Remember when the internet came along and everyone wondered whether there would still be a use for libraries? Oddly, just as the question was being called, in the early 2000s there was a bui…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:15PMMaybe it’s obvious, but in the for-profit world, making money is the point; profit defines success. In the non-profit world, the relationship between profit and success is more complic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:09PMRecently, an orchestra manager told me that his orchestra was going to be “the most innovative orchestra in the world.” I asked what he was doing that was so innovative, and he r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:57AMWhat does it mean to “engage with an audience”? It’s a fundamental question for anyone who makes anything. Whether it’s a political party trying to win votes, Coke tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:13PM“The rules of engagement in theatre have changed, and now audience participation is everywhere. But artists have a responsibility to take care of those they pick on.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:25PM“Once settled in your seat, I suspect the first thing you’d notice would be the unusual ethnic and racial diversity onstage.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:56AM“The fringe broke the 2 million barrier for the second year in a row, recording a rise of 5.24% on last year’s figures to 2,298,080, on an increase in productions of 3.79% to 3,3…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01PM“I’m not trying to tell you the sky is falling . . . I’m here to say that what goes up, must come down (or in our case, go flat), and the more we know and understand when these thi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:45PM“If a single company gets scared and it is willing to pull work that it has invested time and money and love into… that is a very dangerous precedent.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:13PMThe ten plays – five full-length and five one-act works – were discovered by producer Julius Green while researching a book about the author’s work in theatre. He heralded the find as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:57PM“Assassination Theater, now in a run at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, is a provocative multimedia history lesson dressed up as a docudrama. An engrossing, rapid-fire exposé …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:13PMThe season, announced piecemeal since December, includes Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love,” David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Ripcord,” Richard Greenberg’s “Our Mother’s Brief Affair,”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:23PM“I think leadership is lonely and leadership is frightening, and just the nature of the nonprofit structure is hard, so there is going to be a lot of struggle. And I think that does ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:26PM“While there are 17 other theatres of comparable size (800-1,099 seats) in greater London, with 15 of those in inner London, the new building would be the first large-scale theatre in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:15PM“Leadership turnover is coming to America’s regional theaters. When Theater Communications Group — a service organization for the country’s nonprofit theaters — recently survey…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:05PM“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“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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:50AM“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 09:30AMOn 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 th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:49PM“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 11:56AMWeirdly, 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“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 12:45PM“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 03:49PM“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 11:20AM“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 09:55AM“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 10:43AM“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…
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