Thursday, August 13, 2020
(Alexis Soloski’s article appeared in the New York Times, 8/11; Photo: Good casting: Andrew Anderson, a BBC reporter, portraying a correspondent for a fictional network in “The Evidence …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:24PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
(James P. Pinkerton’s article appeared on Breitbart, 8/12; Photo: Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress.) Male Democrat presidential nominees don’t always do a good job of vetting their …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:13PM(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/10; Billy Russell in The High Bid at the Mermaid theatre in 1967. Photograph: Tony Gibson/ANL/Rex/Shutterstock.) James’s ric…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:02PMTuesday, August 11, 2020
The more the actor wishes to amuse his audience, the more the audience will sit in comfort waiting to be amused, . . . not even trying to play its part in the play on the stage before it. …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:59PMMonday, August 10, 2020
(Mark Fisher’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/8; Photo: Fairy glow … Ghost Light was filmed at Edinburgh’s Festival theatre. Photograph: Peter Dibdin.) Hope Dickson Leach’s mag…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:06PMSunday, August 9, 2020
(Christopher Lehmann-Haupt’s obituary appeared in The New York Times, 8/5; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) Mr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of mod…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:59PMSaturday, August 8, 2020
(Daniel Arkin’s article appeared on ABC News on , 8/7; via the Drudge Report. Photos: The livelihoods of thousands of Broadway performers were dramatically upended after the coronavirus cr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:26PMFriday, August 7, 2020
(Greg Evans’s article appeared on Deadline, 8/6; via Pam Green.) Brent Carver, a stage and screen actor who won the 1993 Tony Award for his performance in Broadway’s The Kiss of the S…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:12PMThursday, August 6, 2020
(Alexandra Guzeva’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 7/31; Photo: Russia Beyond the Headlines.) You won’t find another period in Russian literature with such a concentrat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:55PMWednesday, August 5, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/2; Photo: Unnerving questions … Leon Quartermaine and Fay Compton in Mary Rose at the Haymarket theatre, 1926. Photograph: Sash…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:52PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
DIGGING DEEPER: JOHN B. ROBERTS II ON THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN’S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRARO, THINKING OUTSIDE THE BALLOT BOX, AND HIS NEW BOOK ON MORNING IN AMERICA…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:46PMMonday, August 3, 2020
(Darin Strauss’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/31; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) With her sitcom over and marriage finished, Lucille Ball fulfilled an old dream:…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:57PMSunday, August 2, 2020
(Dalya Alberge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/2; Photo: The Guardian.) Experts find hundreds of errors in the writer’s works, mostly made by editors and typesetters Ernest Hemin…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:15PMSaturday, August 1, 2020
(Chosen by Rosita Boland, Donald Clarke, Peter Crawley, Martin Doyle, and Hilary Fannin for the Irish Times, 8/1; Photo: The Irish Times.) FROM NIDGE AND CONNELL WALDRON TO GRETTA CONROY…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:09PMFriday, July 31, 2020
(Via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency.) Laurie Metcalf, Kelli O’Hara, Brian Cox, Austin Pendleton, Daniel K. Isaac, and More Premiere New Work by Craig Lucas, Lena Dunham, Sylvia Khoury, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:27PMThursday, July 30, 2020
THE SHOW MUST GO ONLINE: HENRY IV PART I PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list… SUPPORT THE CAST AND CREW: https://patreon.com/theshowmustgoonline HOMEPAGE: https://robmyles.c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:03PMWednesday, July 29, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/27; Above, Yeats’s masterpiece … Peter Cormican as the Old Man in a 2009 production of Purgatory at the Irish Repertory Thea…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:38PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
MOB RULE: JOHN B. ROBERTS II ON THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN’S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRARO, THINKING OUTSIDE THE BALLOT BOX, AND HIS NEW BOOK ON MORNING IN AMERICA: �…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:01PMMonday, July 27, 2020
(Michael Schulman’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 7/26; Illustration by Nhung Lê.) Audra McDonald came out of Juilliard in 1993, a twenty-two-year-old with a lyric soprano as pristi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:06PM(Tim Gray’s article appeared in Variety, 7/26; photo: Associated Press; via Pam Green.) Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, two-time Acade…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:40PMSunday, July 26, 2020
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/22; Photo: Adrienne C. Moore, center, in the Public Theater production of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ Whe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:43PMSaturday, July 25, 2020
I felt so pleasantly and comfortably on the stage because . . . [I] centered my attention on the perceptions and states of my body, at the same time drawing my attention away from what was h…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:42PMWednesday, July 22, 2020
(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/16; Photo:“Ionesco Suite,” directed by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota at the Espace Cardin in Paris. Credit…Jean-Louis Fernandez; …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:14PMTuesday, July 21, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20; photo: Pioneer … John Whiting, right, with CE Webber and Enid Bagnold at the Arts theatre in 1951. Photograph: Bentley Arc…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:47PMMonday, July 20, 2020
(Bennett’s monologue appeared in the London Review of Books, 7/16.) An ordinary kitchen. Gwen, a middle-aged woman, talks to the camera. He pulled up his trousers. ‘You are nice…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:51PMFriday, July 17, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/12; Riveting drama … from left, David Hemmings, Chloe Ashcroft and Phillip Martin in Skyvers at the Royal Court. Photograph: A…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:14PMWednesday, July 15, 2020
(from The New York Times, 7/2; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) This is a narrative about youngsters who make up tales. This is a narrative through which ladies wield swords, qu…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:28PMMonday, July 13, 2020
JULY 6 – AUGUST 1, 2020 Theater, dance, music, literature and homoeroticism for the whole family! Since 1992, it remains the longest running festival of its kind in the world. In…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:42PMSaturday, July 11, 2020
In Duse, Yermolova, Fedotova, Savina, Salvini, Chaliapin, Rossi, as well as in the actors of our Theatre when they appeared to best advantage in their roles, I felt he presence of something …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:39PMThursday, July 9, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/5,) The collapse of the 1968 protests left this incisive political dramatist searching for answers – and his response delved bri…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:15PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/30; photo: The Guardian.) Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical is smart, witty, funky and leaves us reflecting on America’s past and future H…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:05AM 
