Is it like New York's Drama Book Shop? A little, but "The Understudy has rotating displays atop wheeled shop tables, curated by Chicago artists. They are also providing a new hub for itinerant theatre companies seeking space for readings and workshops." - American Theatre
According to the letter, “coupling lower than average attendance with the fact that arts funding is the smallest fraction of philanthropic giving means that there are simply not enough resources available for the short term health and long term viability of the Metro Atlanta cultural arts community.” - ArtsATL
"I remain optimistic that the theatre has been around for a long time, and it’s going to continue. I just feel that way. There’s no doubt that our younger audiences brains’ have been rewired by the speed of the culture. But honestly, I sit with young audiences looking at an O’Neill play..." - American Theatre
Lynn Riggs rode a cattle train, worked in New York as an extra in cowboy movies and in Hollywood churning out studio screenplays, wrote Green Grow the Lilacs in France and was in the Army when Oklahoma! debuted on Broadway. Yet he never left behind his difficult prairie childhood. - Smithsonian Magazine
"Lead producer Mike Bosner … and his team enacted the old-school practice of preview pricing: selling tickets for a show's pre-opening period at a significantly lower price point than after the show's official opening — and advertised this accordingly." - Broadway News
The problem is historic: because this area has been underdeveloped for years, the UK doesn’t have a strong path for shows to follow, and that leads to a lack of desire for risk-taking among audiences and investors alike. Hence the plethora of adaptations taking over West End stages. - The Guardian
Through Phantom, Lloyd Webber presented an argument for the destiny of musical theater itself. The operatic tradition had always been divided over the relationship between music and drama, and this debate had reemerged in Lloyd Webber’s day. - New York Magazine
On a 1971 visit to Malta, the playwright saw the painter's Beheading of St. John the Baptist, and the horrified face of an elderly female spectator at the execution was the key inspiration for Beckett's Not I, the 13-minute monologue for a disembodied mouth on a pitch-black stage. - The New European
For a lot of us, we started out doing this young. And our lives have changed. It’s like watching a child grow up. I didn’t have a child when I started this. Now I have a daughter, who’s 34, and a grandson! - Forbes
"Front-of-house staff facing violent assaults, theatregoers urinating in fire exits and mass brawls in auditoriums were among the incidents uncovered by the report from the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Communications and Theatre Union (BECTU). … Almost half (45%) said they had considered leaving the industry due to poor audience behaviour." - The Guardian
"The union ... will be launching the PAC in the first week of April, with the goal of contributing money to federal candidates who support Actors' Equity priorities" such as arts funding, expanded health insurance coverage, and the Performing Artists Tax Parity Act. - The Hollywood Reporter
Even without hard numbers, many of the designers, technicians and stage managers who are still around agree: there are more job contracts available in the Toronto theatre market than there are people to take them, which has piled on a pre-existing burnout problem. - Toronto Star
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey are back, baby (in September) - without lions, tigers, or bears, but with a lot of roadies to handle all the gear. "You can’t downscale. ... You really have to reimagine and reinvent." - Fast Company
"How can our art form, perhaps the most ephemeral of its aesthetic siblings, impress upon audiences the necessity for action? And, conversely: Why is this so very hard for our field to seem to do?" - American Theatre
