(Dinara Khalilova’s article appeared in the Kyiv Independent, 10/25/23; Photo: Ukrainian ballet dancer Oleksandr Shapoval (top left), artist and researcher of Ukrainian cuisine Olha Pavl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:36AM(Sam Kinshin-Smith’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/1; Photo: Gifted generation … Auden and Britten. Photograph: Britten Pears Arts.) When they weren’t having screaming rows, th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:49PM(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/24; Photo: Pamela Rabe (left) and Eryn Jean Norvill in The Confessions. Photograph: Christophe Raynaud de Lage.) National Theatre, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:54PMBob Shuman I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, and set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut, were it f…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:14PMThe words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: There is far more bad taste in the world than good. In the place of nobility a sort of showiness has been created, prettiness in place of bea…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:17PMDubbed “The villain of Broadway” by Playbill, Tony Award® Nominee and Grammy Award® Winner Patrick Page has never shied away from exploring his dark side. Now, with this tour de for…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:12PM(Jennifer Ben Brahimim’s, Marion Chavali’s, Aline Bottin’s, Alison Sargent’s Loic Chalavoni’s, and Sonia Patricelli’s article appeared on France24, 10/10/2023.) “A simple c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:13PM(Veronika Fors’s article appeared on DW, 10/6; Photo: The tragic play is still regularly restaged today. Shown here is a 2015 staging by Robert Wilson at the Berliner EnsembleImage: Maur…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:17PM(Philip Oltermann’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/5; Photo: A serious contender for a good decade … the Guardian.) The critically acclaimed author is the first ever laureate in th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:05PM(Vinson Cunningham’s article appeared in The New Yorkers, 9/30; Odom plays each of Purlie’s notes with a musician’s tonal perfection. Illustration by Amrita Marino.) Sophisticated come…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:09PM(By Boyan Tonchev and Ilian Ruzhin, from Radio Free Europe, Bulgarian Service, 9/26; Photo: The Washington Post. ) Russian President Vladimir Putin and his entourage face a war crimes trib…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:00PMListen at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001qmkx In Our Time In the 1000th edition of In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss arguably the most celebrated film of the Swedish dire…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:57PM(Mark Lawson’s review appeared in the Guardian, 9/21/2023; Photo: The Guardian.) Marylebone theatre, London Set in a Polish ghetto, Dmitry Glukhovsky’s superb play explores the terrible …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:25AM(Kate Wyver’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/9/23; Photo: The Guardian.) From the magician who stops his show to serve at the bar to the actor who drives entire plays around in his ca…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:55PM(Miriam Gillinson’s article appeared in the Guardian 9/15. Photo: Sensitivity and restraint … Kasper Hilton-Hille and Ruby Stokes in That Face. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Orange Tree …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:03PM(from StudyFinds, 9/5; via Drudge eport) RAMAT-GAN, Israel — Kevin Bacon, this study is for you! In an exciting breakthrough, researchers from multiple countries have unraveled the myster…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:46PM(Stefan Dege’s article appeared in DW, 8/26; Photo: Honored for promoting cultural exchange with Germany: Taiwanese dramaturge and theater festival curator Yi-Wei KengImage: Willie Schuman…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:48AM(Mark Fisher’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/14/2023; Photo: Dark and surreal … Inga Mikshina-Zotova and Roman Mikshin-Zotov in The Last of the Soviets. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:47PMThe words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: To reproduce feelings you must be able to identify them out of your own experience. But as mechanical actors do not experience feelings they …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:03AM(Natalia Chekotum’s and Liza Pyrozhkova’s vidieo appeared in the Kyiv Independent, 8/8; Photo: Kyiv Independent.) Launched in February last year, Russia’s war against Ukraine has taken…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:42PM(Tim Ashley’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/19; Dramatic pressure … Endgame. Photograph: Sisi Burn.) Royal Albert Hall, London For its UK premiere, György Kurtág’s opera faced…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:07PMBy Bob Shuman Who is this Shakespeare who needs to be banned in Florida public schools, who dared to write a play called Romeo and Juliet? Was he decadent? Was he warped? Has he really…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:42AMPROM 36 A SPACE ODYSSEY: LPO/GARDNER REVIEW Listen (Tim Ashley’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/13. ) Royal Albert Hall, London Intense and finely focused performances of the Liget…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:50AM(Jeffrey S. Solochek’s article appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, 8/8; via the Drudge Report.) The big story: After Florida adopted its Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking standards i…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:10AM(Via Emily Owens, Emily Owens PR–rehearsal photo from Ladies at Tea.) First Flight Theatre Company presents Shakespeare’s Ladies at Tea or I Thought You’d Never Asp Written by…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:45PM(Mark Fisher’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/7/2023. Only the merciless survive … Dark Noon. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod) Pleasance @ EICC, Edinburgh South African actors replay the …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:54AM(Javier C. Hernandez’s article appeared in The New York Times and Japan Times, 7/27. Photo: Cincinnati Opera’s new production of “Madame Butterfly,” directed by Matthew Ozawa, frames…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:36PM(Clare Brennan’s article appeared in The Observer, 7/30; Photo: ‘Ophelia-like’ Sophie Lenglinger as Nora, with Liam Heslin as Jack, in The Plough and the Stars. Photograph: Ros Kavana…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:17PM(Marion Chaval’s, Magali Faure’s, and Eve Jackson’s article appeared on France24, 7/26.) Just over 100 years ago, painters, sculptors, writers and musicians battled for gold, silver an…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:23PMNEW DAWN: THEATRE AFFIRMATIONS I got a show to do, remember, baby? Oh baby, I got a show to do. (Dreamgirls) I’m all right, right now (from The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle) I love my e…
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