Friday, February 26, 2021
(Judith Miller’s article appeared in City Journal, 2/22.) Live theater has been devastated by the pandemic, and its return remains uncertain. No industry in New York City has been hit as h…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:48AMThursday, February 25, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: My system cannot be explained in an hour or in a day even. It must be systematically and practically studied for years. It does good only whe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:16PM(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/25. Photo: Richard Blackwood in Ryan Calais Cameron’s Typical. Photograph: Franklyn Rodgers. ) Available online This superb play dra…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:11AMWednesday, February 24, 2021
(Nobuko Tanaka’s article appeared in the Japan Times, 2/18; Photo: Playing the bad guy: Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke IV plays Suginoichi, a blind musician who kills and cheats to get ahe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:57PMCan you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:07AMTuesday, February 23, 2021
(Chekhov’s story appeared in Russia Beyond, 2/23/2021.) Anton Chekhov. WOLF BAITING Translated by Dan Biktashev It is said that we live in the nineteenth century. Do not be fooled, reade…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:35PM(Chris Wiegand’s artciel appeared in the Guardian, 2/23; Lena Olin and Erland Josephson with the Hedda Gabler sofa in After the Rehearsal. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy.) Ingmar …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:31AMMonday, February 22, 2021
(Claire Thomas’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/22.) I first saw Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne in 2009. I remember the barren stage and the entom…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:39PMSunday, February 21, 2021
(from RT, 2/21.) On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses with Emily Allen-Hornblower and Marquis McCray the power of the classics, such as Sophocles’ play Philoctetes, to elucidate…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:40PM(Jesse Green’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/19; via Pam Green; Photo: From left, Maria Friedman, John Owen Edwards, John Yap and Stephen Sondheim working on the recording of…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:06PMSaturday, February 20, 2021
(Neil Genzlinger’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/11; Photo: Jean-Claude Carrière in 1999. He had more than 150 film and television writing credits and also wrote books and pla…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:11PMI take the time needed to express my creativity—and it is always in demand. Inspiration and invention lead me, and my ship comes in now. I can easily solve any problem and correct …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:42AMFriday, February 19, 2021
(Olivia Salazar-Winspear’s interviews appeared 2/19 on France24.) As part of France24’s week-long series about how the arts are dealing with Covid-19, we take a look at the impact of the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:16PM(Tim Diovanni’s article appeared in the Dallas Morning News, 2/19; SMU professor Aaron Boyd poses with his violin on Thursday.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer; via the Drudge Report.) …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:01PMThursday, February 18, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Much which seemed natural to me was in reality born of old theatrical frumpery. The most terrible thing of all is when self-conceit deceives …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:29PM(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency.) Baryshnikov Arts Center and Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation Co-Present Arlekin Players Theatre’s The Cherry Orchard: A New Media Workshop Int…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:37PMWednesday, February 17, 2021
(from Shakespeare & Beyond, February 16, 2021.) | Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth in 1936. Courtesy Library of Congress A struggling economy. Unemployed artists. Hard…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:03PM (Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/16; Photo: Slapstick and sentimental songs … Pat Kirkwood in the 1956 musical comedy Stars in Your Eyes. Photograph: networkonair…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:24AMTuesday, February 16, 2021
(from Yonhap 12/12; PHOTO: provided by Acom, shows a scene from the musical “The Last Empress.” (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) — The South Korean musical scene i…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:26PM(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/15; via Pam Green; Photo: ‘High creative aspirations’ … Claire Bloom, photographed in 2016. Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guard…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:37AMMonday, February 15, 2021
(James Varney’s article appeared in The Washington Times, 2/15; via the Drudge Report.) The crown teachers once put on Shakespeare now lies uneasy upon his head as the English playwright c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:41PM(Nobuko Tanaka’s article appeared in The Japan Times, 2/10; Photo: Behind closed doors: Playwright J.T. Rogers’ drama, “Oslo,” is based on the true-life clandestine meetings that too…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:39AMSunday, February 14, 2021
(Seán Hewitt’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 2/13; Illustration: JM Synge: For many years, his drama was too close to home.) In the year of the dramatist’s 150th anniversary, his…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:02PM Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:43AMSaturday, February 13, 2021
(from France 24, 2/13; Photo: France 24; via the Drudge Report.) French-Iranian Rana Gorgani, 37, used to think of whirling as something that should remain behind closed doors JOEL SAGET AF…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:52PM (Keith C. Burris’s article appeared in the Journal Inquirer, 2/8.) I have known, in my life, many men who thought of themselves as “great,” and were anything but. And I have known a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:54AMFriday, February 12, 2021
(Theo Merz’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/10; photo: Serebrennikov was last year found guilty of fraud after prosecutors accused him and others of siphoning off funds intended for c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:24PMBy: Adam Sullivan Through COME_TO_EGYPT, international film star Khaled Nabawy, is encouraging those from all over the world, to see the Nile and visit the pyramids. He recently met with…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:40AMThursday, February 11, 2021
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces TRUSpeak … Hear Our Voices! Virtual Fundraiser on Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 5pm (eastern time) via Zoom, presented with the generous spons…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:55PM(Emily Langer’s article appeared in the Washington Post, 2/10; via Karen Schimmel; PHOTO: Maria Guarnaschelli, right, with her daughter, chef Alex Guarnaschelli, in New York in 2013. M…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:44AMWednesday, February 10, 2021
(Hilton Als’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 2/8. PHOTO: Photograph from AKG / TT News Agency. ) The Danish memoirist built a literature of disaster, brick by brick. Don’t think you…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:17PM 
