Category: theatre

“The festival, which will include work from around the world alongside new commissions, focuses on theatre in which there is one actor and one audience member.”

“[Christine] Jones’s theater is a movable box nine feet long and four feet wide. For 10 days starting Friday, it will stage short performances in Times Square, weather permitting. Ms. Jones has lined up six new plays and a dance piece, along with musicians, a stand-up comedian and a puppeteer, among other performers. Just as every performance will have only one audience member, every performance will have only one performer.”

“[The] highest-paid female entertainer on the British stage at the time was Vesta Tilley, the music-hall singer who was reputed to earn a £1,000 a week for pulling on trousers, putting on a swagger and singing popular songs such as ‘I’m the Idol of the Girls’ with a boyish elan.”

“The Chicago director did honest, steady, truthful work around Chicago for many years,” and his “career toddled quietly along.” Then, suddenly, you “couldn’t pick up a newspaper without reading a Cromer profile. … So it goes in the theater. Either nobody wants you or everybody wants you everywhere at once.”

“[The plans] for a £19.3 million redevelopment of the company’s historic home … will see the Theatre Royal and surrounding buildings transformed into a flexible complex with up to ten performance spaces.”

“I’ve had the humiliating experience over and over again that whenever I do a show and years go by and I see somebody else’s production – it can be kids just out of college – I always see something in it that’s better than what I did.”

“In this economy, [the head of the awards organization] says, theaters need ‘immediate help.’ She calls ‘Helen Hayes Recommended’ a marketing tool ‘to assist theaters with promoting their productions while a show is running.’ … [T]he same judges who vote on the awards also vote on whether to recommend a show to audiences while it’s still running — and on the same ballot.”

“The new honcho will be Jerry Manning, a respected staffer at the Tony Award-winning Seattle company since 2001. For the past two seasons, Manning has run the company’s creative operations on an interim basis as producing artistic director.”

“Owing $2.3 million but holding just $102,000 in savings and cash, the Pasadena Playhouse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday night in hopes of regaining its financial footing and eventually resuming performances on a stage that has been dark since Feb. 7.”

“Producer Frazer Brown, who produced and directed [the show] in 2008 in Edinburgh, announced that the [summer run at Leicester Square Theatre] had been cancelled last week.” It seems the rights were never formally negotiated, and the rights-holder now has a better offer …