Friday, 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 07:43AMThursday, May 27, 2021
(Lan’s article appeared in the Guardian 5/26; Photo: Then, as now, theatre was in every sense political’ …David Lan. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian.) The theatre director and wr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:17AMWednesday, May 26, 2021
(Haley Bosselman’s article appeared in Variety, 5/25; Photo: Variety.) Samuel E. Wright, the actor who voiced Sebastian in “The Little Mermaid,” has died. He was 74. The news of his de…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:08PMTuesday, May 25, 2021
(Alastair Lockhart’s article appeared on Express, 5/25.) The video released of arrested Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich is a “hostage video,” a Belarusian exile has said. View:…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:04PM(David Storey’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/23; Photo: David Storey at home in Belsize Park, London, 1961, with his paintings in the background. Photograph: Courtesy of the Storey…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:20PMMonday, May 24, 2021
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/19; via Pam Green; Photo: The Drama Book Shop, in a former location. When it reopens next month, it will also have a cafe.Cre…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:10PMSunday, May 23, 2021
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:07AMSaturday, May 22, 2021
(Larry Getlen’s article appeared in the New York Post, 5/21; via the Drudge Report; Photo: the New York Post.) Before she became America’s sweetheart, Lucille Ball’s path to stardom …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:55AMFriday, May 21, 2021
(Williamson’s article appeared in the Spectator, 5/17; Photo: Wise blood: Flannery O’Connor in 1952.) Was Flannery O’Connor a racist, or was she not? Since the racial riots last summ…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:14PMThursday, May 20, 2021
(Charles Bramesco’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/19; Photo: A still of Orson Welles from New Deal for Artists. Photograph: Corinth Films.) For its 40th anniversary, the Orson Wel…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:12AMWednesday, May 19, 2021
(Olivia Salazar-Winspear’s article appeared on France 24, 5/13.) As a storytelling tool, a ritual or a release, dance has been with us since our earliest days as humans. As live perfor…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:03AMTuesday, May 18, 2021
(Neil Genzlinger’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/18; Photo: The actor Charles Grodin with the title dog in the hit 1992 family movie “Beethoven.” “I don’t complain,”…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:37PMThe words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: First-class workers must receive first-class pay. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:52AMMonday, May 17, 2021
(Alexis Soloski’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/12; via Pam Green; Photo: Denée Benton, left, and Louisa Jacobson during filming of the coming HBO historical drama “The Gild…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:32AMSunday, May 16, 2021
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/11; Photo: Cracks in a marriage … Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti in The Salesman. Photograph: Allstar/Memento Films Production…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:54AMSaturday, May 15, 2021
(Alexandra Guzeva’s article appeared on Russia Beyond, 5/15; Photo: Press photo; Public domain.) One of the most mysterious and funniest Russian writers, he had a turbulent, complicated …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:29PMFriday, May 14, 2021
(Nick Miller’s article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 5/14; Photo: Pope Alice will appear at the 2021 Dark Mofo festival.) Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Hoba…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:05PMThursday, May 13, 2021
The Bacchae Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euripides’ great tragedy, which was first performed in Athens in 405 BC when the Athenians were on the point of defeat and …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:30PMThe words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: [With] Turgenev’s A Month in the Country . . . built on the most delicate curves of love experience. . . . it was necessary to do away with…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:17PMWednesday, May 12, 2021
(Christ Jones’s article appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 5/5; Photo: Chicago Tribune.) Just weeks ago, the working assumption around town was that this would be a relatively quiet summer i…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:39PMTuesday, May 11, 2021
(Scott Heller’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/5/2021; via Pam Green. Photo: From left, the stage directors Whitney White, Tyne Rafaeli, Taibi Magar and Danya Taymor, who have t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:23PMMonday, May 10, 2021
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/10. Photo: ‘I dance like a duck’ … Jeremy Irons, right, as Judas in London; the musical’s first commercial staging in New York …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:02PMSunday, May 9, 2021
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:08PMSaturday, May 8, 2021
(Lanre Bakare’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/8; Photo: Jimmy Akingbola and Simon Harrison in a production of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger at Jermyn Street theatre in 2008. P…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:48PMFriday, May 7, 2021
(Eleonora Goldman’s article appeared on Russia Beyond, 5/6.) Maya Plisetskaya danced until 70! Vasily Malyshev, Vladimir Vyatkin/Sputnik Maya Plisetskaya, Galina Ulanova, Ekaterina Maximov…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:23PMThursday, May 6, 2021
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/5; via Pam Green; Photo: Broadway, a powerful economic driver of New York City, will begin to reopen Sept. 14 with full-capacit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:33AMWednesday, May 5, 2021
(Patrick Freyne’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 5/5; King Lear in a Van: Arthur Riordan as King Lear with Karen McCartney as Cordelia and Matthew Malone as Kent. Photograph: Nick Br…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:02AMTuesday, May 4, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: [It was in our production of Cricket on the Hearth, based on Dickens], perhaps, that there sounded for the first time those deep and heartfel…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:24PMMonday, May 3, 2021
(Rachel Syme’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 5/1 Photo: Illustration by Ohni Lisle; Source photograph by Ken McKay / Shutterstock.) The superfan behind @LiZaOutlives says, “I will …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:25AMSunday, May 2, 2021
(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/28; via Pam Green. Photo: From left, Marie Langlet, Julie Ménard and Marine Ségalen in a production of Madame de Villedieu�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:43PMSaturday, May 1, 2021
(Bruce Haring’s and Erik Pedersen’s article appeared on Deadline, 5/1; via Pam Green. Photo: Olympia Dukakis in ‘Moonstruck’Everett Collection.) Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:12PM 
