Category: theatre

Peter DuBois, a resident director and former associate producer at New York’s acclaimed Public Theater, will be the new artistic director of the Huntington Theatre Company starting in July.

“Because of the limited exposure of theater and its short-lived nature compared to film and television — whose product stay alive on DVD — advertisers are not particularly interested in product integration. Nor are Broadway producers, who appear to be somewhat less willing to commercialize their productions than Hollywood filmmakers, studios and networks.”

Last week the Rialto revival of “Cyrano de Bergerac” starring Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner vaulted into the boffo sales bracket. The show also broke the record for any single performance (play or musical) at the Richard Rodgers theater.

“In a town already saturated with theater dreams and Broadway wishes, this is no easy task, but ATC appears to be ambitious and committed enough to make it happen. It is a theater company on the verge of something very big.”

The agreement brought an end to a strike by the stagehands that left most of Broadway dark for 19 days. With the ratification vote, the terms of the new agreement will go into effect today.”

“We’re having to compete against many theatrical things around the country, whether it’s MTV or the Rockettes or any show you might see on Broadway. We have made a conscious decision to pull out all the stops.”

“Mark Twain’s new comedy opens on Broadway tomorrow night… A Stanford University professor named Shelley Fisher Fishkin found Is He Dead?, Twain’s never-staged melodramatic farce, in a file of the writer’s material at the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley five years ago.”

Toronto’s edgy, envelope-pushing Luminato festival is back for a second season, and the details of the June fest were unveiled this week, to the delight of critics. Luminato ’08 will include no fewer than five world premieres, and will focus on showing Canadian audiences “what’s exciting the public elsewhere in the world.”

The infamous London production of Equus, starring a sometimes-nude Daniel Radcliffe, is coming to Broadway. To commit to the show, Radcliffe told Warner Brothers that he wouldn’t agree to film the next two Harry Potter movies back to back, as the studio had wanted.

Five years ago Minnesota’s Penumbra Theatre, “one of America’s premiere African-American theaters” had a $600,000 of debt and was “living hand-to-mouth”. Tuesday, the theater said that it finished its fourth consecutive year with a surplus. The old debt has been erased.