Sunday, 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 05:35PMSaturday, November 14, 2020
(Wilson’s article appeared in the London Review of Books, 10/8; via Norm Silverman.) Aeschylus’ Oresteia begins with the story of a grieving, righteously angry woman seeking justice…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:03AMFriday, November 13, 2020
Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 155 (Folger Shakespeare Library) In his classes at Binghamton University, David Sterling Brown and his students examine Shakespeare’s plays through the lens …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:56PMThursday, November 12, 2020
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
(Natasha Tripney’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/7.) Undeterred by Covid, theatre-makers are beaming innovative plays into people’s homes via Zoom, WhatsApp and Minecraft Since mi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:00PMMonday, November 9, 2020
Vasily Malyshev/Sputnik; Sputnik (Valeria Paikova’s article appeared on Russia Beyond, 11/6.) These committed movie stars became symbols of their era, setting silver screens alight with…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:32PMSunday, November 8, 2020
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/4; Photo: Patti LuPone, left, as the title character and Chaim Topol as her husband in the pre-Broadway tour of the mus…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:12PMSaturday, November 7, 2020
The first attempts at something new remain almost always misunderstood and misevaluated. There appear other people who borrow the new and show it to the general public in popular form, reapi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:55PMFriday, November 6, 2020
(from Reuters, 11/6. Photo: Brazilian conductor and pianist Joao Carlos Martins, 80, who after many years lost the ability to play due to health complications from focal dystonia, smiles as …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:15PMThursday, November 5, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:52PMTuesday, November 3, 2020
Welcome to the future–#FutureStages. Above creator/guru, Brendan A. Bradley. Watch his introductory video below. On 10/30, he spoke to Bob Ost, executive director of Theater Resources U…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:06PMMonday, November 2, 2020
(Valeria Paikova’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 10/28; Photo: Russia Beyond the Headlines.) Vsevolod Meyerhold was a personality of great contradictions, and one of the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:27PMSunday, November 1, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:17PM(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in The New York Times, 10/30; Photograph: Kaori Ito in “The Damask Drum” during the abbreviated “A Week of Art in Avignon.” Credit…Christoph…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:23PMSaturday, October 31, 2020
James Bond actor Sir Sean Connery dies in his sleep aged 90: Oscar-winning 007 legend passes away in the Bahamas after being ‘unwell for some time’ (Ryan Fahey’s and Jack Elsom’s art…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:43AMFriday, October 30, 2020
(Maya Phillips’s article appeared in The New York Times, 10/30; Photo: Robert Cuccioli as a Massachusetts pub owner who fancies himself more in Eugene O’Neill’s “A Touch of the Poet.…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:04PMOne must be a great connoisseur and specialist in our art to differentiate the work of every co-creator of a performance and to judge it at its real value. But the crowd meets the actor face…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:53PMThursday, October 29, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:49PMWednesday, October 28, 2020
Don’t miss Jim Turner & Ellie Covan’s Unbirthday! A Very Merry Unbirthday To Us The Raising Cain Campaign Wrap Party Field Marshalled by the Birthday Kids Jim Turner & Ellie Co…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:15PMTuesday, October 27, 2020
(Shawn’s article appeared in the New York Review of Books, October 27, 2020; Photo:kcrw.com. ) I wonder if anyone but me remembers that during the years after the end of World War II, ther…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:22PMMonday, October 26, 2020
(Donna Ferguson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/25; Photo: JM Barrie, who shared a deep friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson. Photograph: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images; v…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:22PMSunday, October 25, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:08PMSaturday, October 24, 2020
(Andrew Kleidon’s article appeared in the Door County Pulse, 10/23; Photo of Hallie Flanagan, Door County Post. ) A Quick and Decisive Blow to Progressive Theater In fewer than three yea…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:07PMFriday, October 23, 2020
How many productions in the theatres of all time can be mentioned where giftless actors hid behind an artistic stage director. How many times the background overcame the most important thing…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:36PMThursday, October 22, 2020
(Kate Wyver’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/18; Photo: Clown theatre company Silent Faces would legally have to wait until 2059 (70 years after Samuel Beckett’s death) to perform …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:34PMWednesday, October 21, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:52PMTuesday, October 20, 2020
(via Michelle Tabnick, Michelle Tabnick Public Relations) Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is offering their popular Writer-Producer Virtual Speed Date event on Sunday, November 8, 2020…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:15PMMonday, October 19, 2020
(Jesse Green’s and Ben Brantley’s article appeared in The New York Times, 10/13; Photo of Karen Finley: Credit…Dona Ann McAdams; via Pam Green.) After 27 years and more than 2,500 re…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:12PMSunday, October 18, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:19PMSaturday, October 17, 2020
(Alexandra Guzeva’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 10/15.) Long before the Bolshoi was founded in Moscow, this leading Russian theater was a favorite with emperors and em…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:21PMFriday, October 16, 2020
(Friedman’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/15; Photo: Chaotic and farcical … The Pin – Ben Ashenden, left, and Alex Owen – are coming to the West End. Photograph: Oliver Rosser…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:10PM 
