Theater For All of You Sending Me Email about Bart Sher Accepting a Full-Time Job as Resident Director at Lincoln Center…
posted by on October 21 at 11:04 AM
…this press release seems to indicate otherwise:
SEATTLE— Intiman Theatre announces the addition of Shakespeare’s Othello, directed by Artistic Director Bartlett Sher, to its 2009 schedule. This will be Sher’s first production of Shakespeare’s tragedy and his fourth production of a Shakespeare play at Intiman, where he has been Artistic Director since 2000.
But Sher’s exit strategy, intentional or otherwise, has been masterful. Rumors about his departure have been greatly exaggerated—and they’ve circulated so many times that when it finally happens, people will barely notice.
In other news: The Seattle Rep suggested I host a public forum on the contentious 10 Things Theaters Need to Do article. It’ll happen Monday Oct 27 at 7:30 pm. The format is old Shitstorm style, for those of you who remember those tipsy, occasionally harrowing pub meetings at Rendezvous—I’ll talk for a few minutes, someone will rail against me for a few minutes, and we’ll open the floor for general discussion. Booze will be plentiful and cheap. People will shout. People will have their feelings hurt. And everyone will leave a little bit wiser.
UPDATE: I am a fucking moron who apparently can’t read a press release:
In addition to his continuing leadership of Intiman, Sher has also recently been named Resident Director of Lincoln Center Theater, where he will consult with LCT Artistic Director Andre Bishop on artistic matters and direct one LCT production each year.
What is the location for the public forum on Oct. 27?
'reisdent'?
That same PR also includes the line:
"In addition to his continuing leadership of Intiman, Sher has also recently been named Resident Director of Lincoln Center Theater, where he will consult with LCT Artistic Director Andre Bishop on artistic matters and direct one LCT production each year."
So, basically, Mr. Sher gets his cake and gets to eat it as well; he's now truly bi-coastal (although leaning east-coast, since that's apparently where he's taken up permanent residency), and it would appear the Intiman board is perfectly content with this arrangement.
I guess, if there's any saving grace to this, it's that, with Sher spending increasingly more of his time in NYC, more of the day-to-day grunt work will most likely fall on the Artistic Associates like Craig Lucas and Sheila Daniels, which, hopefully, means MAYBE Intiman will begin to lean a bit more Seattle-centric in terms of casting and maybe even programming in the next few years.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2008292909_zart21sher.html
I'm planning on going. Sounds like an interesting forum.
Whatever. I barely know who Bart Sher is any more. What's the last thing he directed in Seattle? Namaste Man?
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