The innovative aspect of KeyComp, he said, is that a single musician can play one or two of the most important musical lines, and the technology adds subsidiary lines in a way that matches the player’s tempo, articulation and dynamics.Â
In September, after months of shrinking attendance, producers announced that the longest-running show in Broadway history would finally close this coming February. Ticket sales immediately picked up, and last week's gross box-office set a record. So the run has been extended for eight more weeks. - The New York Times
The more I’ve dug into Stoppard’s biography, the clearer it has become that, in spite of appearing to be a quintessential Englishman, he’s always been an outsider. - Los Angeles Times
Theatre history dreams: "The Broadway timeline itself is two floors filled with pictures and artifacts –costumes, props, documents – illustrating the history of New York theater from minstrelsy and vaudeville up to the present day." - NPR
"Parks was on set as the writer for a TV show that had to go on hiatus when COVID hit. So she just started writing a short play a day – plays that would eventually become Plays for the Plague Year." - NPR
Or that's the idea, anyway, at the Prince Edward Island theatre festival that won't perform Anne of Green Gables every year anymore. The artistic director: "The core change here is making space for new shows, new work, and new voices." - CBC
On Friday, keen-eyed theatergoers discovered a website for the Broadway iteration, which announced that the murder mystery, whose London production holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest-running play, would make its Broadway debut some time in 2023. - The New York Times
The musical was staged every year from 1965 to 2019, earning it recognition from Guinness World Records. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a two-year pause, but the musical returned this year. - Toronto Star
By 2022, according to the same survey, 30 percent of responding theaters were projecting deficit operating budgets, and there’s a huge increase in that cohort on the horizon: 62 percent are projecting budget deficits in 2023.  - Chicago Reader
The subversive intent of Hansberry’s art and activism has long been underestimated. Early reviews of Raisin, which debuted in 1959 and made Hansberry the first Black woman with a show on Broadway, were quick to domesticate her. - The Atlantic
After a lifetime "blindly" following the path of her parents — director Peter Brook and actress Natasha Parry — Irina realized she was in "the wrong business." Since then, she's been creating House of Us, "a permanent moving work in progress ... (so) insanely personal that it becomes insanely universal." - The New York Times
Two new brazenly entertaining works of theatrical biography are a reminder that “voice” is as essential to the stage as it is to a work of literature. - Los Angeles Times
Diep Tran says her concern in covering theatre is, "How do we do this fairly? How do we give credence to both sides on issue? The good thing is, I don’t need to opine about the state of the industry; the artists are already doing that." - American Theatre
The Victory Gardens crisis was unsettling enough to spark conversations among board members at other nonprofit theaters, worried about the message sent to artists and staff members who might be wondering about their own companies’ loyalties. - Washington Post
