Saturday, 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(Holly Williams’s article appeared in the Independent, 8/2.) It’s nearly that time again: when crowds descend on Edinburgh for the world’s biggest arts festival, where every pub baseme…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:40PMFriday, August 23, 2019
Faith has great meaning for the actor. Physical truth, and faith in that truth, call out inner spiritual truth and faith, and these free emotion, which comes from its secret hiding places …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:50PM(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/21.) Juliet Stevenson delivers one of the peak performances of the theatrical year in Robert Icke’s striking reimagining of Schn…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:41PMThursday, August 22, 2019
It is far from easy to stand motionless on the stage in the full sight of more than a thousand pair of eyes. I was successful but only at the cost of a tremendous bodily strain. I ordere…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:24PM(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/21; via Pam Green.) The screen and stage star is making his Broadway debut as the bottled-up husband wearing a “mask of …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:51PMWednesday, August 21, 2019
Craftsmanship teaches the actor how to walk on the stage and play. But true art must teach him how to awaken consciously his subconscious creative self for its superconscious organic creat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:36PM(Andrew Eglinton’s and Mika Eglinton’s article appeared in the Japan Times, 8/13.) Since the late 1970s, people from all over the world have traveled to the village of Toga in rural Toya…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:12PMTuesday, August 20, 2019
One accidental touch, the bud opened and from it burst fresh young petals, seeking he warmth of the sun. And with me, an accidental touch of the makeup brush on my face served to open the …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:34PMBy Tania Fisher So how does the son of a mailman, from a small town near Pittsburgh, end up directing more live network television than anyone else in the history of the medium–and being …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:11PMWORKS & PROCESS, THE PERFORMING ARTS SERIES AT THE GUGGENHEIM, ANNOUNCES FALL 2019 SEASON Highlights · New commissions by Machine Dazzle and Caroline Shaw · Rotunda performances…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:58PMMonday, August 19, 2019
One feature in my makeup gave a living and comic expression to my face, and something suddenly turned within me. All that was dim became clear, all that was groundless suddenly had ground …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:19PM(Jesse Green’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/12; via Pam Green.) A sumptuous Ibsen revival starring Uma Thurman and a knockout premiere by Adam Bock close the Williamstown seas…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:56AMSunday, August 18, 2019
(Alexandra Guzeva’s article appeared in Russia Beyond, 8/16.) Russian plays are no less famous in the theater and opera world than the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in the literary. If …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:59PMSaturday, August 17, 2019
(John Muller’s article appeared in Shakespeare and Beyond, 7/19; via Pam Green.) In his life and times Frederick Douglass was known around the world as an orator, abolitionist, suffragist,…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:55PMFriday, August 16, 2019
Andrea Andresakis, Stage Director/Choreographer, has written about her Woodstock Anniversary Tribute: “I just finished editing this short video in time for the 50th Anniversary of Wo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:47PMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Listen Robert McCrum explores the elusive Samuel Beckett’s astonishing literary career through rare audio tape recordings from the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Readi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:23PMMonday, August 12, 2019
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Time, 8/8; via Pam Green.) With plays and musicals folding left and right, Broadway stars impart wisdom they gained when it happene…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:08PMFriday, August 9, 2019
Listen on BBC Radio 3 Imagine where we’d be without Shakespeare’s plays. It’s difficult to contemplate now. But it was thanks to another man that many of them were brought to life. T…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:32PMWednesday, August 7, 2019
(Gemma Tipton’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/27.) Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions It’s fascinating how the same set …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:25PMTuesday, August 6, 2019
(Frank Gagliano is a playwright who has held many positions in the world of theatre, including being the Artistic Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Showcase of New Plays and the Benedum Profes…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:05PMMonday, August 5, 2019
(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/2; via Pam Green.) Despite a history stretching to 1934, it feels like a David to the art exhibition’s Goliath. but its prog…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:27PMSunday, August 4, 2019
Listen Chris Bowlby travels with Tony Harrison to Prague, to discover how one of Britain’s best known poets was shaped by the cultural energy and tragedy of 1960s Czechoslovakia. Harrison …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:11PMFriday, August 2, 2019
By Bob Shuman Historians, looking back at contemporary American theatre, will have to evaluate whether our stages were reflections of society or partisan distortions. Were our artists “liv…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:23PMWednesday, July 31, 2019
(Mark Kennedy’s article appeared on the AP, 7/31.) NEW YORK (AP) — Harold Prince, a Broadway director and producer who pushed the boundaries of musical theater with such groundbreaking…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:06PMFriday, July 26, 2019
Listen on BBC Radio 3 Vladimir Mayakovsky was THE poet of the Russian Revolution. A revolutionary in his personal life as well as in his art, Mayakovsky sought to overthrow traditional pra…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:24PMTuesday, July 23, 2019
PTP/NYC’S (POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT) INCLUDES WORKS BY TOM STOPPARD, VACLAV HAVEL, HAROLD PINTER & SAMUEL BECKETT THAT RESONATE WITH OUR CULTURAL AND POLITICAL MOMENT PTP/NYC (Potomac T…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:13PMMonday, July 22, 2019
FREE INTRODUCTION TO TRU’S PRODUCER PROGRAM Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from 6:30pm-8:30pm Polaris North Theatre Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces a Free Introduction to TRU’s P…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:20PMSunday, July 21, 2019
(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/18; via Pam Green.) An underwhelming official lineup led many festivalgoers to branch out into the less well-known complimentary…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:48PMFriday, July 19, 2019
Listen A celebration of the simple joys of life, and the story of Brecht’s much-loved poem that described them. In 1954, poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht was the lea…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:49PM(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/13; via Pam Green.) Most theaters closed down on their most lucrative night of the week, but some casts gave their fans a memor…
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