallops Broadway
“The last two weeks of the year are usually the most lucrative for New York theater – especially the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day – because of the huge influx of tourists into the city. Most popular productions are usually turning people away around this time, rather than luring them with ‘snow day’ discount offers.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber Corrects Small Oversight in Wizard of Oz
Says “The Lord” of his next show, “We’ve added four new songs because it didn’t have anything for either of the witches or the wizard.”
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre May Need To Be Rebuilt
“A replica Jacobean theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe may have to be rebuilt after its design was discovered to date from 50 years after Shakespeare died.”
The Six Biggest Flops On Broadway
“Spiderman” wouldn’t be the first, but it would be the most expensive…
“American Psycho” As A Musical? One Shudders
“Literature and theatre have long enjoyed a far from symbiotic relationship. Literature has given theatre some of its most successful musicals ever while musicals have given us jazz hands, Bonnie Langford, the Time Warp and Andrew Lloyd Webber. It hardly seems a fair trade-off.”