OK? The American Theatre Wing "decided to announce the award recipients in advance to allow the evening to focus on a celebration of theater’s resilience. Acceptance speeches are being posted on the Wing’s YouTube channel." - The New York Times
Not great! "It has become quite aggressive online and our drag queen performer has also been personally harassed," says the Kings Playhouse interim director. The Prince Edward Island theatre says it has postponed, not cancelled, the event. - CBC
"What does it cost a person if they are hateful, if they're driven by wealth? If they're racist or full of ugliness in their personal life? They shape their personality in self-diminishing ways. The human drama ... says: This society is ruining itself by letting people perpetuate these things." - The Guardian
"In his nearly two-decade long career, Arshad Mushtaq has directed the first-ever Kashmiri digital feature, produced television dramas, and written seven original plays along with five Kashmiri adaptations of foreign works" — one of which, Su Yee (his version of Godot), is the piece that first gained him wide attention. - Scroll (India)
Kharkiv theatres closed at the start of the war; by the summer, the city’s famous puppet theatre performed a show about wartime in Bucha. Lapa has been hosting these performances at her house for the past three months. - The New Yorker
"From familiar character actors lacking household names like Ronald Guttman, Dennis Boutsikaris, and Jessica Hecht, to well-known crossover stars like Bebe Neuwirth, Roger Bart, Billy Porter, and Laura Benanti, Law & Order has always made room for Broadway actors." - Looper
Members of a group calling itself the National Socialist Movement yelled slogans and accosted theatergoers just before the first preview performance of Jason Robert Brown's musical, which is about the false conviction and lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia in 1915. - Playbill
Jesse Green: "Their harm is political, epochal, even as the songs they sing, encouraging empathy that may not otherwise be earned, invite us to give them a pass. ... (The danger isn't) that we risk forgiving (them). It's that we risk enjoying too much what we can't forgive." - The New York Times
"The innovative structure of Barter Theatre's new Black Stories Black Voices program ... could well serve as a national model for inclusive art-making that embraces and empowers Black communities at mainstream theatres." - American Theatre
Today, a de-emphasis on the authors and director seems more common within theatre marketing – a far cry from the days when contractual language enforced the rule that these names should appear at least 50% of the size and typeface used for the show’s title. - The Stage
"Great advertising does not create success. Great shows do. But advertising can expand success from a limited audience and make it larger. Much larger. But today's advertising needs to understand today's market" — which is not the market of three years ago. - Broadway News
West End Theatres: “We are talking to them about marketing. So, when we market shows let’s not have phrases such as ‘best party in town’ or ‘dancing in the aisles’ – the show has something much stronger than that to sell.” - The Guardian
Even 67 years after his death, the left-wing firebrand's work gets produced from Germany to Japan to Togo (Mother Courage is currently being staged in Lomé) to Russia — well, at some points, but not just now. - Deutsche Welle
Said Philip Birsh, whose family has owned Playbill for over five decades, "We want people to go to the theater. This piece exaggerated the issue in my opinion. ... It's not up to my standards. All we are missing is 'Headless body in topless bar.'" - The Daily Beast
Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns five Broadway venues, is combining operations with ATG, which operates more than 50 venues, mostly in Britain, as well as two on Broadway. Jujamcyn owner Jordan Roth, the largest single shareholder in the merged entity, will be its creative director. - The Hollywood Reporter
