Monday, 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 03:55PMSaturday, April 4, 2020
By Bob Shuman Photo of Juno (Junie) SCENE: A dog park in the Bronx. There are two benches. The first is near the entrance to the run—the second is toward the opposite end. MARY JANE, early…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:04PMThursday, April 2, 2020
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
(Emma Smith’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/1.) With theatres closed, now is the time to find pleasure in Shakespeare’s texts. His first fans used them for chat-up lines – and re…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:03PMTuesday, March 31, 2020
New for Stage Voices, from our Mideast correspondent. Keep an eye out for: KINGDOMS OF FIRE By: Adam Sullivan International Egyptian Actor Khaled Nabawy as Tuman in Kingdoms of Fire The p…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:00AMMonday, March 30, 2020
(Brian Hiatt’s article appeared in Rolling Stone, 3/27; Photo: Rolling Stone.) Bob Dylan, who hasn’t released an original song since 2012’s Tempest, unexpectedly dropped a previously…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:43PM(Richard Brody’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 3/27; Photo Source: Atlas Media via Pam Green.) March 27, 2020 The coronavirus lockdown adds wild emotional lurches to the movie-view…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:18AMFriday, March 27, 2020
(Photo of Jasper) SCENE: A dog park in the Bronx. Today, it is warmer—and there is sun. (MARY JANE, early 70’s, sits on a bench in the dog park. Using a launcher, SHE plays fetch w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:51PMThursday, March 26, 2020
(Published 3/20 in The New York Times; via Marit Shuman.) If you’re stuck at home and hankering for the fine arts, there’s plenty online. Since the coronavirus pandemic began temporaril…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:58PMWednesday, March 25, 2020
Oftener and oftener [Chekhov] would repeat: “I have written a great deal already, a whole library, in fact. I am not a dramatist. Hauptmann is a dramatist, and Naidenov.” (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:24PMTuesday, March 24, 2020
(Richard Natale’s and Brent Lang’s article appeared in Variety, 3/24.) Terrence McNally, the playwright behind “Master Class” and “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,” has d…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:34PMMonday, March 23, 2020
(by Broadway.com Staff, Mar 22; Photo: The New York Post; via Pam Green.) March 22 marks Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday. It’s impossible to state the great contribution and influence…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:14PMSunday, March 22, 2020
(The post Oberammergau Passion Play Canceled as Coronavirus Locks Down Germany appeared first in The New York Times; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) Over 400 years ago, villagers…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:51PMSaturday, March 21, 2020
(Brandon Katz’s article appeared in the Observer, 3/20; via Pam Green.) We’re such Oscar fanatics that mere days after this year’s ceremony we began predicting the nominees and winn…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:57PMFriday, March 20, 2020
By Bob Shuman SCENE: A wet dog park in the Bronx. (MARY JANE, early 70’s, sits on a bench in the dog run. Using a launcher, SHE plays fetch with her spaniel, HUDSON—although CHRISTIE…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:15PMThursday, March 19, 2020
Chekhov had decided to gather all his friends and relatives in one place while he married Olga Knipper at another, and to leave for their honeymoon on the Volga and the Oka without unnecessa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:59PM 
