Category: theatre

It’s a romanticized view of a war correspondent’s life that only Hollywood could find credible.

“The experimental show has been called many things – a sculptural installation, a performative composition, a piano piece without pianists, a play without players, a no-man show. Its attention is on the objects that would usually form the background, the props or parts of the set.”

“The West End is now officially more expensive to see a show than on Broadway. Top price tickets to see the original production of Hairspray in New York are currently $110 (£55), whereas it costs £60 to see the same show at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre. Ditto the Royal Opera House, which is already the most expensive opera house in the world.”

“First nights are ghastly ordeals for actors. A recent study indicates that the stress endured is equivalent to being involved in a minor car crash, and that’s without the intervention of the utilities. Everybody there is willing you to succeed or fail, and the only reaction from the darkness of the auditorium is the forced laughter of friends and family or the equally deafening silence from critics and bitter rivals.”

“A cash flow crisis has forced the closure of [Toronto’s] Equity Showcase Theatre after 47 years of serving the theatre community. Founded in 1960… it was created to keep actors in the game when performing jobs were hard to come by.”

The long-running musical was to have closed June 1, but has been extended to September 7. The producers “realized that thousands of fans of the show are students in school. We decided to stay open long enough for them to make their plans to see `Rent’ before it closes in September.”

“Signature Theatre’s Glory Days, the coming-of-age musical set on a football field, is moving to Broadway next month… The transfer of a play from Washington to Broadway is an exceedingly rare occurrence.” In fact, it hasn’t happened in 40 years.

A new musical based on Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities will open on Broadway in late September.

“Throughout its history, political theater at its best has attacked what everybody thinks, challenging people’s prejudices and posing questions that don’t have easy answers, if there are answers at all.” So where are the plays defending George Bush?

“A Colorado appeals court ruled on Thursday that smoking by an actor on stage, while possibly important to character and theatrical message, is still banned by the state’s two-year-old indoor smoking law.”