Well … yes, it's mostly he/him types. But also, 2020 was a real career killer. "Most designers, just like most artists in the field, have no work right now. They are hanging on by their fi…
Well, not in the theatre world, obviously " but in the wider world, Netflix carries some pretty solid cultural cachet. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is the first of Wilson's plays to be adapted f…
Sure, the U.S. is Christmas Carol'd out " but the longtime American theatre Christmas standby is also serving its home country. In Bury St. Edmunds, the play is outside, in the center of tow…
Theatre leaders met in May to hash out a response to the Black Lives Matter protests and the extrajudicial killings of George Floyd and other unarmed Black people. "They were beginning a pro…
The good: "Musicals " and, in a way, plays too " are now being filmed because of their music, not in spite of it."The less good: "They put us onstage with the story and give us no say." " Th…
Director George C. Wolfe says of the final scene, "It's a very slippery little slope: When does sharing become cultural appropriation become theft?" " Los Angeles Times
Truly. Even this year, or perhaps especially this year. "'Will you decide who shall live and who shall die?' this Ghost of Christmas Present asked Scrooge, a question asked many times this y…
Everything is locked down in Paris, except for Mass. "The ritualistic nature of the event, the dramatic buildup from scene to scene " even the slightly labored monologues " are all part and …
The movie, which premiered on streaming December 11, is an ode to the power of Broadway. Its journey from stage to screen, though, "underscores the inequities underneath the surface of Holly…
Cinemas have reopened, but not theatres. Why? "Sources close to Minister for Arts and Culture Catherine Martin pointed to a 'complex environment for indoor live performances.'" " Irish…
This is the year when you could start now, watch a different Christmas Carol every day (streaming, obviously), and keep right on through to 2021. " American Theatre
But these aren't just any TikTokkers. "Thousands of TikTok users, including many with Broadway credits, have paid homage to the 2007 Disney Pixar film, about a rat who dreams of becoming a F…
The 76- and 71-year-old women who founded and run Split Britches were in London when COVID-19 hit New York hard, so they didn't come back for a while " but where to stay, and how to make the…
Did … did it need saving? Well, perhaps the theatres do; it's been such a large money maker for theatres in the U.S. for, well, many years. Now, as the holiday season kicks into high gear,…
Ari Roth was fired from Theatre J after 18 years as an AD, and so he quickly founded his own company " Mosaic. Recently, he resigned under pressure from Mosaic. Why? A liaison with Equity sa…
The form must also meet the content, say critics and scholars. They discuss "an under-theorized element of the discussion on Black theatre: its form. Oftentimes, Black theatre is relegated t…
Says a former theatre student of Baldwin Wallace University's Victoria Bussert, "Theatres have shut down everywhere, and this woman is just like, 'Fuck that! We're doing a play, we're doing …
A recent New Jersey show demonstrates that, if the perfect factors come together, Equity theatre can happen " though it will be more rare in the winter, certainly. "The whole time we were wo…
OK, so, the Center for the Arts' "Studio 551 initiative was conceived to create opportunities for visual and performing artists in an increasingly expensive city, offering a range of tempora…
Here the map of Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. And the recent uptick (well, massive increase) in business "is both 'lucrative' and 'bittersweet,'" say some owners. " Oprah Magazine
The thing is, "Suddenly, an awful lot of work can be done from home and, once you get that idea in their heads, it stays." What will happen to all of that office space in the central busines…
Despite a thunderstorm that caused administrators to hold umbrellas over a slightly tressed trio, the musicians didn't want to stop playing. "It's a charge. … This is the thing, to groove …
Writer Akwaeke Emezi and photographer Texas Isaiah, with the help of many couples, try to figure it all out. "I have never spent this much time with myself;to become my own favorite companio…
That's a hard task for any actor, and Boseman had to " got to " play Thurgood Marshall, James Brown, and Jackie Robinson (not to mention embodying the fictional King of Wakanda, T'Challa). "…
The boat ran into trouble over the weekend " every refugee aboard was rescued by another boat " because it was overloaded, but: "Named after Louise Michel, the 19th century French feminist a…