“Spring 2024 saw a frenzy of new shows opening in the face of two formidable obstacles: costs that have nearly doubled over a decade and an audience almost 20% smaller than it was pre-pandemic...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/we-ve-hit-peak-theater/ar-BB1mv0Dz#new_tab
“In the past, there seemed to be more movement from L.A. and the Bay Area to OSF, especially in terms of artists, so it’s an exciting moment to have a greater conversation and relationship b...
To put it bluntly, a subsidy meant to support commercially risky work like A Strange Loop or Stereophonic or a revival of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People shouldn’t be going to Phantom and The...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/nyregion/broadway-tax-subsidy-credits.html#new_tab
“(The $3 million per production credit) has been lauded as a lifeline for the struggling theatre industry, … (yet) funds often do not arrive until at least 18 to 24 months after the applicat...
For the one-week, eight performance engagement at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA (May 7-12, 2024), the play grossed $2,286,768.75, setting a record for highest grossing week of a play on tour ac...
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/TO-KILL-A-MOCKINGBIRD-National-Tour-Sets-New-Records-20240514
“Oakland playwright Jonathan Spector jokes that if his satire Best Available had a trigger warning, it would be ‘realistic portrayals of working in nonprofit theater.’ … To write the sho...
Tung Crystal is currently the artistic director of Theater Mu, the largest Asian American theater company in the Midwest, as part of its first female co-leadership team with Managing Director An...
We’ll never know what scripts by the great playwright disappeared forever because they were never printed and their manuscripts didn’t survive. Yet there is solid evidence, including titles,...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-hunt-lost-shakespeare-plays-2452383#new_tab
“If you’re a performer, you have that little spark of magic that makes you watchable, right? When you play a god, it’s like, how do you tap into that part of yourself and turn it way up, a...
https://www.americantheatre.org/2024/05/09/rami-margon-big-diane-energy/
John McWhorter makes the case for Raisin — a 1973 adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun with book by her former husband, Robert Nemiroff (with Charlotte Zaltzberg), music by...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/opinion/musical-raisin-broadway-black.html#new_tab
Co-curated by actor Adrian Dunbar, Beckett: Unbound 2024 is “a multiarts festival that juxtaposes familiar pieces by the Dublin-born author with new responses to his work. After Liverpool, the...
Playwright Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie, a one-woman show about a defense attorney in sexual assault cases who is then raped by a colleague, starred Jodie Comer in the West End and on Broadway. ...
“The venue, owned and operated by the Nederlander Organization, will house Ben Platt: Live at the Palace for a limited engagement beginning May 28, 2024, and later this year will welcome the B...
The story of a middle-aged man suddenly laid off from his job at a bookstore, Primary Trust premiered last summer at New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company. The other finalists were Shayok Mish...
https://deadline.com/2024/05/pulitzer-drama-eboni-booth-primary-trust-1235905776/#new_tab
The Revival returns “with the opening of a new theater in the South Loop. And The Home Comedy Theater, conceived by a collective of iO and Second City veterans, is building out a space in La...
Welcome to the theatre awards for things like “The I’ve Seen Fire and I’ve Seen Rain.” – Vulture
https://www.vulture.com/article/tony-awards-2024-welcome-to-the-phonys.html
Snehal Desai: “It’s not that CTG doesn’t have folks coming; we have tens of thousands of folks, it’s just that we’re not necessarily getting folks to move within our venues.” – Ame...
https://www.americantheatre.org/2024/04/30/snehal-desai-at-last-a-roadmap-for-ctg/
Redmayne, just nominated for a Tony, explains, “We’ve had sort of moments where the audience interaction can get a bit too vocal … and we’ll have to sort of clamber through and improvise...
“The hope must be that the more traditional audiences will move with the times, and come around to new visions. You can’t please all of the people all of the time — but you can do your bes...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/theater/royal-shakespeare-company-new-leaders.html
Playwright Eleanor Burgess’s “Galilee, 34” at SoCal’s South Coast Rep depicts Jesus’s family and followers months after the Crucifixion as they try to figure out — sometimes arguing ...
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/play-jesus-comes-o-c-100035517.html#new_tab
Throughout his time in Seattle, John Langs has become known as a champion of new work, an advocate for local artists, and a director who values long, collaborative working relationships. – S...
The Sherman, Texas school board finalized a separation agreement with former superintendent Tyson Bennett, who had forbidden a high school production of Oklahoma! that included a transgender stu...
Well, turns out there’s a history of very bad things happening during productions of “the Scottish play” going all the way back to Shakespeare’s own company in 1606. Actors getting injur...
“The 37-year old’s directorial debut is the result of a three-force collaboration: the dance is by Peck himself to Stevens’s introspective coming-of-age album with a narrative written by p...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/29/illinoise-sufjan-stevens-musical-broadway#new_tab
The Tony nominations, announced in New York on Tuesday morning, paint a portrait of another year of transition on Broadway. – Los Angeles Times
With a season packed to the brim with late openers vying for awards attention, the 2024 Tony nominations were full of unexpected twists and turns. Here are the 10 biggest snubs and surprises. ...
https://variety.com/2024/awards/news/tony-nominations-2024-snubs-surprises-1235986790/