A fight director turns Shakespeare's "they fight" into a story
Shakespeare often writes only that characters fight, so the fight director finds the story and sets every move so that both actors stay safe.
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A Broadway show earns back its investors, one week at a time
A Broadway show recoups its backers only once weekly earnings beat its running costs, a bar few recent musicals have cleared.
Josef Čapek coined the word robot, not his brother Karel
Karel Čapek's 1921 play R.U.R. made the word 'robot' famous, but his brother Josef, a painter, is the one who coined it.
Hand-made pointe shoes can last a busy dancer one day
Pointe shoes are built by hand on a last from layers of fabric and glue, and a busy dancer can get through a pair in a single day of work.
Europe's only banned theatre company still performs, from exile
Belarus Free Theatre is the only company in Europe prohibited on political grounds. Its members left Minsk for London, and kept staging work from there.
Lee Strasberg turned Stanislavski's system into the Method
Lee Strasberg, teacher of Brando and Clift, reduced Konstantin Stanislavski's acting system to one idea, emotional truth, and called it the Method.
Cheap Broadway tickets: rush, lottery and standing room
Rush seats cost $40 to $53 at the shows checked. Lotteries open the day before, and standing room goes on sale only for sold-out shows.
China's Peking opera roles: one character type for a lifetime
Peking opera casts every story from fixed role types, such as the sheng and the hualian. Performers train for years, then keep one type for life.