Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Maybe it's different in these United States, but in the UK, the theatre profession turns out to be worse than a high school locker room:
Bullying at work is more common in the arts than in …
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 11:17AMSaturday, July 2, 2011
To get you through the fireworks and barbeque...
-How do you build a traveling Elizabethan playhouse in the Park Avenue Armory? Take a sneak peak at the RSC's summer home in NYC.
-Two more…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 11:15AMThursday, June 30, 2011
NYT's Erik Piepenburg takes us backstage to the world of the "Star Dresser":
Depending on the size of the cast, a Broadway show can have anywhere from one to as many as 15 dressers, whose…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 04:21PMKevin Spacey as Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes, now playing at London's Old Vic.
Part of the final season of Mendes' trans-Atlantic "Bridge Project," the production will come to BAM in…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 12:08PMWednesday, June 29, 2011
The past decade may be noted in future theatre histories as the period video projection went mainstream in stage design. Theatermania's Solange de Santis profiles its use in current hits The…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 11:36AMTuesday, June 28, 2011
Ever wanted to see DePalma's film of Richard Schechner's landmark Dionysus in 69 at the Performing Garage?
Well here it is online!
All 85 minutes. In case you're looking for something to d…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 05:06PMFun video tour of the Public's Shakespeare in the Park venue, courtesy of the current season's actors, replete with mild Tom Foolery.
Interesting reminder that no matter how high the profil…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 01:11PMFriday, June 24, 2011
Time Out's Upstaged introduces me to a new video web-series by the HERE folks:
This year HERE is marking the second season of its terrific online documentary series MADE HERE. At a time wh…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 09:54AMWednesday, June 22, 2011
Via Playbill, here are the Broadway box office stats for the week following the Tonys (June 13-19) for all shows either awarded, nominated, or seen on the broadcast. (With comparisons to pre…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 09:21AMMonday, June 20, 2011
Two interesting readings on the state of government arts funding, at home and abroad.
Sarah Lutman alerts us to potential changes in the charitable giving rules of the Federal Tax Code. To …
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 09:03AMSaturday, June 18, 2011
-Mark Lawson, in the Guardian, says the war against cell phones and other noisy audience members is lost. Ruefully, I agree.
-Charles McNulty tells how working for years as a professional r…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 02:12PMWednesday, June 15, 2011
"What an amazing and historic night on Broadway. New York has never seen anything like Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. And I am very proud of them for not giving up, it was fabulous."
- Form…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 04:42PM"There is not a business model that says, 'Have War Horse, exploit War Horse, repeat.'"
- Nick Carr, Executive Director, Royal National Theatre.
Fascinating, and long, piece from Financial…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 12:04PMTuesday, June 14, 2011
Addendums, Corrections, and Reflections on Sunday night.
-Within the diminished expectations of the show in Television terms, the broadcast itself did surprisingly well--considering it was …
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 01:06PMSunday, June 12, 2011
11:05 Another great closing number from NPH like last time he hosted...but will the Tony producers ever tell CBS they're showing slides???
11:02 Who would have thunk it: South Park's Trey P…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 07:50PMSaturday, June 11, 2011
To get you in the mood for tomorrow night, here's a glimpse at the big Tony nominees, as seen through the super-kinetic and hyper-expressive photography of the Times' Sara Krulwich.
Mark Ry…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 02:22PMFriday, June 10, 2011
NYT's 538 blog sifts through the historical data:
On average, winners of the Tony for best musical saw their average weekly gross jump 48 percent, from $656,784 in the eight weeks before …
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 10:22AMThursday, June 9, 2011
-Patrick Pacheco gives us the inns and outs of how musicals get their numbers on the Tony broadcast without being nominated. (Bonus Quote of the Day from an unnamed producer: "We may not win…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 01:14PMWednesday, June 8, 2011
The people behind the (possibly) Broadway-bound revival of Funny Girl have announced they will actually encourage actresses around the nation to submit audition tapes online to vie for the l…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 03:24PMFounded in 1987 (relatively recently for a major regional theatre) Palm Beach's Florida Stage dedicated itself to new writing, and made a good run at it.
Now they're bankrupt and shutting d…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 09:53AMTuesday, June 7, 2011
"When you're done, we'll resume."
-Frances McDormand, addressing an audience member from the stage of the play, Good People.
The spectator in question had not only let her phon…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 04:32PMMcNulty in LAT nails it:
The obscene cost of Broadway tickets sets up expectations that artists who are following their own instincts (rather than the marketplace's) are going to have a hard…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 11:11AM 
