Wednesday, August 10, 2011
I don’t know when I became such a big fan of Philip Levine. Possibly when I came across his Paris Review interview: One of the aspects of my own poetry I like best is the presence of p…
SOURCE: direct address at 06:16PMThen there is Ms. Paulus’s condescension toward the audience. She says, “I’m sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an unders…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 02:32PMFriday, August 5, 2011
Did you know that the Theatre Bay Area newsfeed — the list of short items that usually appear in the front of the magazine — is now online? Well, it is, right here. It’s wh…
SOURCE: direct address at 12:14PMDon Hall has a nice long post about just how ridiculously expensive it is for small companies to mount a show. But it’s not about complaining; instead, it’s about highlighting so…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:01AMOver on HowlRound, John Olive has some suggestions on how to make Theater For Young Audiences as interesting and relevant as video games: Make Plays Darker Make Plays Subversive Make Plays H…
SOURCE: direct address at 12:24AMThursday, August 4, 2011
Bay Area playwright and all-around awesome guy Octavio Solis is interviewed on Adam Szymkowicz’s blog. It’s interview #372, by the way. That’s a lot of playwrights. From th…
SOURCE: direct address at 08:39PM1. HOW TO SUCCEED names a replacement for Daniel Radcliffe Actors. The producers of the Daniel Radcliffe-fueled smash revival of HOW TO SUCCEED have announced a replacement for Radcliffe: &…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 02:46PMTwelve London theaters (or, I suppose, theatres) have come together to create a site where you can search for shows based on keywords like “funny” or “mind-bending” o…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:50AMWednesday, August 3, 2011
Brian Polak writes about live tweeting during theater performances on the Boston Court blog: The point of live theatre is to experience theatre LIVE. Every single person involved in the crea…
SOURCE: direct address at 11:21PMWednesday, July 27, 2011
I’ve been posting links to interesting articles in the sidebar and on a separate Odds & Ends Tumblr, but on the off chance that (a) you didn’t notice or (b) you weren’t…
SOURCE: direct address at 11:10AMTuesday, July 26, 2011
The New York Times recently wrote about the beauty of watching theater in a pub: “What works in our favor is the intimacy of the experience,” said Tim Roseman, who shares the job of arti…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:47PMThey try to charge as much as the market will bear. They tack on a bunch of fees that no one understands, and when you get there, the seats are uncomfortable and too small….Isaac Butler, P…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 06:03PMLast week, I was a lucky recipient of a beautiful book of drama/poetry by Mac Wellman. All six longtime readers of this blog will remember that, a while back, I raved about hearing Mac read …
SOURCE: direct address at 04:17PMMonday, July 18, 2011
From a lovely article by Barbara Hammond on HotReview.org that could just as easily be called How to Stay a Playwright: Brush and floss as you’re not going to see a dentist except in …
SOURCE: direct address at 02:03AMFriday, July 15, 2011
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead a…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 05:40PMThursday, July 14, 2011
Oh, I love this McSweeney’s post so much. Written by Jason Guder, it’s an email solicitation from “Mr. Prince Hamlet, rightful heir to the throne of Denmark,” writing…
SOURCE: direct address at 01:03AMWednesday, July 13, 2011
1. If you asked theater pros to rank Broadway’s three hottest musical stars, everyone’s list would say Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman, and Hugh Jackman. Now Michael Riedel reports Jackman’…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 12:23PMMonday, July 11, 2011
Change for all shows: -.18% Number of shows that increased over previous week: 12 Number of shows that decreased from previous week: 15 Biggest increase: GHETTO KLOWN ($100,759)(Final week) …
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 04:08PMSaturday, July 9, 2011
I’ve always looked for really good Arts programs that will give me an enjoyable way to keep current with our cultural life. Too often, the programs I attended lacked either the quality or …
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 11:08AMThursday, July 7, 2011
Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen for you, to you, and because of you….T. Alan Armstrong The center of the stage…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 03:19PMFriday, July 1, 2011
Signature Theatre Company, founded in 1991 by James Houghton, exists to honor and celebrate the playwright by making an extended commitment to his body of work. They do this by devoting an e…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 12:35PMThursday, June 30, 2011
How cool is this? Zombie Town: A Documentary Play won the 2011 Storer Boone Award for Best Original Play. Wish I could have been at the ceremony in New Orleans, but it was still pretty excit…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:55AMWednesday, June 29, 2011
1. SPIDER-MAN set what must be a Broadway record for the biggest weekly increase in gross sales, jumping by $432,004 to a weekly total gross of $1,702,866, third highest on the street, But w…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 01:00PMMonday, June 27, 2011
Change for total of all shows: +6.86% Number of Shows that increased over previous week: 24 Number of Shows that decreased from previous week: 6 Highest average ticket price: $138.90 (THE BO…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 04:13PMSunday, June 26, 2011
A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire….Ben Jonso…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 09:59AMWednesday, June 22, 2011
Atlantic Theater Company is an Off-Broadway not- for-profit theater, whose mission is “to produce great plays simply and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble.” The company w…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 01:39PMMonday, June 20, 2011
Line as movement – prancing, skipping, twisting, and dancing – was the vehicle through which Hirschfeld conveyed the adrenaline rush of live theater and his absorption in the here and no…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 02:53PMFriday, June 17, 2011
The New Group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. While constantly evolving, they maintain an ensemble approach to their…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 01:11PMWednesday, June 15, 2011
In April, the Intiman Theatre in Seattle abruptly canceled its season and laid off its staff. Now Jim Jewell, an arts administrator and playwright in Seattle, has posted an Open Letter to …
SOURCE: direct address at 10:21PMTuesday, June 14, 2011
First off, apologizes to any site visitors who were confounded during our tweaking of the site over the last week. Naturally a few things went awry, so thanks for bearing with us. Among …
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 02:40PMFrom an article by Michael Billington in The Guardian: Where would Broadway be without the British taxpayer? I ask because it always strikes me as faintly ironic that the most flagrantly co…
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