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'The church of the lost cause': inside Kneehigh's wild Cornish home
To create The Tin Drum, the theatre company spent two weeks tucked away in a cluttered rural retreat where they eat, run and rehearse together – just don’t call it a commune, says artistic director Mike Shepherd<p>‘We’re not a bunch of bloody hippies,” Mike Shepherd growls by way of introduction. …
LondonBroadway Training, Gangnam Style
When most Americans think of Korean pop music, colloquially called K-pop, what comes to mind is usually Psy’s “Gangnam Style” — a high-octane fusion of rap verses, techno beats and pop hooks, complete with an ultrabright music video and hypersynchronized dance moves. But the playwright Jason Kim is …
Digital MediaIt's time the UK's top theatres committed to gender quotas
It’s terrific that the for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s summer 2018 season, the directorial line-up will be all female for both the main stage and …
DiversityFind theatre stressful? Then you could be just what the BBC is looking for
London Letter: New ‘Front Row’ hosts have outraged actors and directors
News (Ireland)Shakespeare Solos: watch the third set of films
Leading actors perform key Shakespeare speeches from Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear and As You Like It in our video series to mark the 400th anniversary of the great playwright’s death<p>Damian Lewis, Julius Caesar<p>‘Friends, Romans, countrymen’<p>Damian Lewis performs Antony’s lines from …
Marian Seldes Documentary Comes Under Fire for 'Abuse' of the Late Actress
Tony-winner and premiere actress of the American stage Marian Seldes, passed away in 2014, but only now is a documentary short being released, which …
EntertainmentConfirm or Deny: Judi Dench
<b>Maureen Dowd: You’re bored with playing queens?</b><p>Judi Dench: Yup, a bit.<p><b>You fear hordes of schoolchildren.</b><p>Confirm. I’m uneasy about gangs of schoolchildren. When we did “Notes on a Scandal,” the very first day was in a school and I was surrounded by children and I don’t know, it was frightening. (She …
Judi DenchJudi Dench Is Having a Ball of Time Promoting Her New Movie
Certain as the sun, Dame Judi Dench is back playing a British monarch this fall — specifically Queen Victoria in Stephen Frears’s <i>Victoria and Abdul</i>. …
Judi DenchHow the Unflappable Fred Astaire Survived the Fifties
The first half of the fifties were a pivotal moment for Hollywood musicals. The genteel tux-and-tie choreography of the thirties had given way to Gene Kelly’s scrappier, more athletic brand of drawn-out (and often pretentious) modern ballets. Kelly’s vision, in the form of musicals like <i>Singin’ in</i> …
West Side Story
In collaboration with<p>The inspiration behind the story<p>Teens & New York<p>Then and now<p>The social impact of West Side Story<p>The original production<p>Behind …
Richard Francis Burton, Shakespeare, and the search for the source of the Nile
On their travels into the interior of the African continent, European explorers like Richard Burton brought Shakespeare with them.<p>This excerpt from</i> …
BooksThe Top 10 Most-Produced Plays of the 2017-18 Season
<b>In the October 2017 print issue of American Theatre,</b> we run 46 pages worth of listings in the magazine, of productions running in 2017-18 season at …
Top 10The Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights of the 2017-18 Season
<b>This year, when I finished calculating the Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights list for 2017-18,</b> and saw who was at the top, I let out a laugh. “Of …
PlaywrightsIrma Mostly Spared Florida Stages, But Not Their Bottom Line
<b>Sun as hot as a klieg light pounded down from blue skies worthy of a cyclorama this week</b> as Florida theatres struggled to find a comparatively normal …
WeatherThinking Shakespeare with Barry Edelstein
From the <i>Shakespeare Unlimited</i> podcast series. Published September 19, 2017. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This episode <i>Speak The</i> …
Julius CaesarNoted Broadway showman selling massive UWS mansion
It was the deal of a lifetime. Broadway producer and director Bill DeSeta worked with Jackie Chan and ran the city’s oldest rock club, the Bitter …
ManhattanPublic Theater and the Shakespeare Society Form Public Shakespeare Initiative
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/public-theater-shakespeare-society-initiative_82472.html<p>TheaterMania.com<p>article<p>Fall …
The TheatreIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps seeing Sleep No More during visits to NYC
If Mike Pence can attend <i>Hamilton: An American Musical</i>, then apparently Benjamin Netanyahu can slip on a mask for some immersive theater. According to …
IsraelThe Playwright Lauren Yee Wins the Kesselring Prize
Lauren Yee has won the National Arts Club’s 2017 Kesselring Prize, awarded to emerging playwrights since 1980. She will receive $25,000 and two-week residency at the club.<p>Her play “In a Word,” in which a child’s disappearance haunts a mother, ran Off Broadway this summer to critical acclaim. Alexis …
The TheatreThe Must-See Broadway Art ‘Gallery’ Hidden in the Heart of Times Square
With paintings inspired by Wicked, In The Heights, and more, the Wall of Fame at Tony’s Di Napoli Italian restaurant is a treasure trove of original …
Lin-Manuel MirandaComment on David Lister: Why are theatre programmes so completely useless? by Ken Parry
I agree! It is also ridiculous (and a missed opportunity for engagement) that theatres have not moved to digital programmes. The few companies that …
The TheatreAn Interview with Rachel Bay Jones
Written by Victoria Myers<p>Photography by Jacqueline Harriet<p>June 5th, 2017<p>In the last fifty years, the overworked, “doing the best she can,” single mom …
ParentingComment on US director Bartlett Sher: ‘Trump’s presidency is ghastly, but I won’t flatter him by staging it’ by Theresa L Bernard
Do you need a huge capital to start off your business proposal or expansion? Have you lost hope and you think there is no way out, and your financial …
The ArtsThe 10 Greatest Broadway Musicals of Hal Prince’s Influential Career, Ranked
Compiling a ranking of the ten best Broadway musicals that have been touched in some small way by the incomparable director and producer (and, let us …
Stephen SondheimMoisés Kaufman on Marrying Art and Life
The playwright and director Moisés Kaufman lives with his husband, Jeffrey LaHoste, in what Mr. LaHoste puckishly calls the smoked fish belt. Murray’s Sturgeon Shop, Barney Greengrass and Zabar’s are all just a cherry stone’s throw away from the rental the men have shared since 1989, soon after …
Oscar WildeFinal Bow: Final Bow: Corey Cott Prepares for Life as a Bandstand Veteran
Cott measures his Broadway run in visits from war heroes, old piano teachers, and a brand-new baby boy.
How we made West Side Story
‘I wanted to be the first guy to use a four-letter word in a musical – but the line ended up as “krup you” instead’<p><b>Stephen Sondheim, lyricist</b><p>I was at a party with Arthur Laurents who was about to write a musical with Leonard Bernstein based on Romeo and Juliet. I asked who was doing the lyrics and …
Stephen SondheimMedicine in Shakespeare's time - Shakespeare & Beyond
Few Elizabethans were wealthy enough to afford a licensed physician. Instead, they would rely on the knowledge of a local “wise woman,” with her home …
MedicineFrom Shakespeare to Irma: the storm as story
It was odd to think about Shakespeare during a hurricane, but the Bard knew his storms. From "King Lear" to "The Tempest," where there was a Will, …
William ShakespeareElisabeth Moss, Sterling K. Brown, John Lithgow Win 2017 Emmy Awards
The 2017 Emmy Awards were presented on September 17 in a ceremony hosted by Stephen Colbert.<p>This year's list of winners featured a host of Broadway …
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