'Technology is playing a huge role in shaping the future of how people engage with orchestral music,' says James Williams, managing director at the RPO. 'At the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,…
"Our research shows that most pay TV households already have Netflix so even if cord-cutting accelerates, Netflix won't get a whole slew of new customers. In [other] words, people are cuttin…
In Flights, which is written by John O'Donovan and directed by Thomas Martin, a protracted period of grieving is examined for the first time, leading to an uncomfortable night of self-examin…
Audience behaviour or, more accurately, audience misbehaviour, is like catnip to us theatre folk. We just love talking about it " the
Madonna has just ended a residency at the London Palladium, where audience members were required to place their phones in sealed pouches
The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez has announced a new community engagement initiative: the 'Lobby Series.' For four consecutive weeks, beginning February 15, audience members with a ticket to…
There was an article on the Arts Professional site urging care in the Arts Council of England's initiative to increase investment in libraries over the next decade. The author of the piece, …
Are you Broadway's biggest fan? Prove it! If you can convince us of your undying love for all things Broadway, we'll send you to the craziest and, let's face it, best awards show of the seas…
Robert Trevino, music director of the Basque National Orchestra in Spain, writes about the restaurant meal that gave him the idea, how he and the orchestra staff planned and marketed the ser…
THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE (TFANA) in Brooklyn, NY invites qualified candidates to submit applications to become its next General Manager. The General Manager is a trusted confidant and peer…
Fairview finished at London's Young Vic a couple of weeks ago, but wherever theatre people are gathered I still hearing it being
One of the many great services of the Broadway League is the demographic survey they do of our audience. It's essential for any industry or business to find out who its customers are in orde…
With racial tensions high, Mob rule rife and the corruption inside the police force ever-present, we embark on what appears to be the downfall of a section of the Mob.
When the actor playing Lady Macduff injured her knee a few minutes into a performance at the Watermill Theatre in England, the production stopped " until a woman who toured nationally as Lad…
An audience member stepped into save a production of Macbeth, after one of its leading actors suffered an injury. Emma Barclay was
On paper the concept should not work: scenes and characters have been cut, a Shakespeare sonnet has been added set to music, as well as a Greek song, and four characters originally written f…
The world was a very different place in 1997 when Chris Bohjalian published MIDWIVES, the first of his best-selling novels. The action unfolds in a sparsely-populated state before cellular p…
 The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) approximates that the Bard wrote Timon of Athens and King Lear between 1604-1606.  Lear is a masterpiece about dysfunctional famili…
Helen Shaw breaks it all down: "Our critical function operates differently with the storyteller than with scene-player, because we immediately wonder about truthfulness. … The narrating pe…
Showbiz Chicago Las Tinas Improv Presents Audience Inspired Soap Opera HAPPY VALEN-TINAS DAY Las Tinas Improv is celebrating the month of love with "Happy Valen-TINAS Day!", a fully [...] L…
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel encompassing the lives of two Afghan women, Mariam and Laila, living in war-torn Kabul and both married to the same man, Rashee…
The Simon Godwin"helmed staging sees Shakespeare's titular Timon re-gendered as female.
On Friday, January 10th at 1 pm, Tony Award-winning Hadestown held an added special performance for The Actors Fund. It was the first special performance of 2020 for The Actors Fun…