Wednesday, 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 08:00PMMonday, October 14, 2019
By Bob Shuman Director Tonya Pinkins asked six American women of multi-cultural backgrounds to compose one-acts on the theme of women oppressing women—her seven actors are all women, too�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:26PMSaturday, October 12, 2019
The Chekhov mood is that cave in which are kept all the unseen and hardly palpable treasures of Chekhov’s soul, so often beyond the reach of mere consciousness. The cave is that vessel in …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:39PMTune In for the Funeral Service of International Opera Star JESSYE NORMAN Today, Saturday, October 12, 2019 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT/10:00 a.m. PT) ABC-TV (Augusta, GA) NBC-TV/CBS-TV (Aug…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:57PMFriday, October 11, 2019
I know of no greater idealism than that which believes in a better future although it is surrounded by hopeless circumstances. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:45PMWhite Light Festival Theater Advisory Tenth Anniversary of Festival Includes Two U.S. Theater Production Premieres The premiere of Sugimoto Bunraku Sonezaki Shinju: The Love Suicides…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:20PMThursday, October 10, 2019
There are plays written on the simplest of themes, which in themselves are not interesting. But they are permeated by the eternal, and he who feels this quality in them perceives that they a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:03PM(Hugo Hamilton’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/10.) Since his 1966 debut The Hornets, the Austrian playwright and author has tested, inspired and shocked audienceshares It was, undo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:49PMWednesday, October 9, 2019
Everyday cares, politics, economics, the larger part of general social interests—these make the kitchen of life. Art lives higher, observing from the height of its birdlike flights all tha…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:22PM(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 10/3; via Pam Green.) George Bernard Shaw gets sensitively streamlined in a briskly entertaining production with winning per…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:11PMTuesday, October 8, 2019
Let us leave trivial matters at home, let us gather here in a common effort and not engage in petty squabbles and the settling of scores. . . . Let us be guided by the motto of “common wor…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:39PM (Patricia Storace’s article appeared in The New York Review of Books, 10/5.) Keith Hamilton Cobb in American Moor The first recorded African-American theater troupe, the African Compan…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:53PMMonday, October 7, 2019
(via Gwendolyn Quinn) (New York, NY – October 7, 2019) – The family of international opera star Jessye Norman announces today through the family spokesperson, Gwendolyn Quinn, the Hom…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:37PMListen The Mother by Bertolt Brecht with original musical score by Hanns Eisler. Translated by Mark Ravenhill, from a literal translation by Marc Funda, with song lyrics translated by Stev…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:18PMSunday, October 6, 2019
It is necessary to play a role hundreds of times, to crystallize its essence, to perfect the crystal, and in showing it, to interpret the quintessence of its contents. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:03PMLET’S GO: AUSTIN PENDLETON AND PETER BLOCH RETEAM TO HELM CHILLING NEW VERSION OF THE GLASS MENAGERIE TO USHER IN THE HALLOWEEN SEASON AT THE WILD PROJECT New York, New York — Ruth Sta…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:42PMSaturday, October 5, 2019
It is a hard nut to crack—the Symbol. It is successful when it has its source not in the mind, but in the inner soul. In this sense symbol and grotesque are alike. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:23PMGillian Slovo Listen Novelist Gillian Slovo’s letter to her mother, the anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First. Part of a series in which writers from around the world read letters on the the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:06PMFriday, October 4, 2019
(Margalit Fox’s article appeared in The New York Times, 10/4; via Pam Green.) Diahann Carroll, who more than half a century ago transcended racial barriers as the star of “Julia,” the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:05PMThursday, October 3, 2019
By Bob Shuman A cello stands at the center of This Is Why We Live, at La Mama, which closed September 29 and Oedipus, Sex with Mum was Blinding, at BAM Fisher, which also ended on that…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:19AMTuesday, October 1, 2019
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 9/26; via Pam Green.) An easily legible production of the ancient Greek tragedy borrows from the tradition of Noh theater at…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:19PMMonday, September 30, 2019
The fantastic is a glass of foaming champagne. . . . In The Snow Maiden there is exceptionally beautiful Russian epos, and in The Blue Bird an artistically interpreted symbol. It is engaging…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:29PM(via Gwendolyn Quinn) (New York, NY — September 30, 2019) — It is with deep sadness and sorrow that we announce the passing of international opera star Jessye Norman, in a statement iss…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:15PM(Michael Cooper’s article appeared in The New York Times, 9/24; via Pam Green.) The star singer, accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, dropped out of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:50PMSunday, September 29, 2019
We are sentimental . . . we actors, and we love to play the part of injured innocence not only on the stage, but in life also. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:03PM(Boyd Tonkin’s article appeared in the Spectator, 9/26.) The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen reviewed Pick up a Penguin Classic from a cult Danish author…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:32PMSaturday, September 28, 2019
My business of stage directing was done, it was behind me; the matter lay in the hands of the actors now. Only they could bring the performance to life, and I could do nothing more than st…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:47PM(Derek O’Connor’s article appeared in The Irish Times, 9/23.) Derek O’Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre I never saw Diego Maradona play football. I never saw…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:33PMFriday, September 27, 2019
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 9/13; via Pam Green.) Ntozake Shange’s play, with its unflinching depiction of black women’s experience, is coming ba…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:28PMWednesday, September 25, 2019
“If we could only see the image, see how he walks, talks, laughs, and come to know the quality of his voice,” we said to ourselves when we approached the role. “If we can find the im…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:47PMPart of Citywide Recognition Peter Brook/NY, This Free Event Will Be Captured by Partner Organization WNET/ALL ARTS for Future Broadcast Thursday, September 26 at approximately 8:45pm Polon…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:20PM 
