Tuesday, April 28, 2015
“What the latest research demonstrates is how little progress has been made in the last 10 years on gender and play production. A decade ago, 30% of new plays produced in UK theatres w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:10AM“‘It will make some anxious,’ Shapiro said. ‘It will make some excited. We’ve had the same leadership for 20 years. There are people who are in prisons they thi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:20AM“Three wildly different new musicals, ‘An American in Paris,’ ‘Fun Home’ and ‘Something Rotten!’ were showered with Tony nominations Tuesday morning…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMMonday, April 27, 2015
“The £3m, three-year Unlimited initiative aims to give venues a choice of work and stop them from, as Verrent put it, ‘programming shit, and the first piece of work that they ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM“Something happened, somewhere around Love’s Labour’s Lost and the early history plays and going into Romeo and Juliet. Either he fell in love or he just grew up, but somet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AMSunday, April 26, 2015
“HartBeat does not look at its Greater Hartford community as potential audience members but rather as an important part of the play-making. Ensemble members regularly spend months rese…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM“The Tony system canonizes a subset of a subset, making the odds of any one show or person pocketing a Tony rather less impressive. What’s more, the awardees and runners-up have typi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AMMonday, April 20, 2015
“We are so reliant on the resilience narrative that it has become our intuitive response to every event, from audience development to fundraising to how we generate our creative work. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AMSunday, April 19, 2015
“Carole Rothman, the artistic director of Second Stage, said the theater would be used for plays by contemporary American writers, with a particular emphasis on works by women and mino…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AMAlso, the guy who plays Robb Stark on Game of Thrones. “The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company will take up residency at London’s Garrick Theatre for a year in October. The Cinderel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMMonday, April 13, 2015
“‘August: Osage County’ was the last serious drama by an American playwright to become a multiyear hit. Since 2010, the only straight play of any kind to have run on Broadw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AMSunday, April 12, 2015
“Thousands of years have gone by and we still have this thing called live theatre – and the reason is that we need to be able to compare ourselves to what we see up there and jud…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00PMThat is, it’s the Olivier Awards: “‘No one can stand in the way of Angela Lansbury winning an Olivier for her West End comeback after over 40 years away, and no one should,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM“It feels like it’s been in labour for such a long time. You now want your child to come off the ventilator and grow up and become part of the modern world. That’s what it&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AMMonday, April 6, 2015
Um: “Fans seek out the student performances for cheap entertainment or a chance to see a musical that otherwise might not be performed locally. Some even follow the teenage thespians a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AMSunday, April 5, 2015
“It isn’t just a numbers game, and it isn’t just down to playwrights, but I hope that if we keep making conscious choices about the characters we write, then we won’t just change…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30PM“In both cases there are life experiences that make an actually autistic and an actually black actor better suited to playing the role in question. More than that, though, there is the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:50AMMonday, March 30, 2015
“With backstage space in the 123-year-old building being severely limited, and no spare cash available to rent an office, Ms Squire instead parked the car outside the theatre, and work…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:15PMSunday, March 29, 2015
For Anne Boleyn: “In your lifetime you are the focus of every lurid story that the imagination of Europe can dream up. From the moment you enter public consciousness, you carry the pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PM“The typical demographic of the audience for the young company’s work isn’t enough to educate our young performers about the needs of an audience. How will they ever fulfil their p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:45AMEquity “surveyed its L.A. actors about ‘being a working theater professional in Los Angeles and what it’s like to be an Equity member,’ followed by focus groups and a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AMMonday, March 23, 2015
“Their inquiry was dismissed with an unsigned email that read: ‘Our policy does not support colonialism/Zionism. Therefore we do not host groups that support the colonisation a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:01AMSunday, March 22, 2015
“The girls were terrific. Silly and shy, coy and rambunctious, attention-seeking, wise beyond their years, strikingly immature, they strutted about the room like little heroines in a p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30PM“He has a very clear mandate. He wants to support large theater companies doing massive, out-of-the-ordinary artistic projects — the kinds of epics you might see at the National Thea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:45PM“Some prominent AEA members plan to picket their union’s North Hollywood headquarters on Monday. With ballots for the controversial 99-seat plan referendum set to be mailed next week…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM“The average theatergoer is a 44-year-old woman who attends plays frequently, the report said. Not surprisingly, the report found that most people who go to Broadway plays are well-hee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:45AM“Dr Fayard gave examples of performances of Richard III in Italy being inspired by Benito Mussolini’s fascist party, in Kuwait by Saddam Hussein and in the Eastern Bloc by the co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AMMonday, March 16, 2015
“Women and gay men in their 20s and 30s describe being propositioned for sex by influential directors, casting directors and others who could help or hurt their careers. Young gay men …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM“A theatre is not just a building. It is all the people who pass through it, and who – for however brief a time, a few days or weeks or years – call it home. The people may move on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:20AMSunday, March 15, 2015
“Charlie Low opened Forbidden City in 1938, and from exotic dancers to comedians to acrobats, he made sure the club had it all. It was even featured in major media outlets, including L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30PM“The Royal Court’s Vicky Featherstone was asked what might have helped her when she was developing her career. ‘Childcare,’ came the reply – or at least some tax relief…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PM 
