Sunday, February 25, 2024
The past week’s international stage highlights, brought to you via the world’s foremost journalism. Gemini, the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity, provided informatio…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:17AMSaturday, February 24, 2024
(Bard [Gemini], the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity AI, the innovative AI search engine and knowledge discovery platform, provided information, insights, and materials fo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:00AMFriday, February 23, 2024
A look at current issues, challenges, and controversies spilling beyond the proscenium. The following three stories, discussed by prominent stage journalists, provided tension and debate wi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:18PMThursday, February 22, 2024
By Bob Shuman The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre (CAMT) has just finished dates at Theater for the New City (from February 1-18) with The Good Soldier Švejk (rhyme that last name …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:47PMMonday, February 19, 2024
The recent death of Alexei Navalny, a courageous dissident and symbol of hope for freedom in Russia, is a stark reminder of the fragility of human rights and the chilling price paid by those…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:31PMThursday, February 15, 2024
(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/14, 2024; Drawing a younger audience … Mathew Baynton as Bottom and Pyramus. Photograph: Pamela Raith.) Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stra…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:48AMTuesday, February 13, 2024
(Neha Gohil’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/11; Photo: Britannica.) Audiences should be ‘shocked and disturbed’ by the impact of theatre, says Schindler’s List and Harry Potter…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:28AMMonday, February 12, 2024
By Bob Shuman In Act 3, Scene 2 of Hamlet, the melancholy, introspective Dane instructs the newly arrived players, who will be acting before his new father’s court, “to hold the mirror u…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:42PMSunday, February 11, 2024
The past week’s international stage highlights, brought to you via the world’s foremost journalism. Gemini, the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity, provided informatio…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:54PMSaturday, February 10, 2024
(Bard (Gemini), the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity AI, the innovative AI search engine and knowledge discovery platform, provided information, insights, and materials fo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:45PMFriday, February 9, 2024
A look at current issues, challenges, and controversies spilling beyond the proscenium. The following three stories, discussed by prominent stage journalists, provided tension and debate wit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:40PMThursday, February 8, 2024
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The false acting of passions, or of types, or the mere use of conventional gestures,—these are frequent faults in our profession. But you m…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:11AMWednesday, February 7, 2024
(Caroline Butterwick’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/7; Photo: Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent, who died in 1996. Photograph: AP. ) Using an ensemble cast of deaf and hearing a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:34PMOn February 7, 1933, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s groundbreaking musical The Threepenny Opera graced the stages of New York City’s Adelphi Theatre. Despite its brief initial run of on…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:20AMTuesday, February 6, 2024
If you enjoyed Sycorax: the Untold Story, you might like playing her in a class, audition, or even a full production (or know someone who would). Whether you’re an actor seeking a powerful…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:09PM(via You Tube; Photo: Craftsmanship magazine) The sparkling music of the violin and cello accompanies the vision of the wonderful masks present at the famous CARNIVAL of Venice.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:04AMMonday, February 5, 2024
In the past two weeks, the world witnessed continued attacks on artistic expression and free speech. From playwrights censored for challenging authority to musicians harassed for their songs…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:43AMSunday, February 4, 2024
(from Sky News) The 66-year-old dissident told Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips that “society becomes so timid, to really avoid any kind of questioning or argument. “Tod…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:23PMThe past week’s international stage highlights, brought to you via the world’s foremost journalism. Bard, the large language model from Google AI, provided information, insights, and m…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:30PMSaturday, February 3, 2024
(via Jane Dubin) Hi all, I was so moved by your responses to Rooted One to All, the first single released from Village of Vale, the new musical I am producing. Another song from the show i…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:09PM(Bard, the large language model from Google AI, provided information, insights, and materials for this article.) ON BROADWAY: White Rose: The Musical About: An uplifting musical telling the …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:39AMFriday, February 2, 2024
(Christine Lebert’s article appeared on DW, 2/2. Photo: DW.) “Falling in Love” is the title of the new show at Berlin’s Friedrichstadt-Palast, Europe’s biggest revue theater. The g…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:57PMA look at current issues, challenges, and controversies spilling beyond the proscenium. The following three stories, discussed by prominent stage journalists, provided tension and debate wit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:44AMThursday, February 1, 2024
(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/1/2024; Photo: Heady … Black as Hazel with Derek Riddell as John. Photograph: Manuel Harlan.) Dorfman theatre, London Beth Steel’s n…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:28PMThe words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: On the stage there cannot be, under any circumstances, action which is directed immediately at the arousing of a feeling for its own sake. …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:42AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
(Ray Furlong’s report appeared on Radio Free Europe, 1/31; Photo: Bi-2 production shot.) A Russian singer arrived in Israel while his bandmates remained in detention in Thailand on Janua…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:08PMOn January 31, 1606, the renowned Globe Theatre in London witnessed the final performance of William Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII. The play, co-authored with John Fletcher, marked the Bar…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:31AMTuesday, January 30, 2024
The actor, dancer and singer starred in musicals including West Side Story and Chicago (Chris Wiegan’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/30; Photo: Chita Rivera arrives at the 72nd annua…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:58PM(via DARR Publicity; Photo: Jeremy Varner) Broadway legend Len Cariou, Sweeney Todd himself, joins Sea Dog Theater‘s Artistic Director Chris Domig (their friendship echoes Morrie & Mit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:20PMMonday, January 29, 2024
(Lauren Mechling’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/29; Photo: Brian d’Arcy James/Photograph: Joan Marcus.) Studio 54, New York Song-heavy adaptation of the bruising 1962 Blake Edw…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:40PMSunday, January 28, 2024
The past week’s international stage highlights, brought to you via the world’s foremost journalism. Bard, the large language model from Google AI, provided information, insights, and m…
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