From Pitlochry in Scotland to the Cotswolds to Sutton Hoo to Cornwall (well, that one's been there for 92 years) to north London, old Greco-Roman-style outdoor theatres are opening — and the few that have survived from the Roman era are being excavated. - The Observer (UK)
"The days of 'cripping up' - a term disabled actors regularly use to describe those with no physical impairment playing disabled characters - appear numbered now." - BBC
Arthur Hughes, who opens in the role at Stratford-upon-Avon later this month, lives with radial dysplasia and describes himself as "limb-different." "I've always wanted to play him," says Hughes, "I think a lot of disabled actors will think playing Richard is their birthright." - BBC
Mia Yoo took over La MaMa after the death of the formidable Ellen Stewart. (Yoo's father is Stewart's adopted son.) While Yoo has kept going what Stewart left behind (and is overseeing a major building renovation), her leadership style is "polar opposite." - The New York Times
The venue, called Labyrinth, was conceived by the creative directors of the immersive theatre company Les Enfants Terribles and will open in November with a revival of their hit adaptation of Alice's Adventures Underground (Lewis Carroll’s manuscript title for Alice in Wonderland). - WhatsOnStage (UK)
Corsicana, the latest script by Will Arbery (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), is "the rare play to feature both a lead character — and a lead actor — with Down syndrome." (Arbery himself has a sister with Down syndrome.) - The New York Times
Graham Bowen (dance captain and swing), Lewis Cleale ("all the old white guys"), and John Eric Parker (Mutumbo) "joined a reporter at the theater one afternoon last week to discuss the musical's staying power, and how it's changed with the times." - The New York Times
"In the New York theatre, ... the fact that these two major figures happened to be Jewish may seem inconsequential. But in the universe of post-war Britain which Pinter and Stoppard entered as young men and young writers, it was significant." - American Theatre
"Molly Smith, ... a champion of American plays and the force behind a glittering transformation of (Arena's) Washington complex, announced that she will leave the job in July 2023. Her departure signals a rare turnover in the artistic leadership of one of the nation's most important nonprofit theaters." - MSN (The Washington Post)
When Flint Repertory Theatre artistic director Michael Lluberes contacted Tom Jones, the musical's playwright/lyricist, requesting approval to do the show with two young men as the central couple, Jones decided to go through the entire 60-year-old script and make adjustments. Many people think it works even better this way. - American Theatre
As Lansbury wins and Chita Rivera is in the audience, we see how "the theater, for all its physical hardships, can provide actors with pretty good third or fourth acts to their careers." (Of course, for some of the Tonys winners, this is a first act.) - The New York Times
It all depends on the voters, of course, but there's a good chance: "Hudson was a producer for A Strange Loop, which is nominated for best musical." (More Tonys predictions and wishes? The New York Times and Vulture have you covered.) - NPR
What timing: Artist "Peter Keegan was commissioned to mark the 10th anniversary of the Waterside Theatre, in Aylesbury, in 2020. Within weeks, all theatres in the UK closed due to the pandemic, but the artist continued to paint." And he painted the tentative return as well. - BBC
The Nederland Organization, owner of what's now called the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (where the musical Six is currently playing), will officially rename the venue the Lena Horne Theatre in a ceremony this fall. It will be the first Broadway house named for a Black woman. - Deadline
Method Acting went very, very wrong in the U.S. "What the educators did verbally, the directors who took the Method from the periphery to the center of American culture in the 1950s often enacted physically. Gropes, slaps and seduction were tools in their arsenal." - The New York Times
