Christopher Ashley, artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse in California and known for directing the Broadway hit Come From Away, will succeed longtime Roundabout chief Todd Haimes, who died last year. - Variety
"Scholars have long suggested that Marlowe had a collaborator for the comic scenes of his classic play, although his name alone is on the 1604 published edition. Now a largely forgotten dramatist, Henry Porter, has emerged as the likely co-author, based on comparative linguistic evidence ... from his surviving play." - The Guardian
Theatre workers across the sector have now described to The Stage how they feel pressure to "power through" all but the most extreme health conditions due to financial insecurity and a "strict" culture. - The Stage
Matthieu Kassovitz's 1995 prize-winner is still considered the reference film about the crisis in France's suburban housing projects. After almost 30 years, Kassovitz and stage director Serge Denoncourt have turned it into a hip-hop musical — with the new subtitle "So Far, Nothing Has Changed." - AP
Meredith Monk, in her 60th year of performing: “We are all on this plane. … We’re all born, we’re all going to die, and we all want to be happy, so why are we wasting our time?” - The New York Times
France was late to American-style drag, but as at the Olympics, it’s now prominent. So: “Answering hatred with glitter is a time-honored drag tradition, and Drag Race France Live, which premiered in Paris this week, showed French drag in defiant form.” - The New York Times
The act of the only Black woman magician touring during Jim Crow “was fun, full of 'marvelous, mystifying magic, music and mirth,’ as her advertising posters said, … cautioning that she ‘will not pay for doctor bills if you faint from laughter.’” - The New York Times
This project started, as Hamilton did, as a concept album, which is being released next month. Miranda said that he won't proceed with creating and producing a stage show until he sees how the album is received. - Fast Company
Yet that's exactly what Scott Bakula will be doing when he assumes the title role in Herbert Mitgang’s 1979 solo play Mister Lincoln at the historic playhouse where the 16th President of the United States was assassinated. - The Washington Post (MSN)
At Ars Nova, Emily Shooltz fostered the work of dozens of early-career playwrights the organization commissioned and developed for production, and over 100 others through the organization’s Play Group and roster of artist residency programs. - Playbill
In comparison to the theater, live comedy has recovered from the pandemic in great commercial shape. But with success comes the danger of insularity, and while more new artists are entering the field than ever, the gulf in influence between celebrity comics and gifted young unknowns grows. - The New York Times
The production at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, which was to run from last week into early October, was a modern retelling of the Shakespeare fairy tale with a drum-and-bass score. It included a song with controversial references which theatre management requested be cut; the company refused. - The Guardian
Arifa Akbar: "My quotidian reality as chief theatre critic of The Guardian cannot compare: a supermarket sandwich wolfed down before the bell, a frantic filing of copy after the curtain goes down ..., or eating biscuits at my laptop into the small hours if it is a morning deadline." - The Guardian
The Play That Goes Wrong “was first performed at The Old Red Lion, a 60-seat fringe theatre in Islington, London, with the writers not thinking it would go much further.” That was … not the correct take. - BBC
The play - The Roommate - opened on Thursday with Farrow and Patti LuPone, but on Saturday, Farrow tested positive. Actor and associate director of The Roommate Marsha Mason went on, script in hand, on Sunday. - The New York Times
