Lyn Garnder from The Guardian reviews the best of British theatre for 2011. From the epic to the intimate, the standout of the year was an ultra contemporary version of Christ’s The Passion by the National Theatre Wales, complete with angels on bicycles and snipers on shopping centre roofs. Read on…
With Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark dominating the Broadway theatre press like no other show in decades, 2011 was an interesting year in the Big Apple. Spidey took many awards, none of them official. From having the longest run of previews in Broadway history to being the most expensive stage show ever produced (only a mere $75 million!), Spider-Man hopes to be a hot ticket for years to come (if it isn’t, it will lose a lot of money!).
Patrick Healy from The New York Times takes a behind the scenes look at some of the ups and downs of the year that was.
Melbourne’s The Age newspaper reported yesterday figures released by the annual Ticket Attendance and Revenue Survey, stating attendance to musical theatre shows in Australia grew 6.3% in 2010 over the previous year. 2.46 million tickets were sold for musical theatre shows last year, accompanied by a 13% rise at the box office to almost $243 million.
Broadway figures in a 53-week 2010-11 season from 24 May 2010 through to 29 May 2011, saw a 5.4% increase in attendance over the 2009-10 season to 12.5 million tickets sold for both plays and musicals combined. Box office figures during the same period were up 5.9% to $1.08 billion.
Who said the state of the economy is hurting our leisure spending?
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