Category: theatre

“The theatre, TV and film industries would dwindle away without a steady flow of versatile young recruits – but that’s the likely effect of the cutbacks troubling Scotland’s two leading drama schools. It’s a damning reflection of how the education system has become preoccupied with economics instead of learning.”

Glory Days has closed after just one performance on Broadway. “Sadly, given the overnight reviews and our low advance sales, we believe it is prudent to close the show on Broadway immediately.” The show had received promising, if not adulatory, reviews during its debut earlier this season at the Arlington, Virginia- based Signature Theatre.

Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, “with music by Mellencamp and book by King, was pushed back to allow creatives more time to complete work on the project, according the Atlanta’s Alliance Theater.”

“New British drama, in the years ahead, will increasingly come from minority groups; by giving a platform to these fledgling writers, the Court Theatre is spreading information and light. We all need urgently to learn about the multicultural society in which we live.”

Orange County’s “South Coast Rep has been flying a big, bright flag for art for more than four decades. The theater has long been one of the most steadfast and prolific producers of new American plays. More than 50 works first presented in some form at the 10 previous Pacific Playwrights Festivals were subsequently seen elsewhere.”

Theatre impresario Garth Drabinsky and his business partner Myron Gottlieb falsified the books and bilked investors and creditors out of half a billion dollars when they were at the helm of theatre producer Livent Inc. and its predecessor companies, a court was told today.

The show has been running 22 years and the theatre’s sound system needs an overhaul. “Phantom had ground-breaking sound when it opened in 1986 and Andrew and I have wanted for some time to give our sound system a complete update so that our audiences could enjoy the most exciting theatrical sound in London.”

He was suddenly out in 2006. No explnation. Now he says it was his “vocal opposition” to the Iraq war as well as his controversial theory about whether William Shakespeare actually wrote his plays that led to his resignation.

Critics savaged the London musical. So, “with rumours that managers planned to paste a closing announcement at the New London Theatre this weekend, the show’s producer has pledged to shave 15 minutes off its running time in the hope of holding the attention spans of audiences.”

“It will include full productions, staged readings, workshops of musicals in progress, cabaret events, concerts, master classes and other events. Festival producers are partnering with more than 20 theaters and performing arts organizations.”