These unmissable logos seem designed to engage audiences with the stage quite actively, creating an Instagrammable moment in a space where cameras are mostly frowned upon. - The Stage
"The campaign, Save Our Stage, … seeks to raise $750,000 by July 1. The cause for the emergency campaign isn't declining demand but increased costs, as artistic director Khalia Davis Davis acknowledges that the company's budget projections 'miscalculated.'" - San Francisco Chronicle
"Audiences have been slow to return. National conversations about race put the internal practices of local theaters under a microscope. Many theater artists moved away or left the industry entirely. The government money's gone." Here's a look at how some Massachusetts theaters are handling it all. - WBUR (Boston)
Released a year before Jarman's 1994 death from AIDS, Blue is a collage of texts, narrated over an empty blue screen, on illness and loss of vision (Jarman could only see in shades of blue). Now Neil Bartlett is directing a stage adaptation starring Russell Tovey and Travis Alabanza. - The Guardian
The spirit of boldness that marked Broadway’s reopening in the wake of a once-in-a-century pandemic and widespread societal reckonings on equity, diversity and inclusion was still apparent, though bottom-line realities aggressively reasserted themselves. - Los Angeles Times
“You see politicians and officials enacting rules and laws which are incredibly onerous and designed to enforce a very narrow view of what students can see, read, learn or act on stage.” - Washington Post
The cancellation came after a parent told school board members that she was worried about her 5-year-old daughter’s upcoming field trip to see the play, in which male actors play female characters. - Washington Post
Some Like It Hot garnered 10 nominations, while musicals & Juliet, Shucked, and New York, New York each landed nine. Leading the plays were A Doll's House, Leopoldstadt, and Ain't No Mo' with six nominations each. - Variety
"I learned from my theater community that Sondheim was the goal, and that if you get the opportunity to do Sondheim, you take it, no matter what time and space and place it is." - Los Angeles Times
"It's an inherently dramatic device — because a letter is both a vessel for self-expression and a catalyst for a response. Suspense swirls around what that response might be, and often whether one will arrive at all." - The New York Times
"It's a delicate experiment in what happens when we really try and tune in to local audiences rather than just deliver the same product around the country, which is what we normally do." - BBC
Several companies in the Bay Area have been finding real advantages in these models: without a single, well-paid executive, the remaining staffers can be paid better; limited tenures for programming and casting directors keep companies from falling back on the same playwrights and actors; and so on. - San Francisco Chronicle
The Birmingham Hippodrome's Patrick Studio "will be led by a Head of New Musical Theatre, who will commission, develop and produce new musicals in collaboration with creatives and partners." - WhatsOnStage (London)
Without the weight – cultural as well as literal – of the collected edition, it’s possible few would care about these surviving plays. Something similar happened to other playwrights of the period, whose work was not given the authority of a collection. - The Conversation
"Hana S. Sharif, artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and a former staffer with organizations in Hartford, Boston and Baltimore, takes over from Molly Smith, who is retiring after a quarter-century in the top job at one of the nation's cornerstone regional theaters." - MSN (The Washington Post)