The proposal comes as a rash of other live performance venues have shuttered across the city in recent years. If the project moves forward, theatre artists and producers say the theatre’s closure would mark an immense loss for the city’s performing arts industry. - Toronto Star
"The steps by playwrights to halt productions of their own work reflects concerns by Black artists frustrated by what they see as a failure of theater administrators to live up to the lofty promises made during and after the spring of 2020." - The New York Times
"The latest installment of Actors' Equity Association's annual hiring and wage report – covering the year 2021 and titled 'Progress During an Atypical Year' – finds that the theater industry made small but steady progress in diversity and equity in union jobs for stage managers and actors." - Deadline
Davis, who is particularly interested in developing new plays, previously served as artistic director of the American Theater Company in Chicago. He programmed experimental work there and box office revenue declined; his tenure ended with the shuttering of the theater company. - The New York Times
"In October 2021 (the company's) actors, directors and audience were all arrested. Released pending a trial, most were facing a prison sentence of up to eight years. (They) fled to Ukraine using a border resistance network. When Russia declared war …, the company crossed the border to Poland." - The Guardian
First, watch In the Heights in high school. Linedy Genao: "I was like, ‘They said Dominican Republic on Broadway! I didn’t know that was allowed!’"- The New York Times
OK? The American Theatre Wing "decided to announce the award recipients in advance to allow the evening to focus on a celebration of theater’s resilience. Acceptance speeches are being posted on the Wing’s YouTube channel." - The New York Times
Not great! "It has become quite aggressive online and our drag queen performer has also been personally harassed," says the Kings Playhouse interim director. The Prince Edward Island theatre says it has postponed, not cancelled, the event. - CBC
"What does it cost a person if they are hateful, if they're driven by wealth? If they're racist or full of ugliness in their personal life? They shape their personality in self-diminishing ways. The human drama ... says: This society is ruining itself by letting people perpetuate these things." - The Guardian
"In his nearly two-decade long career, Arshad Mushtaq has directed the first-ever Kashmiri digital feature, produced television dramas, and written seven original plays along with five Kashmiri adaptations of foreign works" — one of which, Su Yee (his version of Godot), is the piece that first gained him wide attention. - Scroll (India)
Kharkiv theatres closed at the start of the war; by the summer, the city’s famous puppet theatre performed a show about wartime in Bucha. Lapa has been hosting these performances at her house for the past three months. - The New Yorker
"From familiar character actors lacking household names like Ronald Guttman, Dennis Boutsikaris, and Jessica Hecht, to well-known crossover stars like Bebe Neuwirth, Roger Bart, Billy Porter, and Laura Benanti, Law & Order has always made room for Broadway actors." - Looper
Members of a group calling itself the National Socialist Movement yelled slogans and accosted theatergoers just before the first preview performance of Jason Robert Brown's musical, which is about the false conviction and lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia in 1915. - Playbill
Jesse Green: "Their harm is political, epochal, even as the songs they sing, encouraging empathy that may not otherwise be earned, invite us to give them a pass. ... (The danger isn't) that we risk forgiving (them). It's that we risk enjoying too much what we can't forgive." - The New York Times
"The innovative structure of Barter Theatre's new Black Stories Black Voices program ... could well serve as a national model for inclusive art-making that embraces and empowers Black communities at mainstream theatres." - American Theatre
