166 stories by "Matthew Westphal"
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam — which was named one of the top two symphony orchestras in Europe in a critics' poll last year — will make a five-city tour o…
Tenor and crossover star Russell Watson was rushed to a hospital near Manchester today for emergency surgery to remove a brain tumor, according to reports from British agencies and newspaper…
(updated June 7, 2007)Robert King, founder and director of the ensemble The King's Consort and a major figure in the period-instrument movement, has been convicted by a London jury of 1…
In a just-released email sent July 30, the UK National Youth Theatre’s artistic director wrote, “The creatives have failed to meet repeated requests for a complete chronological …
“Despite having to deal with endless locks, cabin fever and chemical toilet mishaps, the Mikron theatre company is flourishing, thanks to its passionate following.”
“For at least 50 years, New York has honored the passing of lifelong theater-industry participants by briefly dimming the lights of Broadway marquees. But in the social-media era, the …
David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Aerosmith, Jonathan Coulton, The Flaming Lips, Panic! At the Disco, and They Might Be Giants are just a few of the folks headed to that pineapple under the sea …
Michael Billington’s list, though it limits itself to the western tradition, runs all the way back to Aeschylus (The Persians) and right up to last season (King Charles III). Of course…
RSC education director Jacqui O’Hanlon says that the app, designed for students aged 11 to 16, “would act as a ‘trail of breadcrumbs’ to the original work. The app…
The Lughnasa International Friel Festival – created and directed (on a tiny budget) by Seán Doran, who also founded the Happy Days Festival focused on Beckett – is the first l…
Second City CEO Andrew Alexander: “It has gutted our two levels of offices. But we’ll fix it. … The theaters are fine. The most important thing is that no one is hurt. Than…
“The playwright behind Homegrown, the controversial play exploring radicalisation and jihadi brides that was shut down less than a fortnight before its opening, … has been approa…
Michael Billington: “Why do it? Why put my head on the chopping-block by writing a book hubristically entitled The 101 Greatest Plays? The answers are many and complex.”
Stage fighting? Lots of people can do that. Accents? Standard. Foreign languages? No longer uncommon. Here are seven actors talking about the really unusual gifts they have.
The new artistic director at Australia’s leading theater will be Jonathan Church, outgoing director of England’s Chichester Festival Theatre, which he transformed from a fading r…
The venue, called The Downstairs, “will contain a 150-seat theater, an exhibition space and a classroom, and will emphasize new media and multidisciplinary work. Its opening is part of…
Which a show with Alexander Hamilton as its hero would do, of course. “If Hamilton is the 99 percent, Jefferson is, in the show at least, the one percent. If Hamilton is Barack Obama (…
“The company, which has been acquired by a group of private equity investors, said that the production, to be called Paramour, represented one step in a broader effort to expand its pr…
And one of them walked onstage to get there. Said one cast member, “As soon as I got back offstage, I asked my crew member, ‘Did that really happen? Did someone really come back …
“The producers of the Tony-winning revival announced on Thursday that the show, now starring Taye Diggs in the title role, will finish its Broadway run on Sept. 13 at the Belasco Theat…
The producers of Madea on the Run, currently touring the U.S., have not signed Equity’s contract, so the union has put the show on its “Do Not Work” list, which SAG-AFTRA i…
Says director Heather Williams, “I wanted to use the idea of non-cooperative actors to explore the themes of King Lear itself. Because Cordelia’s an actor who refuses to act.R…
Lyn Gardner: “Maybe – and I am just saying maybe – as people communicate differently and engage differently with the world around them, theatre may have to adapt, and not j…
“Railway tunnels in Bristol that date back 175 years are to be transformed into a new performance space. The underground venue, which will be called the Lo-co Klub, is located in the a…
The culprits were The Daily Mail and The Times, whose critic called it “Hamlet for kids raised on Moulin Rouge” – prompting theatre folk to suggest that the public should b…
