Wednesday, 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 03:43AMYes, all you millennials – back before you were born, the few people who remembered that the Nazis had used pink triangles to mark out homosexuals in the prison camps tended to view th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:05AMTuesday, July 28, 2015
“As the term has gained greater currency – even the White House is using it – a belated spotlight has fallen on one of the key contributors to mass incarceration in this co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:19AMMonday, July 27, 2015
That’s the title of a song – written from the point of view of that unwise woman in the audience – recently posted to YouTube by composer Robert Maggio and lyricist Matthew…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:39PMFriday, July 24, 2015
“It’s been horrible to watch our otherwise splendid union’s desperate attempt to boost membership by pretending there was enough money to be made in 50-seat fringe venues t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
That’s Taye Diggs – yes, the guy who gave Stella her groove back. “Hold up, though – is this not madness? Black America’s most eligible bachelor is about to pla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:01AM“Details will be announced on Monday for the Lughnasa International Friel Festival which will have, at its heart, a production of one of Friel’s plays presented on both sides of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:30AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
“In a scenario out of Footloose, a Tullahoma clergyman tried to unite local church leaders in opposition to a production of the musical Rent, performed by a mostly teen-aged cast. R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:53AMDouglas Gordon taking an axe to the wall of a theatre after bad reviews of his new production is but one tiny example. Critic Michael Billington offers some more – including Steven Ber…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57AM“Through theatre, the women in the group tell their stories to the people who need to hear them most: police officers, brothel owners, clients, men. The audience gathers in a circle an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:49AMFriday, July 17, 2015
The actress/folk hero explains what exactly the audience member whose phone she took away was doing, where in the theater the offender was sitting, and why her nonstop texting was distractin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:10AMThursday, July 16, 2015
“Roughly one-fifth” – 22%, actually – “of the productions staged at hundreds of theaters nationwide over the past three seasons were written by women, according…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:40AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Michelle Terry (currently playing Rosalind at Shakespeare’s Globe): “Going into the forest of Arden, disguised as a man, means she gets to explore every possible version of herse…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:28AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Producer Cameron Mackintosh: “We wanted to get into the grit of the opera house and the lair and make it far more atmospheric, in a stylized realistic way. … It’s a much mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:52AMNick Silvestri, age 19, in a prepared statement: “I don’t go to plays very much, and I didn’t realize that the stage is considered off limits. I’ve learned a lot abou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:37AMFriday, July 10, 2015
See? It’s not just music critics doing it. “It’s a lesson that audiences have yet to learn. … Patti LuPone will not tolerate your foolery in a Broadway theatre. Or of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:25AM“We could see her text. She was so uninterested. She showed her husband what she was texting. … When we went out for the second act I was very close to her, and she was still tex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:23AM“He said the incident was not a dare. It was not intended as a joke. His iPhone 6 was just low on juice. Why did he do it? What was the emergency? ‘Girls were calling all day. Wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03AMThursday, July 9, 2015
Five-time Tony nominee Jan Maxwell: “The kinds of roles I was being offered were just – I’d been there and done that, and I just didn’t want to do that anymore. ̷…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:26AM“Customers were asked to book tickets in advance – so we still captured their data – but they did not pay until after the show. There was no obligation to pay anything, ent…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:31AMWednesday, July 8, 2015
As desperate refugees fleeing African and Middle Eastern war zones drown in the Mediterranean and flood Italy, Greece, and Malta, a director uses Syracuse’s ancient Greek amphitheater …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:20AM“Taymor’s film reveals more of the spectacle than any one spectator at the theater could have seen. Nonetheless a filmed version of a stage production cannot quite capture the se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:40AMTuesday, July 7, 2015
Darko Tresnjak: “Taming of the Shrew is designed to give uproarious pleasure over the subjugation of a woman. In Kiss Me, Kate, she is an equal-opportunity offender. We made sure that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30AMTuesday, June 23, 2015
The case of Double Falsehood and the search for “function words.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:17AMFriday, June 19, 2015
No, we don’t mean live sex shows. This is all about a spate of recent plays about the effects that widely available porn is having on our society.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:50AMThursday, June 18, 2015
Steven Berkoff: “Again, one suffers the bilge of a critic who in reviewing Othello warbles happily how fortunate we are, that actors no longer black up. As if that’s all there is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:14AMWednesday, June 17, 2015
“Probably the closest thing you can compare it to is the fighting in ice hockey. Think about it: an activity somehow both integral and non-essential that many in the audience consider …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:08AMTuesday, June 16, 2015
“In the beginning, there was Twitter. David Javerbaum – a seasoned comedy writer for The Daily Show and The Colbert Report who has won Peabodys, Emmys, and a Grammy – start…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48AMFriday, June 12, 2015
“The cloak and dagger nature of trying to see a play in one of Europe’s most authoritarian nations is to be mirrored in the UK as part of Belarus Free Theatre’s 10th annive…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:23AMTuesday, June 9, 2015
“The Tony Award for best new musical … is likely to be a major turning point, allowing the production to reach new markets, and new audiences, that might have been initially put …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12AM“The show, which began previews on March 26 and opened April 23, has been a box office disappointment but a passion project for its producers and investors, who worked for more than a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:10AM 
