Monday, July 26, 2021
(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency; Photo: (c) Daniel M. Weiss.) Based on Real-Life Struggles of Runners, One Woman Show Celebrates Resilience Through The Stories of Athletes “Bracin…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:29PMSunday, July 25, 2021
30th Anniversary!! JULY 28 – AUGUST 14, 2021 HOT! began at Dixon Place in 1992 as the first inclusive all-embracing month-long LGBTQ+ festival of theater, dance, music, literature, perform…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:32PMSaturday, July 24, 2021
(Dimiter Kenarov’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 7/23; Photo: During the coronavirus pandemic, Ivo Dimchev embarked on a series of small-scale shows in private homes. Photographs by …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:25PMFriday, July 23, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The auditorium was filled by a crowd of simple workingmen and peasants. They listened to what was going on on the stage in the deepest of sil…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:12PMThursday, July 22, 2021
(Anna Galayda’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 7/7; Photo: Olga Kereluk.) Young dancers from other countries frequently come to study at Russia’s prestigious ballet …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:10PMWednesday, July 21, 2021
(Sally Weale’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20; Photo: The education secretary, Gavin Williamson. Arts groups have warned cuts would affect the viability of some courses at universi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:10PMTuesday, July 20, 2021
(Alex Ross’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 7/19; illustration: The opera’s atmosphere is at once sensual and unsettled—dread in vivid colors. Illustration by Jun Cen.) The new o…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:34PMMonday, July 19, 2021
Vs. indulges in a virtual game of ‘tag’ Mabou Mines presents Vs. written by Carl Hancock Rux directed by Mallory Catlett Online premiere July 30 – August 8 Fridays and Saturdays�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:28PMSunday, July 18, 2021
(Jessa Crispin’s article appeared in the Spectator, 7/15; photo: Wallace Shawn in 2004—Getty.) Films, plays and novels can lurk, waiting for the right cultural context to resonate in a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:23AMFriday, July 16, 2021
(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/14; Photo: The tones converge … South Pacific, with choreography by Ann Yee. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Old shows often pass nervousl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:34PMThursday, July 15, 2021
(Marty Rosen’s article appeared in Leo Weekly, 7/14.) In 1398, King Richard II of England did something that astonished the cutthroat, blood-soaked world of medieval England: he stopped tw…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:02PMTuesday, July 13, 2021
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/13; Photograph: Marilyn Kingwill.) Starring in a Zoom production of the play Masks and Faces tested my acting skills – not to me…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:55PMMonday, July 12, 2021
(from Shakespeare & Beyond, 7/ 6/ 2021.) In a recent post on the Folger’s Collation blog, assistant curator Elizabeth DeBold shared a small set of photographs, newly added to the Fol…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:54PMSunday, July 11, 2021
(from France24 ) The Avignon Festival is back after 2020’s Covid-19 hiatus. France’s biggest performing arts festival sees thousands of actors, dancers and musicians from around the worl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:07PMSaturday, July 10, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Our art is not eternal, but it is the most inescapable of all arts so far as our contemporaries are concerned. What strength there is in it! …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:40PMFriday, July 9, 2021
(Mary Coll’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/8; Photo: Kathy Rose O’Brien stars as Vera in In the Middle of the Fields.) ★★★★ West Wall Walkway, Kilmallock Timing is every…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:44AMWednesday, July 7, 2021
(Kate Wyver’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/4; Photo: Contrition mission … Cillian Murphy in All of This Unreal Time. Photograph: MIF.) Central Hall, Manchester Central, and o…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:54PMMonday, July 5, 2021
In her second interview for Stage Voices, Phyllis Wheeler talks race in America, during three different time periods; stranger danger and comfort zones; and walking a mile–in someone else�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:21PMFriday, July 2, 2021
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/23; via Pam Green.) One afternoon in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, a small crowd gathered around a storefront window…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:20PMThursday, July 1, 2021
(John Podhoretz’s article appeared in The New York Post, 6/30; via the Drudge Report.) For more than four decades, screen mavens have been eagerly awaiting the time when Steven Spielberg w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:50AMWednesday, June 30, 2021
(from The New York Times, 6/30; via the Drudge Report.) The billionaire David Geffen is giving $150 million to Yale School of Drama, allowing one of the nation’s most prestigious programs…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:58PMMonday, June 28, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: It remains unknown why certain places in a play are laughed at by everybody at all performances in one city, while altogether different place…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:10PMSunday, June 27, 2021
(Johnny Oleksinski’s article appeared in the New York Post, 6/27; via the Drudge Report; Photo: Broadway — and The Boss is back: Bruce Springsteen performs during reopening night of “S…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:16AMSaturday, June 26, 2021
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/14; via Pam Green; Photo: Shoshana Bean as Elphaba in the musical “Wicked” at the Gershwin Theater in 2005. A tour of the l…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:11PMFriday, June 25, 2021
(Anna Galayda’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 6/21; Photo: Elena Svinko; The Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theater.) We have rounded up the rising stars, n…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:47PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/18; via Pam Green; Photo: Credit…David S. Allee for The New York Times.) The Asian American Performers Action Coalition is ho…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:15PMTuesday, June 22, 2021
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved. Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:32AMMonday, June 21, 2021
(Les Standiford’s article appeared in the Washington Posts, 5/20; Photo: Ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson says farewell to the crowd alongside Paulo Dos Santos, center, and Tatiana Tchalab…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:08PMSunday, June 20, 2021
(Erin Kelley’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/26; Photo: The Bolshoi ballet premieres its production Krakatuk in Moscow in January 2020. Photograph: Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Tass.) From N…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:11AMSaturday, June 19, 2021
(Jacob Bentley-York’s article appeared in the Sun, 6/18; via the Drudge Report.) Terrifying video shows a pack of 30 wolves chasing actors on stage and lunging into the audience in Chinese…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:50AMThursday, June 17, 2021
(Joseph Cermatori’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/11; via Pam Green; Illustration: Rotating the perspective to depict massive, magnificent interiors, the Bibiena family transfo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:46PM 
