“Six,” which runs a sleek 85 minutes as an unruly concert where performers are explicitly competing for the audience’s sympathy, might ultimately be less interesting for its girl-power reframing of history than for its reconsideration of some of musical theater’s basic structural assumptions. - San Francisco Chronicle
“After years of performing worldwide in French, Quebec comedian Rachid Badouri is touring a new solo show in English, and says there’s a subtle difference in what his new audiences want from him.” - CBC
That company is Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, directed for 20 years by Ivo van Hove and since 2023 by Eline Arbo. Her adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s The Years originated at ITA before being restaged with British actors in London, where the production just earned Arbo an Olivier Award. - The Guardian
“More than 40 years after the start of the epidemic, the full numerical scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater in New York remains difficult to assess. It’s not just inaccurate death notices that are the enemy of historical precision; it’s the passage of decades.” - New York Magazine (MSN)
And yest he’s currently rehearsing the title role at the RSC. “There are certain plays in the canon that teeter on the edge of acceptability. Titus is one of those for me. I don’t understand the violence. I don’t understand why as an audience we feel excited, stimulated, challenged by it.” - The Guardian
“The historic fantasy of the Great White Way as a glamorous montage of gleaming marquees, sparky backstage romances, and elegant audiences reveling in black tie was a Hollywood concoction, arguably false from the start.” - New York Magazine (MSN)
“Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece, the structure has been excavated by archaeologists from the Ephorate of Antiquities of Aitoloakarnania and Lefkada over the past decade.” - Artnet
“For our annual ‘Yesteryear’ issue, we asked 29 Broadway legends to pose before Mark Seliger’s camera and revisit their most memorable roles. Their careers span an enormous length of time” — 65 years, in fact, from Dick Van Dyke in Bye Bye Birdie to Audra McDonald in Gypsy. - New York Magazine
Opening night is not a Broadway show’s first performance in front of a paying audience, as it used to be many decades ago. That first show is now called the first preview. - New York Theatre
But this surprise is of the good, even great sort: The theatre “has paid $9.5 million to buy back the campus it lost in bankruptcy in 1970 — a remarkable feat for a theater organization, and a building, brought back from the brink.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
"Weimar cabaret has a kind of punk, dirty, gritty, raw, social commentary energy about it. … It flares up in times when there’s a lot of scary shit happening in the world.” - The Guardian (UK)
John Lithgow, who won best actor, “thanked the audience for ‘welcoming me to England’ and said ‘it’s not always easy when you welcome an American into your midst,’ highlighting that this moment was ‘more complicated than usual’ for” US-UK relations. - The Guardian (UK)
“Repertory theatres are not funded properly any more. ... I’d love to see regional theatres given more funding. When I was starting out, it was amazing. You could go anywhere. It was a real training ground.” - The Guardian (UK)
“Betty, who arrived just a decade after American women won the right to vote, was always working, and she often had jobs that were adventurous.” - The New York Times
