Monday, November 30, 2020
On 11/27 at 4:30pm, Anita Durst talked with Executive Director Bob Ost and the Friday TRU Community Gathering about an organization she founded twenty-five years ago, one that supports artis…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:53PMSunday, November 29, 2020
(Alexis Soloski’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/25; Photo: Carla Gugino, left, and Audra McDonald planned to share a stage this summer in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” but e…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:26PMSaturday, November 28, 2020
(Mathew Lyons’s article appeared in the Spectator, 11/24; Photo: Braodwaymusicalhome.com.) Guys and Dolls, the musical loosely based on the Broadway stories of Damon Runyon, premiered on…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:36PMFriday, November 27, 2020
(Maya Phillips’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/25; Photo: The ultimate hellish family gathering: Dinner with the Westons in Tracy Letts’s “August: Osage County.”Credit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:20PMThursday, November 26, 2020
[Our] conscious laws [of acting] exist for the purpose of awaking another and higher superconscious region of creativeness. This latter is outside of our comprehension, and we are helpless i…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:57PMWednesday, November 25, 2020
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/18; Photo: Astonishing … Lisa Dwan in No’s Knife at the Old Vic in 2016. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian.) Dwan will pla…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:26PMTuesday, November 24, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:54PMMonday, November 23, 2020
(Valeria Paikova’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 11/16.) Yuri Belinsky/Sputnik; Yevgeny Ivanov, Semyon Mishin-Morgenshtern/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru Just like any oth…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:47PMSunday, November 22, 2020
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/19; Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA’s agreement clears the way for more entertainment during the pandemic winter; via Pam Gre…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:28PMSaturday, November 21, 2020
(Joseph M. Hassett’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 11/20.) The elixir of love is potent medicine for all locked in by pandemic or the virus of hatred WB Yeats’s December 14th, 191…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:44PMFriday, November 20, 2020
It is only through a strongly developed outer and inner technique that one can reach . . . the complete concentration of one’s inner life on the stage, the ability to fire one’s passions…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:32PMThursday, November 19, 2020
(Timothy Bella’s article appeared in The Washington Post, 11/18; Photo: Today.com; via the Drudge Report.) As Dolly Parton tells it, her first-ever car accident in October 2013 was minor, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:11PMTuesday, November 17, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:48PMMonday, November 16, 2020
(A. J. Goldman’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/12; Photo: Carolin Conrad, left, and Lukas Rüppel in “Danton’s Death” at the the Residenztheater in Munich. Credit…Sa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:00PMSunday, November 15, 2020
(via AFP. Photo: © Provided by AFP This handout picture released by the Greek Culture Ministry on November 15, 2020, shows the head of an ancient statue of the Greek god Hermes, in Athe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:35PMSaturday, November 14, 2020
(Wilson’s article appeared in the London Review of Books, 10/8; via Norm Silverman.) Aeschylus’ Oresteia begins with the story of a grieving, righteously angry woman seeking justice…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:03AMFriday, November 13, 2020
Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 155 (Folger Shakespeare Library) In his classes at Binghamton University, David Sterling Brown and his students examine Shakespeare’s plays through the lens …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:56PMThursday, November 12, 2020
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
(Natasha Tripney’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/7.) Undeterred by Covid, theatre-makers are beaming innovative plays into people’s homes via Zoom, WhatsApp and Minecraft Since mi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:00PMMonday, November 9, 2020
Vasily Malyshev/Sputnik; Sputnik (Valeria Paikova’s article appeared on Russia Beyond, 11/6.) These committed movie stars became symbols of their era, setting silver screens alight with…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:32PMSunday, November 8, 2020
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/4; Photo: Patti LuPone, left, as the title character and Chaim Topol as her husband in the pre-Broadway tour of the mus…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:12PMSaturday, November 7, 2020
The first attempts at something new remain almost always misunderstood and misevaluated. There appear other people who borrow the new and show it to the general public in popular form, reapi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:55PMFriday, November 6, 2020
(from Reuters, 11/6. Photo: Brazilian conductor and pianist Joao Carlos Martins, 80, who after many years lost the ability to play due to health complications from focal dystonia, smiles as …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:15PMThursday, November 5, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:52PMTuesday, November 3, 2020
Welcome to the future–#FutureStages. Above creator/guru, Brendan A. Bradley. Watch his introductory video below. On 10/30, he spoke to Bob Ost, executive director of Theater Resources U…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:06PMMonday, November 2, 2020
(Valeria Paikova’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 10/28; Photo: Russia Beyond the Headlines.) Vsevolod Meyerhold was a personality of great contradictions, and one of the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:27PMSunday, November 1, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:17PM(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in The New York Times, 10/30; Photograph: Kaori Ito in “The Damask Drum” during the abbreviated “A Week of Art in Avignon.” Credit…Christoph…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:23PMSaturday, October 31, 2020
James Bond actor Sir Sean Connery dies in his sleep aged 90: Oscar-winning 007 legend passes away in the Bahamas after being ‘unwell for some time’ (Ryan Fahey’s and Jack Elsom’s art…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:43AMFriday, October 30, 2020
(Maya Phillips’s article appeared in The New York Times, 10/30; Photo: Robert Cuccioli as a Massachusetts pub owner who fancies himself more in Eugene O’Neill’s “A Touch of the Poet.…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:04PMOne must be a great connoisseur and specialist in our art to differentiate the work of every co-creator of a performance and to judge it at its real value. But the crowd meets the actor face…
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