Monday, May 4, 2020
Support and Visit Dixon Place Our virtual stage is really cooking this week, with 4 new DP TV offerings below. There’s even a sneak peek at the puppetry we’ve been promising! And …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:35PMSunday, May 3, 2020
(Matt Wolf’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/30; via Pam Green.) LONDON — Right now, it feels like time’s been put on hold. Or so I thought one recent afternoon as I walked t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:59PMSaturday, May 2, 2020
Watch Give to Mabou Mines FROM THE ARCHIVES: THE 1980’S A NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL/MABOU MINES PRODUCTION PRESENTED BY JOSEPH PAPP HAJJ A PERFORMANCE POEM The Public Theate…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:40PMFriday, May 1, 2020
(Michael Wilson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/1.) Frank Sinatra can thank Robert De Niro and two annoyed songwriters for the song that revived his career and now is the theme…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:30PM(National Theatre.) Watch A new play by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley. Watch Danny Boyle’s monster hit Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature and Jonny Lee …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:19PMThursday, April 30, 2020
(from the Guardian.) Written by Howard Brenton and directed by James Macdonald in 2013, this riveting drama based on real events is available to watch until 10pm on 3 May.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:58PMWednesday, April 29, 2020
(Charles McNulty’s article appeared in the Los Angeles Times, 4/23; photo: Variety.) Luminous is an overused word in theater criticism, but the word is aptly applied to Shirley Knight, the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:58PMTuesday, April 28, 2020
(Matthew Aucoin’s article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 5/14.) Lear an opera by Aribert Reimann, at the Paris Opera, November 21–December 7, 2019 Orest an opera by Manfred …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:23PMMonday, April 27, 2020
Sunday, April 26, 2020
(Joan Acocella’s article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 5/14.) THE RED SHOES The White Helicopter a play by Alvis Hermanis, at the New Riga Theater, Riga, Latvia, opened Novembe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:06AMSaturday, April 25, 2020
The secret of the voice lies in feeling an emotion. Once that is felt, the voice comes of itself. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:43PMFriday, April 24, 2020
(Chris Wiegand’s article was updated 4/24 and appeared in the Guardian; photo: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian.) From live-streams of new play…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:52PMThursday, April 23, 2020
By Bob Shuman SCENE: In the woods. A small clearing, off a parking lot–hardly more than a triangle where two parallel felled logs act as benches. MARY JANE, early 70’s, sits on a log. …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:42PMWednesday, April 22, 2020
(Maureen Lee Lenker’s article appeared in Entertainment Weekly, 4/21; photo: EW; via Pam Green.) It’s time for a virtual celebration of 90 years of Stephen Sondheim being alive. EW c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:55PMTuesday, April 21, 2020
(Natasha Tripney’s interview appeared in the Guardian, 4/21.) Natalia Kaliada and Nikolai Khalezin explain how political exile prepared them for lockdown and why their latest project is ab…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:08PMMonday, April 20, 2020
(from The New York Times, 4/16; photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) The Belarus Free Theater, founded in 2005 by dissident artists in the former Soviet republic, has operated clande…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:32PMSunday, April 19, 2020
(By Frank Gagliano, 4/19.) When I think of Wynn Handman’s recent death, I feel guilty for not staying in touch with him over the years. And I feel (in this plague year, when all theaters …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:12PMSaturday, April 18, 2020
In moments of inspiration, when, due to reasons unexplainable to us, one feels not the conception of the words themselves, but the deep meaning that is hidden in them, one finds the simplici…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:14PMFriday, April 17, 2020
Dear Friends, Of all of New York City’s traditions, our favorite is this: every summer, we gather under the stars at the magical Delacorte Theater for Free Shakespeare in the Park. We co…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:12PMThursday, April 16, 2020
(Carmel Dagan’s article appeared in Variety, 4/16.) Brian Dennehy, the winner of two Tonys in a career that also spanned films including “Tommy Boy,” “First Blood” and “Cocoon,�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:40PMWednesday, April 15, 2020
(Matt Wolf’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/9; via Pam Green.) LONDON — We live in unprecedented times — or so they tell us. The coronavirus lockdown, which began in Britain…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:11PMMonday, April 13, 2020
(Nathaniel Rich’s article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 4/23.) American Humbug Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson Simon and Schuster, 341 pp., $28.00 Since his heyday in…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:34AMSunday, April 12, 2020
ROGER HENDRICKS SIMON has just won the BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE award from INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS 2020 for DANIEL KEITH’s multi award winning feature film LOVE IN …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:24PMSaturday, April 11, 2020
Beloved Artists! I know we’re all settling into our new lives inside and we here at Dixon Place are leaning into our new lives online. We have an Online Event Page that lists events.�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:45PMFriday, April 10, 2020
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/1; Photo: Among the playwrights commissioned to write short plays that can be read or performed by people sheltering in place: …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:55PMThursday, April 9, 2020
By Bob Shuman SCENE: A dog park in the Bronx. NARRATOR: As Mary Jane suspected, the dog park was closed, on 4/6/2020, along with all runs throughout the city. Fearing Coronavirus infec…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:50PM(Chris Wiegands’ Guardian interview appeared 4/7.) (Go to National Theatre at Home) As her bold staging of the classic novel is screened as part of National Theatre at Home, the director d…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:08AMWednesday, April 8, 2020
(Greg Evans’s article appeared on Deadline, 4/8; via the Drudge Report.) Broadway will remain closed through June 7, a two-month extension of the current coronavirus shutdown that would…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:07PMTuesday, April 7, 2020
(From Reuters, 4/7; via the Drudge Report. ) MILAN, April 7 (Reuters) – Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli, one of the world’s most famous tenors, will perform from Milan’s empty Duom…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:25AMMonday, April 6, 2020
(Stacy Perman’s article appeared in the Los Angeles Times, 4/4; photo: Patricia Bosworth, left, with Audrey Hepburn in “The Nun’s Story.” [Patricia Bosworth]). Patricia Bosworth, kn…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:28PMSunday, April 5, 2020
In us there are two types of movement and gestures, one normal, natural and lifelike, used in everyday life; the other abnormal, unnatural, non-lifelike, used to imitate something that you c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:55PM 
