Sunday, 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 11:26AMWednesday, December 4, 2019
(Benedict Nightingale’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/27; via Pam Green. Listen to a BBC interview with Jonathan Miller.) Known for his radical restagings of classic works, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:03PMTuesday, December 3, 2019
I could not continue my false and theatrical pose. All that I had done seemed untrue to nature, to reality. And it had been said of us that we had developed simplicity to a point of naturali…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:44AMSunday, December 1, 2019
By Bob Shuman John Doyle’s production of Macbeth, playing through December 15 at Classic Stage Company (CSC), should fit into the current zeitgeist exactly. In a world of 280-character …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:48PMTuesday, November 26, 2019
(Robert D. McFadden’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/25; via Pam Green.) Prolific, erudite and caustic in his wit, he surveyed the entire cultural landscape John Simon, one …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:48PMSunday, November 24, 2019
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/11; via Pam Green.) The return of Tony Kushner’s “A Bright Room Called Day” prompted us to ask leading writers: Ho…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:01PMFriday, November 22, 2019
By Bob Shuman Aaron Monaghan, as Richard III, in Ireland’s Druid Theatre U.S. production premiere of Shakespeare’s history–it plays until November 23 as part of Lincoln Center’s Whit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:27PMSunday, November 17, 2019
We, who knew the true nature of the Theatre, understood that the boards of our stage could never become a platform for the spread of propaganda, for the simple reason that the very least uti…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:13AMFriday, November 15, 2019
(Geoffrey O’Brien’s article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 11/21.) Porgy and Bess an opera by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, at the Metropol…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:26PMTuesday, November 12, 2019
(Joshua Barone’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/6; via Pam Green.) The French wunderkind’s books have quickly become magnets for the stage. Adaptations of “History of Vio…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:04PMSunday, November 10, 2019
The darker side of human nature is on display in DruidShakespeare: Richard III, a chilling story of power and ambition in a wickedly comic production from Ireland’s Druid theater comp…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:43PM(Roger Friedman’s article appeared on Show Biz 411, 11/10; via the Drudge Report.) Last year, director Ivo von Hove brought his hit London production of “Network” to New York and cause…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:04AMFriday, November 8, 2019
Interview with Tania Fisher, Author of Children’s Book, “Grandma’s Garden” By Lori Beedsler Briefly, what’s the book about? To a grown up all that happens in this book is that a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:14PMThursday, November 7, 2019
Doctor Stockman became popular at once in Moscow, and especially so in Petrograd. “The Enemy of the People” became the favorite play of the revolutionists, notwithstanding the fact that …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:10PM(Martin Scorsese’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/6.) When I was in England in early October, I gave an interview to Empire magazine. I was asked a question about Marvel movie…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:56PMWednesday, November 6, 2019
Children’s Book: “Grandma’s Garden” Author Tania Fisher, Illustrator Riley Hagan Review by Lori Beedsler A simple and inviting title, once you enter “Grandma’s Garden”, you w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:13PMMonday, November 4, 2019
POWER PLAYS Listen As East Germany crumbled in 1989, actors were centre stage. Andrew Dickson discovers how had theatre had survived under communist rule, with its censors and secret police …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:20PMFriday, November 1, 2019
Chekhov always had the best of opinion about military men, especially those in active service, for they, in his own words, were to a certain extent the bearers of a cultural mission, since, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:34PM(Stuart Jeffries’s article appeared in the Spectator, 11/2.) ‘THE ONLY PLACE I CAN’T GET MY PLAYS ON IS BRITAIN’: PETER BROOK INTERVIEWED Stuart Jeffries talks to the loquacious 94-y…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:36AMThursday, October 31, 2019
Back by popular demand. Happy Halloween, from Stage Voices
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:56AMMonday, October 28, 2019
The men of Chekhov do not bathe, as we did at that time, in their own sorrow. Just the opposite: they, like Chekhov himself, seek life, joy, laughter, courage. The men and women of Chekhov w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:47PMSunday, October 27, 2019
(Jesse Green’s article appeared in The New York Times, 10/23; via Pam Green.) When “Macbeth” meets McDonald’s, a meaty new musical is born. When classics get adapted or updated, I of…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:02PMSaturday, October 26, 2019
In talking and acting so that the spectator does not understand either the words or the problems of the actors, all that the actor really accomplishes is the letting down and lowering of the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:04PM“David’s Play” by Tom Rowan to be performed at the NYC International Fringe Festival. Express Lane Productions is proud to present David’s Play, a new play by Tom Rowan (Kiss an…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:15AMTuesday, October 22, 2019
To heighten tone means to heighten the mood of the audience, to strengthen the interest of the spectator in the performance; to quicken tempo means to live more strongly and intensively and …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:12PMTheater Resources Unlimited TRU Love Benefit: Follow Your Art, Fulfill Your Dreams Honoring James Morgan and Haley Swindal Sunday, December 8, 2019 (via Michelle Tabnick) Theater Resources …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:50PMSaturday, October 19, 2019
The prevalent mistake of beginning stage directors and actors is that they think that the heightening of tone is the quickening of tempo; that playing in full tone is loud and quick talking …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:16PMThe Love Suicides at Sonezaki U.S. production premiere October 19–22, 2019 Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall At the turn of 18th-century Japan, a clerk and a …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:52PMThursday, October 17, 2019
The work of stage direction began. As was the custom I wrote a detailed mise en scène,—who must cross to where and why, what he must feel, what he must do, how he must look. . . . (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:40PM(Adam Smyth’s article appeared in The London Times, 10/24.) Ben Jonson’s comedy The New Inn (1629) was, by all accounts, a theatrical disaster: ‘negligently played’ at the Blackfri…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:09PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Chekhov was most enthusiastic about Hauptmann’s “Lonely Lives.” He saw it for the first time and he liked it more than any of his own plays. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:00PM 
