The Audience

Immersive production Variant 31 evicts audience members for physically abusing staff by Matthew Hemley

Producers of immersive production Variant 31 have revealed they were forced to evict two audience members who were "physically aggressive" and intimidating

Louis Altarescu and Alan Friedman, recipients of 2019 Gary Maker Audience Award. by Tim Treanor

Louis Altarescu and Alan Friedman, well known volunteer ushers and theater enthusiasts until Friedman's untimely death last month, have been selected to receive the 2019 Gary Maker Audience …

Audience Reactions to Matthew Bourne's New Adventures: Swan Lake | Jan. 21 - 26 | The Kennedy Center by The Kennedy Center

Seeing 'Slave Play' As A Black Person, With An All-Black Audience by Artsjournal1

Aisha Harris: "At one point during the performance " as the white woman … used a black dildo on her [black] partner … while they pretended to be the mistress and slave on a plantation " …

What Should Performers Do When Audience Members Are Using Their Phones? by Artsjournal2

Just a few nights after Anne-Sophie Mutter stopped a concert to tell a woman in the front row to stop filming, actor Joshua Henry, star of a new Off Broadway musical called The Wrong Man, tr…

Musical star snatches audience member's phone out of hand 'mid-song' without slipping out of character by Ellie Harrison, Ellie Harrison

Tony-nominated actor Joshua Henry confiscated the phone from someone in the front row

Joshua Henry Snatches Cell Phone from Audience Member During The Wrong Man Performance by Lindsey Sullivan

Patti LuPone would be proud! During a performance of off-Broadway's The Wrong Man on October 1, star Joshua Henry swiped a cell phone from an audience member while performing a number. Th…

At Carmen Aguirre's 'Broken Tailbone,' the audience 'can't hide in the dark' by Carly Maga - Theatre Critic

Part theatre, part history lecture and part salsa dance lesson, the show will challenge the audience to move their bodies as their brains take in Aguirre's words.

James Corden's Audience Rows Compete for $3k Cash by The Late Late Show With James Corden

Writer Peter Quilter: Judy Garland movie will introduce my work to a whole new audience by Peter Quilter

The forthcoming film Judy, starring Renée Zellweger, is an adaptation of my play End of the Rainbow, which follows Judy Garland during

Anne-Sophie Mutter Stops Performance Mid-Concerto To Confront Audience Member Shooting Video by Artsjournal1

The violinist was playing the slow movement of the Beethoven concerto with the Cincinnati Symphony when she saw a woman recording with an iPhone in the front row. "With the phone such a few …

St. Louis native makes the leap from audience to stage in 'Hello, Dolly!' by Calvin Wilson St. Louis Post-dispatch

Madison Johnson comes to the Fox in "Hello, Dolly!"

'Slave Play' welcomes and challenges its Broadway audience by Caitlin Huston

During the invited dress rehearsal for "Slave Play," a giant mirror " now expanded to two stories for the Broadway stage " reflected an enthusiastic audience of young, diverse faces, but als…

Can James Corden's Audience Win a Big Cash Prize? by The Late Late Show With James Corden

The Night Broadway's 'Slave Play' Was Performed For An All-Black Audience by Artsjournal1

The producers of Jeremy O. Harris's daring drama set aside all 804 seats on Sept. 18 for Black theatregoers, and they marketed the event almost entirely through direct outreach. Harris was t…

Actor Millicent Wong: 'The end goal is making East Asian work transcend an East Asian audience' by Giverny Masso

Millicent Wong, who starred in Pah-La at London's Royal Court, is currently performing in The King of Hell's Palace at Hampstead Theatre

Actually's brilliant actors lead audience into risky territory about sex by Karen Fricker - Theatre Critic

Justly celebrated play puts millennials, hookup culture, alcohol and a lot more under the microscope.

This Orchestra Is Not Going To Announce Its Season. It Will Tell Its Audience What's Coming Program By Program by Artsjournal1

"We want to announce little nuggets at a time and build as much excitement as we can," says Arkansas Philharmonic executive director Jason Miller. This is one of several new initiatives " an…

BIG The Musical - Audience Reactions by Official London Theatre

Heartbeat of Home - Audience Reactions by Official London Theatre

How To Write Classical Concert Program Notes That Actually Engage An Audience by Artsjournal1

Lara Pellegrinelli writes that, "as a lover of words, I'd once held the opinion that 'Notes on the Program' are bound to be mind-numbingly, soul-crushingly boring " or one of the more effect…

'75% of the audience get it!' How Count Arthur Strong conquered comedy by Brian Logan

As the dyspeptic old-school entertainer embarks on a tour, his creator Steve Delaney reflects on dedicating his life to one character Comedy has its careerists: thrusting tyros zeroing in on…

This Off-Broadway Play Was So Fraught, It Hired Post-Show Counselors For The Audience. Now It's Headed To Broadway " Can Broadway Handle It? by Artsjournal1

Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play "often funny and pervasively unsettling, examines that lingering wound [of American slavery] through the frustrated sex lives, and taboo sexual fantasies, of th…

James Corden Needs a Quick Favor from the Audience by The Late Late Show With James Corden

Audience Members Loudly Enjoy Play, Man Shushes Them. But Why? by Artsjournal

"I wish I could have told him that his outburst about our outbursts (if gasps and laughs are outbursts) betrayed the DNA of theater itself. Unless he plans on buying out venues to watch play…