Saturday, January 4, 2025
(From the BBC, 1/1/2025; Photo: Colin Beveridge sat down with a pack of cards in a bid to solve the puzzle, BBC.) More than four centuries ago, a Shakespearean theatre owner in London noted …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:36PMFriday, January 3, 2025
(Via Gary Springer, Springer Associates PR.) Renowned Czech Film And Theater Director Viktor Tauš, Brings 30 Child Actors – Many Of Whom Were Raised In Orphanages And Foster Care In Th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:25PMWednesday, January 1, 2025
(via David Gibbs/DARR Publicity) Berlin, 1933. With martial law in effect, political activism has become a capital crime. A young Gestapo officer arrests a graduate student suspected of ille…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:07PMTuesday, December 31, 2024
(Matthew Ingate’s article appeared 12/31 on Far Out; Photo Getty Images.) Like his contemporary writer Ernest Hemingway and then later Cormac McCarthy to come, the Irish novelist and playw…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:15PMMonday, December 30, 2024
(Via Jonathan Slaff) Theater for the New City (TNC) is to present the 50th annual Thunderbird American Indian Dancers’ Dance Concert and Pow-Wow, to be held January 10 to 19. Performances …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:58PMSunday, December 29, 2024
(Graham Elliott’s article is taken from the December-January 2025 issue of The Critic.) We meet Professor Higgins in Pygmalion (1912) eavesdropping on the impending subject of his soci…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:07AMSaturday, December 21, 2024
From BBC4 “In Our Time”) Listen at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00260s5 Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek biographer Plutarch (c46 AD-c120 AD) and especially his work �…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:45PMSunday, December 8, 2024
(Sunday Morning.) Dec 8, 2024 On Sunday, the Apollo Theater, the landmark New York City performance venue, will be awarded a prestigious Kennedy Center Honor – the first institution to rec…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:56PMMonday, November 25, 2024
(Janet Suzman’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/25; as told to Lindesay Irvine; Thrilling … Joanna Weinberg, Richard Haines and John Kani during a performance of Othello at the Mark…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:54PMWednesday, November 20, 2024
(Genie Godula’s and Amanda Alexander’s article appeared on France24, 11/20/2024.) Paris is not always associated with musical theatre, but little by little the French capital is becoming…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:53PMWednesday, November 13, 2024
(via John Singh.) Smash-Hit London Production of Joyous Musical Comedy KISS ME, KATE Comes to U.S. Movie Screens This November Filmed During Sold-Out Production at the Barbican Theat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:32PMSunday, November 10, 2024
(Susan Croft’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/4; Photo: Miriam Margolyes (Maud), Antony Sher (Clive), Julie Covington (Edward) and William Hoyland (Harry Bagley) in Cloud 9 at the Ro…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:55PMSunday, October 27, 2024
(Peter Guo’s article appeared on NBC News, Oct. 27, 2024. Photo: Puppets in the tiny rural village of Ichinono, Japan.Philip Fong / AFP – Getty Images.) Ichinono has fewer than 60 reside…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:18PMTuesday, October 22, 2024
(Jim Broadbent’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/22; Photo: aragec.com.) In the 70s, Campbell’s sprawling sci-fi odyssey was a huge education and a hysterical adventure for an eclec…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:11PMWednesday, October 16, 2024
(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/16; From left: Jordan Scowen (Eteocles), Mark Strong (Oedipus), and Lesley Manville (Jocasta) in Oedipus. Photograph: Manuel Harlan. Wes…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:40AMFriday, October 11, 2024
Pamela S. Green Obituary Pamela, was born on August 3,1958 to Alfred G. Green and Marilyn G. Green in Chicago, Ill. After a brief illness, Pam passed peacefully at the age of 66 on September…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:58PMTuesday, October 8, 2024
(Esther Addley’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/7; photo: Guardian.) Recovery of stage foundations, which will be part of new London museum, has changed understanding of theatre deve…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:04PMTuesday, October 1, 2024
PEEK-A-BOO (An immersive Hudson Valley haunt) Welcome, guys and gals, to the 1920s in Tarrytown, NY. You are invited to the Peek-a-boo flats, a paltry little club nestled on the banks of th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:36PMMonday, September 2, 2024
Thursday, August 29, 2024
(by Mark L. Hannay; via Jonathan Slaff.) English “Radical Drag” Actor and Gay Rights Activist, Beloved by Downtown New York Theater Audiences, Dies at Age 84 Bette Bourne, the founder an…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:17PMMonday, August 19, 2024
“The Socialization of a Social Worker,” by Crystal Field, starting 8/3 through 9/15. FULL SCHEDULE Sat, 8/3 @ 2:00 PM – MANHATTAN: Outside Theater for the New City at E. 10th St. &…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:09PMSaturday, August 10, 2024
Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am very happy to be writing to you about Theater for the New City’s world premiere of my very own work, “Tongs and Bones Shakespeare: Tempestuous Amusement…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:10AMSunday, August 4, 2024
(Credit for art: Fight Over the Breeches; Gift of Louis E. Shecter, 1972, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:04AMThursday, August 1, 2024
Stage Voice’s Bob Shuman will have a play running at TNC’S DREAM UP FESTIVAL, but don’t settle for just one, there are 16 more shows to choose from. “Tongs and Bones Shakespeare: T…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:19PMSunday, July 28, 2024
The legendary Crystal Field will be touring New York City boroughs with “The Socialization of a Social Worker,” starting 8/3 through 9/15. Her unmissable street theater, a yearly stapl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:55AMMonday, July 22, 2024
(From the production, Saturday & Sunday, July 20th & 21st, 2024; credit: Frank Farrell.) QR Code for Little Women program:
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:53PMWednesday, July 17, 2024
(Eyre’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/17; as told to Lindesay Irvine. Photo: Jimmy Jewel, Dave Hill and Jonathan Pryce in Comedians at the National Theatre in 1975. Photograph: Dona…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:05PMTuesday, July 16, 2024
Love and Information Listen Drama on 3 The first audio production of Caryl Churchill’s insightful drama about human relationships in the post-information age. Love and Information is a v…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:51PMSunday, July 14, 2024
Visit The Hermitage Directions to The Hermitage 335 North Franklin Turnpike, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423 From Rt. 17: Take the Hollywood Avenue exit. Bear left after exiting, following signs for Th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:34PMWednesday, July 10, 2024
(Premiered Jul 8, 2024; Illustration: The Atlantic) Anna Deavere Smith Listen Award-winning actress, playwright, and professor Anna Deavere Smith explores performance as a way of knowing in …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:13PMTuesday, July 9, 2024
HOMEGROWN SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Directed by Jessica Irons Shakespeare never looked so sustainable! Earth conscious actors are assigned their roles 30 days before the perfo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:01PM 
