Thursday, November 2, 2017
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam — which was named one of the top two symphony orchestras in Europe in a critics' poll last year — will make a five-city tour o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AMWednesday, November 1, 2017
Tenor and crossover star Russell Watson was rushed to a hospital near Manchester today for emergency surgery to remove a brain tumor, according to reports from British agencies and newspaper…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PMMonday, October 30, 2017
(updated June 7, 2007)Robert King, founder and director of the ensemble The King's Consort and a major figure in the period-instrument movement, has been convicted by a London jury of 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMFriday, September 4, 2015
In a just-released email sent July 30, the UK National Youth Theatre’s artistic director wrote, “The creatives have failed to meet repeated requests for a complete chronological …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36AM“Despite having to deal with endless locks, cabin fever and chemical toilet mishaps, the Mikron theatre company is flourishing, thanks to its passionate following.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:57AMThursday, September 3, 2015
“For at least 50 years, New York has honored the passing of lifelong theater-industry participants by briefly dimming the lights of Broadway marquees. But in the social-media era, the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:09AMDavid Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Aerosmith, Jonathan Coulton, The Flaming Lips, Panic! At the Disco, and They Might Be Giants are just a few of the folks headed to that pineapple under the sea …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:59AMWednesday, September 2, 2015
Michael Billington’s list, though it limits itself to the western tradition, runs all the way back to Aeschylus (The Persians) and right up to last season (King Charles III). Of course…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:05AMRSC education director Jacqui O’Hanlon says that the app, designed for students aged 11 to 16, “would act as a ‘trail of breadcrumbs’ to the original work. The app…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:39AMThe Lughnasa International Friel Festival – created and directed (on a tiny budget) by Seán Doran, who also founded the Happy Days Festival focused on Beckett – is the first lar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:59AMFriday, August 28, 2015
Second City CEO Andrew Alexander: “It has gutted our two levels of offices. But we’ll fix it. … The theaters are fine. The most important thing is that no one is hurt. Than…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:58AM“The playwright behind Homegrown, the controversial play exploring radicalisation and jihadi brides that was shut down less than a fortnight before its opening, … has been approa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:43AMThursday, August 27, 2015
Michael Billington: “Why do it? Why put my head on the chopping-block by writing a book hubristically entitled The 101 Greatest Plays? The answers are many and complex.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32AMStage fighting? Lots of people can do that. Accents? Standard. Foreign languages? No longer uncommon. Here are seven actors talking about the really unusual gifts they have.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
The new artistic director at Australia’s leading theater will be Jonathan Church, outgoing director of England’s Chichester Festival Theatre, which he transformed from a fading r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:07AMThe venue, called The Downstairs, “will contain a 150-seat theater, an exhibition space and a classroom, and will emphasize new media and multidisciplinary work. Its opening is part of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:59AMFriday, August 21, 2015
Which a show with Alexander Hamilton as its hero would do, of course. “If Hamilton is the 99 percent, Jefferson is, in the show at least, the one percent. If Hamilton is Barack Obama (…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32AM“The company, which has been acquired by a group of private equity investors, said that the production, to be called Paramour, represented one step in a broader effort to expand its pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:26AMThursday, August 20, 2015
And one of them walked onstage to get there. Said one cast member, “As soon as I got back offstage, I asked my crew member, ‘Did that really happen? Did someone really come back …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:25AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
“The producers of the Tony-winning revival announced on Thursday that the show, now starring Taye Diggs in the title role, will finish its Broadway run on Sept. 13 at the Belasco Theat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:09AMThe producers of Madea on the Run, currently touring the U.S., have not signed Equity’s contract, so the union has put the show on its “Do Not Work” list, which SAG-AFTRA i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:07AMThursday, August 13, 2015
Says director Heather Williams, “I wanted to use the idea of non-cooperative actors to explore the themes of King Lear itself. Because Cordelia’s an actor who refuses to act.R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Lyn Gardner: “Maybe – and I am just saying maybe – as people communicate differently and engage differently with the world around them, theatre may have to adapt, and not j…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:00AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
“Railway tunnels in Bristol that date back 175 years are to be transformed into a new performance space. The underground venue, which will be called the Lo-co Klub, is located in the a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:09AMFriday, August 7, 2015
The culprits were The Daily Mail and The Times, whose critic called it “Hamlet for kids raised on Moulin Rouge” – prompting theatre folk to suggest that the public should b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:39AMThursday, August 6, 2015
“[Manfred] Karge, now 77, has been called ‘East Germany’s Orson Welles’ or ‘the Brandenburg Beckett’ – though those aren’t comparisons he is c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57AMTuesday, August 4, 2015
Alexis Soloski: “Mostly I’m in favour of dressing down. It seems democratising to me. Less elitist. It makes theatre seem like the kind of thing anyone and everyone can go do, wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:08AMFriday, July 31, 2015
Five actors and four dancers will be leaving the 19-person cast of Dusty, a new show about the singer Dusty Springfield, by the end of August. The producers of the show, which began performa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:41AMThursday, July 30, 2015
Threesome, by Yussef El Guindi, “begins as a bawdy bedroom comedy whose main characters, a heterosexual Egyptian-American couple, invite a white American man into their bed. Over two a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:58AM“The biting satirical musical that mocks Mormons has finally come to the heart of Mormonlandia, starting a sold-out, two-week run Tuesday at a Salt Lake City theater two blocks from th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:14AMWednesday, July 29, 2015
The director and his colleagues who wrote and staged the nine-hour production that toured the world in the 1980s have returned to the ancient Indian epic for a work titled Battlefield. The f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:43AM 
