NEW 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…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:11PM(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20; Photo: Gripping … Sarah Slimani in Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors at Dorfman theatre, London. Photograph: Myah Jeffers.) Dorf…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:27PM(Dalya Alberge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/23; Photo: Gertrude Robins, pictured in 1911: she depicted women’s often limited choices between second-rate marriages and independen…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:49PM(Jesse Green’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/20; Photo: Jose Llana, left, and Arielle Jacobs as Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in “Here Lies Love” at the Broadway Theater in M…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:14PM(Via Emily Owens PR) Barefoot Shakespeare Company PRESENTS LADY CAPULET Written by Melissa Bell Directed by Emily Gallagher Presented as part of the 2023 Little Shakespeare Festiva…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:09PM(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/18.Photo: ‘The power to draw the audience together’ … the Swan Theatre at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon. Photograph: Tris…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:10PMThe words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: It is important to know what you are feeling on the stage, because it often happens that even the most experienced actors work out at home an…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:14PM(via France24, 7/14/2023) We bring you a special edition from the 77th international theatre festival in the southern French city of Avignon, where change is in the air under its new Portug…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:28PM(David Ng’s article appeared on Breitbart, 7/15.) New York’s prestigious Public Theater — which staged the assassination of President Donald Trump in its infamous 2017 production of Sh…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:30PM(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/4; Photo: Divine … Stephen Jackman-Torkoff as Richard II. Photograph: David Hou.) A disco king hits the dancefloor, Beatrice and Bene…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:09PM(Casey Cep’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 7/10,17/23; Photograph by Vandamm Studio © Billy Rose Theatre Division / NYPL for Performing Arts.) A collection of previously unpublished…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:22PM(Rana Moussaoui’s article appeared on Barron’s, 7/12; via Drudge Report; Pictures by Clement Mahoudeau.) Brazilian performer Carolina Bianchi was herself raped after being drugged on a n…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:51PM(Richard Lea’s and Sian Cain’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/12 Photo: Questions, not answers … Milan Kundera in 2002. Photograph: -/AFP.) The Czech novelist found himself silenc…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:14AM(from Radio Free Europe, 7/11; Photo: Ales Pushkin in his workshop in Minsk in June 2020.) Belarusian artist and political prisoner Ales Pushkin has died in intensive care under unknown circ…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:47PMListen Drama on 3 The second part of Ibsen’s epic two-part stage play telling the story of Julian the Apostate and his ill-fated attempt to abolish Christianity in the Roman Empire. In the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:51PM(Laura Döing’s article appeared on DW, 7/7; Photo: Wolf Biermann in Cologne in November 1976: He didn’t even play his most critical songs — out of caution Image: Wilhelm Bertram/dpa/…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:01PM(via Emily Owens PR) PRESENTED BY FRIGID NEW YORK AUGUST 3-19 AT UNDER ST. MARKS FRIGID New York has announced the schedule of performances for their 3rd annual Little Shakespeare Fest…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:10PM(Emma Bockes’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/5; Photo: ‘All the neglect he suffered meant he made sure that that was not my life’ … Jennifer Grant. Photograph: Andrzej Lawnik…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:14PM(from Radio Liberty, 7/2.) A Kyrgyz artist is keeping alive a puppet theater tradition that dates back centuries. Esenbek Mairykov, 71, learned to carve his dancing mountain goats from his g…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:20AMListen Henrik Ibsen’s epic two-part stage play was versioned by Ben Power for the National Theatre in 2011. Set in the 4th century AD, it tells the story of Julian the Apostate and his f…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:26PM(Helen Shaw’s article appeared in the New Yorker, June 5, 2023; Photo: Grissom says that the playwright gave him a life-changing mission. Illustration by Valentin Tkach.) James Grissom say…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:29PM(Harrison Smith’s article appeared in the Washington Post, 6/30; Photo: Stage and screen actor Alan Arkin in 2018. His recent work included an Emmy-nominated starring role in “The Komins…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:33AM(via Radio Liberty. ) Iranian actor Mona Soufi gets her makeup done backstage before performing in the Haft-Khan Esfandiar musical theater production at the Vahdat Hall in Tehran. Go to Radi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:53PM(David Smith’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/27; Photo: The Guardian.) Elizabeth Winkler’s controversial new book, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, investigates highly f…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:40PM(Gagliano’s remembrance appeared 6/26.) I met lyricist Sheldon Harnick (died Friday, 23 June, 2023: age 99) once, at the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference. Composer Claibe Richar…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:17PM(Robert Berkvist’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/23; Photo: The lyricist Sheldon Harnick in 2015; via Ben Vereen/twitter. He gave voice to a broad range of characters, incl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:46PM(Silke Wünsch’s article appeared on DW, 6/19; Photo: The show was a trailblazer in how it portrayed sexual identity; Image: Imago/ZUMA Press) It was 50 years ago that “The Rocky Horror…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:46PM(Keith Weir’s article appeared on Reuters, 6/19; Editing by Andrew Heavens; Photos: Reuters; via: msn; Drudge Report.) The archaeological area of Largo Argentina reopens to the public afte…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:15PMThe words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Sheer imitation . . . has nothing to do with creativeness. . . . [Instead] assimilate the model. . . . You study it from the point of view of…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:52PM(By RFE/RL’s Belarus Service; Photo: Radio Free Europe.) Belarusian singer Patrytsia Svitsina, who in 2020 refused to accept a scholarship from authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:56PM(Michael Coveney’s and Julia Langdon’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/15; Photo: Glenda Jackson in 1984. At the height of her fame in the 1980s, she continued to appear in London st…
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