Sunday, November 28, 2021
(Amy Weiss-Meyer’s article appeared in The Atlantic 11/27; via Pam Green; photo: Douglas Elbinger / Getty.) His work was strongest when it lingered in the pain of knowing that no ever a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:52AMFriday, November 26, 2021
(Bruce Weber’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/26; via Marit Shuman; photo: Stephen Sondheim, one of Broadway history’s songwriting titans, whose music and lyrics raised and r…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:12PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
(Charles Bramesco’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/18; via Pam Green; Photo: Charlie Chaplin was ‘chameleonic in the way he reflected back to people what they wanted’. Photogr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:16PMMonday, November 15, 2021
(Mary Beth Sheridan’s article appeared in the Washington Post, 11/15; via the Drudge Report.) Security forces surrounded the homes of Cuban activists on Sunday, the day before a planned ma…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:54AM(Desiree Ibekwe’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/12; via Pam Green. Photo: From left, the actress Clare Perkins, who plays the lead in “The Wife of Willesden”; the writer Z…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:37AMSaturday, November 13, 2021
(Nobuko Tanaka’s article appeared in the Japan Times, 11/11.) For “The Doctor,” playwright Robert Icke adapted the 1912 play “Professor Bernhardi,” changing the setting to the mo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:39PMThursday, November 11, 2021
(From Russia Beyond, 11/11/21; Photo: Ksenia Ugolnikova / Stage Russia.) The most exciting Russian stage productions presented both in cinemas and online. Visiting Russia is still a big…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:07PMWednesday, November 10, 2021
(Michael Seaver’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 11/8; Photo: contemporary choreography creates a visceral connection between performers, work and audience. Photograph: Hervé Deroo.…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:57AMTuesday, November 9, 2021
(Sarfraz Manzoor’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/9; ‘You are the entire ocean in a drop’ … Rumi. Photograph: CPA Media Pte Ltd/Alamy.) A new stage production aims to tell the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:08AMMonday, November 8, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The only . . . ruler of the stage is the talented actor. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:22AMWednesday, November 3, 2021
(Mark Fisher’s article appared in the Guardian, 11/3; Photo: Fierce and ferocious … Anna Russell-Martin as Rosaura in Life Is a Dream at Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. Photograph: Ryan Buchana…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:11AMTuesday, November 2, 2021
(Casey Cep’s article appeared in the New Yorker,11/1; Illustration by Lilli Carré’.) In “H of H Playbook,” the poet considers war, guilt, and the mythological strongman. “H of …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:26PMMonday, November 1, 2021
(from the BBC; Youtube, 10/23; via Pam Green.) Dame Judi Dench’s first part she played was Ophelia in Hamlet but her connection to Shakespeare runs centuries deeper.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:35AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
(from Newmax, 10/27; Photo: Philadelphia School of Circus Arts.) Four years after the “Greatest Show On Earth” shut down, officials are planning to bring back the Ringling Bros. and Barn…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:30PMMonday, October 25, 2021
(Alison Flood’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/25; Photo: William Shakespeare Photograph: Stock Montage/Getty Images.) An original fragment from the first folio, estimated to be w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:27AMSunday, October 24, 2021
(Jonathan Allen’s article appeared on Reuters, 10/24; Photo: Leading actors Ben Crawford and Meghan Picerno rehearse a scene during preparations to reopen “Phantom of the Opera” at New…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:32PMThursday, October 21, 2021
(Chris Jones’s article appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 10/19. Photo: Kelvin Roston, Jr. and Amanda Drinkall in “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice” at Court Theatre in Hyde Pa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:53AMTuesday, October 19, 2021
(Benjamin Lee’s article appeared in the Guardian 10/19; Photo: Leslie Bricusse in 2005. Photograph: David Rose/Shutterstock.) The Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter, whose work drew ac…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:06PMMonday, October 18, 2021
(Guy Lodge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/18; Photo: West Side Story: never had bodies in motion been used to shape and dictate a film’s own rhythm quite like this. Photograph…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:22PMSunday, October 17, 2021
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 10/14; Photo: From left, Adam Godley, Adrian Lester and Simon Russell Beale in “The Lehman Trilogy,” at the Nederlande…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:52PMSaturday, October 16, 2021
(Nobuko Tanaka’s article appeared in Japan Times, 10/16/21.) Rena Matsui plays the pivotal role of Mark Antony, a general and follower of the charismatic leader of the Roman republic, in �…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:05PMThursday, October 14, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Much in creativeness is incumbent upon us all, the young and old, men and women, the gifted and giftless. All men are forced to put food in t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:27AMTuesday, October 12, 2021
(Alexis Soloski’s interview appeared in the Guardisn, 10/12; Photo: ‘I was basically ripping the face off of civilisation’ … Ken Nwosu as Leo and Helena Wilson as Dawn in White N…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:45AMMonday, October 11, 2021
the two-character play by tennessee williams ____________________________ OCTOBER 22 at 7:30 an open rehearsal with Greg Mehrten and Maude Mitchell directed by Dana Greenfield, sound desig…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:53PMSunday, October 10, 2021
(Susan Pinker’s article appeared in The Wall Street Jouranl, 10/9; Illustration by Thomasz Walenta; via the Drudge Report.) Research shows that listening to the same narrative leads our he…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:05AMFriday, October 8, 2021
(Jake Cordell’s article appeared in the Moscow Times, 10/8/21; Photo: Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, BBC.) The editor of the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper won the prestigious award …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:57AMThursday, October 7, 2021
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/4; In fatal thrall … Christopher Eccleston as Creon and Jodie Whittaker as Antigone in the National theatre’s 2012 production…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:13AMTuesday, October 5, 2021
(from BBC 4) HERODOTUS In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of histories, dubbed by his detractors as the father of lies. Herodotus (c484 to 425 B…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:44PMMonday, October 4, 2021
(from Radio Prague, 10/3/2021; Photo: Václav Havel|Photo: Filip Jandourek, Czech Radio.) Born into a prominent wealthy family, Václav Havel came of age after the Communist coup of 1948, wh…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:02AMSunday, October 3, 2021
Damir Yusupov/The Bolshoi Theater (Valeria Paikova’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the headlines, 10/21/2021.) Russia gave the world not only ‘Crime and Punishment’ and ‘War and …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:56PMSaturday, October 2, 2021
(Nick Ahad’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/30; Photo: Hi-tech horror … Riana Duce as Mina Harker. Photograph: Ed Waring.) Leeds Playhouse For a tale of the undead, Imitating the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:29PM 
