Category: theatre

Okay, so it’s not just any dance facility, it’s the Baryshnikov Center. And when Misha asks…

“The figures,” from the Society of London Theatre and covering “the second half of 2008, indicate that West End auds made an average 6.4 visits per year to the theater, vs. the 4.2 average in the Broadway League’s demographic report for the 2008-09 Rialto season. London research also found Brit auds almost equally divided across the range of ages.”

“The new policy allows members of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle–about 20 to 25 people–to be eligible as Tony voters in the 2010-2011 season. The move does not make those critics eligible to vote this season, nor does it address the voting eligibility for other journalists.”

“For Naomi Iizuka’s ‘Concerning Strange Devices From the Distant West,'” at Berkeley Rep, the design “covering actor Johnny Wu is a two-piece bodysuit collaboration between Maggi Yule’s costume shop at the Rep and a film effects studio in Los Angeles. … Often, the process is more akin to regular tattoo artistry.”

“[B]ack in the day,” Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis “was the dramaturge of Eureka Theater, right here in San Francisco. Tony Taccone, currently artistic director of the Berkeley Rep, was also the artistic director of the Eureka. There was ferment, of many kinds, and ferment is not nearly as much fun at the time as it is later.”

John Caird: “I love being a director. But the job is not as simple as it looks, and getting into the game can be a painful business. The problem is you can’t learn this complicated craft without doing it – yet no one will employ you unless you’ve already proved you have some aptitude for it. And you can’t direct all on your own. You need actors and a play and a theatre.”

“[T]he growth of pervasive media and digital technologies is offering theatre-makers and audiences unprecedented new challenges and opportunities. … [T]hese technologies are not a passing fad; in fact they are as likely to have an impact on our theatregoing and theatre-making as the Oyster card, Facebook or mobile phones have had on our everyday lives.”

“Cates founded the Geffen in 1994, calling on high-profile entertainment industry contacts he’d cultivated as then-dean of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and the Emmy Award-winning producer of the Academy Awards broadcast for 14 years.”

Both Arden Shakespeare and the English professor who championed “Double Falsehood” to the publisher guardedly say they’re convinced it might be Shakespeare’s work, at least in part. “So, we may have not exactly a ‘new Shakespeare play,’ but a play that turns out to have a lot of Shakespeare – ‘fossil verses,’ [the professor] calls them – in it.”

“‘The Gogol Project,’ which was presented by Rogue Artists Ensemble in association with Bootleg Theater, took four prizes at the 41st annual awards ceremony, which was held at the Colony Theatre in Burbank. Four productions–‘The Browning Version,’ ‘Life Could Be a Dream,’ ‘Minsky’s’ and ‘Stick Fly’–received three prizes each.”