Thursday, December 24, 2020
“Almost exactly eight months after the closure of their [last remaining] New York venue and improv training center, the Upright Citizens Brigade has announced the end of their Sunset Theat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:34AMWednesday, December 23, 2020
William Church, director of theatre at Interlochen Center for the Arts, writes about the perhaps-unexpected opportunities and opportunities that online-only pedagogy offered in this year of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AMFriday, December 18, 2020
The author of The Man Without Qualities worked in the theaters of Vienna as both critic and playwright. Author Genese Grill looks at how Musil’s two completed plays fed his most famous nov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:01PM“Perth’s Fringe World, which opens on 15 January, attracted criticism and protests earlier this year over its longstanding sponsorship by fossil fuel giant Woodside. In a bid to head off…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AMThursday, December 17, 2020
“Madre Goose tells the story of an LGBTQ+ community of activists rallying against gentrification and materialism. All the wacky costumes, silly characters and daft jokes are as you’d exp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PMWednesday, December 16, 2020
Basically, because of all the plagues everyone had been through, says Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran. “There is a big change in tone in his later work. Academics ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PMTuesday, December 15, 2020
August Wilson’s prize-winning play includes heavy use of the N-word by its Black characters, and when Faith Fox found out that her 14-year-old’s class would be studying Fences, she prote…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:01AMFriday, December 11, 2020
Laura Cappelle: “On paper, a Roman Catholic Mass and a stage performance aren’t all that different: Both events involve a cast of professionals addressing a seated, and now socially dist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AMThursday, December 10, 2020
“At a time when an anonymous newcomer can turn out theater faster than an institutional battleship can, it’s impossible not to feel grateful for even shaggy efforts to keep the art form …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PMWednesday, December 9, 2020
“He introduced a frank, original view of the nation onto the stage. … His characters collide with the expectations of white America, but they also collide with one another, in itself rad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PMIn York, they’re taking the panto around to socially distanced audiences at community centres in every neighborhood. In Coventry, they’re streaming from a studio and using sound effects …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AMTuesday, December 8, 2020
Says the chief executive of the theatre in the town of Malvern in Worcestershire, “The panto is crucial for the theatre, as we are unsubsidised, but also for the local economy, to which th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:29AMFriday, December 4, 2020
“Lights Up, the latest phase of the broadcaster’s Culture In Quarantine initiative, will feature a combination of premieres and older plays recorded for the first time. … The initiativ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:05AMThursday, December 3, 2020
The DriveINSIDE theatre, which is approved for operating even under Britain’s Tier 3 pandemic restrictions, will have a four-week run in Manchester in March before touring the rest of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:09AMWednesday, December 2, 2020
After the pandemic blew up the plans of every American stage company for this year, Blanka Zizka, director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, got the idea to create a COVID bubble for cas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57PMTuesday, December 1, 2020
Almost six months after co-owner Andrew Alexander left the company after accusations of embedded institutional racism there, Jon Carr has been named to succeed him as executive producer. A l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM“Per the theater’s mission statement on its website, the Squirrel’s goal is to become ‘New York’s premier destination for sketch and improv comedy, …” The guiding principles of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMWednesday, November 25, 2020
“This month, theatre reopenings in England were abruptly brought to a halt by the second lockdown. As the future of live performance remains uncertain, producers and those running venues e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:01AMTuesday, November 24, 2020
Matthew López has been engaged by Searchlight Pictures to write a screen adaptation of Leading Men, the Christopher Castellani novel about Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo. Lópe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMIt seems you can’t keep England’s antic, anarchic holiday tradition down, even as disease stalks the land. Chris Wiegand talks to producers who are putting their pantos on film and in ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:46AMFriday, November 20, 2020
“Under the agreement, which is tentatively scheduled to last until Dec. 31, 2021, the two unions agreed that Equity will cover work recorded for digital distribution that replaces, or supp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AMThursday, November 19, 2020
“Complaints by staff members and months of internal conflict have led to the ouster of Mosaic Theater Company Artistic Director Ari Roth. … The end to Roth’s tenure at the company he s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AMWednesday, November 18, 2020
The musical, which was to be one of the centerpieces of the Sydney Festival in January, was postponed and withdrawn from the festival by the producer after a trans non-binary actor launched …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMTuesday, November 17, 2020
Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me has become “the grandmother of [a] genre” that includes, just this fall, Kristina Wong for Public Office (about Wong’s run for a loc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM“When the second wave of [the pandemic] hit, theatres in South Korea remained open. How? By approaching theatre as a controlled event, says New York-based director Sammi Cannold, who obser…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMTuesday, September 8, 2020
Believed to be the first woman to play tuba in a fully professional orchestra in the U.S., she was hired by the Boston Pops in 1955, after her second time at Tanglewood, and went on to hold …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM“A Hindu rights activist based in Nevada is accusing the Houston Ballet of cultural insensitivity and is urging it to cancel its upcoming performances of La Bayadère, scheduled for Februa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMThe tale of the author’s cremains, which would likely have amused her as much as irked her, includes appearances by Martin Luther King and the NAACP (to whom she left her estate), Lillian …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMBack in 2001, a group of people decided to take the tempo direction in John Cage’s 1985 work As Slow As Possible to an extreme and began a performance (of the composer’s 1987 arrangement…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM“[Gail] Harrity, 70, who joined the museum in 1997 as chief operating officer and was named president in 2009” — that is, second-in-command after the museum’s director — “has bee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMUsing articles in this past weekend’s Mail on Sunday and Sunday Times, secretary Oliver Dowden announced what he’s calling “Operation Sleeping Beauty,” a plan “to bring back some o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM 
