Category: theatre

“The Washington Shakespeare Company, that Arlington outpost of offbeat treatments of classic plays, is going where no D.C. enterprise has ever quite gone before, offering up a whole evening of Shakespeare — in Klingon.”

It isn’t all just about that night’s performance…

“The online encyclopaedia is refusing to yield to criticism from Agatha Christie’s family for revealing the ending of The Mousetrap, the world’s longest-running play.”

“Today, with many theaters occupied by long-running shows, and Off Broadway more or less defunct as a commercial option, there’s no such thing as an undesirable Broadway theater. And so the Belasco has been closed for a little more than a year now, to undergo a $14.5 million stem-to-stern renovation by the Shubert Organization, which has owned the theater since 1948.”

“For decades, drag has exalted, luxuriated in, and caricatured certain ideas of how it seems to be a woman. It’s part tribute, part exploitation. Drag has used women. Now women, clearly, are using it back.”

“The American actor will be directed by Sam Mendes in what will be the final production for the Bridge Project, a three-year transatlantic collaboration that has seen US and British actors tour the world in productions including The Tempest, As You Like It and The Cherry Orchard.“

Jason Zinoman: “Legally Blonde ran for 595 performances and never recouped before closing on Broadway (though it continues to tour the country and make money on the road.) Race, however, ran for only 320 performances and did recoup. So is it fair to call David Mamet’s intimate play a hit and Legally Blonde a flop? Of course not. However, that’s exactly what happens.”

“A vast archive telling the story of a hunchbacked, self-satisfied monster who regularly attacks his wife, drops the baby, assaults a police officer and fights a crocodile for sausages, has been acquired by the V&A.”

“Although it may be disappointing for those who live outside New York to see replacement casting, there is such a wealth of theater talent in the city – and such a dearth of new material for them to perform – that you can see some pretty amazing performances fairly deep into the run of a long-running musical.”

“Take the story of UK standup David Whitney, who was involved in an incident with a heckler in Edinburgh that has generated some of the most striking (but presumably unwanted) headlines of the Fringe.” Whitney head-butted his antagonist and now faces assault charges.