The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: You may play well or you may play badly; the important thing is that you should play truly (Shchepkin to Shumski). To play truly means to …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:48PMOn 8/16/22, Emily Dickinson’s house, in Amherst MA, reopened for the first time since March 2020, boasting pieces from her family’s original furniture, as well as items, such as the dini…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:11PM(Mark Fisher’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/14.) The Hub, Edinburgh Liz Lochhead’s Scots verse spits wit and venom as male power meets female determination with operatic intensi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:55PM(Sarah Bahr’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/12; via Pam Green.) The group recently arrived in New York to perform “Mom on Skype,” first staged in April in Lviv, at the Iron…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:16PM(Joshua Goodman’s article appeared on the AP, 8/13.) CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, wa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:11PM(Catherine Shoard’s article appear appeared in the Guardian, 8/9, via Pam Green.) The BBC kids’ channel is known for its wit, invention and credo of inclusivity – but can its take on A…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:04PM(Laura Studarus’s article appeared on BBC 4, 8/9.) Once a decade, ever since 1634, German village Oberammergau has staged a remarkable, epic play about Jesus Christ involving thousands of …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:11PM(via BBB, Adrian Bryan-Brown / Michelle Farabaugh / Angela Yamarone ) ★★★★★ “Magnificent! Sir Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece. GO!” The Independent Leopoldstadt, Stoppard’s …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:52PM(Neil Genzlinger’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/3/22.) A veteran actor, he was also a founder of Theater for the New City and Theater Three Collaborative, Manhattan groups kno…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:47AM(Peter Marks’s article appeared in The Washington Post, 8/5; via msn and the Drudge Report.) It started with a photo album, submitted over the transom to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:11AMThe words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Our art teaches us first of all to create consciously and rightly, because that will best prepare the way for the blossoming of the subcon…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:46PM(Juan A. Ramírez’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/31; via Pam Green.) The Ruth Stage’s production understands the violence and identity crisis at the core of Brick’s charac…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:08PMListen Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euripides’ great tragedy, which was first performed in Athens in 405 BC when the Athenians were on the point of defeat and humiliation in a long war …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:09PM(Clare Brennan’s article appeared in the Observer, 7/31.) Watermill, Newbury Tom Jackson Greaves thrillingly fuses movement with music in his revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Louisiana-s…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:00AM(Gregoire Sauvage’s article appeared on France 24, 7/20/22; videos: Little Big and Boris Grebenchtchikov.) The Kremlin has effectively taken over Russia’s culture industry as the invasio…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:41PM(Daniel Politi’s article appeared on the AP, 7/27; via the Drudge Report.) BUENOS AIRES (AP) — María Eva Noble says she is carrying out the legacy of her namesake as she labors in a sou…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:55PM(Via Jim Byk/Kelly Guiod, The Press Room; Sajous’s interview was recorded for “A Wonderful World.”) “Floyd Collins is the finest work of American musical theater, not excluding op…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:30PMThe words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: [Tommaso] Salvini said: ‘The great actor should be full of feeling, and especially he should feel the thing he is portraying. He must fee…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:31PM(Matt Wolf’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/21/22; via Pam Green.) In London, a new play about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and a revival of “The Seagull” explore u…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:58PM(Miriam Gillinsons’article appeared in the Guardian, 7/24.) Leicester Curve Nikolai Foster’s new version is more like a play with dance and songs, giving ideas around love and loss, co…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:46PM(Via Andrea Alton/Alton PR; Photo: Tanya O’Debra and Gregg Bellón in Shut UP, Emily Dickinson. Photo by Molly Broxton.) Tanya O’Debra’s award-winning play Shut UP, Emily Dickinson, wi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:46PM(from Radio Free Europe, 7/20/22.) Influential Russian playwright Mikhail Durnenkov fled Russia for Finland shortly after Moscow’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine. Durnenkov’s opposition…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:54PM(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20.) Chichester Festival theatre Instantly infectious melodies, superb choreography and irresistible comedy are met with astonishing perf…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:20PM(via Phylliswheeler.com) Phyllis Wheeler’s novel The Long Shadow, represented by Marit Literary Agency, has won a Purple Dragonfly Award! These awards are judged by Story Monsters Ink …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:11PMThe words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The very best that can happen is to have the actor completely carried away by the play. Then regardless of his own will he lives the par…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:27PM(Dalya Alberge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/17; via Pam Green.) Remedies used by healer Susanna Hall and her doctor husband will be planted at Stratford home In Shakespeare’s…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:55PM(Sara Keating’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/16/22.) For Methven, who stars as Prospero in Rough Magic’s The Tempest, the rehearsal room is the beating heart of a theatre produ…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:45PM(Oliver Salazar-Winspear’s, Natastacha Milleret’s, Magali Faure’s, and Marion Chaval’s report appeared on France 24, 7/14/22.) Avignon may be France’s oldest arts festival, but it …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:24PM(Andrew Gans’s article appeared on Playbill, 7/14.) This week Playbill catches up with two-time Tony nominee Alison Fraser, cast as Big Mama in Ruth Stage’s production of Tennessee …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:29PM(Torsten Landsberg’s article appeared in DW, 7/12.) ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus has adapted a Pippi Longstocking story, written by popular Swedish children’s books author Astrid Lindgren, in…
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