Sunday, March 5, 2023
(Rostyslav Khotin’s article appeared on Radio Free Europe, 3 /4.) Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky had Ukrainian roots and was influenced by Ukrainian motifs. Should he stay or sh…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:54PMSaturday, March 4, 2023
(Jansson J. Antmann’s article appeared in Limelight Magazine, 3/2/2023; Photo: Dogs of Europe. Photo © Adam Forte, Daylight Breaks.) Exiled from their homeland, the performers of Belaru…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:40PMThursday, March 2, 2023
(Bethany Brookshire’s article appeared in The Washington Post, 3/2; via the Drudge Report; Illustration: How art, music and dance affect your brain and body© George Wylesol for The Washi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:53PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
(Olena Makarenko’s reporting appeared in the Kyiv Independent, 2/2/23.) Following a three-month break after the start of Russia’s all-out war, the National Opera of Ukraine resumed its p…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:32AMMonday, February 27, 2023
(Kelly Burke’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/26/23; Photo: … Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada of Belarus Free Theatre in London. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters.) Belarus Free…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:31PMSaturday, February 25, 2023
(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/17; via Pam Green; Photo: Never an outright monster … Sophie Okonedo, right, and Ben Daniels in Medea. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Med…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:37PMSunday, February 19, 2023
(Laurence Maslon’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/13; via Pam Green; Photo:Burt Bacharach, at the piano, arrived in New York as rehearsals began in September 1968. He was joined…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:10AMWednesday, February 15, 2023
(Carmel Dagan’s article appeared in Variety, 2/15; via Pam Green; Photo: Corbis via Getty Images.) Raquel Welch, the actor who became an icon and sex symbol thanks to films like “One Mil…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:12PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
(Sarah Crompton’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/12/23; Photo: ‘I think you must do it just by feel’: Dada Masilo’s interpretation of The Rite of Spring, based on the traditio…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:14AMMonday, February 13, 2023
(via David Gibbs/DARR Publicity, 2/13.) New York, NY – After 30 years as an indispensable pillar of the downtown independent theatre community, New Ohio Theatre will conclude operations at…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:21PMSaturday, February 11, 2023
(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/2; via Pam Green; Revelatory … Alex Kingston as Prospero. Photograph: Ikin Yum.) Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Climat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:33PMFriday, February 10, 2023
(Chris Morris’s article appeared in Variety, 2/9; via Pam Green; Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images.) Songwriter, composer, producer and arranger Burt Bacharach, a dominant force in American…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:02PMThursday, February 9, 2023
by Bob Shuman Visit La MaMa Translated and Directed by Vít Hořejš Performed by Vít Hořejš & Theresa Linnihan Production design: Alan Barnes Netherton Marionettes: Milos Kas…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:54PMThursday, February 2, 2023
(Suzanne Cords’s article appeared in DW, 1/27; Photo from DW.) Activist Kay Sara portrays Antigone in Milo Rau’s modern-day tragedy about the Indigenous people’s fight for survival. An…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:34PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
(Susannah Clapp’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/29; via Pam Green; Photo:A tragedy in which ‘bludgeoning comes naturally’: Michael Akinsulire, centre, in the title role, and comp…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:48PMSaturday, January 28, 2023
(Tim Jonze’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/27; via Pam Green; ‘I was incredibly grateful to receive [the OBE] in 2009,’ wrote Alan Cumming. Photograph: Kristina Bumphrey/REX/Shu…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:28PMThursday, January 26, 2023
(Olivia Salazar-Winpear’s, Jennifer Ben Brahim’s, Marion Chaval’s, and Magali Faure’s report appeared on France 24, 1/26.) A century and a half after her birth, Colette remains an ic…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:35PMTuesday, January 24, 2023
(Silke Wünsch’s article appeared in DW, 1/23/23; Photo: Singer Nena in the 1980sImage: United Archives/kpa/picture alliance.) Despite the recording company’s initial doubts about the so…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:58PMFriday, January 20, 2023
(Kath Kenny’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/18; photo: Betty Can Jump was raw and amateurish – but at the time it was so powerful it left women in tears. Photograph: Betty Can Jum…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:25PMThursday, January 19, 2023
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: An actor of our type is obliged to work so much more than others, both on his inner equipment, which creates the life of the part, and also o…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:58PMTuesday, January 17, 2023
Get to know the real Cary Grant for his 119th birthday, in Nancy Nelson’s acclaimed biography (he was born January 18, 1904). Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:05AMSunday, January 15, 2023
(David Smith’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/14; via Pam Green; Photo: KPOP, Almost Famous, Ohio State Murders. Composite: Getty; Handout.) A slew of well-reviewed productions have…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:19PMFriday, January 13, 2023
VACLAV HAVEL’S ‘AUDIENCE’ February 2–19, 2023 Thursday–Saturday at 7PM Sunday at 2PM Ellen Stewart Theatre 66 East 4th Street, 2nd floor New York, NY 10003 Tickets: Adults: $30 …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:32PMThursday, January 12, 2023
(via Michael Jorgensen, jorgensenpr.com) “(Tennessee) Williams would probably love Matt de Rogatis’ Brick.”
– The New York Times
“Brilliant…intense…funny!”
– WCBS…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:02PMWednesday, January 11, 2023
(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/11/23; Photo: Channelling Bette Davis … Patricia Hodge in Watch on the Rhine. Photograph: Manuel Harlan.) Donmar Warehouse, London Patr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:18PMTuesday, January 10, 2023
Monday, January 9, 2023
(Helen Pitt’s article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 1/10/23; Photo: Swiss-French circus performer, violinist and actor James Theirree in Sydney.CREDIT:JAMES BRICKWOOD.) When perfo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:29PMSunday, January 8, 2023
(Vanessa Thorpe’s interview appeared in the Observer, 1/8; via Pam Green; Photo: ‘A workaday farce’: (from left) Felicity Kendal, Alexander Hanson and Tracy-Ann Oberman in Noises …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:17PMFriday, January 6, 2023
(Michael Cronin’s articl appeared in the Irish Times, 12/20; Photo: Lady Gregory; the Irish Times.) Molière became a mainstay of the early Abbey stage, but not all critics were impressed …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:55PMWednesday, January 4, 2023
(Olivia Salazar-Winspear’s, Marion Chaval’s, Sonia Paricelli’s and Gerome Vassilacos’s article appeared on France 24, 1/3.) We take a tour of the spectacular shows illuminating the d…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:08PMTuesday, January 3, 2023
(Benjamin Lee’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/1/23; via the Drudge Report; Photo: Franco Zeffirelli directing Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting in Romeo and Juliet. Photograph: REX S…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:37PM 
