When does a concert become theatre? When does movement become choreography? Why the big suit? Okay, that last one is an old
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMStage versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol are to American theatres what The Nutcracker is to ballet companies – or what
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMLauren Gunderson is America’s most produced playwright but she has never staged a play on Broadway. She tells Howard Sherman why Shakespeare’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMTheatre is often accused of confirming people’s biases and US theatre’s bias is viewed – not necessarily inaccurately – as being left-leaning
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSeeing a theatrical production in a prison, performed by incarcerated men, places a unique context on the work presented. The experience of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMDavid Henry Hwang got his first break in 1980, when a New York theatre sought to redress accusations of ‘yellowface’. In the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:54AMI’ve always meant to see the 2001 indie movie Scotland, PA – an adaptation of Macbeth set in a fast-food restaurant –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFour matinees a week is not typical on Broadway. But that’s exactly what the new musical The Lightning Thief is offering. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe Pulitzer prize-winner wrote his first play about the 36th US president in 2012. He tells Howard Sherman how he went All
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMRobert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci will be the draws at the Belasco Theatre in November. Unfortunately, they won’t be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe wheels of cultural change grind slowly. While theatres are making headway in addressing historical inequities regarding gender, race, ethnicity, disability and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMNever afraid to provoke and challenge audiences, Robert O’Hara is making his Broadway directing debut with Slave Play. He tells Howard Sherman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMIt is not uncommon, in these days of electronic patron databases and customer relations management software, to receive an email from a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAhead of last Monday’s community gathering presented by the Broadway Advocacy Coalition the event had looked interesting. In the room, it went
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTwo weeks ago, when considering a spate of closings and announcements of new productions on Broadway for this column, I intentionally made
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMKnown for roles in TV hits The Good Wife and True Blood, theatre stalwart Carrie Preston is directing a show about RSC
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMAt first glance, the post from SHN: Broadway in San Francisco, a presenter of major theatre tours on the west coast, looks
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMuch has been made of the closing of five Broadway shows in the past two weeks: Be More Chill, King Kong, Pretty
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFollowing the success of Sweat on Broadway and in London, Lynn Nottage’s latest play is a comedy that revisits the same de-industrialised
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMOne line started it. “You know that he loved you, don’t you?” That was the moment in Nick Payne’s A Life when
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAnton Chekhov has been cursing up a storm this summer in New York. Sort of. There are currently two – fairly swearey
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe award-winning playwright and director has scored a series of Broadway transfers from his Chicago theatre. He tells Howard Sherman why community-generated
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMPerched somewhere between elaborate board game, immersive theatre and Halloween haunted house, the escape room phenomenon seems to fly under the radar
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMA simple list of credits for Hal Prince says so much. Producer or co-producer of, among others, The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17PMYou could call it Broadway’s week of disruptions, although it wasn’t unique to Broadway or even necessarily theatre. It began on Saturday,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAs the daughter of famous performers, Kate Burton has forged her own distinguished stage career, known for playing Chekhov and Shakespeare as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMThe deranged eccentricity of the premise demanded attention: a stage version of the 1997 action film Face/Off, starring Nic Cage and John
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07PMThe arts community prides itself on being progressive. The time has come for it to move forward yet again; the specific topic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThese movies are too long. These movies are too short. These movies are just right. This theme, echoing the assessments of fussy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMImagine if the long-running NT Connections programme was generating new plays for the secondary school market all about comic book heroes. While
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAs head of New York Theatre Workshop, James Nicola has originated hits from Rent to Hadestown. He tells Howard Sherman about working
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