Monday, 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 05:46PMWednesday, June 16, 2021
(Ellise Shafer’s article appeared in Variety, 6/15; Photo: Samantha Okazaki.) Rita Moreno is defending Lin-Manuel Miranda and “In the Heights” following criticism over the film’s …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:27PMTuesday, June 15, 2021
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/14; Photo: ‘It’s about the process, not the product’ … Lily Nichol as Joan la Pucelle. Photograph: Ellie Kurttz. Copyrigh…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:37PMMonday, June 14, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: When . . . somebody advised Chekhov to write a play about the [Russo-Japanese] war, the great writer was insulted: “Listen,” he said, “…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:51AMSunday, June 13, 2021
(Anthony Lane’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 6/11; PHOTO: Anthony Ramos stars in Jon M. Chu’s film of the Broadway musical.Illustration by Katty Huertas.) Jon M. Chu’s adaptatio…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:12PMSaturday, June 12, 2021
(Julia Jacobs’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/11; via Pam Green. Photo: Katori Hall in New York City last year. The playwright was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for “The Hot…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:23PMFriday, June 11, 2021
(Dario Thuburn’s article appeared on Yahoo, 6/11; Photo: France24.) Jana Shostak says her protests is ‘a scream of spite, of anger, of powerlessness over what is happening in our country…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:48AMThursday, June 10, 2021
(Sara Keating’s article appeared in The Irish Times, 6/9; Photo: Naomi Moonveld-Nkosi stars as Kyla in The Ark’s What Did I Miss? by Sean Dunne, which explores and shares children’s …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:12PMWednesday, June 9, 2021
(PA Media’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/8; Photo: The Guardian.) Impresario is determined his production of Cinderella will start this month in London as planned Andrew Lloyd Web…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:43AMMonday, June 7, 2021
(Michael Specter’s article appeared in The New Yorkers, 7/7; Photo: In 1988, protesters laid siege to the F.D.A. for a day, one of many interventions designed to capture public attention.P…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:44PMSunday, June 6, 2021
(Julia Jacobs’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/4; via Pam Green; Photo: National Black Theater is working with developers to replace its longtime home. This rendering shows a pl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:35AMFriday, June 4, 2021
(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity) New York, NY – New Ohio Theatre is excited to announce that the 28th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival will return to live in-person performa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:45PMThursday, June 3, 2021
(Nicolai Khalezin’s article appeared in The Brussels Times, 6/2; Photo: Nicolai Khalezin performing in Generation Jeans, an autobiographical duologue about rock music and resistance.) This…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:59PMWednesday, June 2, 2021
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:02PMTuesday, June 1, 2021
Great reads for summer 2021, represented by Marit Literary Agency: REAGAN’S COWBOYS: INSIDE THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN’S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRARO by John B. Roberts…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:30PMSunday, May 30, 2021
(Stuart Miller’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/26; via Pam Green; Photo: Lucie Tiberghien directing the staged reading of “Tartuffe” for Molière in the Park, the company…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:01PMSaturday, May 29, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: What torture it is to feel truthfully but to incarnify your true feelings falsely and in unworthy form. I bore these pains for two seasons in…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:45AMFriday, May 28, 2021
(David Brennan’s article appeared in Newsweek, 5/28; Photo: Newsweek.) Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko shocked the world when a fake bomb threat forced a passenger plane to diver…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:43AM 
