Saturday, 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 08:36PMFriday, May 22, 2020
(Lanre Bakare’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/21; Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA.) Sonia Friedman calls for rescue package to save more than 1,000 theatres from permanent closure Britis…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:53PMWednesday, May 20, 2020
(Ronald Bergan’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/18; Photo: The Guardian; via Adam Sullivan) For more than half a century, there seemed to be one constant in French cinema – the acto…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:41AMMonday, May 18, 2020
(Via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency) The Ars Nova Forever Telethon Features Over 100 Artists with Hosts Freestyle Love Supreme, Ashley Park, Lilli Cooper, Dave Malloy, John Early, Rachel…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:09PMSunday, May 17, 2020
(The post appeared first in The New York Times, 5/15; photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) Before my scheduled preview performance of “The Present,” a new show from the Geffen Pl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:18PMSaturday, May 16, 2020
(Alex Ross’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 5/11.) He’s a political activist. His repertory is vast. And, during Germany’s shutdown, he streamed more than fifty performances from …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:56PMFriday, May 15, 2020
STREAMING FROM FRIDAY FOR A WEEK: BERLINER ENSEMBLE–“MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN” WITH HELENE WEIGEL, FROM 1957 View Stay at home – BE at home: While the doors of the Berlin e…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:36PMThursday, May 14, 2020
(Harkup’s excerpt appeared in Shakespeare & Beyond, 5/5; via Pam Green.) What would it have been like to live through the plague outbreaks of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? And…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:18PMWednesday, May 13, 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 05:52PMTuesday, May 12, 2020
(David Rooney’s article appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, 5/12; Photo: 12newsnow; via the Drudge Report.) The Broadway League on Tuesday confirmed that theaters will remain dark for an a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:06PMSaturday, May 9, 2020
(Pat Saperstein’s article appeared in Variety, 5/8; photo: Comicbook.com.) Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn, whose collaboration with Siegfried Fischbacher created the well-known animal training and ma…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:12AMFriday, May 8, 2020
DEAD END KIDS: A STORY OF NUCLEAR POWER Visit and give to Mabou Mines Watch ‘Dead End Kids’ ________________________ CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY JoAnne Akalaitis THE PLAY … PREMIERE: N…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:37PMThursday, May 7, 2020
Perhaps [some] think that outward acting which does not come from inner experiences but simply from the eye and the ear, acting which is simply a photograph of the painting and the sound the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:47PMWednesday, May 6, 2020
Dear Shetler Studios & Theatres community – We hope you and your loved ones are in good health, and that you are finding positive ways to adapt to the new world we find ourselves livin…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:55PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency.) The Homebound Project Features Collections of New Theatrical Work in Limited Release View-At-Home Recordings – All Proceeds Benefit No Kid Hun…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:01PMMonday, 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 03:32PM 
