Industry Editor Exclusive: The Evolution of Cell Phones Use at the Theater (And What to Do About It)
by Cara Joy David - Oct 10, 2019
Years ago, when the popularity of cell phones started exploding, theaters in other countries started experimenting with the idea of using signal jammers to prevent cell phone use in the theater. It never took off. And more and more people started using cell phones in the theater. There is the photo before, the texting during, the random cell phone ring and sometimes the recording of the performance. Most of it is not supposed to occur. We've all heard stories about performers stopping the show until phones are put away. But some wonder what can be done to stop it or even if it should be stopped.
INDUSTRY: Social Insight Report - September 30th - BEETLEJUICE and SLAVE PLAY Top Growth
by Alan Henry - Sep 30, 2019
The top growing current Broadway musicals were Beetlejuice (5.16%), Freestyle Love Supreme (1.71%), Hadestown (1.31%), Ain't Too Proud (1.25%) and Oklahoma! (1.22%). The top growing current Broadway plays were Slave Play (8.75%), Darren Brown: Secret (7.80%), Betrayal (6.07%), Sea Wall / A Life (1.12%) and To Kill A Mockingbird (0.61%).
SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW Makes Broadway Return This Winter
by Julie Musbach - Aug 22, 2019
The Olivier Award-winning, international sensation SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW will be returning to Broadway this winter for a limited holiday engagement at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre
SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW Blows into Toronto in Time for the Holidays
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 13, 2018
Show One Productions and Civic Theatres Toronto present the international sensation Slava's Snowshow, December 7 to 16, 2018 in the Bluma Appel Theatre at St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Returning to Toronto for the first time in two decades, the scruffy, disarming troupe of clowns will take audiences on a spellbinding adventure, unleashing full-throttle madness amidst enchanting, contemplative moments, before roaring to its legendary finish.
Theater Resources Unlimited Announces The April Panel
by Julie Musbach - Mar 30, 2018
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) offers an important conversation onThursday, April 26, 2018: Stream It and They Will Come: How Digital Capture Builds Audience Awareness at 7:30pm (doors open for networking at 7pm) at The Playroom Theatre, 151 W. 46th Street, 8th fl., NYC.
SLAVA'S SNOW SHOW Opens UK Tour This Month
by BWW News Desk - Oct 9, 2017
Enter a joyous dream-like world, unlike anything you have seen before. A world in which a cobweb envelops the audience and one tiny piece of paper begins a heart-stopping blizzard of snow
Southbank Centre Presents its Autumn and Winter 2017 Programme
by BWW News Desk - Sep 19, 2017
Southbank Centre Presents its Autumn and Winter 2017 Programme for performance, dance and comedy, showcasing work from celebrated international and UK artists from stunning snow shows, augmented reality and trolls to West-End numbers and global surveillance theatre.
La magia poética de SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW vuelve a España
by Roberto Rodríguez - Sep 7, 2016
Slava Polunin, miembro de la familia de Cirque du Soleil y posiblemente el clown en activo de mayor prestigio internacional, traerá de nuevo a España su espectáculo más popular, SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW, durante los meses de septiembre y octubre.
Theater Resources Unlimited & The Playroom Theatre to Host 'Practical Playwriting: How to Write for Commercial Production,' 5/14
by Tyler Peterson - May 9, 2016
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) and The Playroom Theatre present Practical Playwriting: How to Write for Commercial Production, on Saturday, May 14, 2016 from 10:00am - 5:30pm at The Playroom Theater, 151 W. 46th Street, 8th floor, NYC 10036. The workshop is one of a series of TRU BEGINNINGS workshops, opportunities for early development of new work. For more details and to download an application, please visit http://truonline.org/events/practical-playwriting/