http://www.artsjournal.com/theatre.shtml Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:14:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/antitrust_conce.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/antitrust_conce.shtml theatre Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:25:30 -0800 Brian Colburn, managing director of the Intiman Theatre, tells the paper: "There's probably as much theater here as in the city of Los Angeles, but the population is one-sixth the size. You can walk from theater to theater here, meet friends or colleagues at a cafe."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/ny_times_recogn.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/ny_times_recogn.shtml theatre Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:18:02 -0800 Director Tom Morris's Juliet and Her Romeo, planned for next spring at the Bristol Old Vic, "uses Shakespeare's text, but casts the lovers in their 80s, with their anxious children, not their parents, seeking to prevent an imprudent and costly match."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/shakespeares_st.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/shakespeares_st.shtml theatre Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:59:28 -0800 In an uncommon agreement with the producers of "A Steady Rain," the Shubert Organization will invest in their projects and guarantee them a Shubert house. The deal gives the producers "a strong advantage on the Main Stem, where real estate is a hot commodity and numerous incoming productions vie for a limited number of available theaters."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/deal_with_shube.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/deal_with_shube.shtml theatre Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:13:04 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/britains_nation.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/britains_nation.shtml theatre Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:12:42 -0800 "While hardship will not necessarily produce better art, standing outside official patronage might at least encourage artists to kick against the establishment rather than adorn it. The art we have enjoyed over the last 12 years has been wealthy, and wealthy art is supine."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/losing_governme.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/losing_governme.shtml theatre Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:39:18 -0800 "The company's move last season from the tiny 50-seat Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (a.k.a. CHAW) to the much larger Sprenger Theater in the Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street NE proved more than its budget could handle."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/financial_troub.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/financial_troub.shtml theatre Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:12:00 -0800 "Chicago-based dramatist Marisa Wegrzyn has won the 2009 Wasserstein Prize for her new play, Hickorydickory." The award, which also includes a reading at New York's Second Stage Theater, is given "for an outstanding script by a young woman who has not yet received national attention."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/28yearold_playw.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/28yearold_playw.shtml theatre Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:18:57 -0800 Synchronicity Performance Group planned an extremely tight budget for 2009-10, and the company couldn't sustain the loss it took on its children's play Bunnicula, about a vampire rabbit. "As a result, Synchronicity has cancelled the last two shows of its season: Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone and The Brand New Kid, a family show."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/atlanta_troupe.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/atlanta_troupe.shtml theatre Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:08:05 -0800 "With a $1.25 million policy in force and just an $85,000 mortgage on the building," the owner of the Pocono Playhouse, which burned down last month, "could be in line for a million-dollar payout." It wouldn't be the first time Ralph Miller cashed a big check after a fire at one of his theaters.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/owner_of_charre.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/owner_of_charre.shtml theatre Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:34:27 -0800 "The theater's creators and overseers, the Mayfair Community Development Corporation, announced over the weekend in letters to about 700 subscribers that a state budget cut left the agency with no money to create productions from scratch." It will go dark after its current production closes next month.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/citing_state_cu.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/citing_state_cu.shtml theatre Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:26:43 -0800 "The only thing that could keep me alert through three hours of Brecht - however good the production - on a Monday evening is the fact that I could topple 20 feet if I nodded off. Theatre demands effort from the audience, and by God, the West End makes us work." But will audiences keep putting up with the toil the venues exact?... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/lets_hear_it_fo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/lets_hear_it_fo.shtml theatre Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:19:37 -0800 "'Glee,' which chronicles the lives of members of a high school glee club, is attracting between 7 and 8 million viewers every week, and doing well among the valued 18- to 49-year-old market segment. But it is something of an obsession among theater denizens, teenage and otherwise."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/glees_musical_g.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/glees_musical_g.shtml theatre Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:55:48 -0800 "Britain may remain in a recession that could still deepen, yet the mood in and out of the commercial theatre sector seems refreshingly upbeat." Of course, "there are also problems and worries, especially in a subsidised sector that accounts for almost all our new and cutting-edge drama."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/for_commercial.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/for_commercial.shtml theatre Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:37:16 -0800 The story of regional theatre in recent years has been bleak, with some of Britain's oldest venues facing closure. But a new crop of creative directors are making local heroes of themselves.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/britains_region.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/britains_region.shtml theatre Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:49:16 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/director_pulls.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/director_pulls.shtml theatre Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:00:24 -0800 "It might seem like a stupid question, but when you watch a piece of theatre, do you ever wonder who has done what? There's no real reason why you should. You liked so-and-so's performance, the set looked nice, theatre is a collaborative effort and you enjoyed the show. End of story."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/credit_where_cr_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/credit_where_cr_1.shtml theatre Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:59:06 -0800 "Papp mostly appears as a kind of theatrical superhero, arriving to give a crucial green light, to fire a director, to change a second act, to shake a cast up or to raise impossibly large sums of money in a single bound."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_portrait_of_j.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_portrait_of_j.shtml theatre Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:02:41 -0800 "Theaters need to understand that they are the pulse of society. But for theater to have the important place in society that it deserves, it needs to be almost a town hall -- a place where people come for ideas, to converse, to be angry and sometimes to be comforted."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_need_to_reinv_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_need_to_reinv_1.shtml theatre Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:16:24 -0800 "Both festivals had a slow start due to the recession, a major leap forward once their shows opened and the government came through with additional marketing funds, but an ultimate downward turn by the time the curtain fell." Stratford slipped 4.7 percent in attendance and 1.7 percent in revenue; Shaw was down 6.5 and 8 percent.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/stratford_shaw.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/stratford_shaw.shtml theatre Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:59:45 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/sophocles_as_pt.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/sophocles_as_pt.shtml theatre Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:46:15 -0800 "Shopping and F***ing playwright Mark Ravenhill has criticised the theatre industry for placing too much emphasis on producing the work of first-time writers, claiming more time should be spent developing 'long-term' relationships with talent."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/mark_ravenhill.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/mark_ravenhill.shtml theatre Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:34:07 -0800 "Some parents who object to the plays' 'mature content' had sought a preliminary injunction to stop both productions. But lawyers for the Clark County School District said the parents' lawyer failed to prove one of the basic criteria for a preliminary injunction, that it would cause 'irreparable harm' to the plaintiffs."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/judge_oks_high.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/judge_oks_high.shtml theatre Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:35:54 -0800 "The Royal Court Theatre has dominated the shortlist for this year's London Evening Standard Theatre Awards with 11 nominations. By comparison, the National Theatre has received three nominations and the Donmar Warehouse only one."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/in_evening_stan.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/in_evening_stan.shtml theatre Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:16:42 -0800 "The union contends the producers locked out the musicians beginning with the Oct. 17 performance [of 'Tony n' Tina's Wedding'], replacing them with recorded music." It argues the show's "producers are bound by a labor contract that was struck with the old producers, a deal that does not expire until 2011."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/musicians_say_o.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/musicians_say_o.shtml theatre Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:27:12 -0800