Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Women Producers
This panel of producers (all of whom just happen to be women) — Tisa Chang, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Amy Nederlander, Daryl Roth, Fran Weissler, and Elizabeth Williams — talks about the role of women in theater, how they are percieved, how they have come to the forefront of the theater community and how they [...]
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Kerry Butler
From Xanadu on Broadway.
Xanadu star Kerry Butler talks about her childhood performances of Olivia Newton-John songs and how they’ve informed her Broadway role as Kira, as well as the ins and outs of roller-skating on stage; her deep affection for the musical Blood Brothers and her experience in the Broadway production; her separate appearances [...]
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
While creating a theatre, either from an existing structure or from scratch, is an exceptionally complex task, I was fascinated by English theatre consultant Iain Mackintosh’s succinct summation of the key issues that should be addressed, as recorded by Michael Billington in The Guardian:
He [Mackintosh] came up with three fascinating principles for a good theatre [...]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Departing from the Delacorte Theatre over the weekend, I was struck by a phenomenon that may be unique to that outdoor theatre, namely the experience of leaving a theatre in unison with my fellow theatergoers for a sustained period of time.
Obviously in any theatre, we exit en masse, but in virtually every case I can [...]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
For those who think of Broadway as solely a commercial bastion, its worth noting that the world of not-for-profit theatre is now inextricably linked with that of the Great White Way. So much so, that its hard to tease out the delineation between shows that began as not-for-profit productions and those which have been [...]
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