Saturday, March 23, 2024
*** WARNING graphic content Russia's state security services say at least forty people are dead, and over a hundred injured, after heavily armed gunmen burst into a packed theatre near Mosco…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:07AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2024
Discovering the vibrant landscape of Off-Off Broadway reveals a tapestry of diverse narratives and artistic innovations that defy conventional norms. Here's a glimpse into the upcoming perfo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:57PM[SHARE]A look at current issues, challenges, and controversies spilling beyond the proscenium. The following three stories, discussed by prominent stage journalists, provided tension and debate …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2024
On March 21, 1880, a pivotal event unfolded in the annals of American theatre: the renowned French actress Sarah Bernhardt graced the New York stage for the first time. This momentous occasi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2024
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself (or herself) another, deeper, more interesting life than the one tha…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:09PM[SHARE]By Bob Shuman The aesthetic issue being explored in Orson's Shadow (Austin Pendleton's own play now celebrating its 25th Anniversary) might best be expressed if I show you a picture of the L…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2024
Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dance which, from when it reached Britain in the early nineteenth century, revolutionised the relationship between music, literature an…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2024
(Shaun Walker's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/16; Photo: The bombed theatre in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine. Reuters.) When the bombs hit the Mariupol Drama theat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:36PM[SHARE]The next few weeks promise new excitement on Broadway with noteworthy productions due to open: An Enemy of the People(Golden Theatre, 252 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036). Previews begi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:59AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2024
(From Shakespeare Plus, Folger Magazine blog, 3/15/2024; This article was originally published in the Spring 2010 issue of Folger Magazine. Listen to an NPR interview from 2009 with Ge…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:54PM[SHARE]A look at current issues, challenges, and controversies spilling beyond the proscenium. The following three stories, discussed by prominent stage journalists, provided tension and debate …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2024
Walt Kelly's Songs of the Pogo Presented by Frank Farrell Productions " Ridgewood, New Jersey WALT KELLY'S SONGS OF THE POGO recreates the hysterical, imaginative and wonderful world of cart…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:59PM[SHARE]The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: If an action has no inner foundation, it cannot hold your attention. If you were compelled (to do something) . . . for a particular purpose (…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2024
(Kateryna Bankova's and Will Tizard's report appeared on Radio Free Europe, 3/12.) Petro Konoplya, a celebrated Ukrainian stage and film actor, once just played soldiers onscreen. Now, after…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:48PM[SHARE](from the Guardian, 3/12/2024; Photo: Tom Francis as Joe Gillis and Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Photograph: Marc Brenner. ) Sunset Boulevard and Dear Engl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Off-off Broadway, a vibrant realm of artistic exploration, is set to showcase an eclectic array of productions, each promising to captivate audiences with its unique narrative and thematic d…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:39PM[SHARE](Nick Ahad's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/10/2024. Magnetic … Anoushka Lucas and Simon Manyonda in The Crucible at Crucible, Sheffield. Photograph: Manuel Harlan.) Crucible, She…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:35AM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2024
Just as Andrei Sakharov tirelessly championed human dignity in the face of Soviet oppression, and Narges Mohammadi continues her fight for freedom of expression in Iran, we must stand gua…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:48PM[SHARE](Bohdan Nahaylo's article appeared in the Kyiv Post, 3/19; Â This article was originally published in the May 2019 issue of the monthly in-flight magazine of Ukraine's International Airlin…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2024
(Edward Bond's essay appeared in the Guardian, 3/6/2024; From the archive:Â In this piece first published on 28 June 1995, the late playwright asks if Shakespeare was a Tory and suggests w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:35PM[SHARE]The past week's international stage highlights, brought to you via the world's foremost journalism.  Gemini, the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity, provided informati…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 9, 2024
(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the guardian, 3/8; Near deranged … James Lance as Vanya. Photograph: Manuel Harlan.) Orange Tree theatre, London This chamber staging, movingly played…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:03PM[SHARE](Bard [Gemini], the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity AI, the innovative AI search engine and knowledge discovery platform, provided information, insights, and materials fo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:50AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2024
(Mathias Cena's article appeared on Yahoo News, 3/6; via Drudge Report; Photo: Mayuko Kashiwazaki (2nd R) gets into costume before a dress rehearsal for 'Dojoji', a drama about the revenge o…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Released On: 03 Mar 2024 Available for 27 days Listen Spanish Golden Age comedy starring Olivia Poulet and Joe Thomas. Lope de Vega, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was one of Spain's …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:02PM[SHARE]On March 6, 1997, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London reopened its gates, marking a triumphant resurrection of Elizabethan-era theater. Spearheaded by American actor and director Sam Wanam…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2024
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/5; Photo:Â Increasingly polemical … Edward Bond. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian.) One of the greatest dramatists of the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:44PM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2024
(Max Zander's article appeared on DW, 3/3/2024; Photo: DW.) A dance school in Kharkiv offers children a reprieve from the war. The Ukrainian city has been targeted by Russian air strikes for…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 2, 2024
(Bard [Gemini], the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity AI, the innovative AI search engine and knowledge discovery platform, provided information, insights, and materials fo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 29, 2024
The Theater for the New City proudly presents the 25th Anniversary production of "Orson's Shadow" by Austin Pendleton, and, for the first time, the play is directed by the author himself (th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:17PM[SHARE]The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: What needs to burn is your imagination. (AP) Â
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