117 stories from The Playgoer
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…
Fun 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…
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…
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…
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 …
-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…
"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…
"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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
-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…
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…
Founded 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…
"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…
McNulty 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…
