"(The just-ratified agreement) provides pay increases for those working on Broadway and, in a move prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, allows producers to make short-term hires to cover absent actors." - The New York Times
Many of the current crop of works can be classified as either “I worked with Steve” books or “I had an ongoing professional and intermittently contentious correspondence with Steve” books. - The New York Times
Sure, it's more sweet than serious, but "behind the glitz, look hard enough and there are reminders that Broadway – now consisting of 41 theatres – is a trouper with the battle scars to prove it." - The Guardian (UK)
Has the predominant Broadway tradition of shows by and featuring white artists, playing to white audiences, created a barrier that makes it harder for shows by and about people of colour to break through? - The Stage
That's exactly what the five-member Improvised Shakespeare Company does: take a suggestion from an audience member and invent an entire play, complete with tragedy, comedy, thwarted love, a prologue, and rhymed couplets. Here's a look at how they do it and the way they train. - The Washington Post
The problem is, Square One is not coming to Broadway (for now, anyway) and the announcement was a hoax. A representative who worked with Sondheim at the time of his passing confirmed to BroadwayWorld that there are no plans for a production of the show at this time. - Broadway World
In 2019, in his hometown of Málaga, Banderas founded a nonprofit company called Teatro del Soho to produce musicals more serious than the blockbuster fare usually seen in Spain. And he's now fulfilled a longtime dream, directing a Spanish-language Company and starring as a 50-year-old Bobby. - The New York Times
At least one Cambodian woman in five suffers from violence by a partner, yet the subject remains taboo, something which the Battambang-based company Lakhon Komnit ("thinking theatre") is working to change, encouraging survivors to role-play and even create and act in their own plays. - The Guardian
"Academics have discovered that women made up a large part of the financial force behind the Fortune Theatre, the great rival to the Globe, partly built by the actor for whom Christopher Marlowe wrote plays, and where Thomas Middleton's dramas were first staged." - The Guardian
The Children's Musical Theatreworks show, which opened to general audiences on Dec. 2, wasn’t some new, explicit, souped-up version of the classic Broadway musical. It’s the same old “Oliver” that community theaters and schools have been performing for decades. - MunroReview
"The immersive experience was fun because it had the audience moving through different rooms. But in my mind, and also in the minds of a lot of the other Korean creatives on our team, it wasn’t as authentic as it could have been, as embracing authenticity wasn’t the biggest priority for theater at the time." - Los Angeles Times
KPOP marketed its characters over social media, leveraging some of the same tools and tactics that brought K-pop’s biggest names to widespread fame. Unfortunately, KPOP’s fictional groups haven’t yet reached the same success. Creating internet fandom, it turns out, is hard to do. - The Verge
For four decades, the consensus has been that — despite some excellent songs, and despite repeated adjustments during revivals — there's just no way to make Merrily We Roll Along into a good piece of musical theater. Then the director Maria Friedman, who's uniquely qualified, had a go. - The New York Times
Indeed, Phantom is ending its long Broadway run this spring, but the Blue Man Group (granted, in a smaller house) just keeps on — not only in New York, but in touring shows on at least three continents. Peter Marks considers the secrets of their success. - MSN (The Washington Post)
