http://www.artsjournal.com/theatre.shtml Copyright 2010 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:13:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "'Tonight we are closing this theater,' Executive Director Stephen Eich told the crowd of over 600 audience, board members and well-wishers from the stage on a night that also saw the closing of the Playhouse production of 'Camelot.'" He said the theatre is "absolutely optimistic that it will in fact reopen."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/the_curtain_has.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/the_curtain_has.shtml theatre Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:59:20 -0800 Orlando performance artist Brian Feldman "has a pretty strong motivation for marrying a woman he doesn't know. ... He's trying to point out the craziness of a state system that will allow near-strangers to marry, as long as they're of opposite sexes, but will not allow marriages for committed partners of the same sex."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/performance_art_2.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/performance_art_2.shtml theatre Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:40:37 -0800 Heidi Rodewald and Stew split up before their musical, "Passing Strange," got to Broadway. A year after it closed, "Stew starts writing breakup songs. His friends tell him they're great, but you know what would be really great? Have Heidi sing about her side of things." Now St. Ann's Warehouse is staging the new show.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/stew_and_heidi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/stew_and_heidi.shtml theatre Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:02:16 -0800 "Looking ahead, the faces of those swimming in the investor pool have changed, but basically the same number of check writers are afloat. Says producer Roger Berlind ('A Little Night Music'), 'There are more producers above the line who are enthusiastically contributing -- no shortage of people playing that role.'"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/broadway_surpri.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/broadway_surpri.shtml theatre Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:39:22 -0800 Next year, the company will bring five plays to the Park Avenue Armory, where they will perform on "an exact copy of the company's Royal Shakespeare Theater, which is being built in Stratford. The reproduction will be shipped in pieces to New York and assembled in the Armory's monumental Drill Hall...."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/rsc_plans_6week.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/rsc_plans_6week.shtml theatre Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:40:13 -0800 "After years when big musicals ruled London's West End, new plays and revivals of classics dominate the nominations announced today for this year's Olivier theatre awards. The Royal Court took the lion's share, with 15 nominations."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/plays_top_music.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/plays_top_music.shtml theatre Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:24:34 -0800 "Hollywood heavyweights feature strongly in the race for Britain's 2010 Laurence Olivier theatre awards, with Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, James Earl Jones and Keira Knightley among the nominees announced Monday."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/hollywood_stars_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/hollywood_stars_1.shtml theatre Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:03:21 -0800 "In the US there has already been a rise in membership of show-choirs like the fictional one that Glee revolves around, and a live tour is planned for the cast. But will Glee leave an indelible mark on television? Musicals are a difficult genre to get right on TV."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/the_glee_effect.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/the_glee_effect.shtml theatre Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:56:50 -0800 "When Marion Potts takes over as artistic director of the Malthouse Theatre company at the end of this year, she will make history as the first woman to assume creative control of one of Melbourne's major theatre troupes."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/a_first_for_mel.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/a_first_for_mel.shtml theatre Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:10:11 -0800 "Isn't it a little embarrassing that the City of Toronto website is still claiming that Hogtown is 'the third-largest English-language theatre centre in the world'? While Toronto may have indeed vied for that unscientific title in the 1990s, it's decidedly been in the dust in the past 10 years."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/has_toronto_the.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/has_toronto_the.shtml theatre Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:01:54 -0800 "Contract negotiations had been proceeding between both sides for over a year but ran into rough water late last fall over the festival's desire to cut health benefits for workers without compensation, the union said."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/possible_strike.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/possible_strike.shtml theatre Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:36:02 -0800 "Martin Benson, 72, and David Emmes, 71, won't be retiring, the theater said in a statement, but will continue under the title of founding directors, advising their successor and taking "an active role" in finding and developing the new plays that have been South Coast's leading claim to fame."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/south_coast_rep_3.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/south_coast_rep_3.shtml theatre Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:13:19 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/a_new_multimill.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/a_new_multimill.shtml theatre Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:51:57 -0800 Andy Field: "The National as an organisation is a wonderful, vital idea. The national theatre as a building is an anachronism: a brutal(ist) articulation of one narrow and archaic vision of theatre that, if not obsolete, is certainly one-dimensional."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/tear_down_the_n.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/tear_down_the_n.shtml theatre Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:40:45 -0800 "[I]t remains unclear how substantial those offers are and whether they are enough to save the institution. In its most recent blog post, the company stated that it has 'been inundated with generous messages of support and many have offered to pledge money to help keep this venerable institution operational.'"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/pasadena_playho_3.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/pasadena_playho_3.shtml theatre Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:55:38 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/lincoln_center_26.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/lincoln_center_26.shtml theatre Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:51:19 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/ireland_cuts_a.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/ireland_cuts_a.shtml theatre Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:43:10 -0800 Duncan Sheik, the composer and lyricist who won a pair of Tonys for Spring Awakening, is now working on a singing-and-dancing adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's notorious novel about a homicidal maniac yuppie.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/american_psycho.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/american_psycho.shtml theatre Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:28:20 -0800 "Theater that shocks is, of course, in the eye (and mind) of the beholder, but most plays and musicals in recent decades have ignored blunt instruments like blackface. ... For the most part, shocks onstage tend to come through incendiary language, provocative plot turns and chilling frights."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/blackface_a_per.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/blackface_a_per.shtml theatre Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:45:47 -0800 "For the big Broadway musical, surviving the recession often means that the sets are rarely stars anymore. You don't hear many audible gasps these days when the curtain rises, or when scenery transforms to reveal a theatrical vision."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/on_broadway_the.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/on_broadway_the.shtml theatre Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:49:04 -0800 Charles Isherwood: "As much as I enjoyed the show, directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones, it left me with lingering questions about the depiction of the African milieu it evoked. In short, the emphasis in Fela! on the spectacle of African culture tilted the show a little too closely toward minstrelsy. It evoked an unsettling feeling I can't say I ever had before at the theater."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/feeling_uneasy.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/feeling_uneasy.shtml theatre Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:44:13 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/checking_out_th_4.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/checking_out_th_4.shtml theatre Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:34:10 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/national_theatr_7.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/national_theatr_7.shtml theatre Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:31:01 -0800 The company "is to present a six-month season in a disused shop in Elephant and Castle shopping centre, opening next month. The season marks the beginning of the Royal Court's Theatre Local project, which has taken three years to plan and aims to take plays into new locations and new communities."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/londons_royal_c.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/londons_royal_c.shtml theatre Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:26:47 -0800 "Plenty of professions including law and journalism have an Oxbridge bias, and theatre criticism in particular has been, and continues to be, dominated by people who attended those universities. But why should the same be true of directors - particularly when you'd assume that it is creativity, not academic prowess, that counts on stage?"... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/british_theatre_4.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/02/british_theatre_4.shtml theatre Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:30:00 -0800