Thursday, February 29, 2024
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: What needs to burn is your imagination. (AP) Â
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 28, 2024
(Peter Conrad's article appeared in the Observer, 2/27.) Tricia Romano's entertaining oral history of the radical New York newspaper is an elegy to a rough and ready era of punch-ups and pas…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:44PM[SHARE]On February 28, 1896, Giacomo Puccini's opera "La Bohème" debuted at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy. This poignant tale of love and loss among struggling artists captivated audiences with…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2024
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/19;Â Photo: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville. Â Photograph: The Guardian.) Eugene O'Neill's mighty drama, returning to the West…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:07PM[SHARE]Eddie Izzard's portrayal of Shakespeare's Hamlet is poised for a seamless transition from Greenwich House Theater to New York's Orpheum Theatre. From March 19 to April 14, audiences will con…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:27AM[SHARE]Monday, February 26, 2024
        We are sad to share the news that our brother, Thomas F. Shuman, died unexpectedly on January 11, 2024, in Princeton, N.J. Tom was born in Trenton, New …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 25, 2024
The past week's international stage highlights, brought to you via the world's foremost journalism. Â Gemini, the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity, provided information,…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:17AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 24, 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 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 23, 2024
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 01:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2024
By Bob Shuman The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre (CAMT) has just finished dates at Theater for the New City (from February 1-18) with The Good Soldier Å vejk (rhyme that last nam…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:47PM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2024
The recent death of Alexei Navalny, a courageous dissident and symbol of hope for freedom in Russia, is a stark reminder of the fragility of human rights and the chilling price paid by those…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2024
(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/14, 2024; Drawing a younger audience … Mathew Baynton as Bottom and Pyramus. Photograph: Pamela Raith.) Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratf…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2024
(Neha Gohil's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/11; Photo: Britannica.) Audiences should be 'shocked and disturbed' by the impact of theatre, says Schindler's List and Harry Potter actor T…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Monday, February 12, 2024
By Bob Shuman In Act 3, Scene 2 of Hamlet, the melancholy, introspective Dane instructs the newly arrived players, who will be acting before his new father's court, "to hold the mirror up to…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 11, 2024
The past week's international stage highlights, brought to you via the world's foremost journalism. Â Gemini, the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity, provided information,…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 10, 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 12:45PM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2024
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 wit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2024
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The false acting of passions, or of types, or the mere use of conventional gestures,"these are frequent faults in our profession. But you mus…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2024
(Caroline Butterwick's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/7; Photo: Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent, who died in 1996. Photograph: AP. ) Using an ensemble cast of deaf and hearing a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:34PM[SHARE]On February 7, 1933, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's groundbreaking musical The Threepenny Opera graced the stages of New York City's Adelphi Theatre. Despite its brief initial run of only 1…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 6, 2024
If you enjoyed Sycorax: the Untold Story, you might like playing her in a class, audition, or even a full production (or know someone who would). Whether you're an actor seeking a powerful S…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:09PM[SHARE](via You Tube; Photo: Craftsmanship magazine) The sparkling music of the violin and cello accompanies the vision of the wonderful masks present at the famous CARNIVAL of Venice.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:04AM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2024
In the past two weeks, the world witnessed continued attacks on artistic expression and free speech. From playwrights censored for challenging authority to musicians harassed for their songs…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 4, 2024
(from Sky News) The 66-year-old dissident told Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips that "society becomes so timid, to really avoid any kind of questioning or argument. Â "Today I…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:23PM[SHARE]The past week's international stage highlights, brought to you via the world's foremost journalism. Â Bard, the large language model from Google AI, provided information, insights, and mat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 3, 2024
(via Jane Dubin) Hi all, I was so moved by your responses to Rooted One to All, the first single released from Village of Vale, the new musical I am producing. Another song from the sh…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:09PM[SHARE](Bard, the large language model from Google AI, provided information, insights, and materials for this article.) ON BROADWAY: White Rose: The Musical About: An uplifting musical telling the …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]Friday, February 2, 2024
(Christine Lebert's article appeared on DW, 2/2. Photo: DW.) "Falling in Love" is the title of the new show at Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast, Europe's biggest revue theater. The glamorous l…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:57PM[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 wit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2024
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/1/2024; Photo: Heady … Black as Hazel with Derek Riddell as John. Photograph: Manuel Harlan.) Dorfman theatre, London Beth Steel's new…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:28PM[SHARE]The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: On the stage there cannot be, under any circumstances, action which is directed immediately at the arousing of a feeling for its own sake.Â�…
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