112 stories by "Suzi Steffen"
“Within the Broadway spectrum, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop historical musical has less in common with recent smashes than with shows that radically expanded audiences’ per…
“While every major theatre in Germany has a whole department devoted to the function and a practitioner assigned to every production, in British theatre the dramaturg has been a compar…
“Theater as a whole desperately needs to keep attracting younger audiences, and yet it doesn't seem particularly able or willing to educate newer playgoers or accommodate their differi…
“There are hundreds of priorities to balance in the process of planning a season. The decisions we make reveal the hierarchy of those priorities. It is the season, not the mission stat…
“Each evening, a couple hours before shows begin, the smoke team gathers in the Festival's outdoor theater, armed with a weather forecast and other pertinent information about the air …
Lynn Nottage: “I've always been told that there's only room for one black play. If the black slot's full, they won't put in another.”
“Located between Western and Vermont avenues, the Fountain is at a crossroads of multiculturalism. ‘We’re right in the heart of Little Armenia, so it feels very natural for…
“4. Walk through the entire program through the lens of those you are inviting into your theatre or organization. What would you see? What would you experience? What does it feel like …
“In letter published on Saturday signatories, who also included Sir David Hare, Young Vic artistic director David Lan and Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, said the cancellation R…
All of the reasons it never quite clicks for these men and women, according to their much more famous peers – including the table comic, “the genre of beloved comic who is funny …
“As the financial realities of our operation become more constrained, the pressure on the pay and working conditions for those people we employ increases, and any attempts to narrow th…
“We are living in an age when we get to choose our communities. I could be a sports fan, or a gamer, or build houses for Habitat for Humanity, or a zillion other things. But my real fr…
“The Sherlock actor made his debut as Hamlet at the Barbican last week but found the distraction of red lights in the audience so ‘mortifying’ that he stepped outside the s…
“A lot of times in the past when you've seen hip-hop used in musical theatre, it has quotes around it. ‘How crazy! We're making hip-hop musical theatre!’ We don't comment o…
“It is the most democratic of art forms, generally free at the point of delivery and with an audience who can walk away at any time.”
“The actor's body, or rather its ideal form, is a lie. It is an imaginary by-product of a culture that tries to value certain bodies over others.”
Don’t have a program: “There was no designated person whose function was to understand the world of the play, to speak up for the playwright and her intent, to argue for the sanc…
“David J. Kurs, Deaf West's artistic director, said gestural eloquence " clear, articulate signing " was one of the main qualities the creative team was looking for. So was rhythmic ab…
“As Mr. Obama was ushered to his aisle seat in Row K, the audience applauded thunderously and snapped cellphone photos, in open defiance of a recorded warning from George III, played b…
“Says Necheles, ‘This is a musical based on the exploration of what it means to be famous and how people react to that fame.’ Says Shell: ‘In essence it focuses on a …
“Mr. Miranda, at an airport on his way to a vacation with his wife in Mexico, picked up a copy of ‘Alexander Hamilton,’ a 2004 biography by Ron Chernow. By the second chapt…
“Broadway theaters weren't built for cell phone usage"many of them date to the early 20th century. They're made of marble on the outside and have thick walls on the inside, which absor…
“Here's what I'm wondering. Why haven't theaters, which have known about this problem for eons, taken a harder line on behalf of their own audiences and productions? Why, in all these …
“It’s not as if actors can only work in respectful silence.”
“Upon receiving his phone back, he asked the usher, ‘Well, where *can* I charge it?'”
