Monday, August 31, 2015
“Within the Broadway spectrum, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop historical musical has less in common with recent smashes than with shows that radically expanded audiences’ per…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:16PM“While every major theatre in Germany has a whole department devoted to the function and a practitioner assigned to every production, in British theatre the dramaturg has been a compar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PMSunday, August 30, 2015
“Theater as a whole desperately needs to keep attracting younger audiences, and yet it doesn’t seem particularly able or willing to educate newer playgoers or accommodate their diffe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:56PM“There are hundreds of priorities to balance in the process of planning a season. The decisions we make reveal the hierarchy of those priorities. It is the season, not the mission stat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:13PMMonday, August 24, 2015
“Each evening, a couple hours before shows begin, the smoke team gathers in the Festival’s outdoor theater, armed with a weather forecast and other pertinent information about the ai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:10PMLynn Nottage: “I’ve always been told that there’s only room for one black play. If the black slot’s full, they won’t put in another.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:53AM“Located between Western and Vermont avenues, the Fountain is at a crossroads of multiculturalism. ‘We’re right in the heart of Little Armenia, so it feels very natural for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:00AMSunday, August 23, 2015
“4. Walk through the entire program through the lens of those you are inviting into your theatre or organization. What would you see? What would you experience? What does it feel like …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:38PMMonday, August 17, 2015
“In letter published on Saturday signatories, who also included Sir David Hare, Young Vic artistic director David Lan and Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, said the cancellation R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMAll of the reasons it never quite clicks for these men and women, according to their much more famous peers – including the table comic, “the genre of beloved comic who is funny …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMSunday, August 16, 2015
“As the financial realities of our operation become more constrained, the pressure on the pay and working conditions for those people we employ increases, and any attempts to narrow th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:56PMMonday, August 10, 2015
“We are living in an age when we get to choose our communities. I could be a sports fan, or a gamer, or build houses for Habitat for Humanity, or a zillion other things. But my real fr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:14PMSunday, August 9, 2015
“The Sherlock actor made his debut as Hamlet at the Barbican last week but found the distraction of red lights in the audience so ‘mortifying’ that he stepped outside the s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33PMMonday, July 27, 2015
“A lot of times in the past when you’ve seen hip-hop used in musical theatre, it has quotes around it. ‘How crazy! We’re making hip-hop musical theatre!’ We don’t com…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:31PM“It is the most democratic of art forms, generally free at the point of delivery and with an audience who can walk away at any time.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AMSunday, July 26, 2015
“The actor’s body, or rather its ideal form, is a lie. It is an imaginary by-product of a culture that tries to value certain bodies over others.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:57PMMonday, July 20, 2015
Don’t have a program: “There was no designated person whose function was to understand the world of the play, to speak up for the playwright and her intent, to argue for the sanc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:45AMSunday, July 19, 2015
“David J. Kurs, Deaf West’s artistic director, said gestural eloquence — clear, articulate signing — was one of the main qualities the creative team was looking for. So was rhyth…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:19PM“As Mr. Obama was ushered to his aisle seat in Row K, the audience applauded thunderously and snapped cellphone photos, in open defiance of a recorded warning from George III, played b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:28PMMonday, July 13, 2015
“Says Necheles, ‘This is a musical based on the exploration of what it means to be famous and how people react to that fame.’ Says Shell: ‘In essence it focuses on a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMSunday, July 12, 2015
“Mr. Miranda, at an airport on his way to a vacation with his wife in Mexico, picked up a copy of ‘Alexander Hamilton,’ a 2004 biography by Ron Chernow. By the second chapt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:27PM“Broadway theaters weren’t built for cell phone usage—many of them date to the early 20th century. They’re made of marble on the outside and have thick walls on the inside, which…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM“Here’s what I’m wondering. Why haven’t theaters, which have known about this problem for eons, taken a harder line on behalf of their own audiences and productions? Why, in all …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:02PMMonday, July 6, 2015
“It’s not as if actors can only work in respectful silence.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM“Upon receiving his phone back, he asked the usher, ‘Well, where *can* I charge it?'”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:10PMSunday, July 5, 2015
“The truth is that with any art form you have to wade through a lot of less good stuff to find the gems, and there is a purpose in the less good stuff because that’s how artists, nov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:40PMMonday, June 29, 2015
“The play does have all the hallmarks of a legitimate Shakespeare and Fletcher collaboration.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:30PMThe Cherry Sisters’ “variety act included original music, bass drum thumping, poetry, mouth harp playing, inspirational recitations, essay reading, fake hypnosis and other artist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:45PM“The vast majority of plays are distinctly average. They are fairly well written, fairly well acted and fairly well staged. But they do not reflect how people actually speak because di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:15PMSunday, June 28, 2015
“When the actress Mia Katigbak was a student at Barnard College in the 1970s, she was the only Asian-American studying theater and mostly got to play ‘maids and hookers,’ s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:35PM“The violence in Greek tragedies is a form of therapy and education for the audiences both then and now, Doerries argues, a communal response to suffering. The violence in many of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:45AM 
