The prestigious Soho Rep is giving up its longtime home in TriBeCa and will instead share space with Playwrights Horizons, a Midtown theater company, while trying to figure out a longer-term plan. - The New York Times
Centaur Properties, owner of the McKittrick Hotel, where the immersive production has been playing since 2010, has been in a legal contretemps with PDNYC (the entity producing Sleep No More) for months. The latest development has Centaur demanding back rent and seeking dismissal of a PDNYC lawsuit. - The Real Deal
“Only in an era when everything gets politicized would a campaign come out aggressively against boisterous laughter. What next? Running against puppies and ice cream? Laughter transcends party politics.” - The New York Times
"… more fitting might be a theater proselytizer. ... In his eyes, theater should be as much a part of the American story as music is: 'Music has figured out a way to really brand itself as necessary, because people can see the tangible links to profit.'" - The Washington Post
The new venue — sort of a deluxe, sturdy version of the tent the festival uses currently, with the Hudson River and highlands as a backdrop — comes from Studio Gang, the Chicago-based architectural firm of MacArthur fellow Jeanne Gang. The structure's opening is scheduled for summer 2026. - Playbill
The city of Gorizia/Nova Gorica was divided as the Iron Curtain arose after World War II, with an actual wall in place until 1994. At Mittelfest, an event created to help bridge the mental border that remains, the director staged an epic play about the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. - The Guardian
In London, the mood on the theater steps was upbeat and there seemed little concern that when this “Slave Play” transfer — including two Black Out performances — was announced in February, it drew the wrath of some British commentators, and got caught up in ongoing debates over race in British cultural institutions. - The New York Times
Although virtually "taking away" one of their five senses, the show banks on spectators' reliance on their four other forms of perception: the venue features a 3D -surround sound experience, a chemical company was tapped to create some of the scents used during the show... - Time Out New York
At Vineyard Theatre, her home for the last seven years, Suzanne Appel successfully managed the theater’s finances during the pandemic, keeping the entire full-time staff employed, and she created a four-year plan to raise employees’ wages more than 30 percent by 2026. - CultureOC
"InterAct Stroke Support operates all over the UK, … tak(ing) professional actors into hospitals to read poetry and stories to stroke survivors." Longtime Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington spends a day watching InterAct at work. - The Guardian
The Federal Theatre sought to democratize the dramatic arts. But it also tried to use theater to invigorate democracy, which is where the program ran into trouble. - Yale Review
“One of the ways to preserve and expand the musical canon is to let everyone have a shot at it — especially the people so many classics were written about or too often ignored.” See, for example, Cats: The Jellicle Ball. - The New York Times
The need for stamina, combined with memorization and the commitment of a run. This run is short; I am used to being asked to do five or six months. But the live theater is still where I find all my creativity. The rehearsal room is the one place I love to be and where I feel most at home....
"A version of the Faust legend (well, several braided versions of the Faust legend), Life and Trust, which opens Aug. 1, occupies 100,000 square feet over six floors of a financial district skyscraper in New York that was once the home of the City Bank-Farmers Trust Company." - The New York Times
“All these challenges are an existential threat to summer theatre as we know it. I’m an optimistic person, but we are facing difficult headwinds. - American Theatre
