Tuesday, September 10, 2019
(Masha Gessen’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 9/10.) Russia released its most famous prisoner on Saturday. Oleg Sentsov, a forty-three-year-old Crimean journalist and film director…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:30PMMonday, September 9, 2019
How many actors’ sins are covered by the artist, his line and color. How easily he gives an artistic shading to the whole performance. It is not in vain that so many talentless actors …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:23PM(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/9.) The British writer, whose plays include Privates on Parade and The National Health, died on Saturday The playwright Peter Nichols,…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:01PMSunday, September 8, 2019
The stage director can do a great deal, but he cannot do everything. The most important thing is in the hands of the actor, whom one must help, who must be guided in the proper direction. …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:14PMAuthor Phyllis Wheeler talks to Bob Shuman, at Marit Literary Agency and Stage Voices, about her YA novel The Long Shadow, a Huckleberry Finn story for the 21st century. A white suburban, co…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:19AMSaturday, September 7, 2019
Mechanical outward play is a long way ahead of true inner experiences. In order to stop this meaningless movement along the surface of the role, it is necessary to give the initiative of c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:33PM(Peter Crawley’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 9/7.) As the world that made Samuel Beckett who he was becomes magically apparent, the point of Dead Centre’s unusual approach begin…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:05PMFriday, September 6, 2019
(Ben Brantley’s article appeared in The New York Times, 9/5.) How can a naked space seem so full? Feelings furnish the stage in the resplendently spare new production of Harold Pinter’s …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:37PMThursday, September 5, 2019
The more times emotion is forced to attack problems too difficult for it, the more timid it becomes and the more used to its buffers. And the more the buffers are developed, the harder it …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:31PM(This article appeared in the Irish Times, 9/2.) With 10 world premieres and 14 international productions, there’s something for everyone at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival Dublin Th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:58PMWednesday, September 4, 2019
The actor becomes a prostitute who appears so many hours each evening for the purpose of exhibiting his beauty, his legs, his breast, his muscles, his animal temperament and passion, his lou…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:14PM(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/4.) As Hansard opens at the National Theatre and drama heats up in Westminster, our critic picks his favourite political theatre C…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:46PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
All actors must be character actors, of course not in the sense of outer, but of inner characteristics. But even outwardly it is best for the actor to leave himself at times. This does n…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:15AMSunday, September 1, 2019
When my opinion was asked, I made my remarks. Good and true words come not when you want to say them, but only when you do not think of them, when they become necessary themselves. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:24PM(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/30; via Pam Green.) The revival, starring Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone, will open next spring on Stephen Sondheim’s 90th bir…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:18PMSaturday, August 31, 2019
When you play a good man look for the places where he is evil, and in an evil man look for the places where he is good. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:48PM(Steven McElroy’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/23; via Pam Green.) “Mouthpiece” by Kieran Hurley won $25,000 to fund a transfer from the Edinburgh Fringe to New York. “M…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:18PMFriday, August 30, 2019
What is done on the stage is seen better from the auditorium than from the stage itself. Looking from the auditorium I comprehended the mistakes on the stage at once. . . . (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:16PM(Alexandra Guzeva’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the HEadlings, 6/3.) Nowadays, most theaters have stopped using prompters, but the Maly Theater cherishes this tradition and regards p…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:51PMThursday, August 29, 2019
(Mia Galuppo’s article appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, 8/29; via the Drudge Report.) Blake Jenner, Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt will star in an adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim mus…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:02PMThe feeling of truth is the best awakener of emotion and the sense of living. . . . At first I did not have to imitate any one, and I felt well on the stage. There was only one unpleasan…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:33PMListen Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation from the French of Marcel Proust’s allegorical reflection on time, memory, art and love. It begins with the vivid memory of a young boy’s c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:41PMWednesday, August 28, 2019
The greatest obstacle in the artistic development of an actor is hurry, the forcing of his immature powers, the eternal desire to play leading parts and tragic heroes. To give heavy work t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:23PM(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/22; via Pam Green.) PARIS — Anémone, 65, an impersonator at the famous Chez Michou cabaret, and Freya Kor, 22, the winner of …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:59PMTuesday, August 27, 2019
The secret . . . Physical bodily restraint, the taming of the anarchy of muscles, to reveal emotion in the strong places and think of nothing, to work out my own image which I was to copy an…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:37PM(Chris Jones’s article appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 8/21.) I find myself haunted by the funerals of the AIDS era. I attended too many of them and the creative lives they celebrated wer…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:37PMMonday, August 26, 2019
It is much better to imitate an image created by yourself than another’s methods of play or another’s mannerisms. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:26PM(Clare Brennan’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/25.) The annual celebration of the work of Brian Friel carries powerful reminders of the work of building community “Politics are so …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:27PMSunday, August 25, 2019
In order to make the effect true, one must do things to [the voice] . . . that in real life are not true. The same applies to make-up. One must paint, and pencil the brows to make an e…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:35PM(Eric Grode’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/19; via Pam Green.) George Bernard Shaw’s 6-Hour ‘Beast’? She’s All In A dancer turned director, Kimberley Rampersad is tack…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:20PMSaturday, August 24, 2019
Emotion rose from the lowest to the highest notes, from calmness to insanity. This is what you must remember. Control yourself while you have strength to control yourself,–the longer, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:48PM 
