Sunday, March 26, 2023
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/24; via Pam Green; Photo: Andrew Burnap, top, as Arthur in the new Broadway revival of "Camelot," with Jordan Donica as Lancelot …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 25, 2023
(Dalya Alberge's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/23.) An almost unknown sonnet in the playbook or script of a 1603 play by Ben Jonson could be a "lost" work by William Shakespeare, ac…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]Friday, March 24, 2023
 (via Michelle Tabnick PR)  La MaMa presents in association with Overtone Industries ICELAND a re-Creation Myth an interdisciplinary opera theater work by O-Lan Jones and Emmet…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 23, 2023
(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity, www.DarrPublicity.com) Molière in the Park, in partnership with Prospect Park Alliance and LeFrak Center at Lakeside, will present the English language wor…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 22, 2023
(From RTE, 3/21; Photo: Sean O'Casey with Irish actress Siobhan McKenna in March 1953.) Druid Theatre has announced plans to stage three landmark works by Seán O'Casey later this year. Th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2023
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/21; Will Young as Nicky Lancaster and Diana Hardcastle as Florence Lancaster in The Vortex at the Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, March 20, 2023
 As Karen Malpede points out in her introduction to Acts of War, tragedy "arose as a complement to, perhaps also as an antidote to, war." The greatest of the early playwrights wrot…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 19, 2023
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/16/2023; via Pam Green; Photo: Stephen Sondheim's long-in-the-works Luis Buñuel musical will be staged in September at the She…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 18, 2023
(Dalya Alberge's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/18; via Pam Green.) The acclaimed actor " who is to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year's Olivier Awards " says the demise …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:19PM[SHARE]Friday, March 17, 2023
(Ray Furlong's and Golnaz Esfandiari's reporting appeared on Radio Liberty, 3/14.) Five Tehran girls were reported to have voiced contrition after posting a dance video that went viral among…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 2023
(Juan A. Ramirez's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/16; via Pam Green' Photo: Donna Murphy, center, as Countess Aurelia in the Encores! production of "Dear World" at the New York Ci…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2023
(Michael Bulley's letter appeared in the Guardian, 3/14; Photo: the Guardian.) We ruin, waste and trivialise human life by ignoring that, writes Michael Bulley Charlotte Higgins is right …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2023
(Kate Laycock's article appeared on DW, 3/8; Photo: DW.) Â Ukrainian literary scholar and journalist, Tetyana Ogarkova, pays tribute to Lesya Ukrainka: the poet, playwright and activist w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 11, 2023
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Even the externalizing of a role is greatly influenced by the subconscious. In fact no artificial, theatrical technique can even compare with…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:20PM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2023
(Jessica Murray's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/8; Photo: Patsy Browne-Hope and Frank Hickman in rehearsals for The Lotus Eaters, the first episode of NT Public Acts' new five-part Ody…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2023
(Kerrie O'Brien's article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 3/6/2023; Photo: Sydney Morning Herald.) What David Hare wants to write about at the moment is pretty simple: the fact that t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 5, 2023
(Rostyslav Khotin's article appeared on Radio Free Europe, 3 /4.) Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky had Ukrainian roots and was influenced by Ukrainian motifs. Should he stay or shou…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2023
(Jansson J. Antmann's article appeared in Limelight Magazine, 3/2/2023;  Photo: Dogs of Europe. Photo © Adam Forte, Daylight Breaks.) Exiled from their homeland, the performers of Bela…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2023
(Bethany Brookshire's article appeared in The Washington Post, 3/2; via the Drudge Report; Illustration: How art, music and dance affect your brain and body© George Wylesol for The Was…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2023
(Olena Makarenko's reporting appeared in the Kyiv Independent, 2/2/23.) Following a three-month break after the start of Russia's all-out war, the National Opera of Ukraine resumed its perfo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2023
(Kelly Burke's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/26/23; Photo: … Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada of Belarus Free Theatre in London. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters.) Belarus Free…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 25, 2023
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/17; via Pam Green; Photo: Never an outright monster … Sophie Okonedo, right, and Ben Daniels in Medea. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Med…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2023
(Laurence Maslon's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/13; via Pam Green; Photo:Burt Bacharach, at the piano, arrived in New York as rehearsals began in September 1968. He was joined b…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2023
(Carmel Dagan's article appeared in Variety, 2/15; via Pam Green; Photo: Corbis via Getty Images.) Raquel Welch, the actor who became an icon and sex symbol thanks to films like "One Million…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2023
(Sarah Crompton's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/12/23; Photo:Â 'I think you must do it just by feel': Dada Masilo's interpretation of The Rite of Spring, based on the traditional da…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:14AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2023
(via David Gibbs/DARR Publicity, 2/13.) New York, NY " After 30 years as an indispensable pillar of the downtown independent theatre community, New Ohio Theatre will conclude operations at 1…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 11, 2023
(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/2; via Pam Green; Revelatory … Alex Kingston as Prospero. Photograph: Ikin Yum.) Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Climat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:33PM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2023
(Chris Morris's article appeared in Variety, 2/9; via Pam Green; Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images.) Songwriter, composer, producer and arranger Burt Bacharach, a dominant force in American…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2023
by Bob Shuman Visit La MaMa Translated and Directed by VÃt HoÅ™ejÅ¡ Performed by VÃt HoÅ™ejÅ¡ & Theresa Linnihan Production design: Alan Barnes Netherton â�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2023
(Suzanne Cords's article appeared in DW, 1/27; Photo from DW.) Activist Kay Sara portrays Antigone in Milo Rau's modern-day tragedy about the Indigenous people's fight for survival. Ancient …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2023
(Susannah Clapp's article appeared in the Guardian, 1/29; via Pam Green; Photo:A tragedy in which 'bludgeoning comes naturally': Michael Akinsulire, centre, in the title role, and company in…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:48PM[SHARE] 
