Interview: Director James Warwick On THE NORWEGIANS at Shakespeare & Company

BroadwayWorld: Shakespeare & Company is presenting THE NORWEGIANS, C. Denby Swanson's sharp and surprising dark comedy, directed by James Warwick. Set in a Minnesota bar where heartbreak is served alongside beer, the play follows Betty and Olive, two women reeling from romantic betrayal who hatch an unlikely plan: hiring a pair of Norwegian hitmen to deal with the men who wronged them.

In The Attic, Shana Carroll Reflects on a Life Spent on the Trapeze

Playbill: Shana Carroll’s distinguished career in the circus arts—during which she’s performed as a Cirque du Soleil soloist, co-founded the Montreal-based circus-theatre collective The 7 Fingers, and earned a Tony Award nomination as co-choreographer and circus designer for Water for Elephants—began with a simple yet transformative encounter at age 18.

Interview: Liz B. Williams of COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre

BroadwayWorld: The Canadian musical Come From Away, which took Broadway by storm in 2017, has finally opened up to licensing possibilities for community theatres, just in time for the 25th anniversary of the events it portrays, the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. For this article, I sat down with Liz B. Williams, an actor in the Ovation Theatre’s production of Come From Away in Bakersfield, CA.

Interview: Sophia Walker & André Morin of OHIO STATE MURDERS and A NEW WORK IN PROGRESS at Shaw Festival

BroadwayWorld: Celebrated Canadian actors Sophia Walker and André Morin are, as they say, "booked and busy." Walker and Morin star in not only one Shaw Festival production this season, but two: Adrienne Kennedy's Ohio State Murders and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' A New Work in Progress.

Interview: Evan Taylor of SHIT-FACED SHAKESPEARE PRESENTS MACBETH at Southern Theatre

BroadwayWorld: No trash cans will be safe when Evan Taylor and the cast of Shit-faced Shakespeare present MACBETH 8 p.m. Sept. 25 at the Southern Theatre (21 E. Main St. in downtown Columbus). The last time the Boston theatre troupe performed at the Southern, Taylor played Laertes in HAMLET.

Disclosure Day: Matthew Butler - Production VFX Supervisor

The Art of VFX: In 2022, Matthew Butler took us behind the scenes of the visual effects on Morbius. Since then, he has moved from the comic book world to the retro-futuristic adventure of The Electric State, and now returns to discuss his latest collaboration with Steven Spielberg on Disclosure Day.

Narrating High-Spice Romance.

Theater Is Hard.: My side-hustle is that I’m a professional voice actor. I’ve been doing it my entire adult life, but I should be much further along in my career. I took a 14 year self-imposed hiatus after my voice coach locked me in his sound proof office and jerked himself off to me reading sample copy for chocolate pudding. I wrote my entire #MeToo narrative here, definitely read it or listen to me read it. Or you can just read about it on CNN.

Caitlin Dobronz on the Evolution of Riverfront Theatre Company

onStage Pittsburgh: Founded in 1965, the Riverfront Theater Company has become a staple in the Pittsburgh community theater environment. As many of Pittsburgh’s community and regional theater companies are still finding their footing in a post-pandemic world, Riverfront’s Artistic Director Caitlin Dobronz is constantly searching for opportunities for the historic company to evolve,

Interview: Matt Hune on REC ROOM ARTS SEASON 10

BroadwayWorld: Matt Hune is one of the founders and the artistic director of Rec Room Arts, the 60-seat theater located within walking distance of Minute Maid Park that has been producing critically acclaimed work for the past ten years. He taught theatre and creative writing at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

Interview with Taiwanese Playwright Yu-Hsuan Chou

thetheatretimes.com: Even with solid training in xiqu, or Chinese opera, Yu-Hsuan Chou tried to leave traditions behind when she first entered contemporary theatre. “I was there to learn how to write musicals. What’s the point of returning to the old stuff?” Yet, unlearning might not be the most clever move for her, in hindsight, since her plays are often praised for their capacity to reinvent old forms in new styles. “Why did I want to tie my own hands then?” she asks self-deprecatingly.

Sue Frost discusses industry challenges, new approaches and her key to selling word-of-mouth shows

www.broadwaynews.com: As a young girl, Sue Frost fell in love with musicals on television. “‘Peter Pan,’ ‘Cinderella’ and then there was ‘Funny Girl,’” Frost remembered. She didn’t grow up in a theatrical household. Frost essentially found her love for theater — and what would become her career — flipping through channels.

Nat Geo's 'Lion' Cinematography Interview with Sophie Darlington

www.indiewire.com: We live in a world where pretty much anything can be rendered photorealistically, from animals to aliens to Avatars. That puts pressure on documentary filmmakers, especially those who focus on the natural world, to craft imagery that does more than look glossy or large-scale enough for a screensaver. Great nature docs use dynamic, idiosyncratic imagery to make us feel like we’re in nature rather than absorbing content.

Exclusive: For Gus Birney, Doing a Play With Mom Constance…

www.broadwayworld.com: The mother-daughter duo is performing in the world-premiere production of Drew Larimore’s The Cannibals of McGower County, a Southern Gothic thriller playing at TheaterWorks Hartford through Sunday, August 30. It’s not the first time that Birney, 27, has performed alongside her mother, 68 — but this time feels different.

Q&A: Matthew MacKenzie on Strife and Indigenous sovereignty in storytelling

Intermission Magazine: Strife, MacKenzie’s newest work, continues that line of inquiry, focusing on Monique, an oil-patch worker navigating a family and community reckoning after the violent loss of her brother, Nathan, an Indigenous climate activist. As she grapples with her grief, she is drawn into a recurring dream in which she reconstructs his bones under the guidance of a spectral Owl — a presence that blurs the boundaries between the physical and spiritual worlds.

‘They said: You’re out of your mind’: Luca Guadagnino on directing controversial opera The Death of Klinghoffer

Opera | The Guardian: In a rehearsal room perched above the labyrinthine backstage of Florence’s starkly contemporary Maggio Musicale Fiorentino theatre, Luca Guadagnino is showing the women of the chorus how to make a second-act entrance. Dressed in a slouchy cardigan and slacks, the Italian director runs forward and stops short at a line of tape indicating the rim of the stage.

Interview: Playwright Evelina Fernández on The Storyteller of East LA

www.broadwayworld.com: Dedicated to her mother, the newest work by Latino Theater Company resident playwright Evelina Fernández, The Storyteller of East LA, celebrates the sustaining power of love, compassion, storytelling, and the resilience of family. Jose Luis Valenzuela directs its world premiere at The Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown Los Angeles from April 18 through May 17. A series of six previews began on April 9.

Brittany Graham: Bringing scripts to life, one costume at a time

The Pitt News: For Brittany Graham, costumes are more than clothing — they are a way to tell a story. As the assistant costume shop manager in the Department of Theater Arts at Pitt, Graham has built a career around helping characters come to life, whether on stage or on screen.

How 'taking chances' got 'Titaníque' from a basement theatre to Broadway

NPR: The parody musical "Titanique" opened on Broadway last night. The spoof of the James Cameron film "Titanic" was first staged in a tiny basement theater. Jeff Lunden spoke with the creators to learn how it stayed afloat.

We're Off to See 'The Wizard of Oz' Costumes at Little Lake

onstagepittsburgh.com: At age 23, costume designer, wardrobe supervisor and entrepreneur Dylan A. Blussick’s resume reads like an accomplished retiree’s. The well-traveled Washington County native boasts extensive National Tour experience that will soon include the Tony Award-winning The Outsiders. But just now, he is proving the Ozian adage that there’s no place like home.

Q&A: How a new Calgary performance venue aims to energize the city’s indie theatre scene

Intermission Magazine: While on my usual running route late last summer, I was derailed by the discovery of signs for something called “the theatre” just one block away from my apartment. Plastered on the first-floor windows of a typical residential building in Calgary’s Beltline, the signage was simple yet compelling: black-and-white type and snappy playscript quotes, all stylized in lowercase. Just like its name, the typographic design for the theatre felt bold yet ambiguous, and the mystique of this imagery had me curious.