112 stories by "Suzi Steffen"
“When most audience members watch Wong perform, on the set of ‘Is It True?’ or at one of his theater shows, they're not just seeing him for the first time: It's their first…
“This was so fraught with emotion. There was so much investment in all of the work that had gone into both companies. The name needed to reflect what was mutually fertile.”
“When people are trying to save money, if you don’t force them out of that situation they’re going to choose free actors every time.”
“These stars are just the latest wave of big-name actors to appear on the London stage, which can burnish an already glowing reputation, reboot a career or simply provide a challenge l…
“After decades of stability and growth, Shakespeare & Company has " in the last seven months alone " exiled an artistic director and lost an executive director before his first se…
“Many audience members didn't take a class in how to give constructive criticism. Add to that the complete lack of self-awareness, a tendency towards jaw jacking, and an almost manic n…
“There's no doubt that Rice will have respect for Shakespeare, but she is unlikely to be over-awed or cowed by the performance history of the plays. That can only be a good thing, part…
“My mom kept sayin, ‘You know, you could do community theatre if you’re a dentist in the day, because then you could make your own schedule.'”
“Here in the Cage we believe that making theatre is like making a child: If you want to be truly successful, you need more than just a penis.”
“If others can relate to this story, maybe they will begin to dream about peace on Earth, a planet where no child suffers unnecessarily from a war for greed, or a mania for power. It c…
“What the latest research demonstrates is how little progress has been made in the last 10 years on gender and play production. A decade ago, 30% of new plays produced in UK theatres w…
“‘It will make some anxious,’ Shapiro said. ‘It will make some excited. We’ve had the same leadership for 20 years. There are people who are in prisons they thi…
“Three wildly different new musicals, ‘An American in Paris,’ ‘Fun Home’ and ‘Something Rotten!’ were showered with Tony nominations Tuesday morning…
“The £3m, three-year Unlimited initiative aims to give venues a choice of work and stop them from, as Verrent put it, ‘programming shit, and the first piece of work that they …
“Something happened, somewhere around Love’s Labour’s Lost and the early history plays and going into Romeo and Juliet. Either he fell in love or he just grew up, but somet…
“HartBeat does not look at its Greater Hartford community as potential audience members but rather as an important part of the play-making. Ensemble members regularly spend months rese…
“The Tony system canonizes a subset of a subset, making the odds of any one show or person pocketing a Tony rather less impressive. What's more, the awardees and runners-up have typica…
“We are so reliant on the resilience narrative that it has become our intuitive response to every event, from audience development to fundraising to how we generate our creative work. …
“Carole Rothman, the artistic director of Second Stage, said the theater would be used for plays by contemporary American writers, with a particular emphasis on works by women and mino…
Also, the guy who plays Robb Stark on Game of Thrones. “The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company will take up residency at London’s Garrick Theatre for a year in October. The Cinderel…
“‘August: Osage County’ was the last serious drama by an American playwright to become a multiyear hit. Since 2010, the only straight play of any kind to have run on Broadw…
“Thousands of years have gone by and we still have this thing called live theatre – and the reason is that we need to be able to compare ourselves to what we see up there and jud…
That is, it’s the Olivier Awards: “‘No one can stand in the way of Angela Lansbury winning an Olivier for her West End comeback after over 40 years away, and no one should,…
“It feels like it’s been in labour for such a long time. You now want your child to come off the ventilator and grow up and become part of the modern world. That’s what it&…
Um: “Fans seek out the student performances for cheap entertainment or a chance to see a musical that otherwise might not be performed locally. Some even follow the teenage thespians a…
