“Clements, 48, will succeed artistic director Joseph Hanreddy, who is leaving the Rep this spring after 17 years with the company.”
Category: theatre
Dublin Fest Puts Edinburgh’s Shortcomings In Sharp Relief
The Dublin Theatre Festival is “the longest-established theatre festival in Europe – but it still feels like a cheeky and energetic teenager alongside the Edinburgh international festival, which sometimes feels like a very grand old dowager, always rouged and dressed in her Sunday best.”
The Ruling: What Happened With Jeremy Piven And ‘Sushigate’
“A hot television star making his Broadway debut, only to fall ill. A respected director trying to create a Tony Award-worthy production … A hard-driving producer looking to sell tickets and whose sarcastic e-mail messages testify to a relationship gone sour. And, in a supporting role, an arbitrator with the soul of a theater critic.”
Plans For New Westminster Theatre In London On Hold
“Ambitious plans for a multimillion-pound relaunch of the Westminster Theatre” – an off-West End venue that closed in 2002 and later burned down – have been set back until at least 2011.” Negotiations over development requirements and financing have “stalled.”
America’s Best Theatre Cities
New York, predictably, ranks first, and Chicago is indeed the Second City. But pity the poor stage buffs in beautiful Honolulu: Their city ranks dead last.
Pee-Wee’s Return To Stage Postponed, Leaving Fans From Far And Wide Furious
“On Tuesday, actor Paul Reubens announced that he is pushing back the opening of The Pee-Wee Herman Show to January from November.” Turns out that Pee-Wee devotees all over the nation had already bought plane tickets, and they’re angry about having to pay cancellation fees.
Bethesda Theatre Abandons Producing For Rentals
The Maryland theatre’s former executive director “says the theater has not yet recovered from the financial hit it took in April 2008, when it had to cancel its own new production of ‘Smokey Joe’s Cafe’ after the theater sustained damage from a burst water pipe,” prompting an insurance claim that has yet to be paid.
RSC To Relaunch Its Research-And-Development Program
“The Royal Shakespeare Company is to revive its Studio – the research and development centre which was pioneered by Michel Saint-Denis and Peter Brook in the sixties. Associate artists David Farr and Deborah Warner will oversee the project.”
Why Turn Stage For Popular Theatre Into An Opera House?
“[A] strong whiff of snobbery persists in the proposals from Manchester city council and the Royal Opera House, to overhaul Manchester Palace. The idea is to establish a northern outpost for the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet, which is all very well, but Manchester already has a perfectly good opera house….”
MTC’s Royal Family To Open As Scheduled
“Manhattan Theater Club plans to open its Broadway production of ‘The Royal Family’ on Thursday night despite the sudden illness of one of its stars, Tony Roberts.”