Tuesday, June 9, 2015
“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 04:10AMFriday, June 5, 2015
Michel Houellebecq’s “Elementary Particles “has nothing to do with Islam. But that didn’t stop [Dubrovnik] Festival organizers from removing it from the lineup when a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:16AMThursday, June 4, 2015
“The exploitation of actresses – and actors – is not confined to Hollywood. Equity, the UK actors’ union, is receiving ever more complaints and has established a work…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18AMManchester’s Flare festival invited The New Collective, a young group based in Tbilisi, to perform next month. “But the British authorities are so concerned that this young colle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:16AMWednesday, June 3, 2015
“The week of the Drama Leagues is the peak of what publicist Chris Boneau calls ‘the month of hate,’ a post-nomination frenzy leading up to the Tonys on June 7.” Here…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24AMMark Shenton of The Stage selects some no-brainers (Sweeney Todd, A Chorus Line), some head-scratchers (Pippin?), some obscure-to-Yanks titles (what’s The Hired Man?), and some appalli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:11AMTuesday, June 2, 2015
“Off Broadway hit Hamilton and Tony contender The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time topped the 2015 Drama Desk Awards, with Hamilton taking seven awards including the title…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:16AM“Tour guides had been preparing to stage a day of strike action on June 1, following previous industrial action on May 18. The guides have been seeking an increase to their pay since a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:41AMWednesday, May 20, 2015
“In the fall, the four-year-old Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training” – operated by Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company – “and the Univer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AM“Many theater owners like to say they offer an intimate show but only one really means it. That would be Theatre for One – a 4-foot-by-8 foot portable theater that allows one aud…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:43AMTuesday, May 19, 2015
“The Elementary Particles, a new stage work adapted from [Michel] Houellebecq’s own 1998 novel, was set to play at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in July. … A spokeswoman fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:07AM“It’s the energy of the building that has the potential to bring Shakespeare to life. It’s the shared space, the triple-galleried cockpit, the restless crowd, the direct ad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:49AMFriday, May 15, 2015
Michael Billington: “In fact, Spacey … has done everything possible to restore the fortunes of the Old Vic. He has given the theatre stability and, through his presence as an act…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:59AM“I sincerely believed that I was going to be South Africa’s first literary redundancy. But as it is, South Africa caught me by surprise again and just said, ‘No, you’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:41AMWednesday, May 13, 2015
“That publicist, Marc Thibodeau, who had been hired to help bring to Broadway the gothic musical based on the Daphne du Maurier novel, had sent foreboding emails under phony names to a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:10AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
“Shakespeare’s Globe is to slash the cost of tours at the venue by 26% when guides begin two days of strikes later this month. … Tour guides who are members of backstage un…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:22AM“Each major character in Ann Liv Young’s Elektra Cabaret tries to break the tragedy with a different emotional code. All of us at times react sorrowfully like the wounded Elektra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:13AMFriday, May 8, 2015
Lyn Gardner: “While the producers of any show may argue that as it’s their party, they can invite whoever they want, the principle of extending invitations across the board to es…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:47AMMark Shenton allows as how a banned critic will probably get to see the show somehow and write about it anyway.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:45AM“The numbers were removed from the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical after the show’s first preview in February 1956 on Broadway. They were discovered, alongside a ballet p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:34AMThursday, May 7, 2015
“The National Comedy Center, which is scheduled to open next year in Jamestown, N.Y., is to unveil plans for a comedy club that will feature holograms of stand-ups and comic actors fro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:26AMWednesday, May 6, 2015
Do screenings of stage productions from London steal audiences from local theatre or expand them? Nobody can agree on the answer. (Yet.)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:59AMWhen Tony LoBianco starred in a one-man show about New York City’s 99th mayor on Broadway in 1989, the production closed after 12 performances. Then the actor started rewriting the scr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:56AMFriday, May 1, 2015
At the award ceremony for the Molières, the country’s top theatre honors, Sébastien Thiéry came onstage completely nude to scold Fleur Pellerin: “Do you know, madame minister,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:00AM“Five years ago, Athol Fugard, the great chronicler of South Africa’s apartheid past and its post-apartheid present, heard a surprising tale. It was about a farm laborer named Nu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:57AMThursday, April 30, 2015
“If an overarching narrative exists, it’s willfully postmodern. … Stare long enough into the chaos, however, and a few patterns, can be divined.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:05AM“Over the last four months, the boldface names have come, one after another, to this cozy downtown theater to see the show’s creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, rap and sing an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:57AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Charles McNulty: “Producers have built flourishing shoestring operations on the backs of virtually unpaid actors. If the majority of performers aren’t complaining, why should the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:21AM“The producers of the long-running Off-Broadway staple, who announced last month that they would close the show in early May, said on Saturday that two unnamed fans had contributed eno…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:09AMFriday, April 24, 2015
“It’s a paradox. In TV studios and on Twitter, British politics seem trapped in a spin cycle of claim and counter-claim, carefully massaged soundbites and kitchen-sink (or kitche…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:00AMDoes it really “represent a moment in feminism that has passed”? Or is it an important piece of history? On the other hand, observes Lisa Kron, “Does this question get aske…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:56AM 
