326 stories by "Douglas McLennan"
The season, announced piecemeal since December, includes Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love," David Lindsay-Abaire's "Ripcord," Richard Greenberg's "Our Mother's Brief Affair," John Patrick Shanle…
“I think leadership is lonely and leadership is frightening, and just the nature of the nonprofit structure is hard, so there is going to be a lot of struggle. And I think that does ma…
“While there are 17 other theatres of comparable size (800-1,099 seats) in greater London, with 15 of those in inner London, the new building would be the first large-scale theatre in …
“Leadership turnover is coming to America's regional theaters. When Theater Communications Group " a service organization for the country's nonprofit theaters " recently surveyed its m…
“Perhaps an all-white cast will one day seem as absurd as Donald Sinden blacking up to play Othello in 1979, but fidelity to 16th-century staging has long served as an excuse for a lac…
"To present this benchmark of British heritage in a way that effectively locks minorities out of the cultural picture [literally] flies in the face of the huge conversation taking place in B…
“They have reinforced a message to young Canadian directors that the best way to get ahead at home is to move abroad, and that what audiences think of you in New York matters more to b…
On the eve of FringeNYC, which runs Friday to Aug. 30, we asked representatives from some shows presented last year whether the overall effort " the cost, the frantic pace, the heat and the …
“A British theatre and opera director with 25 years of experience, Tim Carroll is best known for his Shakespeare productions, which have shown in theatres internationally.”
Weirdly, I am now making much of my income as a theatre and cultural critic in my chosen town of Louisville, Kentucky. I’m getting some small paid theatre gigs, too. I’m making m…
“It's not unusual for a journalist to completely redraft an article or review, so why should it be strange to do the same to a play? Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your…
“In a letter to Daved Driscoll, artistic director of Words Players Theatre, Doug Wright, president of the Dramatists Guild, took issue with guidelines that said the theatre’s dir…
“Our intention was almost the opposite of what it has been perceived to be. It was out of our respect for playwrights that we wanted to be clear about what we were and were not underta…
“National Theatre Backstage officially launches next week and will curate media from existing outlets that the NT uses, such as YouTube and Soundcloud, alongside specially commissioned…
The show breaks every rule of Broadway success. "There are no movie stars and it's not a revival. It's storytelling and an original piece of theater that has inspired all this excitement."
“Homegrown, a National Youth Theatre (NYT) production, was closed down last Thursday, with the creators saying they were given no prior warning. Director Nadia Latif and playwright Oma…
“Identity-based representation practices that reinforce constructions of child/adult will generally limit the meanings of cultural codes, exploit children's performative labors, promot…
“What quickly became apparent is that the local authority officers share our ambition to find ways of increasing the perceived "usefulness" of the arts and asking: if the regular audie…
Five days before opening, all conventional efforts exhausted, the company resorted to trying to reach Swift on social media and in what may be a first, she granted the rights via Twitter jus…
“I am a reporter on The One Show on BBC One, where we get audiences of up to six million. At Edinburgh, the space I play seats 350 people. I am 67, I have six grandchildren, I have bee…
“Until spring, Greg Reiner was managing director of New York's Classic Stage Company. He also served for four years as executive director of the Tectonic Theater Project and for seven …
"I can understand the impulse " they'll be among the top three moneymakers, and that always looks good " but a rule of thumb in this business is, don't alienate Tony voters," a veteran press…
“My own fear about drama getting smaller in regular public schools like Lakeshore is that it limits the ability of kids to stumble upon it " and that affects not just future theatre pr…
“Why is one considered a beacon of acting talent for playing a disabled character convincingly? Why is it a common expectation that these actors will transform into characters whose ex…
“When people were invited onstage at a recent performance of "Penn & Teller on Broadway," many women looked as if they had stepped out of a jazzercise class, while men ambled arou…
