The Berliner Ensemble have located a jewel in their theatre history. Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage is a modern classic of the German theatre.
Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage is a mo…
"What I like about streaming right now is I get excited about it … My mom's in Guatemala. My mom and dad are retired and my mom tunes into the streams," Nonfiction said. "My parents never …
If a demi-god burns and no one hears about it, does it make a catharsis? Walter Bilderback investigates a pandemic-era production of 'The Women of Trachis' at Swarthmore dubbed "theater with…
If a demigod burns and no one hears about it, does it make a catharsis? Walter Bilderback investigates a pandemic-era production of 'The Women of Trachis' at Swarthmore dubbed "theater witho…
"The results " from a survey of roughly 1,000 people in mid-May by sports and events analytics firm Performance Research, in partnership with Full Circle Research Co. " point to just how ste…
At the State Theater of Hesse in Wiesbaden, bass Günther Groissböck and pianist Alexandra Goloubitskaia gave a recital of Schubert and Mahler before about 200 people in a 1,000-seat audito…
By j. sebastián alberdi, Rosalind Bevan, Charles Haugland, Melinda Lopez, Melory Mirashrafi. Staff members at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts discuss their response to the…
You may have seen the video message by Guthrie Theatre artistic director Joseph Haj last week where he laid out why the Guthrie wouldn't be offering their content virtually as other places h…
In Screw The Audience - David Gray former Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Ballet and American Repertory Ballet Speaks Out "Okay, I don't really mean that. There isn't a performing art…
Alan Ayckbourn's orchestra decamped to the pub, Lynn Nottage's social satire became all too real, and April De Angelis is still angry with her critics
Alan Ayckbourn on Jeeves (1975) Continu…
Long time readers of the blog know that I am a big fan of the results of the Culture Track survey conducted every three years to gauge shifting attitudes and perceptions about cultural activ…
People are consuming more news than usual. Monthly readership of NPR's website has more than doubled and average weekly streaming of its radio shows has gone up 31 percent since the crisis b…
Weeks into lockdown, with theatres up and down the country and around the world closed for the foreseeable future, I caught up with the artistic directors of Cirencester's Barn Theatre, Bela…
The Seoul City government will monitor all 8,578 audience members who attended a performance of The Phantom of the Opera at Blue Square in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, after two members of the cast…
In a project called "One on One", the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, known as one of the most innovative in Russia, will let 850 people (as many as the auditorium could hold) register for a …
Playwright Nick Green created the Social Distancing Festival website to host rehearsal videos, designs, photos, excerpts and other pieces of work that have been cancelled or postponed in the…
With shows like Have I Got News For You going audience-free, stand-up comedian Tiff Stevenson offers her tips for cracking jokes into the void
As anyone in the midst of a divorce, or indeed …
The reality for most organisations is that their value and survival increasingly demand competence " and coherence " across all audience development. Many next-generation cultural organisati…
"My current research situates audience development within work on culture as a vocation, and wider debates around the democratisation of culture and cultural democracy. Audience development …
Besides taking special cleanliness precautions based on CDC guidelines, TheaterWorks is shrinking the audience size for each performance of its current production, "Every Brilliant Thing."