112 stories by "Suzi Steffen"
“The truth is that with any art form you have to wade through a lot of less good stuff to find the gems, and there is a purpose in the less good stuff because that's how artists, novel…
“The play does have all the hallmarks of a legitimate Shakespeare and Fletcher collaboration.”
The Cherry Sisters’ “variety act included original music, bass drum thumping, poetry, mouth harp playing, inspirational recitations, essay reading, fake hypnosis and other artist…
“The vast majority of plays are distinctly average. They are fairly well written, fairly well acted and fairly well staged. But they do not reflect how people actually speak because di…
“When the actress Mia Katigbak was a student at Barnard College in the 1970s, she was the only Asian-American studying theater and mostly got to play ‘maids and hookers,’ s…
“The violence in Greek tragedies is a form of therapy and education for the audiences both then and now, Doerries argues, a communal response to suffering. The violence in many of the …
“A plan to stage an American theater company's gay-themed play in Moscow, with support from the United States government, has stalled amid tensions between the two nations and at a tim…
“It could be a way to grow audiences, possibly across the commercial and subsidised sector, the big subsidised houses and smaller venues, for the benefit of all.”
“There might be some Elgar, there might be some jazz of the periods. Some of the actors will likely recite. We'll have a screen. We may have the music live to several scenes. Julian ma…
“Life is rife with lack of understanding, lack of tolerance, and a persistent impatience that has become a part of our everyday lives. The campaign against independent theatre companie…
“We've been looking at other models for making political theatre. We've found that devised theatre, collaboratively made over an intense period of four to five weeks, gives us a chance…
“If by ‘loser’ you're referring to a man who is greeted eight times a week by a thousand people who stand as one, applauding until their hands are raw, cheering until their…
“Might [race] be erased, no longer an issue between the two men " or for the audience, who just get to watch two top-drawer actors? Or might it be highlighted, even encouraging us to s…
“The idea of a mirth-maker being granted a title was preposterous. No entertainer ever received a knighthood before the actor Henry Irving in 1895.”
“Any good sound designer understands that technology is making our jobs more fulfilling and manageable. But it is also making it easy for noncollaborative design to emerge. Anyone can,…
“Anyone who makes things knows " you always go into it naive. You wouldn't do it if you knew what was going to happen to you; you are transformed by it. In that deep imagining, in that…
“The victory came at the end of Broadway's biggest night, and suggested Tony voters were in an artistic mood this year, choosing ambitious, sophisticated productions over more conventi…
“The Tony Awards really need kids. If the Theater Wing could find a way to give kids a routing interest by getting more of them in to see these wildly overpriced productions (I know, i…
“Despite the Encuentro's diverse programming, which featured 15 plays from the four corners and Puerto Rico, no Texas-based theatre companies were represented. On the surface, this cou…
Who will triumph tonight?
“To pass the time, the actors performed impromptu renditions of ‘The Circle of Life’ and ‘Arabian Nights, and [Tony winner James Monroe] Iglehart dropped an impressiv…
“A lot of the verbally abusive stuff that Hedwig slings at Yitzhak has become, for lack of a better word " or perhaps it’s the best word to use " darker. It feels close to home i…
“Inside my head, they are whirls and blurs of energy in a show that never sleeps, where even in the small hours the blood runs down the walls. I construct the scenery and source the pr…
“Perhaps what we don't talk about enough is the pleasure of theatre, how it makes us feel, and why those of us who go frequently love it so much.”
“The poison of a bad review is not the public shame, although that doesn’t feel great. And it’s not the fact that an expert believes you may be an untalented writer or a ho…
