Criss Henderson’s departure, which had not been widely anticipated, is part of a great wave of resignations and retirements in the Chicago theater community, which has seen recent artistic and administrative leadership departures at the Goodman Theatre, Writers Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater and many others. - Chicago Tribune
Why did I even want to be an actor? It was a question I hadn’t thought to ask myself; the dream had calcified in my bones too long ago. Childish reasons, in my case. Excitement, praise – hunger for fame, even. I know now that the life of an actor would suit me very badly. - The Guardian
"You may not know her name, but (Kate) Berlant is influential in comedy circles, and her digressive style stands for everything that a scripted autobiographical play doesn't. And she is having trouble wrapping her head around it." - The New York Times
“This part of the world has seen such a fundamental demographic shift. There has been a change in who lives here, who owns property here, who visits and who goes to the theatre here – and that has a knock-on effect on producing, planning and programming.” - The Stage
“Every Ojai play has a single plot. And that plot is: ‘Here, this thing that no one else has noticed—we have seen it as something beautiful and important. We will take this thing that has been lost, and we will show it to the world.’" - American Theatre
As a theater critic in France, I’m used to sitting in auditoriums full of all-white, older spectators. In the comedy world, the customers mirrored the young, racially diverse lineups onstage. - The New York Times
“Directors are rude, look at their iPhones during the audition, run late and don’t apologise, they chat away to their casting director as if the actor didn’t exist, they laugh at private review copy jokes. A litany of misery! Each of these tales is underpinned by the fact that the actor is a supplicant.” - The Guardian
"The written play has its own music, its own pristine existence — words, thoughts, and spirit ... abstracted from the bodies of actors (moving) through space. There are wonderful things that can happen in the mind of a reader that cannot happen to anyone watching actors in a play." - The Guardian
"American-style comedy clubs ... barely existed in France before the 21st century. ... At (several) venues ..., all opened within the past three years, there wasn't a free table in sight. And the crowd was exactly the kind of 'new audience' so many theaters desperately seek to attract." - The New York Times
Co-artistic directors and spouses Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky are coming from Trinity Rep in Providence, where they were, respectively, associate artistic director and director of new play development. "They have a unique skill set," says PTC's board chair, "with Taibi's directing skills, and Tyler's organizational skills." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Edinburgh Fringe comedians from Japan, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Argentina, and Denmark talk to a reporter about establishing connections with a foreign audience, differing styles and subjects of comedy in different countries, and carrying jokes conceived in one language into another. - The Guardian
When faced with a loss of human rights—with accounts of real women being forced to bleed out because they cannot get an abortion for their miscarriages, or of preteen girls being forced to give birth—what any piece of theatre might do to counter such injustice naturally feels pitiful and small. - American Theatre
“The question we asked most pointedly was: ‘If you can do this all over again, what would you have done differently? And the outcome of that meeting was: We have to disrupt the status quo.” - KUOW
In fact, Asad Mecci and Colin Mochrie say that (as long as the scene isn't complex) amateur audience members can do as well as professional comedians. And Jason Zinoman writes that "the show I saw featured performers as committed as any improv comic I had seen." - The New York Times
There's so much backlash to Joan of Arc using they/them in a new production at the Globe that the artistic director had to release a statement: "Shakespeare was not afraid to ask difficult questions. ... Shakespeare was not afraid of discomfort, and neither is the Globe." - What's On Stage (UK)
