Category: theatre

“As one of the critics who was decidedly cool about it in 1985, I’m often asked if I got it wrong. To which my response is that of Bernard Shaw when accused of attacking some vastly popular piece of Parisian boulevard theatre: ‘Forty million Frenchmen can’t be right’.”

“The $200,000 Steinberg award for playwriting, the most lucrative prize in theater, will go to Lynn Nottage for her body of work that most recently includes the 2009 Pulitzer Prize recipient, Ruined.”

“Ruined, the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that recently opened at the Geffen Playhouse after runs in New York, Chicago and Seattle, is getting ready to come to a television screen near you.”

“Theatre Ninjas, the free ticket iPhone app and website, is to stay live after its introduction at this summer’s Edinburgh fringe festival. … [The program] allows producers, directors and theatre makers to offer a limited number of last-minute tickets for their shows for free through both the app and the website.”

“The commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn’t have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not always healthy. Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative.”

“American theater is having a baby boom. After rising in popularity in Europe in recent years, sophisticated stage plays targeted to children as young as 12 months are increasingly being produced in the U.S.”

“As one of the top executives of L.A.’s largest theater company, Charles Dillingham has been responsible for overseeing CTG’s finances, marketing and administrative activities, presiding over periods of tremendous growth as well as economic contraction.”

The 1,055-seat Broadway theater on West 43rd Street is currently named after actor-producer Henry Miller. It is being formally renamed Wednesday in honor of Sondheim, who turned 80 in March.

Brian Logan: “The idea was that I accompany a British director, now working in the Middle East, to scout out Iraq’s burgeoning theatre scene. It’s the kind of offer I’d usually jump at. But on this occasion, excitement found itself sharing space with trepidation and fear. I asked for assurances. Can you promise I won’t get beheaded?”

Producers are hoping their still-unfinished production of the classic ape story can find a theater on the Great White Way as early as 2013.