The Broadway home for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ has been rebuilt in the hope that it will run for many, many years. So why is J.K. Rowling worried?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM“We’ve stopped having the idea that theater is essentially a literary form,” said Chris Goode, who adapted “Jubilee” from Derek Jarman’s film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:04AMClaire van Kampen worked on other people’s plays for decades. Then she wrote “Farinelli and the King.” It’s been a hit in London and makes its way to New York next week.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMAhead of its 200th birthday, the theater announced productions of new plays by Alan Ayckbourn and adaptations by Jack Thorne.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PMThe 2014 play “Shakespeare in Love” will be the most produced play in the country this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:36PMHow the playwright James Graham and the actor Bertie Carvel give the media mogul a fair hearing in a play that takes a hard look at populism and the press.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMWith acting and musical theater roles on the horizon, Mr. Fairchild, who starred in “An American in Paris,” said he felt he needed to choose a direction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMA new production of “King Kong,” which originally starred Miriam Makeba, is a reminder of the nation’s apartheid past.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMTickets for the three-week run in London, a fund-raiser for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, are only available through a ballot system.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:43PMHighlights of the Almeida Theater’s 2017-18 season, announced Monday, include “Albion,” a new work by Mr. Bartlett, the author of “King Charles III.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMThe city’s 32 boroughs are being asked to compete for the designation of Borough of Culture, which will come with a $1.3 million grant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PM59 Productions has turned its talents to the mind-bending detective novel “City of Glass”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMCherry Jones has two Tonys and an Emmy. Now, 40 years after creating a “British Stage” folder, she is in the West End as Tennessee Williams’s Amanda Wingfield.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMRuth Mackenzie will not just be the rare Briton to head a French national institution, but the first woman to run the theater since it opened in 1862.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMThe opera singer Bryn Terfel, the Kinks singer Ray Davies and photographer Don McCullin also received the award.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMWith precise dancing and ingenious special effects, Stephen Mear’s production offers a diversion from reality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:31AMJohn McGrath, who was appointed artistic director last year, is starting to plan for the festival, which will run June 29 through July 16.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMAmy Lamé has been appointed Night Czar of London and will create a plan to develop the city’s nighttime industries.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMAkram Khan’s choreography informs “Chotto Desh,” in which an exchange between a man and a youth summons stories Mr. Khan heard from his grandparents.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMThe play, “Girl From the North Country” by Conor McPherson, begins previews on July 12; the season also includes a new “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PMThe Kingston Rose Theater in London says it’ll present the first stage adaptation of the novels that made the mysterious Ms. Ferrante a global name.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PMSimon McBurney prepares a one-man show, “The Encounter,” for Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:44AMMembers of the creative team have kept the plot under wraps, but they spoke candidly about the play’s origins and what it’s like to work under intense secrecy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:21PMThe Suzanne Farrell Ballet opens the fall season, which includes Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s opera, “Breaking the Waves.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:46PMAn Italian court last week upheld a 2014 appeal won by the dancer and ordered the theater to pay her back wages from her firing in February 2012 until she won that appeal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:35PMThe deal with Equity, the musicians’ union, includes a pay cut and having chorus members move to nine-month contracts from yearlong ones.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:26PMMatthew Bourne, Imelda Staunton and Damon Albarn are among those receiving New Year's Honors in Britain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:39PM“White skin was never specified,” J.K. Rowling tweeted. “Rowling loves black Hermione.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMOne accomplished black Briton honors another in a solo show, “Sancho: An Act of Remembrance.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:14PMKasper Holten, the director of opera at the Royal Opera House in London, says he and his partner want to raise their children in Copenhagen.
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