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 yo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:45PMFriday, 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“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 03:49PMThursday, 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 01:20PMThe 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 exciteme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:20AMWednesday, 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“Identity-based representation practices that reinforce constructions of child/adult will generally limit the meanings of cultural codes, exploit children’s performative labors, prom…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:55AMTuesday, 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 a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:46PMFive 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 10:43AMMonday, 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 12:31PMSunday, 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 seve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:08PM“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 v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:02AMFriday, 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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:46PMThursday, 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“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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AMWednesday, 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 ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PMTuesday, 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 a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:16PM“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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMThursday, 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 09:31AMWednesday, 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 02:48PMThe 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 12:41PMThe 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMThursday, 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 12:11PMWednesday, 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 11:51AMFriday, 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 s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:46PMIn its response to Mark Rylance’s comments, the National said it was “committed to sharing our work with as many people as possible. We agree with Mark that affordable ticket pri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:45PMTuesday, July 7, 2015
“The size of the venue may be a part of the problem in how we perceive the success or struggles of the On the Town revivals, but it cannot be the only reason why revivals of this music…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:56PMThursday, July 2, 2015
“Does writing regularly about theatre make you a stronger playwright? I feel I’ve benefited from soaking up others’ work for years; I’m in a constant state of inspiration. (Somet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:22PMWednesday, July 1, 2015
“Top price seats for The Book of Mormon have reached a record-high of £202.25. This is an increase of a third on last year’s most expensive seat in the survey, which came in at …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:14PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
“Industry Minister James Moore said Tuesday the application to acquire the famed circus troupe was deemed an overall economic benefit for Canada. The buyers have committed to maintain …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:49PMThursday, June 25, 2015
“Instead of censoring or sanitizing content that “might offend,” theatres should look at such works as opportunities to engage their audiences in critical public discourse about im…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM 
