Monday, March 8, 2021
THE 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…
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(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/3; via Pam Green; Photo: New York State is relaxing coronavirus restrictions and allowing venues to reopen next month to limite…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:10PM(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/2; Photo: Controlling the gaze … Loane Balthasar in Sarah Plays a Werewolf. Photograph: Intermezzo Films.) Katharina Wyss’s film …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:55AMSaturday, March 6, 2021
(Johnny Oleksinski’s article appeared in the New York Post, 3/5; via Pam Green; Photo: The off-Broadway musical “Assassins,” which opened in 1991, was controversial for its choice to m…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:05PMFriday, March 5, 2021
(Adam Gopnick’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 3/ 4. Photo: The legendary New York City music venue has been crushed by the pandemic.Photograph by Brent N. Clarke / Getty. ) One truth…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:20AMThursday, March 4, 2021
(Eric Grode’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/25; via Pam Green; Photo: Jonathan Larson, left, who wrote the music, lyrics and book of “Rent,” with the play’s director, Mic…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:26PMWednesday, March 3, 2021
(via Michelle Tabnick.) Theater Resources Unlimited announces upcoming TRU Community Gatherings via Zoom Thinking in Zoom (2): Producers and Technologists Friday, March 5, 2021 at 4:30…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:04PM(Tim Gray’s interview appeared in Variety, 3/1.) Liv Ullmann has been an international star since 1966’s Ingmar Bergman’s arthouse hit “Persona”; indeed, she is best-known for he…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:15AMTuesday, March 2, 2021
(Mary Leland’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 3/1; Photo: Gare St Lazare’s adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s How It Is. Photograph: Clare Keogh. ) Theatre scene that thrived before …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:38PMMonday, March 1, 2021
(Steve Dow’s article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 3/1; A Midsummer Night’s Dream Adelaide Festival 2021: Photo: CREDIT:TONY LEWIS.) ARTS FESTIVAL Adelaide Festival opening week…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:50PMSunday, February 28, 2021
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:03PMSaturday, February 27, 2021
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/19; via Pam Green. Photo: John Harrell and Jessika D. Williams in the American Shakespeare Center production of “Othello,” …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:01AMFriday, February 26, 2021
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/26; Photo: Self-deprecating … Ronald Pickup in 1972. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images.) The actor, who has died aged …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:33PM(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…
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