Apres le Comedy Industrial Revolution – Have movies and marketing turned audiences into complacent consumers of mediocre comedy? Comedian Rick Maranis looks back at the slippery slope. National Post (Canada)
Category: theatre
THEATER FOR 20-YEAR-OLDS
A combination of high-impact dancing and frank monologues is bringing in the young people to this London Theater. Heaps of them. Pink hair, nose-studs, the lot. – Financial Times
PETER MARKS
… to leave theater beat at the New York Times Playbill
MOVE OVER PAUL HOGAN
Dame Edna and the Umbilicals expand the American experience of Australia. Sydney Morning Herald
THE END OF THE BLOCKBUSTER
Or is it “The Blockbuster Lives?” Recent events on Broadway give conflicting clues to the future of the American musical. Hartford Courant
“SPRING STORM”
A never-produced Tennessee Williams play comes to light. San Francisco Chronicle
CULTURAL CONFLICT
Current crop of London theater takes up the clash of cultures – between generations, between classes, between races. The New Republic
THREAT TO FREEDOM
Philadelphia theater, America’s oldest African-American theater company in financial bind – “on the brink of tragedy.” Philadelphia Daily News
PLAY CANCELED
Parents at a school in Massachusetts succeed in canceling a planned production of “West Side Story,” claiming the play promotes racial stereotypes. BBC
BACK FROM THE BRINK
La Jolla Playhouse – only a few years ago in debt for $10 million – announces $36 million campaign for a new home. “A miraculous turnaround.” Playbill