The play, titled The Years and based on the memoir by 2022 Nobel literature prizewinner Annie Ernaux, was stopped for 10 minutes on Monday after several (mainly male) audience members asked for medical assistance following the graphic onstage depiction of an abortion. - The Guardian
"When it disclosed layoffs last July, the renowned nonprofit company said that it hoped to avoid a budget deficit in the year ending in August 2023. Instead, expenses exceeded revenue by $8 million that season, according to its most recent audited financial statement." - Broadway Journal
That is, the old rehearsal room is now a 150-seat theatre. And the size is a plus, they say: “Without The Show Room we wouldn’t be able to present performances that have the potential to truly capture audiences in such an intimate space." - Limelight
"An impassioned play about the murder of a Black man that implicates progressive white viewers … which opened in a white-dominated environment inimical to his ambition, (it) was not only among his most monumental accomplishments, but also … a revolution on the midcentury Great White Way." - The New York Times
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
