Thursday, April 28, 2022
(Chris McCormack's review appeared in the Irish Times, 4/27; Photo:Â Patrick Martins as M'Closky in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh.) Centuries of obscene ca…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2022
(Sally Weale's article appeared in the UK Guardian, 4/27; The Empress by Tanika Gupta is one of four new plays added to AQA's GCSE drama curriculum. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2022
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 4/22/22; via Pam Green; Â Â The Tony Awards ceremony will return to Radio City Music Hall on June 12, after being presented at …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:51PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2022
(Alexandra Schwartz's article appeared in the New Yorker, 4/28/ 22; The mania and melancholy of James McAvoy's Cyrano disguise a desperate rage.Illustration by Matt Williams.) A new staging,…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2022
(Dalya Alberge's article appeared in the Observer, 4/24; Photo: Tom Hiddleston as Posthumus and Jodie McNee as Innogen in Cymbeline at the Barbican in 2007. Photograph: Tristram Kento…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2022
(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/21; Photo: Frail body, strong mind … Mark Quartley in Henry VI: Rebellion at the Royal Shakespeare theatre. Photograph: Ellie Kurttz/R…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2022
(Brian Marks's article appeared in the Daily Mail, 4/19; via Pam Green.)Â FRAIL LIZA MINNELLI, 76, FELT 'SHAKEN' AND 'SABOTAGED' AFTER BEING FORCED ON STAGE IN WHEELCHAIR AT OSCARS INSTEA…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2022
(Connal Parr's article appeared in the Irish Times, 4/18; The cast of the new production of Over The Bridge; Photo:Â The cast of the new production of Over The Bridge. ) Sam Thompson's cl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:29PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2022
(via The Culture News [email protected] ) LET'S GO! Under star and director David Serero, the French musical The Ten Commandments"finally in English"based on the biblical story of M…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2022
(Alexandra Schwartz's article appeared in The New Yorker, 4/11; Illustration: "Suffs" braids the tangled history of the American suffrage movement into drama. Illustration by Kati SzilÃ�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2022
(A.J. Goldmann's article appeared in The New York Times, 4/7/22; via Pam Green;Â Photo: The ensemble in "Oasis de la Impunidad" ("Oasis of Impunity"), directed by Marco Layera, at the Sch…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2022
(Rebecca Mead's article appeared in the New Yorker, 4/11; Mike Bartlett Illustration by João Fazenda.) A few years ago, the British playwright Mike Bartlett offered an ingenious take on f…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:36PM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2022
(Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/10; Photo: Tom Larkin and Hiran Abeysekera in Life of Pi. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Find out who won what at the Royal Albert Ha…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2022
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 4/10; via Pam Green; Photo: Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker celebrated the long-delayed opening of "Plaza Suite," the co…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:10PM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2022
(Gareth LlÅ·r Evans's review appeared in the UK Guardian, 4/8; Photograph: Curtis Richard Photography.) Bristol Old Vic Giles Terera's lyrical and inventive drama about a brutal episode in…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2022
(Sophia Kishkovsky's article appeared in The Art Newspaper, 4/7/2022. Photo: Images of the performance about the Bucha massacre were distributed by the independent news site Holod© Telegr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2022
(Lyndsey Winship's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/5/22; via Pam Green; Photo: Â After Putin invaded Ukraine, the Russian dancer denounced the war, left the Kremlin-allied company " an…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2022
(Joe Westerfield's article appeared in Newsweek, 3/29; Photo: Irish Repertory's Ciarán O'Relly talked to Newsweek about the how the company got through and came out of the pandemic shutdo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:04PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2022
(Sarah Larson's article appeared in the New Yorker, 4/4/22; Illustration: Sam Rockwell, Darren Criss, Laurence FishburneIllustration by João Fazenda.) "American Buffalo" 's Laurence Fishb…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2022
(Cameron Woodhead's article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 3/31/22; Photo: Old tensions surface in this rare drama. CREDIT:JODIE HUTCHINSON.)Â Â Â Â Â Heroes of the Fourth…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2022
(Ryan Gilbey's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/31; Photo: Taut with tension … Toby Osmond and George Kemp in Diary of a Somebody. Photograph: Brittain Photography.) Seven Dials …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:16PM[SHARE](The following article was compiled and written after listening to an interview with artistic collaborators from Belarus Free Theatre, 3/22; by Bob Shuman, Stage Voices. ) An old saying: "Wh…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2022
(Mary McNamara's appeared in the Los Angeles Times, 3/29; Photo: Holland Taylor portrays former Texas Gov. Ann Richards in "Ann" at the Pasadena Playhouse. [Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:03PM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2022
(Rebecca Mead's article appeared in the New Yorker, 3/26; illustration: from The New Yorker.) How David Hare took a few Moses-esque liberties when writing "Straight Line Crazy," which partly…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2022
(Andrea Kasiske's article appeared in DW, 3/27; Photo: A scene from "The Artist is Present.") The Serbian artist is redesigning her legendary 2010 performance "The Artist is Present," and wi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 26, 2022
(Vanessa Friedman's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/25; via Pam Green; Photo: Emma Stone in "Cruella." The costume designer for the film was Jenny Beavan, who is nominated for an O…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:25PM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2022
(The legendary Liv Ullmann, recipient of an honorary Oscar in 2022, answered two questions, in the U.K. Guardian, from Bob Shuman of Stage Voices Web site (BobStageVoices). Read her response…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2022
Antigone Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what is reputedly the most performed of all Greek tragedies. Antigone, by Sophocles (c496-c406 BC), is powerfully ambiguous, i…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2022
(Michael Kaufmann's article appeared 3/22/22 on Limelight; Photo: Back to Back Theatre's The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes. Photo © Jeff Busby.) The pioneering group's work with…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2022
(David Gormezano's article appeared on France24, 3/21; Photo: Alex Borovensky, Tetiana Shelepko and their friends sit in front of the ProEnglish Theatre in Kyiv, on March 20.) The ProEnglish…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:02PM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2022
(Chris McCormack's article appeared in the Irish Times, 3/21; Photo: Niamh Cusack in Faith Healer at the Abbey theatre, Dublin. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh.) Having been sanitised in the 2010s,…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:08PM[SHARE] 
