Wednesday, January 22, 2020
I sincerely sympathized with Stockman (“The Enemy of the People”) and understood his feelings when his eyes saw the rotten souls of the men who had once been his friends. I feared in tho…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:00PMSunday, January 19, 2020
(Robert Ito’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/17; via Pam Green.) The Ethiopian-Irish actress returns to a “completely destroying” stage role. Next: a film adaptation of a 19…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:00PMSaturday, January 11, 2020
Friday, January 10, 2020
In those days (1905) “The Enemy of the People” (Ibsen) had not only artistic but social meaning and was to a great extent the expression of the time. It is not remarkable that the play a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:57PMSunday, January 5, 2020
(Ben Brantley’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/ 2; via Pam Green. Those who like Death of a Salesman may also enjoy End Zone, playing at Dixon Place, 2/25.) An electrifying re…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:31PMFriday, January 3, 2020
BE A PRODUCER! Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the January Panel, New Year, New Rules: The Updated Equity Agreements and Contracts, on Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 7:30pm at …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:34PMThursday, January 2, 2020
Dixon Place is thrilled to announce our 2020 season, featuring nine commissioned original productions and four puppetry productions, including Concrete Temple Theatre, Sara Juli, Eszter Bali…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:49PMWednesday, January 1, 2020
Naturalism on the stage is only naturalism when it is justified by the inner experience of the actor. Once naturalism is justified, it either becomes necessary (especially in Tolstoy’s pla…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:47PMMonday, December 30, 2019
We studied the buildings, and made plans of them, of the natural geography and topography of the courtyards, barns, outhouses, and main structures of the estate. We studied the customs, the …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:26PMSunday, December 29, 2019
(Jesse Green’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/27; via Pam Green.) A comedy number from the flop “Mack & Mabel” found the unexpected sweet spot between Irving Berlin and…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:34AMSaturday, December 28, 2019
(Peter Crawley’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 12/7.) Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work It was a dramatic year for th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:15PMFriday, December 27, 2019
(Mark Kennedy’s article appeared in Time Magazine, 10/27.) Tony Award-winning composer Jerry Herman, who wrote the cheerful, good-natured music and lyrics for such classic shows as Mame,�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:44AMThursday, December 26, 2019
We exaggerated the outward and external side of manners. . . . . This resulted in naked naturalism. And the nearer it was to reality, the more ethnographical it was—the worse it was for us…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:07PMWednesday, December 25, 2019
(Matthew Aucoin’s article appeared in the New York of Books 12/19.) Verdi: Creating “Otello” and “Falstaff”—Highlights from the Ricordi Archive an exhibition at the Morgan Librar…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:10PMTuesday, December 24, 2019
(from the London Review of Books, 12/19, where he reads the entries.) 1 January 2019, Yorkshire. The New Inn, the village pub, always lays on a quarter of an hour of fireworks at midnight, w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:19PMMonday, December 23, 2019
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/18; via Pam Green.) Lois Smith, Estelle Parsons and Vinie Burrows on age, agility, perseverance and steering clear of “…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:31AMSunday, December 22, 2019
The spectator would not be bored in looking at us and listening to us; he would find it pleasant to believe us all of the time, for the spiritual content of Gorky and of ourselves would just…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:45PMFriday, December 20, 2019
It was necessary to enter into the spiritual springs of Gorky himself, just as we had done in the case of Chekhov, and find the current of the action in the soul of the writer. Having made o…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:29PMThursday, December 19, 2019
(Acocella’s article appeared in The New York Review of Books, 12/19.) Souls in Single File Marius Petipa: The Emperor’s Ballet Master by Nadine Meisner Oxford University Press, 497 pp., …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:26PMWednesday, December 18, 2019
(via Sean Katz, Katz PR) The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, America’s Preeminent Gilbert & Sullivan Repertory Ensemble, Presents The Mikado Novel Production of Enduring Class…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:22PMTuesday, December 17, 2019
The spectator can make his own conclusions, and create his own tendency from what he receives in the theatre. The natural conclusion is reached of itself in the soul and mind of the spectato…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:25PMMonday, December 16, 2019
PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bob Shuman, [email protected] Dixon Place Presents End Zone by Bob Shuman, starring Roger Hendricks Simon, the Simon Studio; Michael Sikt…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:39PMSunday, December 15, 2019
(Palko Karasz’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/13; via Pam Green.) With new rules on funding, the government has taken a further step in controlling arts in the country, prompt…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:29PMSaturday, December 14, 2019
True art fades whenever it approaches tendential, utilitarian, unartistic paths. In art tendency must change into its own ideas, pass into emotion, become a sincere effort and the second nat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:48PMFriday, December 13, 2019
(Marissa Nicosia’s article appeared in Folger’s Shakespeare Library’s Shakespeare Plus, 12/3.) Knots, cookies, and women’s skill A plate of beautifully baked cookies is a wonderful t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:42PMThursday, December 12, 2019
Artistic truth, hinted to us by nature, is incomparably more aesthetic and more beautiful, and what is even more important, more scenic than relative truth and theatrical conventionality wit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:21PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
By Frank Gagliano, 12/10 The death of actor Renè Auberjonois (at age 79) is another sad RIP instance of a recent extraordinary theatre personality who once touched my life. In 1968, John …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:41PMTuesday, December 10, 2019
(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/5; via Pam Green.) The genre has long been seen as minor in the French capital, but a string of English-language productions is…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:48PMMonday, December 9, 2019
On that occasion so important for me, at that performance in the dawn . . . the trees, the air, the sun hinted to us of such real, beautiful and artistic truth which cannot, because of its a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:31PMSunday, December 8, 2019
How conventional we saw to be what we had become used to do on the stage, considering our scenic truth to be real truth. Theorists will say, “This is as it must be,” and they will develo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:26AM 
