Friday, April 24, 2015
Does 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“After 80,000 miles, 96 countries and more than 150 shows, the two-year worldwide tour of Hamlet has reached its halfway point in Spain – on Shakespeare’s birthday. Here…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:50AMThursday, April 23, 2015
“The latest iteration of intimate, in-home performances – think home concerts – Salon Ariel hopes to fill a void in the theater world.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12AM“Religious drama is one of the oldest forms of British theatre, with the incorporation of performance into worship recorded from the time when Christianity was only 500 or so years old…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:09AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
The majority stake went to a U.S. private equity firm, with minority stakes going to a Chinese investment firm, Quebec’s pension fund, and founder Guy Laliberté. Plans are for a major…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:19AM“[A] play about the police, race, a suspect shooting, and real estate,” with a retired African-American cop (shot and wounded by a white colleague) at its center, Between Riversi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:28AMFriday, April 17, 2015
“Co-founder [and owner] Guy Laliberté sent an email to staff on Thursday saying that he had not yet wrapped up the company sale, after CBC/Radio-Canada and other media outlets reporte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:56AM“Under the eaves of a hospice for Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan, a wounded young Romeo reaches out to the blurred image of a girl on a screen. From the besieged and bombed-out city …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:49AMThursday, April 16, 2015
Lyn Gardner: “Ditching the label ‘fringe’ would put all theatre-makers on an equal footing, wherever they work and in whatever form. It would stop the segmentation of audie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:26AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
“As hard as a revival is, a new musical is just on steroids harder. You’re constantly looking at your book, your music, your structure, and at the same time you’re trying t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:55AMDrama students from Weston College in England and UNLV “will perform the same piece simultaneously, with the overseas actors being broadcast on a screen behind the live action in both …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:29AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Sonia Friedman: “I can stand here alongside a lot of colleagues doing the same job, saying the West End is as good as it can ever be, and it’s probably the best it’s ever b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:38AMFriday, April 10, 2015
“I can’t even use the word surreal anymore, it’s so trite; it’s weird … I do understand that there’s a difference between the play and my life, but it is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06AM“[It] pulls information from databases with names of locations, people, organizations in the city at the time, as well as reference material about the early modern period in London. Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:59AMThursday, April 9, 2015
“In making the leap from movie mogul to lead theater producer … [he] has fired or lost more actors, artists and executives than most impresarios do on their shows. … Yet Mr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:40AMThe Capulets are Serbs, the Montagues are Kosovo Albanians, and each family will be speaking its own language. There are no subtitles. “There are people in Belgrade who don’t spe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:39AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds takes place at a silent Buddhist retreat. “Aside from the unseen teacher, who lectures from offstage, its characters say almost nothing. Most of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:59AMThursday, April 2, 2015
Wilma Theater artistic director Blanka Zizka: “Hamlet is a remarkable play, and one that I have always wanted to direct, but I had to wait for an extraordinary actor, and it was not un…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:55AMA Federal district judge ruled that David Adjmi’s 3C “represented a ‘drastic departure’ from the TV show, which ran from 1977 to 1984 and remains in syndication.̶…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
When the British company brought its immersive adaptation of Macbeth to New York in 2011 and parked it at an old hotel on the far West Side, the project was still experimental and risky, goo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AM“This toxic cocktail of alienation and murder is laced throughout with deadpan black comedy. Think Wolf Hall reimagined by Quentin Tarantino, and you begin to get the feel of it. ̷…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
“On Dec. 3, a live version of The Wiz will make its debut on the network, produced in partnership with Cirque du Soleil’s theatrical division, which will then take it to Broadway…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:53AMFriday, March 27, 2015
Laura Collins-Hughes: “The energy in the room is high, and whatever surprises the performance holds won’t yet have been spoiled by reviews written by people like me. … [And…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:58AMThursday, March 26, 2015
Adam Gopnik: “Many people have pointed out the eerie resemblance of Durst’s words to a Shakespearean soliloquy. Actually, only one kind of soliloquy – the villain’s k…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:00AM“In December 1968, the computer scientist Douglas Engelbart … brought together for the first time a mouse, word processing, multimedia communication and networking to demonstrate…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:56AMWednesday, March 25, 2015
After Raeda Taha’s father was killed while hijacking a passenger plane in 1972, she was, in effect, adopted by Yasir Arafat and later worked as his press secretary. In Where Can I Find…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
Nigel Farage is leader of the UK Independence Party, a nationalist group that wants to curb immigration and take Britain out of the EU. Dan Glass took his Beyond UKIP cabaret to Farage’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:53AM“An earlier version of Mr. Miller’s story centered on a salesman named not Loman, but Schoenzeit. An actor, Joseph Buloff, translated the play into Yiddish and put on a small pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:50AMFriday, March 20, 2015
Michael Billington: “Brook himself hates looking back over his career … [but] the rest of us are entitled to put his 70-year-long career in perspective and the stock idea is that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:49AMIn an excerpt from his prize-winning biography, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, John Lahr recalls the atmosphere in New York and the rest of America at the time of the play&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AMThis “theatrical installation” at a laundromat in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, “is the first for families ever produced by Soho Rep, the venerable downtown institution tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:46AM 
