Tuesday, November 6, 2018
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 4, 2018
“Founded in 2002, Les Récréâtrales takes place in a residential area of Ouagadougou. Plays are developed, rehearsed, and performed in family courtyards, bringing theatre to the pe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:22PM[SHARE]“The programme will see 10 members of [Artistic Directors of the Future] from a range of culturally diverse backgrounds given access to the boardrooms of five Yorkshire theatres, inclu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:21PM[SHARE]Friday, November 2, 2018
Christopher Swetala, the fact-checker for This American Life:”I just never have dealt with a writer so outlandish as the one played by Bobby Cannavale. … I don’t know any s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:08AM[SHARE]Rob Melrose, who begins his tenure early next year, “is the founder of the Cutting Ball Theater, an experimental, avant-garde theater based in San Francisco. His hire comes at the end …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2018
“The Public Theater has decided to address the decaying areas behind and below this iconic amphitheater in Central Park, which hasn’t had a major overhaul since it was built in 1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]“Playwright Rasha Abdel Monem describes the climate that has developed in recent years as ‘cold and fearful,’ given the censorship barriers and lack of funding. You’r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Playwright Patrick Gabridge is artist-in-residence at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass. “[His] mandate is to bring theatre to the graveyard in a way that avoids the cliché…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2018
“Lighting is in many ways the last creative act of the totally collaborative process that we call theatre,” says Peter Mumford (The Ferryman, King King). Says Les Dickert (Uncle …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]“Providing evidence to counteract the idea that such work presents a risk in terms of audiences, ticket revenue or artistic quality, [the report] concludes that ‘it becomes incre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2018
Last month, a group of Welsh playwrights wrote an open letter strongly criticizing NTW for, as the letter put it, “taking pride in ridding itself of a theatrical identity and even its …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2018
As an example of Anna Deavere Smith- and Moisés Kaufman-style plays, assembled from eyewitness and participant testimony, as oral history documents, Richard Watts analyzes The Campaign, abo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2018
It wasn’t long ago that “we were sending these kids off on their own devices with no foundation for how to approach this stuff,” recalls acting teacher Adam Noble, who crea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]“Though critics and audiences might often agree when naming their top performers, it can be difficult to define what characterises the very best actors. Leading theatre figures tell Ly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Lyn Gardner, who sees more plays in more places around the country than just about anyone, will swear by the high quality of the UK’s regional companies. Yet, she writes, with every ef…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Alexis Soloski talks to the playwright and director Jack O’Brien about the challenges of his latest script, The Hard Problem.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Says Vicky Featherstone, artistic director of London’s Royal Court Theatre, the first in Britain to completely revamp its policies for handling harassment allegations, “What we&#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2018
“The industry is experimenting with so-called immersive technologies including: virtual reality, where participants put on a headset to enter a computer-generated world; motion capture…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2018
“… And so I like to think of myself as an independent producer as opposed to a commercial producer,” says Sonia Friedman, who was spoiled by her time working “in the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2018
“It was just last season when theater lovers were wringing their collective hands as big brand musicals descended on Times Square … No more. In a turnabout no one on Broadway exp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]“[The city government] will give grants to Off Broadway and other small theaters to install software that allows patrons to follow along with low-light smartphones and tablets. ……
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2018
“How often is it the case that a show made and performed in a theatre genuinely has an impact on the building and the way it operates?” Lyn Gardner remembers one very notable cas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]For its first five seasons, the Ubuntu Theater Project in Oakland sold tickets at $15 to $45 a seat, with some pay-what-you-wish seats available for low-income audience members at the door. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2018
After years of money troubles and more than one near-collapse, the city’s flagship non-profit stage company recruited a new producing artistic director and then took 16 months off, pre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2018
For his current production " a present-day take on the van Eycks’ Ghent Altarpiece " Milo Rau, artistic director of NTGent in Belgium, placed a classified ad looking for jihadists. He …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]The criticism was led by theater major Bridgett Martinez, who had auditioned for Maria but was cast as understudy for the role. “If they didn’t have this diverse cast in mind, an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]Why? Because “Royal” might make them seem elitist. Said (R)NT artistic director Rufus Norris, “This country is still very class divided and anything that adds to that perce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]The “Mimi” Award “is presented biennially to an American playwright whose body of work has made significant contributions to the American theatre.” Parks, who won the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
The play has racked up productions in 30 languages and 45 countries in its 24-year history. “What’s so interesting is that, like certain plays by Pinter, perhaps, the play adapts…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]In What the Constitution Means to Me, playwright and performer Heidi Schreck gives the speech she used to give as a high school debater, only to interrupt herself and speak as the adult Schr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Playwright Adam Hughes: “It seems that a lot of venues and organisations only want diversity when it’s visible and they can clearly highlight the ‘changes’ they are m…
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