Wednesday, May 31, 2023
DRAMA DESK 2023 WINNERS ANNOUNCED Awards will be presented Tuesday, June 6 at Sardi’s Restaurant MANDY PATINKIN AND KATHRYN GRODY TO HOST THE CEREMONY www.DramaDesk.org (Wednes…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:35PMWednesday, May 24, 2023
(from Sky News, 5/24; Photo: AP.) Tina Turner – one of rock’s great vocalists and most charismatic performers – has died aged 83, her spokesperson has confirmed. In a statement, the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:01PMThursday, May 18, 2023
(Colette Davidson’s article appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, 5/17; Glen Stubbe Photography/Courtesy of Children’s Theatre Company.) May 17, 2023|MINNEAPOLIS Fievel Mousekewitz�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:05PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/16, 2023; Photo: The Greek theatre in Syracuse. Photograph: Gaspare Urso’ ) Playing in the vast ancient amphitheatre, imagina…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:38PMSaturday, May 13, 2023
(Chis Wiegand’s article appeaed in the Guardian, 5/5; via Pam Green; Photo: On tomorrow and tomorrow … David Tennant in a publicity shot for the Donmar’s forthcoming Macbeth. Photogra…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:58PMThursday, May 11, 2023
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: You must be very careful in the use of a mirror (when trying to make sure that feelings are externally reflected). It teaches an actor to wat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:09PMWednesday, May 10, 2023
(from Radio Free Europe, 5/10; Photo: Nikolai Daineko.) Visit Radio Free Europe A Moscow court has sentenced a poet to four years in prison for publicly reciting verses condemning Russia�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:11PMTuesday, May 9, 2023
(Philipp Jedicke’s article appeared on DW, 5/5; Photo: DW.) “Waldo’s Circus of Magic and Terror” is about a fictional circus troupe during the Third Reich. This tale of humanity in i…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:32PMSunday, May 7, 2023
(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/6; via Pam Green; Photo: Adjoa Andoh as Shakepeare’s Richard III. Photograph: Manuel Harlan.) An inspiring analysis of Shakespeare and…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:48PMThursday, May 4, 2023
(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the guardian, 5/4;Photo: Peter De Jersey as Cymbeline. Photograph: Ellie Kurttz.) Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Departing artistic di…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:29PMWednesday, May 3, 2023
(From Variety, 5/3/2023; writing and compilation by Rebecca Rubin, Brent Lang, and Marc J. Franklin.) “Some Like It Hot,” a jazzy re-imagining of the classic comedy film about two musici…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:53PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
(From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 5/2/2023. Photo: Daily Express.) An actor from a theater in Russia’s Siberian region of Buryatia, who in March slit his wrists while on stage to prot…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:37PMSunday, April 30, 2023
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/28/2023; via Pam Green; Photo: Transatlantic tragedy … Kenneth Branagh. Photograph: Johan Persson.) The play, which the actor has de…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:30PMSaturday, April 29, 2023
(Tom Lamont’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/29; Photo: Photograph: David Vintiner/The Guardian.) He’s the anarchic comedian behind the musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day. He talks …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:25PMThursday, April 27, 2023
(via Scott Klein, Keith Sherman Associates.) www.DramaDesk.org The 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards (www.DramaDesk.org) will be held on Tuesday afternoon, June 6 at Sardi’s Restaurant, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:03PMWednesday, April 26, 2023
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: In our art [as actors] you must live the part every moment that you are playing it, and every time. Each time it is recreated, it must be liv…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:35PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
(Hillel Italie’s article appeared on AP News, 4/25; via the Drudge Report; Photo: Vanity Fair.) NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a g…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:59PMMonday, April 24, 2023
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/24; Photo: Deeply deceptive dramas … W Somerset Maugham, 1957. Photograph: Jane Bown/The Observer.) A new revival of The Circle…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:00PMSunday, April 23, 2023
(Mathew Murphy’s article appeared in the Daily Beast, 4/23; via Pam Green; Photo: REUTERS/Ian Waldie.) GOODBYE POSSUMS Tributes have poured in for Australian comedian Barry Humphries who h…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:52AMSaturday, April 22, 2023
(Juri Rescheto’s report appeared on DW, 4/21.) View at: https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-artists-push-back-against-identity-denial/video-65401461 Vladimir Putin claims Ukraine has no national…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:34AMFriday, April 21, 2023
It is never too late to be alive (to theatre)–Penelope Chatterton paraphrase I take the time needed to express my creativity—and it is always in demand. Inspiration and invention lead …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:28PMThursday, April 20, 2023
(Lloyd Webber’s opinion appeared in The New York Times, April 17, 2023; via Pam Green. Photo: Andrew Kelly/Reuters.) By Andrew Lloyd Webber Mr. Lloyd Webber is the composer of 13 Broa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:39AMWednesday, April 19, 2023
(Charles McNulty’s article appeared in the L.A. Times, 4/5.) “It’s a radical act to ask someone to go to the theater these days,” Pasadena Playhouse Producing Artistic Director Dan…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:59PMSunday, April 16, 2023
(David Smith’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/15; via Pam Green; Photo: The Phantom of the Opera has been seen by more than 140 million people worldwide. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:26PMSaturday, April 15, 2023
(via 国立劇場 National Theatre, Tokyo . What’s KABUKI?
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:54PMThursday, April 13, 2023
(Clare Brennan’s article appeared in the Observer, 4/9; Photo: Conor O’Kane as John Hume and Naiomh Morgan as his wife, Pat, in Beyond Belief. Photograph: The Playhouse Derry-Londonderr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:09AMWednesday, April 12, 2023
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The organic bases of the laws of nature on which our art is founded will protect you in the future from going down the wrong path. Who knows …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:46PMTuesday, April 11, 2023
(via Angela Yamarone, bbbway.com.) Atlantic Theater Company Announces Complete Casting and Extension for Exclusive World Premiere Musical Event DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES Book by Craig Lucas Mu…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:42PMMonday, April 10, 2023
(Dan Bilefsky’s and Jeremy Fassler’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/7; via Pam Green; Photo: Dmitry Krymov, one of Russia’s most important theater directors, has remained …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:35PMSunday, April 9, 2023
(Andrew Dickson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/7; via Pam Green; Photo: Tom Varey and Madeleine Mantock as William and Agnes, the characters based on Shakespeare and Hathaway.Credit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:38PMSaturday, April 8, 2023
(Jack Thorne’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/7; via Pam Green; To thine own self be true … John Gielgud directs Richard Burton in rehearsals for Hamlet. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettm…
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