Industry Pro Newsletter: Why Audiences Are Asking For Refunds, IATSE Strike, Congestion Pricing Impact
by Alex Freeman - Jan 13, 2025
This week, we explore whether congestion pricing is reshaping Manhattan travel habits and examine a labor strike disrupting productions at Atlantic Theater Company. On the regional stage, we reflect on the loss of Theatre Palisades to Los Angeles wildfires and the struggles facing Bay Area theatres. Internationally, the launch of Welsh National Theatre and ATG’s acquisition of SOM Produce bring new opportunities, while changes at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School underscore ongoing financial pressures. Each story highlights resilience amid transformation in the global arts community.
Interview: Jamie Ballard in MACBETH at The Curtain in Jersey City
by Marina Kennedy - Oct 19, 2024
The Curtain, Jersey City’s premier classical theatre, is now presenting an all-new production of William Shakespeare’s classic 'Macbeth' set in a haunting, candlelight environment this Halloween season. It will be performed at the Nimbus Arts Center located at 329 Warren Street, Jersey City, just steps from the PATH train.
Interview: Aaron Cammack Talks Acting, Recovery, and New Role at Arizona Theatre Company
by Robert Encila-Celdran - Jul 24, 2024
Aaron Cammack, an Arizona actor, has navigated a multitude of personal setbacks, proving his character in a career that demands inexorable resilience. The newly minted, 2024-2025 Resident Artist at Arizona Theatre Company treads the boards on stages big and small. Aaron stays sharp and ready, undertaking everything from experimental two-handers in a 90-seat house to full-blown classic musicals, TV, and feature films. His prodigious talent is matched by a consummate focus on his craft. It's only a matter of time before he sets foot on a Broadway stage.
Anna Newell Theatre Adventures Hosts SING ME TO THE SEA
by Stephi Wild - Jun 21, 2024
Anna Newell Theatre Adventures will make a splash at hydrotherapy pools in Wicklow, Kildare, Cavan, Limerick, Cork and Dublin this summer, with their immersive multisensory adventure for children and young people with complex needs.
Review: RE-MEMBER ME, Hampstead Theatre
by Franco Milazzo - Jun 1, 2023
Athletes have the Olympics. Chefs have Michelin stars. Actors have Hamlet. Citius, altius, fortius, Danish. In his one-man show Re-member Me (co-devised and directed by Jan Willem Van Den Bosch), Dickie Beau ponders death, mortality and legacy but not in a morbid way; it’s less a shoegazing mope and mumble about whether “to be or not to be”, more a defiant exploration of what it is “to be and not to be”.