Friday, December 15, 2023
(Report from Democracy Now!; Photo: Middle East Institute.) The Israeli military this week raided the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, a renowned cultural institution whose mission is to fight for …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:07PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
(Andriy Bondar’s article appeared in the Kiv Post, 12/3; Photo: Les Kurbas, c. 1908.) The seeds sown by Les Kurbas on the Ukrainian stage sprouted in the following generations of artists…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:22PMTuesday, December 5, 2023
(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 12/5; Photo: Sparkling with knowing humour … Pacific Overtures at Menier Chocolate Factory. Photograph: The Stage.) Menier Chocolate Fa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:38PMSunday, December 3, 2023
Cary Grant was considered one of the world’s best-known movie stars, but it turns out there was plenty that audiences did not know about the debonair actor. In fact, he was born in England…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:15PMFriday, December 1, 2023
(Claire Armitstead’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/29 Photo: Power couple … Stoppard and Vaclav Havel attending Rock ’n’ Roll at the Royal Court in 2006. Photograph: David M…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:14PMThursday, November 30, 2023
(from Radio Free Europe, 11/20; Photo: Russian stage director Yevgenia Berkovich; Creator: Anton Novoderjozhkin|Credit: Sipa USA via AP Copyright: Sipa USA.) The Moscow city court on Novembe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:42PMWednesday, November 29, 2023
(from RadioFree Europe, 11/29; photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (left) poses with Jamala in Kyiv on November 29, 2022. ) The Moscow prosecutor’s office said on November 29 th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:33AMTuesday, November 28, 2023
Eddie Izzard Returns to New York with One-Person Hamlet by William Shakespeare From January 25 – March 3 At Off-Broadway’s Greenwich House Theater Opening Night February 11 Adapted by M…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:06PMWednesday, November 22, 2023
(Rachel Syme’s article appeaed in The New Yorker, 11/14/2023. Photo: Trust is a big theme in the book, and perhaps its reason for existing. Photograph by Irving Penn / © Condé Nast) …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:59PMMonday, November 20, 2023
(Lauren Mechling’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/19; Photo: Maleah Joi Moon in Hell’s Kitchen. Photograph: Photo Credit: Joan Marcus.) The Public Theater, New York The star he…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:28PMSunday, November 19, 2023
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd Abridged and adapted by Pauline Harris and Emma Smith Listen Spain is in the middle of a peace treaty with Portugal, when Marshall Hieronimo is forced down …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:41AMThursday, November 16, 2023
Theater for the New City Presents Flawless, a tale of enchantment Written by Robin Goldfin Directed by Ed Chemaly November 9-26, 2023 (12 performances) Thursdays, Fridays and Sat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:25PMFriday, November 10, 2023
(From Radio Free Europe, 11/10; Photo of Sasha Filipenka, from Radio Free Europe.) Self-exiled Belarusian writer Sasha Filipenka told RFE/RL on November 10 that a Minsk court sentenced his f…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:00AMFriday, November 3, 2023
(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 11:36AMThursday, November 2, 2023
(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 06:49PMWednesday, November 1, 2023
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
(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 01:54PMSunday, October 22, 2023
Bob 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 12:14PMSaturday, October 14, 2023
The 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 02:17PMTuesday, October 10, 2023
Dubbed “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 01:13PMSaturday, October 7, 2023
(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 07:17PMThursday, October 5, 2023
(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 05:05PMWednesday, October 4, 2023
(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 07:09PMTuesday, September 26, 2023
(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 09:00PMSunday, September 24, 2023
Listen 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 04:57PMSaturday, September 23, 2023
(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 09:25AMSunday, September 17, 2023
(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 05:55PMSaturday, September 16, 2023
(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 08:03PMTuesday, September 5, 2023
(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 06:46PMSunday, August 27, 2023
(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 
