If Hollywood is going to continue reaping the creative benefits of the theater " the actors' training, the ambitious storytelling, the characters fleshed out over countless rewrites " it bea…
Just three months after she posted it, TikTokers had conjured up an entire "Ratatouille" musical universe. A composer spiced up her song with Disney-fied orchestrations. Songwriters whipped …
"The departure of McKeen, one of the city's most prominent arts leaders, comes as something of a shock. He'd been OCT's managing director since 2008. Before that he spent several years as a …
Charles McNulty: "Even before the pandemic, the theater's economic model was broken. Our resident theaters, the nonprofit companies that constitute the art form's national foundation, arose …
"We are all here because we believe in the power of theatre, right? We think it has the power to change minds, to catalyze conversations, to shift narratives. But we most often limit that to…
"A bright spot in the report indicates that the U.S. professional not-for-profit theatre field attracted an estimate of 38 million audience members to 180,000 performances of 21,000 producti…
In the letter, Dramatists Play Service says that the move was partly inspired by the challenges facing the theater business posed by coronavirus. It's a public health crisis that has brought…
"Sometimes you have to set it in the sun a while, and water it, and weed around it. Tend to it. And as it becomes itself you'll begin to understand the shape it was always meant to take. You…
"We launched in October, 2019 with 15 podcasts. And here we are, a little over a year later, with almost 100 podcasts. Since the beginning it was very much the plan to have podcasts and reco…
The Broadway productions of "Hamilton" and "What the Constitution Means to Me" reemerged as films that give a wider audience the best seats in the house. These are stage performances filmed …
Peter Marks: "Putting the most positive spin I can muster on the stricken field I cover " identifying the best of what has transpired in the worst of theatrical times " requires a look beyon…
This week, 42 performances of 12 different shows will be staged. " The Stage
"What has happened, then, during this time without physical training spaces for artists? In the long months that have passed since isolation began, we have had to overcome the creative block…
Theatres that normally function as places of gathering, storytelling and entertainment have found themselves playing a very different role in the age of coronavirus. " The Stage
There will be two strands to the service: productions from National Theatre Live that were broadcast to cinemas; and a selection of plays from the NT's archive being released online for the …
As part of the transaction, former MGM Resorts International chief executive Jim Murren and Catalyst Capital managing director Gabriel de Alba were named as co-chairmen of the company's boar…
"You had Spider-Man dangling seven feet above the first two rows. It was the worst possible position because no one could reach him. One of the crew members fetched a stick to prod him with,…
As the theater's biggest commercial motor, Broadway, has languished, resourceful artists and producers are making work that incorporates video, gaming and interactivity into hybridized digit…
"I shouldn't have been so surprised. Art has played a major role in bringing this once poor and isolated country into the international arena, and the government subsidizes culture in a big …
Reading Michael Riedel has long been mandatory for theater insiders. They may complain about his journalistic practices, his tendency to sensationalize and distort, his refusal to let a fair…
This year, the number of work weeks has plummeted by 65 percent to about 92,000 " including nearly three months of normal work before the shutdown. The lack of work weeks is pushing some…
It became evident to me that companies that had a strong relationship with their audience base before the pandemic had seen continued support. Theatres like Cape Fear Regional Theatre, which…
Working closely with the faculty Co-Founding Directors, the Managing Director will provide strategic direction and administrative management for the Laboratory for Global Performance and Pol…
As one of the oldest museums in Pennsylvania, the Everhart Museum is a vibrant interdisciplinary museum with significant collections in American folk art and wide-ranging specimens of natura…
There's still plenty of money to be made in art, or writing, or music. It's just not being made by the creators. Increasingly, their quest for personal artistic fulfillment is part of someon…