Monday, October 12, 2015
Bitter Lemons: Since December last, when Actors’s Equity Association announced its sweeping new plan for the small theaters of Los Angeles to pay their actors minimum wage, the Theat…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 02:26PMFriday, October 9, 2015
Stage Raw: These are tumultuous days for the theater community in Los Angeles, but one thing is for sure: There has never been a better time for the community to draw together for the purpos…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:31AMThursday, October 8, 2015
The New Yorker: Last week, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced that it had commissioned thirty-six playwrights to translate all of Shakespeare’s plays into modern English. The back…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 01:09AMWednesday, October 7, 2015
The New York Times: Many in the theater community have known that this day was coming, though it doesn’t lessen the shock. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has decided that Shakespeare’s …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:06PMPlaybill: On the eve of a potential hit in its upcoming all-star Confederacy of Dunces, Tony-Winning Huntington Theatre Company has learned that it is losing its main supporter – Bosto…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:06PMOSF: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced today the launch of a 39-play, three-year commissioning project, Play on! 36 playwrights translate Shakespeare. Supported by a generous grant f…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 07:06PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
BroadwayWorld.com: The NoHo Arts District and members of the “PRO99” Los Angeles theater community are throwing a block party to raise awareness about the impact that new regulat…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:37PMAMERICAN THEATRE: Acclaimed productions of ‘Les Misérables’ and ‘All Our Tragic’ were among the 17 Equity productions recognized at the 47th Annual Equity Jeff Award…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:37PMNEW YORK (AP): One of the most powerful people on Broadway has a corner office with a stunning view of Times Square. But there’s a catch: The salary is lousy. Kate Shindle, the newly e…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:37PMVanessa: French thinks of LA Theater like farming. I think of it like cooking. Both metaphors are about creating something from nothing. Growing up in the kitchens of Louisiana, I would …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:42AMThe Theatre @Boston Court has announced its 2016 season: 1) Narrated by the ghost of a missing 15-year-old girl, Colony Collapse (by Stefanie Zadravek, directed by Jessica Kubzansky) explo…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 12:40AMMonday, October 5, 2015
@ This Stage: In recent weeks, a 28-year-old actor named Ali Stroker has been making headlines across theater-news outlets. The reason: She’s the first performer who uses a wheelchair to b…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 06:14AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
Playbill.com: The first preview of Broadway’s Thérèse Raquin Oct. 1 was disrupted when a fan in the mezzanine began shouting his love for leading lady Keira Knightley, and attempted …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:57PMFriday, October 2, 2015
Sacred Fools Theater Company has announced its 19th Season: 1) Miravel (written by Jake Broder, directed by Shaunessy Quinn): A World Premiere play with music about the love and music of…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:25PMThursday, October 1, 2015
WSJ: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will announce next week that it has commissioned translations of all 39 of the Bard’s plays into modern English, with the idea of having them ready to …
SOURCE: footlights.click at 11:09PMThe Antaeus Theatre Company has announced its 2016-17 season: 1) Cloud Nine: Caryl Churchill’s Obie Award-winning, comic farce of gender and sexual politics will be directed by Casey Sta…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 04:49AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
LAObserved: Center Theatre Group calls itself “L.A.’s Theatre Company,” yet continues to demonstrate virtually no interest in LA stories. Fortunately two of the area’…
SOURCE: footlights.click at 10:16AMSaturday, September 26, 2015
Los Angeles Daily News: Award-winning 24th Street Theater directors Debbie Devine and Jay McAdams befriended one of the world’s leading playwrights for young audiences, while attending a…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:10AMThursday, September 24, 2015
This Stage: We’re thrilled to announce this year’s Ovation Awards nominees. For the unacquainted, the Ovation Awards are the only peer-judged theatre awards in Los Angeles, created to …
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:33PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
AMERICAN THEATRE – Do men write better plays than women? We think we know that’s not true. So why does the disparity persist? What is the truth about unconscious bias? http:/…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:37PMSunday, September 20, 2015
LA Times: Michael Bloomberg, the publishing mogul and former New York City mayor, will pump $4.5 million into L.A.’s nonprofit arts scene over the coming two years, as part of a national i…
SOURCE: Footlights at 11:45AMSaturday, September 19, 2015
TheaterMania.com: Deaf West’s new revival play incubated in Los Angeles Intimate Theatre is extending its Broadway run at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Michael Arden’s productio…
SOURCE: Footlights at 11:24PMAMERICAN THEATRE: On Monday, the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players announced they would mount a production of The Mikado at the NYU Skirball Center next January with an almost all-whit…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:13PMThe New York Times: During an interview at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Thursday night Denzel Washington said that he would produce adapta…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:13PMFriday, September 18, 2015
Bitter Lemons: I spent the 90’s doing poor but inspired theater with great actors like Paul Giamatti. I did a lot of new work – a lot. I kind of fell in love with it, in fact. In 1998, I…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:40PMThe Guardian: Five months after standing down from her Hampstead and Kilburn constituency, Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson is acting again, featuring in a radio adaptation of the 20-volu…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:28AMThursday, September 17, 2015
AMERICAN THEATRE: You’ve seen (and maybe argued about) our Top 10 Most-Produced Plays list. Now let the debate begin over the most-produced playwrights in the country; goodness knows we�…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:15PMStylist Magazine: Sienna Miller has revealed that she refused the Broadway role of Sally Bowles in Cabaret in New York when she discovered she was offered only half the wage salary of her ma…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:15PMAMERICAN THEATRE: Each fall, American Theatre compiles its Top 10 Most-Produced Plays and Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights lists, providing a snapshot of the most popular names and plays …
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:15PMSunday, September 13, 2015
L.A. Weekly: Los Angeles has a lot going for it when it comes to theater. It’s filled with creative types, has a large and vocal 99-seat theater scene, is home to some heavyweight la…
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:40AMTuesday, September 8, 2015
LA Times: The Elephant Theatre Co. in Hollywood has ceased operations and its members are considering their options following the recent sale of the company’s longtime home on Santa Mo…
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