Tuesday, 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 08:05AMSunday, July 5, 2020
(from the New York Times, 7/4; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) Inside a former firehouse in Richmond, Va., a lone actor performs “The Picture of Dorian Gray” for audiences as …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:21PMTuesday, June 30, 2020
(From the New York Times, 6/30; photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) Carl Reiner, who as performer, writer and director earned a place in comedy history several times over, died on Mon…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:29PMMonday, June 29, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/28; photo: Urge for ownership … David Swift and Jill Bennett starred in Owners at the Royal Court. Photograph: Frank Barratt/Get…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:54PMSunday, June 28, 2020
(From The New York Times, 6/24; photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) It took David Adjmi 10 years to write his new memoir, “Lot Six” (HarperCollins). The last four months were spen…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:54PMFriday, June 26, 2020
(Terence Killeen’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 6/15.; Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, directed by Conor McPherson (left) and Michael Gambon at the Beckett Film Project. Photograph: Pa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:12PMThursday, June 25, 2020
The Angle Project is inviting you to share your story. We are creating a storytelling series to showcase humanity behind the COVID 19 pandemic. TAP is seeking partnerships with hospitals,…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:55AMTuesday, June 23, 2020
(from The New York Times, 6/11; via Pam Green.) STUTTGART, Germany — Midway through “We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On,” a theatrical walkabout through the Stuttgart State Theate…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:34PMMonday, June 22, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/22.) This magnificently honest play about the Shelleys and Byron’s summer of sexual experimentation raises difficult questions a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:04PMSunday, June 21, 2020
When I asked one of the journalists how they produced such remarkable critics, I was told of a very clever and purposeful method used in Germany. They let a young critic, he told me, always …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:23PMFriday, June 19, 2020
(Michael Billington’s and Ryan Gilbey’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/19; above: Ian Holm in 2003. On stage he was especially noted for his performances in Shakespeare and Pinter…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:00PMThursday, June 18, 2020
Stratford Festival King John house program: https://cdscloud.stratfordfestival.ca… When the rule of a hedonistic king is questioned, rebellion ensues, culminating in the chilling attempt t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:50PMWednesday, June 17, 2020
(from Theatermania, 6/15; via Pam Green.) Marianne Elliott directs the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical. Author David Gordon Locations Broadway June 15, 2020 The cast of Stephen Sondhei…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:54PMTuesday, June 16, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/15; The Coup, with Tony Armatrading as Black Lightning. Photograph: Ivan Kyncl/ArenaPAL.) A Caribbean-set ‘play of revolutionar…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:46PMMonday, June 15, 2020
(from the London Review of Books.) Listen to Podcast ‘NO, I’M NOT GETTING MARRIED!’: SUSAN PEDERSEN AND JOANNA BIGGS ABOUT SHELAGH DELANEY AND HER LANDMARK 1958 PLAY, A TASTE OF…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:51PMSunday, June 14, 2020
(from The New York Times, 6/10; Interviews by Laura Collins-Hughes, Michael Paulson and Salamishah Tillet; Photos: Clockwise from top left: the playwright Lydia R. Diamond; the actor Jel…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:57PMSaturday, June 13, 2020
(Ruth Bender’s article appeared in the Walls Street Journal, 6/13; Photo: One of the world’s most famous nightclubs, Tresor, located in a disused Berlin power plant, stands empty due to …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:01PMThursday, June 11, 2020
(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity) MOLIÈRE IN THE PARK TO PRESENT LIVE STREAM PRESENTATION OF MOLIÈRE’S TARTUFFE starring Raúl E. Esparza & Samira Wiley, directed by MIP’s Foun…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:00PMWednesday, June 10, 2020
(Mark Brown’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/10.) Location of the Red Lion, which predated the Globe, has been subject of debate for years Archaeologists believe they have found remai…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:26AMTuesday, June 9, 2020
I was convinced again that between the dreams of the stage director and their realization there is a tremendous difference, and that the theatre is first of all intended for the actor and ca…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:48PMMonday, June 8, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/8; photo: Harriet Walter as Biddy in Three Birds Alighting on a Field at the Royal Court in 1991. Photograph: Donald Cooper/Alamy)…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:17PMSaturday, June 6, 2020
(Chris Jones’s article appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 6/5; photo NY Daily News.) Following a social-media tumult sparked by a series of racially accusatory tweets from a former performer…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:27PMFriday, June 5, 2020
(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/3; on Michael Hill in Pass Over. Photograph: Amazon Prime Video.) 5 / 5 stars5 out of 5 stars. Available online Lee’s 2018 film of…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:37PMThursday, June 4, 2020
(From the New York Times, 5/31; via Pam Green; Photo: The New York Times.) Patrick Kingsley, an international correspondent, and Laetitia Vancon, a photojournalist, are driving more than 3,7…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:39PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
A Presidential Election Year Is Like the Wild West . . . When rumors about Geraldine Ferraro–the first woman vice-presidential nominee by a major party in U.S history–reached First Lady …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:34PMMonday, June 1, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/1; photo: Exemplary freshness and vigour … Roy Williams, pictured in 2008. Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian.) Our new series o…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:59PMSaturday, May 30, 2020
(Philip Oltermann’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/29.) Extra legroom and no interval: Germany plans for post-lockdown theatre Berliner Ensemble unveils auditorium with most chairs ri…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:48PMWednesday, May 27, 2020
(Gordon Cox’s article appears in Variety, 5/27.) Larry Kramer, the writer and influential gay activist who pressed the U.S. government and the medical establishment to respond to the AIDS …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:26PMTuesday, May 26, 2020
(Cathy Park Hong’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/21; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) The cast and crew of “Wolf Play” were on their third day of tech rehearsals …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:44PMMonday, May 25, 2020
(via John Wyszniewski at Everyman Agency.) 2020-21 R&D Group: All applications must be submitted by June 22nd, 2020 for consideration. The Civilians (Steve Cosson, Artistic Director; M…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:38AMSaturday, May 23, 2020
It is no little task to carry over to the stage those principles which were created in painting, music, and the other arts that had gone so far ahead of us. Will the speaking voice ever be a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:36PM 
