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Top AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 05.14.17

My Mother’s Art of Places
All my life, my mother has been showing me the power of art to create the places where we love to go, the places that stick with us, the places that create memories. She’s … read more
AJBlog: The Bright Ride Published 2017-05-14

Who pays The Ferryman? It’s complicated.
Paddy Considine and Laura Donnelly. Photo: Johan Persson The hottest new play in London has got the maximum 5-star rating from half a dozen of the national newspapers; its West End transfer was assured … read more
AJBlog: Plain English Published 2017-05-12

Ordinary heroine
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the world premiere in New Haven of Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Plays whose subjects can be summed up in one word—abortion, divorce, … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2017-05-12

If You Really Want To Make It A ‘Battle’ Or Competition, Then Print Books Appear To Be Beating Ebooks (For Now?)

It’s partly because, unlike most e-readers, print books can be fetish objects. “Publishers’ production values have soared and bookshops have begun to fill up with books with covers of jewel-like beauty, often with gorgeously textured pages. As the great American cover designer Peter Mendelsund put it to me, books have ‘more cloth, more foil, more embossing, page staining, sewn bindings, deckled edges.'”

How Can Theatres Best Sell New Plays, Or New Kinds Of Plays, To Their Audiences?

Basically, says a theatre-maker who had the experience and then did the research, theatres doing what she calls lesser-known work “must paint a detailed picture of the experience with information that appeals to both the practical and adventurous sides of our audience members.”