Tuesday, March 30, 2021
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/30/2021; Photo: Shashi Kapoor and Felicity Kendal in Shakespeare Wallah, the second feature by Merchant Ivory Productions. Photograph: …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:53AMMonday, March 29, 2021
(Deirdre Falvey’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 3/27.) There’s a gulp when you see it. Outside, the audience doors into Dublin’s Gate Theatre from Parnell Square, before ascendi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:57PMSunday, March 28, 2021
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/23; Photo: The Dallas Theater Center actors (from left) Chris Ramirez, Sally Vahle and Tiffany Solano took issue with their uni…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:07PMSaturday, March 27, 2021
(via Michelle Tabnick.) Theater Resources Unlimited Announces Upcoming TRU Community Gatherings via Zoom 3/26 – A Conversation with David Armstrong (and the Podcast Pivot) 4/2 – Br…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:49PMFriday, March 26, 2021
(from the Cape Times, 3/26; Photo: FESTIVALKucheza Afrika Festival. Picture: Sanmari Marais.) Arts and theatre lovers are in for a special treat this Easter as the 2021 edition of the Kuche…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:51PMThursday, March 25, 2021
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/19; via Pam Green.) Nearly 2,000 performers have petitioned Actors’ Equity for guidelines that will speed up a return to the …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:35PMWednesday, March 24, 2021
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/23; Photo: Kazuo Hasegawa as Yukinojo in An Actor’s Revenge. Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy.) In this stylish Japanese classic, a per…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:56PMTuesday, March 23, 2021
(from NPR, 3/22; via Pam Green; Photo: Even after brutal reviews for the short-lived Anyone Can Whistle, Stephen Sondheim continued to create provocative and form-shattering musicals. Stephe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:26AMMonday, March 22, 2021
(via Joe Trentacosta) PHYLICIA RASHAD joins EMILY MANN “In Conversation” with La Femme’s JEAN LICHTY to kick-off TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’S 110th Birthday Celebration followed by …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:54PMSunday, March 21, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: I had dreamed that the actor who grew up in [our studios] would make his first timid steps in a small room which was built so as not to viola…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:48AMSaturday, March 20, 2021
(Martin Doyle’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 3/20.) The great Irish books you may never have heard of It is all too easy for a good book to disappear into obscurity. Books slip b…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:55AMFriday, March 19, 2021
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/19; Ambitious … Jonathan Slinger in Richard III by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Roundhouse, London, in 2008. Photograph:…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:35PMThursday, March 18, 2021
(via the Public Theater) The Delacorte isn’t empty… It’s full of HOPE, PURPOSE, PROMISE… and what it needs now is YOU. We have spent the last year getting ready. We have been produci…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:55PMWednesday, March 17, 2021
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/10; via Pam Green. Illustration: Credit…Antoine Cossé.) A critic writes a plea to the film and TV stars who got their s…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:10PM(Laurence Arnold’s article appeared on Bloomberg, 3/17; Photo: James Levine leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 2010. Photographer: Hiroyuki Ito/Hulton Archive/Get…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:14AMTuesday, March 16, 2021
(Via Michelle Tabnick Public Relations) Dixon Place announces Spring 2021 Production Season With Four Commissioned Puppetry Premieres In-Person and Online Dixon Place announces its Sprin…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:29PM(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/16.) A long-lost London playhouse and Rada’s headquarters feature in this 1950 caper starring a showstopping Marlene Dietrich Abraha…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:39AMMonday, March 15, 2021
(Greg Evans’s article appeared on Deadline, 3/12; via Pam Green.) To hear the cast of Broadway’s Company tell it, the industry’s shutdown one year ago today was perhaps more shockin…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:42PM(Afrifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/15; Photo: Maria Aberg in the south of Sweden where she grew up. Photograph: Hanna-Katrina Jędrosz.) The acclaimed Swedish director’s…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:53AMSunday, March 14, 2021
(Alexis Christoforous’s article appeared on yahoo.com, 3/13; via Pam Green.) One year after theaters went dark because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s finally some light at the end of …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:21PM(Chilton Williamson, Jr’s article appeared in the Spectator, 7/25; Photo: Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Professor Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock (5878987c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:54AMSaturday, March 13, 2021
(L to R) Swingin’ the Dream, 1939; Moms Mabley; From Macbeth, 1936 (Courtesy New York Public Library); Rose McClendon, 1936 (Courtesy Library of Congress American Memory Collection); …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:53PMFriday, March 12, 2021
(Lauren Steussy’s article appeared in the New York post, 3/11; via Pam Green.) It’s been almost exactly a year since Broadway went dark due to the coronavirus pandemic — but now ther…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:20AMThursday, March 11, 2021
(via Michelle Tabnick) TRU (THEATER RESOURCES UNLIMITED) MARCH PANEL VIA ZOOM THEATER RESOURCES UNLIMITED RETHINKING MARKETING STRATEGIES TO REACH THE WIDER VIRTUAL AUDIENCE THURSDAY, MAR…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:37PM(Thomas Rogers’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/5; via Pam Green; Photo: La Scala in Milan in July 2020. Credit…Antonio Calanni/Associated Press.) People from across the con…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:03PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
(Rana Moussaoui’s article appeared on Yahoo.com, 3/10. Photo: A march in Paris ended with around 50 protesters forcing their way into the Odeon Theatre and refusing to leave.) French prot…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:30PMThe words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Competition as is well known is the best mover of progress, especially in all that is related to the theatre. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:06AMTuesday, March 9, 2021
(Siobhan Burke’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 3/8; Photograph: In the song-and-dance number – Who’s Got the Pain– from the 1958 movie Damn Yankees. Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:35PM(Kelly Burke’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/8; William Shakespeare endured at least five periods of lockdown due to a pandemic. Photo: Composite: Quality Stock/Alamy.) After 60 year…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:30AMMonday, March 8, 2021
(Valeria Paikova’s article appeared in Russia Beyond, 3/5; Photo: Mikhail Ozersky/Sputnik) “A poet in Russia is more than a poet,” Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a leading author of his time, fa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:37PMTHE LEGENDARY PATTI SMITH WILL PERFORM A SPECIAL CONCERT AS PART OF NY POPSUP TUESDAY, MARCH 9 AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM HONORING THE MEMORY OF ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE PERFORMANCE FOR MUSEUM W…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:41AM 
