Non-profit theater companies across the country would receive a $5 billion taxpayer-funded bailout under a new plan being promoted by a group of Democrats in the Senate. The proposed bailout comes as prominent stages are facing unprecedented financial crises following their embrace of woke identity politics, which has alienated audiences and donors.
The producers of the West End’s multiracial staging of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, starring Spider-Man actor Tom Holland, have condemned what they call “deplorable racial abuse” aimed at actress Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who plays Juliet.
Climate change activists disrupted a performance of Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” on Broadway on Thursday, bringing a halt to the play starring “Succession” actor Jeremy Strong and “The Sopranos” actor Michael Imperioli.
The upcoming London run of the acclaimed Broadway stage drama “Slave Play” will hold performances where only “black identifying” people are allowed to attend in what is being billed as an effort to shield them from the “white gaze.”
A transgender writer for the Netflix series Sex Education is launching a stage show about the search for a sperm donor, with the spectacle being promoted as “a rare opportunity to contribute to and witness queer family-making.”
A performance of Les Miserables abandoned after green extremists stormed the stage, comparing themselves to the protagonists in the play.
Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda met with members of Congress Thursday to push for a taxpayer-funded bailout for failing theater companies across the country. The actor helped introduce a new bill that would earmark $500 million annually for five years, or $2.5 billion, to non-profit stages.
Chicago’s famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company is the latest major performing arts institution to report plummeting ticket sales and layoffs, with more than ten percent of employees set to lose their jobs.
Major performing arts groups around the country are facing unprecedented financial crises that have led to layoffs and cancellations of entire seasons as their once-loyal audiences flee in droves and donations dry up.
New York’s prestigious Public Theater — which staged the assassination of President Donald Trump in its infamous 2017 production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar — is laying off 19 percent of its staff as it faces a catastrophic financial crisis brought on by plummeting attendance and soaring operating costs.
For decades, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has ranked as one of the nation’s preeminent theater institutions, drawing hundreds of thousands of theatergoers each year to scenic Ashland to see the classics performed. But that sterling reputation is in jeopardy as the company teeters on the brink of Chapter 11 bankruptcy following a troubled tenure by its recently departed artistic director, Nataki Garrett.
A theater director in Kansas City, Missouri, was found dead Saturday after being accused of sexual assault.
A theatre group has vowed to make their production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus more obviously racist in the hopes of highlighting the Bard’s alleged bigotry.
A glowing Washington Post review of “Downstate,” a play which attempts to sympathize with rapists and pedophiles while appearing to vilify their victims, drew a barrage of backlash online for “normalizing” and “glorifying” pedophilia.
Broadway shows including The Phantom of the Opera have posted closing notices as tourism has failed to bounce back in New York City in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The Democrat-controlled city is currently in the midst of a
French female warrior Joan of Arc has been cast as a gender-neutral character with “they/them” pronouns at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has cancelled the production of a play mid-run, with the writer claiming she pulled her own play after “Black womxn” artists were “verbally abused and diminished.”
The playwright of the Broadway drama “Slave Play” is cancelling the highly anticipated Los Angeles run of the show in order to protest of the lack of female playwrights in the current season.
Theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber said in an interview published Wednesday he is prepared to be arrested if the British government does not lift all coronavirus restrictions.
A woman from Ventura, California, got a wallet back she lost 46 years ago thanks to an employee remodeling the historic Majestic Ventura Theater.
A dinner theater company in Minnesota has cancelled its upcoming production of the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Cinderella over concerns that the cast was too white.
Broadway star and COVID-19 survivor Chad Kimball has sworn to “respectfully disobey” Washington state’s restrictions against singing in church, saying that such religious prohibitions represent an overreach of power by Gov. Jay Inslee (D).
Tennessee announced Friday that it would start reopening amusement parks and theaters, as well as lift capacity restrictions on restaurants and shops beginning next week.
“Trolls World Tour” has earned more money in its three weeks as a pay-per-view offering than the original did in theaters over five months.
Acre — Oded Kotler made his way discretely through the crowd taking in the acrobats and clowns performing at a festival in Acre, an ancient city along the Mediterranean in northern Israel.
A nurse in Kissimmee, Florida, is being hailed a hero for saving the life of a man who crashed his car into her home on Thursday.
The Arena Stage theatre in Washington, D.C., is set to host an 11-hour reading of the Mueller report to an audience of lawmakers and activists.
A group of New York City theater companies is set to hold a 24-hour reading of the Mueller Report this weekend at an event called “Filibustered and Unfiltered: America Reads the Mueller Report.”
Delta and Bank of America pull sponsorship from Julius Caesar.
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber has said British theatre is “hideously white” and will not survive unless more resources are funnelled to black and Asian drama students and performers.
A play depicting Jesus as a transgendered woman has opened in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The work has caused controversy before, but the playwright insists it teaches the Lord’s message and reminds the audience what Jesus was ‘really like’. ‘The Gospel According
On August 5, police in Antioch, Tennessee, killed a 51-year-old suspect who allegedly opened fire in a movie theater. The suspect was armed with a hatchet and a gun.
Ballerina Misty Copeland has become the first black dancer to lead a major U.S. ballet production.
While a national debate regarding religious satire and the First Amendment remains ongoing, a group of free speech advocates and artists hoped to become a part of the discussion next month.
The events of Saturday night came as a surprise to the police and law-abiding citizens of Ocoee, Florida, as a horde of some 900 black teenagers — including even middle-school students — rushed the movie theater at the West Oaks Mall.
