foolsFury in San Fran presents Fury Factory, 3 weeks of cutting-edge ensemble theatre.
Ping Chong's company has announced their next season.
Brustein called-out The Times and The Playgoer covered it. Meanwhile, the author of Hard News: The Scandals at the New York Times decides to defend the times on his blog about a baseball book. (Yes, it's a theatre-related story.)
Brian Logan (from Guardian UK) writes that Shakespeare isn't funny.
The SITI Company is launching an ambitious online community, but they need votes to get funding.
And, this is the only lighting designer who's writing a theatre blog, as far as I know. Feel free to correct me.
Also, someone pointed me to this:
So what I want this year is the courage for theatre companies and theatre artists to look calmly and clearly at the bottom line, to take an X-ray, if you will, of the underlying structures. I want board members to start asking if the money paid to actors (and designers, and stagehands, and musicians, and front-of-house staff) is fair, and how it measures up to the money spent on, say, patron amenities. I want corporations to stop setting up false dichotomies between donating to the arts and other social goods, like living wages and health benefits, especially when they have no problem paying eight-figure salaries with exorbitant stock options to their top executives. I want to never hear the phrase “unpaid internship” again – particularly if it’s coming from well-heeled cultural institutions that then wring their hands over how hard it is to build diverse audiences. And I want to see a few plays that suggest that maybe, just maybe, what we do to earn our living matters, because it has some effect on who we are, how we live, how we feel about the world, and how we contribute to the greater community good.Which is from here.
