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Dec 31, 2025, 7:47:18 AM (9 days ago) 12/31/25
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Wednesday, 31 December 2025
Dear Reader,
Best Wishes for the New Year
This is the last newsletter of 2025, as we bid the old year farewell and get ready to welcome the new.
The last year coasted along as usual, there was a fair amount of theater activity, and hopefully it will get better in 2026.
Theatre has been facing a crunch everywhere, and as Rebecca Dawson, incoming director of the Bristol Old Vic said in a piece by Jamie Grierson in The Guardian, casting big stars in stage productions is sometimes needed because theatre is in an "undeniably challenging" moment and must compete with streaming services for people's time and money.
"In October, the debate over the casting of film and TV stars for the stage was renewed when Nadine Rennie, a co-chair of the Casting Directors’ Guild, said the trend was "killing" the industry and mid-scale theatres would be the first to go," wrote Grierson.
Mumbai theatre has come to terms with stars drawing audiences. The genuine theatre buff will look for ideas, rather than faces and it is up to theatre makers to see that the numbers don't dwindle.
MTG wishes readers and the performing arts community a very happy and productive New Year.
Best Wishes for the New Year
This is the last newsletter of 2025, as we bid the old year farewell and get ready to welcome the new.
The last year coasted along as usual, there was a fair amount of theater activity, and hopefully it will get better in 2026.
Theatre has been facing a crunch everywhere, and as Rebecca Dawson, incoming director of the Bristol Old Vic said in a piece by Jamie Grierson in The Guardian, casting big stars in stage productions is sometimes needed because theatre is in an "undeniably challenging" moment and must compete with streaming services for people's time and money.
"In October, the debate over the casting of film and TV stars for the stage was renewed when Nadine Rennie, a co-chair of the Casting Directors’ Guild, said the trend was "killing" the industry and mid-scale theatres would be the first to go," wrote Grierson.
Mumbai theatre has come to terms with stars drawing audiences. The genuine theatre buff will look for ideas, rather than faces and it is up to theatre makers to see that the numbers don't dwindle.
MTG wishes readers and the performing arts community a very happy and productive New Year.
HAI MERA DIL
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