Wednesday, August 19, 2015
“Perhaps an all-white cast will one day seem as absurd as Donald Sinden blacking up to play Othello in 1979, but fidelity to 16th-century staging has long served as an excuse for a lac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:51AM[SHARE]"To present this benchmark of British heritage in a way that effectively locks minorities out of the cultural picture [literally] flies in the face of the huge conversation taking place in B…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:50AM[SHARE]“They have reinforced a message to young Canadian directors that the best way to get ahead at home is to move abroad, and that what audiences think of you in New York matters more to b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
On the eve of FringeNYC, which runs Friday to Aug. 30, we asked representatives from some shows presented last year whether the overall effort " the cost, the frantic pace, the heat and the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2015
“A British theatre and opera director with 25 years of experience, Tim Carroll is best known for his Shakespeare productions, which have shown in theatres internationally.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Weirdly, I am now making much of my income as a theatre and cultural critic in my chosen town of Louisville, Kentucky. I’m getting some small paid theatre gigs, too. I’m making m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
“It's not unusual for a journalist to completely redraft an article or review, so why should it be strange to do the same to a play? Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:45PM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2015
“In a letter to Daved Driscoll, artistic director of Words Players Theatre, Doug Wright, president of the Dramatists Guild, took issue with guidelines that said the theatre’s dir…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:50PM[SHARE]“Our intention was almost the opposite of what it has been perceived to be. It was out of our respect for playwrights that we wanted to be clear about what we were and were not underta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 6, 2015
“National Theatre Backstage officially launches next week and will curate media from existing outlets that the NT uses, such as YouTube and Soundcloud, alongside specially commissioned…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:20PM[SHARE]The show breaks every rule of Broadway success. "There are no movie stars and it's not a revival. It's storytelling and an original piece of theater that has inspired all this excitement."
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 5, 2015
“Homegrown, a National Youth Theatre (NYT) production, was closed down last Thursday, with the creators saying they were given no prior warning. Director Nadia Latif and playwright Oma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:55AM[SHARE]“Identity-based representation practices that reinforce constructions of child/adult will generally limit the meanings of cultural codes, exploit children's performative labors, promot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2015
“What quickly became apparent is that the local authority officers share our ambition to find ways of increasing the perceived "usefulness" of the arts and asking: if the regular audie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:46PM[SHARE]Five days before opening, all conventional efforts exhausted, the company resorted to trying to reach Swift on social media and in what may be a first, she granted the rights via Twitter jus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:43AM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2015
“I am a reporter on The One Show on BBC One, where we get audiences of up to six million. At Edinburgh, the space I play seats 350 people. I am 67, I have six grandchildren, I have bee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 2, 2015
“Until spring, Greg Reiner was managing director of New York's Classic Stage Company. He also served for four years as executive director of the Tectonic Theater Project and for seven …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:08PM[SHARE]"I can understand the impulse " they'll be among the top three moneymakers, and that always looks good " but a rule of thumb in this business is, don't alienate Tony voters," a veteran press…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:02AM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2015
“My own fear about drama getting smaller in regular public schools like Lakeshore is that it limits the ability of kids to stumble upon it " and that affects not just future theatre pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2015
“Why is one considered a beacon of acting talent for playing a disabled character convincingly? Why is it a common expectation that these actors will transform into characters whose ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]“When people were invited onstage at a recent performance of "Penn & Teller on Broadway," many women looked as if they had stepped out of a jazzercise class, while men ambled arou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2015
"The subsidised sector is without doubt the research and development arm of the commercial sector, where new productions, new work and new talent are developed. Ultimately, cuts of this magn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2015
“Many of this country's finest directors (like Antoni Cimolino and Albert Schultz) learned their craft as young actors in Phillips' finest days. Hundreds of performers credit him as a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:16PM[SHARE]“It's been a strapping summer for three of the four new shows of the 2015-2016 Broadway season, according to data released on Monday by the Broadway League, a trade group for theater o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2015
"Whether or not this boom is directly due to the rise of jukebox musicals is uncertain. What is certain, though, is the relative security of jukebox musicals in the industry."
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2015
As Broadway faces off against pocket-size sound-and-light shows, performers and some patrons say a hyper-connected culture are shredding the immersive experience of live theatre.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]The most progressive theatres are not for children. They are for people. The most anti-oppressive theatre methodologies (benefitting children, youth, AND adults), will, quite simply, conside…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:41PM[SHARE]The premise for Brian Feldman's show, "Dishwasher," is this: He will come to a person's house, wash all of the dirty dishes, perform a monologue of the audience's choosing and then conclude …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2015
The Turner Prize-winning artist hacked the wall of a theater where his play has opened to largely negative reviews. Douglas Gordon directs Charlotte Rampling in “Neck of the Woods,R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2015
“The tribunal centred on whether the actors could be classed as “workers” under law – and therefore entitled to the minimum wage. But the judge decided they should be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:51AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2015
You can't have the RSC and the National receiving millions of pounds of money without a lower price, in my feeling. A lower price should be part of it." Adding that tickets for the two subsi…
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