Tuesday, December 15, 2020
The lie must become or seem to be the truth on the stage in order to be convincing. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:56PMMonday, December 14, 2020
(Eli Countryman’s article appeared in Variety, 12/14.) Tony Award winner Ann Reinking, an actor, dancer and choreographer, died on Saturday night in Washington, her sister-in-law Dahrla R…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:03PM(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/13. Photo: Riveting … Jonathan Slinger and Rosie Sheehy in Oleanna by Mamet at Theatre Royal Bath. Photograph: Nobby Clark.) …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:44PMSunday, December 13, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:06PMSaturday, December 12, 2020
(Richard Brody’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 12/11; Photo: The New Yorker.) The project that Orson Welles planned to film, in 1939, before turning his attention to “Citizen Kane�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:47PMFriday, December 11, 2020
(via David Coffman and Linda Chichester) HIP HOP CINDERELLA is a new musical, brought to our attention through the TRU Zoom Community Gatherings, free on Fridays at 4:30 pm–also don’t …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:17PMThursday, December 10, 2020
(Maya Phillips’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/4/2020; via Pam Green. To accompany this essay, the Baltimore-based artist Jerrell Gibbs painted “Portrait of August Wilson”…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:39PMWednesday, December 9, 2020
(Lee Brown’s article appeared in the New York Post, 12/9; via the Drudge Report.) It’s one for the books. The first man to get the new coronavirus vaccine in the UK is named William Shak…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:40PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
(Jesse Green’s, Laura Collins-Hughes’s, Scott Heller’s, Maya Phillips’s, Alexis Soloski’s, and Elisabeth Vincentelli’s article appeared in the New York Times, 12/1; Photogr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:54PMMonday, December 7, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:06PMSunday, December 6, 2020
(Chris Jones’s article appeared in The Chicago Tribune, 12/2; photo: This building at 4343 South Cottage Grove Ave. is slated to be the African American Museum of Performing Arts and a the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:03PMSaturday, December 5, 2020
(Matt Wolf’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/26; Tamzin Outhwaite, left, and Fiona Button in “What a Carve Up!”Credit…via Barn Theatre/Lawrence Batley Theatre/New Wolsey T…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:43PMFriday, December 4, 2020
The charming delicacy of the scenic artist’s sketch is always uglified on the stage. . . . And no matter what the artist might do, he will never be able to conquer materiality and coarsene…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:40PMThursday, December 3, 2020
(Lanre Bakare’s article appeared in the UK Guardian, 12/3; Photo: Nottingham Playhouse says its Cinderella pantomime and Jack and the Beanstalk family show will now only be available to st…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:51PMWednesday, December 2, 2020
(Ronan McGreevy’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 12/2: Photo: Abbey Theatre directors Graham McLaren (left) and Neil Murray: Calling on the Government to “look again at the reopeni…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:39PMTuesday, December 1, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:06PMMonday, November 30, 2020
On 11/27 at 4:30pm, Anita Durst talked with Executive Director Bob Ost and the Friday TRU Community Gathering about an organization she founded twenty-five years ago, one that supports artis…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:53PMSunday, November 29, 2020
(Alexis Soloski’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/25; Photo: Carla Gugino, left, and Audra McDonald planned to share a stage this summer in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” but e…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:26PMSaturday, November 28, 2020
(Mathew Lyons’s article appeared in the Spectator, 11/24; Photo: Braodwaymusicalhome.com.) Guys and Dolls, the musical loosely based on the Broadway stories of Damon Runyon, premiered on…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:36PMFriday, November 27, 2020
(Maya Phillips’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/25; Photo: The ultimate hellish family gathering: Dinner with the Westons in Tracy Letts’s “August: Osage County.”Credit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:20PMThursday, November 26, 2020
[Our] conscious laws [of acting] exist for the purpose of awaking another and higher superconscious region of creativeness. This latter is outside of our comprehension, and we are helpless i…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:57PMWednesday, November 25, 2020
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/18; Photo: Astonishing … Lisa Dwan in No’s Knife at the Old Vic in 2016. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian.) Dwan will pla…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:26PMTuesday, November 24, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:54PMMonday, November 23, 2020
(Valeria Paikova’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 11/16.) Yuri Belinsky/Sputnik; Yevgeny Ivanov, Semyon Mishin-Morgenshtern/MAMM/MDF/russiainphoto.ru Just like any oth…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:47PMSunday, November 22, 2020
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/19; Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA’s agreement clears the way for more entertainment during the pandemic winter; via Pam Gre…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:28PMSaturday, November 21, 2020
(Joseph M. Hassett’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 11/20.) The elixir of love is potent medicine for all locked in by pandemic or the virus of hatred WB Yeats’s December 14th, 191…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:44PMFriday, November 20, 2020
It is only through a strongly developed outer and inner technique that one can reach . . . the complete concentration of one’s inner life on the stage, the ability to fire one’s passions…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:32PMThursday, November 19, 2020
(Timothy Bella’s article appeared in The Washington Post, 11/18; Photo: Today.com; via the Drudge Report.) As Dolly Parton tells it, her first-ever car accident in October 2013 was minor, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:11PMTuesday, November 17, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:48PMMonday, November 16, 2020
(A. J. Goldman’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/12; Photo: Carolin Conrad, left, and Lukas Rüppel in “Danton’s Death” at the the Residenztheater in Munich. Credit…Sa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:00PMSunday, November 15, 2020
(via AFP. Photo: © Provided by AFP This handout picture released by the Greek Culture Ministry on November 15, 2020, shows the head of an ancient statue of the Greek god Hermes, in Athe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:35PM 
