“That theatre people don’t seem to know that Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman were fellow theatre people first seems to me like a failing of theatre. But it also confirms the ways that theatre’s exclusivity and protectiveness of Broadway as a “brand” limited the types of stories that could be told onstage.”
Read More“It's daunting for the theater industry to have to reinvent itself. But at this point, it seems an inevitability.”
Read More“In my BA program, I am not just learning what theatre is and how to create it, but also what art is and how it pertains to the world around us.”
Read More“Beneath the obvious concern of getting sick and infecting loved ones, shows with deep pockets have still only allotted to pay for a fraction of the necessary time to quarantine, shouldering the cost of getting infected on the worker.’
Read More“Producing theatre in a pandemic has completely changed the narrative around performing while sick. The caution around illness has forced us to take a step back before deciding to perform or rehearse with symptoms.”
Read More“West Side Story, released in over 2,800 theaters this weekend, earned only $10.5 million at the box office this weekend, underperforming even modest estimates. 2021 has been a disaster for the future of musicals in movie theatres, with three musicals wildly underperforming expectations, with 2 of them having strong critical praise.
So what do we make of this?”
Read More“This Thanksgiving season, I encourage you to find gratitude within the grind. Remember why we missed these rehearsal rooms so much when we weren’t allowed to be in them. Remember the passion that led us to the theatre in the first place.”
Read More“As many of us prepare to return to in-person theatre, there’s been an emphasis on safety like never before. While COVID precautions are vital, we must also take precautions to keep our casts safe from dangerous people. Simply put, predators appear anywhere people gather. But over time I’ve found person after person who somehow thinks that we theatremakers are immune from incidents happening in our communities. The truth is, we’re not.”
Read More“Actors can have boundaries about where they want to be touched and still tell the story. The entire production team needs to think about boundaries if we are going to have a more humane profession.'“
Read More“If THIS is the man – a known abusive tyrant, volatile felon, and remorseless manipulator who is still demonstrating dangerously unscrupulous financial, behavioral and creative practices – who is Broadway’s literal first choice to reopen the very first new work in the world’s most prominent theatre scene, we are in trouble.”
Read More“Paradise Square is principally only seeing the light of day now because Drabinsky’s first and previous comeback attempt failed, and he remains ravenous in his quest for success. It should be noted, however, that there is more than an insignificant chance of it facing this same fate of pre-Broadway vanishment as its predecessor, Sousatzka.”
Read More“There is not a day in my life that I don’t resent what Garth did to me.”
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