Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Founded in 2013, Liquid Company, a troupe made up entirely of refugees and migrants from Africa and the Mideast who survived the dangerous sea crossing, has developed, scripted, and performe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Friday, December 7, 2018
The Japanese musical drama called Noh has been practiced without a significant break since the 14th century. In this short documentary, The Spirit of Noh, actor Michishige Udaka tells filmma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]BBC”[Liverpool’s] Everyman became famous in the 1970s for its rep company, which launched the careers of actors like Bill Nighy, Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Sir Anthony…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2018
“A group of disabled theatre artists have announced the creation of National Disability Theatre, a company that will produce fully accessible live performances. The company will exclus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 5, 2018
“As novelist William Faulkner said about writing, but is applicable to all creative endeavours: ‘You must kill all your darlings.’ That said, killing your darlings can be r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2018
“In 1597, Jonson and Thomas Nashe co-wrote a satirical play called The Isle of Dogs. Not much is known about the plot or contents of the show; what is known is that almost immediately …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]“One of the first questions we asked was, how do you describe your city? People would respond by saying: ‘Reading was … ‘ They were incredibly nostalgic for this glor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2018
“My recurring nightmare was me, onstage, in this 1,100-seat theater, with no people in it. I’ve had it ever since we even talked about doing the show [The New One] on Broadway. S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2018
“While no date has been set, [the Detroit Repertory Theatre’s] longtime artistic director and co-founder, Bruce Millan " who helped launch the company in 1957 " has announced he&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2018
“The Alabama Shakespeare Festival will commission 22 plays in the next five years, with more than half of the commissions set to go to female playwrights and playwrights of color. Rick…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]“The average top-price ticket across all West End shows is £117.52, up 19% compared with 2017. This is the first time the average top-price ticket has exceeded £100, since The St…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2018
At the Edinburgh Fringe this past summer and currently in London, Los Angeles actor Natalie Palamides performs her solo show titled Nate, in whch she plays an unrepentantly dopey douchebag. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]“Theatre Communications Group’s Theatre Facts 2017 observes that, with the recession largely behind them, U.S. theatres in 2017 were in a position of relative stability. … …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2018
“It built all my confidence up, I felt alive again. I felt like there was a future.” Reporter Bruce Munro talks with current and former prisoners in Scotland (including one who&#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Sorkin describes how he approached the challenges of translating one of America’s most beloved novels into a different medium in a different century (the world has changed a lot since …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2018
“Beyond its eerily accurate forecasting about the corporatization of news media and the degradation of truth, this Network has a timely and more fundamental message about the power of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 20, 2018
“One of the industry’s faults is that producers can find themselves in financial trouble and in a bid not to lose face may not want to tell anyone else about it. Invariably, this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2018
Howard Sherman surveys the current landscape, where experienced critics discarded by legacy publications are now turning up at high-quality websites, and, though an imbalance remains, a few …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]With more than 200 Welsh actors having joined 40 of its playwrights in making public complaints about how little actual theatre the company is making and how few Welsh artists are being empl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]The £100,000 public fundraising campaign to double the number of ladies’ loos in the building is fronted by a video featuring actresses Joanna Lumley, Bertie Carvel, and a ferocious…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2018
Fortunately, Mike Birbiglia doesn’t do it quite the way Patti LuPone does. And he’s playing himself in his one-man Broadway show, The New One, so he can talk to offending audienc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Lyn Gardner: “Nobody thinks accountants should always put accountancy before everything else, so why is the ‘show must go on’ mentality, whatever the cost, so pervasive in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]“The Arkansas Repertory Theatre on Tuesday announced it will offer a four-show season to spearhead its attempt to return from the brink of nonexistence. … The board had declared …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2018
“[Bob] Avian, credited as the musical’s co-choreographer [with the late Michael Bennett], and [Baayork] Lee, the original Connie Wong, travel the world to stage virtually every m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2018
The list, called The Mix, “Steppenwolf compiled a list of over 150 potential nominators and ultimately received plays from nearly 100 theater professionals, including playwrights, dire…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:02PM[SHARE]Controversy broke out when Anthony Ekundayo Lennon was selected for an Arts Council England-funded program to train minority theatre artists as directors: While he says his skin coloring has…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]Jacob G. Padrón, a Yale Drama alum (as both student and administrator) who has produced more than 100 new plays and who founded the Sol Project to support and promote Latinx playwrights, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2018
“The problem is that, at the same time as having to boost income [because of subsidy cuts], theatres have faced increased demands to justify their funding. Organisations have had to di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Joanie Schultz will have been on the job for only two years when she leaves the WaterTower Theatre in Dallas County. Her unexpected resignation comes just a few months after the departure of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2018
“The question of how well " or poorly " the theater world accommodates child care has been talked about for years, and is closely bound up with the discussion of why women are so under…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Anthony Ekundayo Lennon has always acknowledged that his parents and grandparents are white, but says that his skin coloring (which his brothers share) has led to his being treated, and disc…
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