319 stories by "Douglas McLennan"
On the eve of FringeNYC, which runs Friday to Aug. 30, we asked representatives from some shows presented last year whether the overall effort " the cost, the frantic pace, the heat and the …
“A British theatre and opera director with 25 years of experience, Tim Carroll is best known for his Shakespeare productions, which have shown in theatres internationally.”
Weirdly, I am now making much of my income as a theatre and cultural critic in my chosen town of Louisville, Kentucky. I’m getting some small paid theatre gigs, too. I’m making m…
“It's not unusual for a journalist to completely redraft an article or review, so why should it be strange to do the same to a play? Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your…
“In a letter to Daved Driscoll, artistic director of Words Players Theatre, Doug Wright, president of the Dramatists Guild, took issue with guidelines that said the theatre’s dir…
“Our intention was almost the opposite of what it has been perceived to be. It was out of our respect for playwrights that we wanted to be clear about what we were and were not underta…
“National Theatre Backstage officially launches next week and will curate media from existing outlets that the NT uses, such as YouTube and Soundcloud, alongside specially commissioned…
The show breaks every rule of Broadway success. "There are no movie stars and it's not a revival. It's storytelling and an original piece of theater that has inspired all this excitement."
“Homegrown, a National Youth Theatre (NYT) production, was closed down last Thursday, with the creators saying they were given no prior warning. Director Nadia Latif and playwright Oma…
“Identity-based representation practices that reinforce constructions of child/adult will generally limit the meanings of cultural codes, exploit children's performative labors, promot…
“What quickly became apparent is that the local authority officers share our ambition to find ways of increasing the perceived "usefulness" of the arts and asking: if the regular audie…
Five days before opening, all conventional efforts exhausted, the company resorted to trying to reach Swift on social media and in what may be a first, she granted the rights via Twitter jus…
“I am a reporter on The One Show on BBC One, where we get audiences of up to six million. At Edinburgh, the space I play seats 350 people. I am 67, I have six grandchildren, I have bee…
“Until spring, Greg Reiner was managing director of New York's Classic Stage Company. He also served for four years as executive director of the Tectonic Theater Project and for seven …
"I can understand the impulse " they'll be among the top three moneymakers, and that always looks good " but a rule of thumb in this business is, don't alienate Tony voters," a veteran press…
“My own fear about drama getting smaller in regular public schools like Lakeshore is that it limits the ability of kids to stumble upon it " and that affects not just future theatre pr…
“Why is one considered a beacon of acting talent for playing a disabled character convincingly? Why is it a common expectation that these actors will transform into characters whose ex…
“When people were invited onstage at a recent performance of "Penn & Teller on Broadway," many women looked as if they had stepped out of a jazzercise class, while men ambled arou…
"The subsidised sector is without doubt the research and development arm of the commercial sector, where new productions, new work and new talent are developed. Ultimately, cuts of this magn…
“Many of this country's finest directors (like Antoni Cimolino and Albert Schultz) learned their craft as young actors in Phillips' finest days. Hundreds of performers credit him as a …
“It's been a strapping summer for three of the four new shows of the 2015-2016 Broadway season, according to data released on Monday by the Broadway League, a trade group for theater o…
"Whether or not this boom is directly due to the rise of jukebox musicals is uncertain. What is certain, though, is the relative security of jukebox musicals in the industry."
As Broadway faces off against pocket-size sound-and-light shows, performers and some patrons say a hyper-connected culture are shredding the immersive experience of live theatre.
The most progressive theatres are not for children. They are for people. The most anti-oppressive theatre methodologies (benefitting children, youth, AND adults), will, quite simply, conside…
The premise for Brian Feldman's show, "Dishwasher," is this: He will come to a person's house, wash all of the dirty dishes, perform a monologue of the audience's choosing and then conclude …
