“The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group in exile since 2020, announced Wednesday that it will stage the exhibition ‘Official. Unofficial. Belarus.’ as an official collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale.” - ARTnews
Jimmy Fedigan has worked on 125 shows, working up from substitute spotlight guy to overseeing the entire technical production of the musical Chicago. In this video, he walks us through various aspects of his job, from the scene shop where sets get built to backstage shortly before curtain time. - The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
Every month, in an American Legion hall or women’s center (anywhere but a theater) in Los Angeles, Public Assembly presents three 12-minute plays that it has developed over the previous four weeks from pitches submitted from the audience at the previous month’s show, which is advertised only by word-of-mouth. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
Turns out the youth are going to be putting on this play for … pretty much ever? “Our Town just sort of felt like this perfect, simple, rich story about the human experience and about time.” - Reactor
"There is a way to describe this show that will make it seem, at worst, exactly like every cliché of venturing into Brooklyn to see a one man play/spoken word poem/performance piece in a small black box off the L or G train.” - Culturebot
“(I wanted to) just start slow, with some Shakespeare that wasn’t the play,” said the Tony-winning actor, who’ll be starring in an all-male staging at the RSC this fall, “just to get my mouth around the language, the rhythm, and then sort of break out into exploring the role in the play.” - Deadline
It is this connection with the bard’s work that has inspired Shakespeare’s Globe to launch its first climate playwriting prize for 2026, which it says will harness the skills of storytellers and artists to “inspire societal shifts towards a restorative relationship with nature”. - The Guardian
“The audience interaction is central to Every Brilliant Thing, … about a man processing his mother’s attempted suicide and his own depression. … It’s an exciting prospect, (Radcliffe) tells me, in large part because the play’s dependence on audience volunteers gives him a way to shed his sense of being a big name.” - Vulture (MSN)
Wicked, one of the highest earners on Broadway, saw the biggest drop due to the storm, as the musical fell $408,223 from the prior week. - The Hollywood Reporter
“The theatre did not confirm within which departments redundancies and cuts to job roles took place, though its most recent accounts reference ‘staff changes in the development team and wider organisation’. Revelations regarding staff reduction come a year into artistic director and joint chief executive Nadia Fall’s tenure.” - Arts Professional (UK)
The first critical edition of the Elizabethan playwright’s work in 125 years has expanded his canon from three plays — The Spanish Tragedy, Soliman and Perseda, and Cornelia — to eight, including Arden of Faversham (previously thought to be partly by Shakespeare) and portions of history plays Henry VI Part 1 and Edward III. - The Guardian
That is, the kind of “theatre” that one might see on C-SPAN — indeed, that some people did, in 1993 (though the 1993 version didn’t have a yellow chicken suit). - The Atlantic
“These mythological creatures tap into our anxiety over what would happen if we became otherly human. … As the horror author Grady Hendrix put it: ‘Vampires are the only monster that looks like us.’” - The New York Times
Comedian Anthony Novak was nabbed by Parma police, tossed into the county jail and charged “with a felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison,” all for the alleged crime of making fun of said police force. - Deadline
