OnStage Blog’s Founder, Chris Peterson, announced today the creation of a new section of the popular theatre site, “Stage Directions.”

“While there are worse ways to spend 17 minutes and 40 seconds, the best I can say about her five-track exercise in self-pity is that it exists.”

A theatre in the United Kingdom is facing intense criticism after announcing its plans to stage William Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” which will be set in 1930s Germany with Romeo as a member of the Hitler Youth and Juliet as a Jewish girl.

Michael Dale, a critic and humorist, who has been covering the New York theatre scene for over two decades, is joining OnStage Blog. His new weekly column, "Michael Dale’s Theatre Crawl: Obsessing over New York’s stages since 1976", will premiere on November 7th"."

“A list of references made to everyone’s favorite Halloween cult musical.”

“Katonah Classic Stage is a non-profit, professional theatre company. Their aim is to inspire and engage audiences with a commitment to community and artistic excellence.”

“Why are BIPOC Artists not given the same benefit of the doubt? Seriously you still can't be blind at this point to the double standards that happen far too much in this Industry.”

Yesterday, during a performance of Broadway’s ‘Hadestown’, a performer reprimanded an audience member multiple times over what was thought to be a recording device. It wasn’t. It was a captioning device that allows people with hearing loss to enjoy the show. The incident left the audience member traumatized and has called for a great understanding of accessibility needs in theatres.”

“Thank you for the memories. Thank you for building a connection with my grandmother. Thank you for my childhood, where you had a constant presence.”

“Russian media are reporting that the American theatre in Moscow is suing Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg for $1.5 million. According to Russian media outlet Mash, the Jaws director allegedly stopped supporting the project after the ‘special operation’ began, and the troupe of 50 people lost their contracts and venues.”

“This past August, Bowie High School voted to honor their longtime theatre director, Diane “Betsy” Cornwell, by naming their performing arts center after her. But just over a month later, the Austin ISD teacher is under investigation by the district after several former studen”ts said she subjected them to emotional and verbal abuse and inappropriately touched other students.”

“Would the show have worked on Broadway? The question was inescapable as I exited the Raimund and looked at the marquee shining bright, envisioning what would have happened if I was looking at it outside of the Broadhurst Theater in New York. In this writer’s opinion, I don’t think it would have.”