Wednesday, February 17, 2021
(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(Robin Pogrebin’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/7; via Pam Green. PHOTO: The eminent Broadway wig designer Paul Huntley in 1997, with a hairpiece to be worn by F. Murray Abraha…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:08AMTuesday, February 9, 2021
Inspiration and invention lead me, and my ship comes in now. I can easily solve any problem and correct answers come to me easily. I know what to do. My projects complete easily and …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:58PM(Gaby Wood’s article appeared in the March 2021 issue of the Atlantic; via Pam Green.) For Britain’s leading postwar playwright, virtuosity and uncertainty go hand in hand. Tom Stoppar…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:37AMMonday, February 8, 2021
GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO MARSHALS THE RETURN OF THE PERFORMING ARTS TO NEW YORK WITH “NY PopsUp” AN EXPANSIVE STATEWIDE FESTIVAL OF POP-UP EVENTS DELIVERED RIGHT INTO THE DAILY LIFE O…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:51PM(Andrew Eglinton’s and Mika Eglinton’s article appeared in the Japan Times, 2/5; Photo: Shared history: “This Song Father Used to Sing (Three Days in May),” a play by Thai director W…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:14AMSunday, February 7, 2021
(Jesse Green’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/3; via Pam Green; Photo: Emily Skinner performing “The Ladies Who Lunch” as part of the Signature Theater’s “Simply Sondhei…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:42PM B.Brilliantov/Sputnik; Getty Images (Valeria Paikova’s article appeared in Russia Beyond, 1/29/2021.) Konstantin Stanislavsky’s ideas changed the face of theater as much as Albert Ein…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:12AMSaturday, February 6, 2021
(Via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency; Photo: Rona Siddiqui.) Ars Nova, “a company known for pop-culture-savvy experimentation, with a hipness that sets it apart” (New York Times), und…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:19PM(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/2; Photo: Backstage secrets … Catherine Deneuve in The Last Metro. Photograph: APL Archive/Alamy.) Our series on films about the stag…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:45AMFriday, February 5, 2021
(Andrew Pulver’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/5; via Pam Green; Christopher Plummer, who has died aged 91. Photograph: Vera Anderson/WireImage.) Veteran and respected actor had a ca…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:17PM Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:39AMThursday, February 4, 2021
(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity; Photo of Michael Guagno: Bailey Bretz; photo of scene: Eileen Meny Photography.) Brooklyn, NY – M-34 presents Franz Kafka’s Letter To My Father, transla…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:05PM(Kedibone Modise’s article appeared in the Johannesburg Cape Times, 2/2; Photos: Sandra Prinsloo stars in ‘Kamphoer die verhaal van Susan Nell’. Pictures: Key Eye Poetry Photography.…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:56AMWednesday, February 3, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: [According to theatre practitioner Gordon Craig’s interpretation] in order to lighten the sufferings of his father, it was necessary [for H…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:14PM(Louis Menand’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 2/1; PHOTO: Nichols on the set of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966), which swept the Academy Award nominations.Photograph b…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:29AMTuesday, February 2, 2021
Friday, February 5, 2021 at 7:30PM (est) Free Admission Participants from the Sirovich Senior Playwriting & Visual Theatre Workshop (part of CECO DP’s Cultural Education & Comm…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:36PM(Terence Killeen’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 2/1; Photo: Samuel Beckett being at a rehearsal of Waiting for Godot in Paris, 1961. Photograph: Roger Viollet via Getty.) Waiting f…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:52AM 
