Sunday, December 27, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:33PMSaturday, December 26, 2020
(Dorian Lynskey’s article appeared on the BBC 12/7; Photo, Getty Images, BBC.com; via Pam Green. She gives little away about her private life, and touts a cartoonish public image: how did …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:16PMFriday, December 25, 2020
Two contrasting pieces of narration set to music. The BBC Singers and conductor Nicolas Chalmers present Hymn – Alan Bennett’s early musical recollections, originally set to music writte…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:19PMThursday, December 24, 2020
The production of the stage director and the playing of the actors, may be realistic, conventionalized, modernistic, naturalistic, impressionistic, futuristic,—it is all the same so long a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:33PMWednesday, December 23, 2020
(Anita Gates’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/23; Photo: Rebecca Luker as Maria, surrounded by the von Trapp children, in the 1998 Broadway revival of “The Sound of Music…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:10PM(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 12/23; Photo: Clockwise from top left: Death of England, The Outside Dog, Pass Over, Oleanna and Crave. Composite: Nobby Clark, Marc Brenne…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:34PMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:35PMMonday, December 21, 2020
MABOU MINES/BECKETT: ‘IMAGINATION DEAD IMAGINE’–DIRECTED BY RUTH MALECZECH (12/21-12/17) Ruth Nelson (Voice) & Clove Galilee (Figure) __________________________________ Light, voi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:04PMSunday, December 20, 2020
(Matt Wolf’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/17; via Pam Green; Photo: At the National Theater in London in September. The city’s theaters were closed and reopened twice in 20…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:58PMSaturday, December 19, 2020
(Michael Wood’s article appeared in The London Review of Books, 12/17.) Ihad misremembered The Scarlet Empress (1934), one of the thirteen Marlene Dietrich movies currently showing at…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:56PMFriday, December 18, 2020
(Chilton Williamson, Jr.’s article appeared in The Spectator, 12/13.) Laramie, Wyoming Nearly all the famous artistic controversies in the aesthetic history of the western world — the …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:19PMThursday, December 17, 2020
More than forty-six years ago, the Sherman brothers’ Big Band musical Over Here! (they had written the scores for Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book, and the song “It’s a Small World,”…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:21PMWednesday, December 16, 2020
(Alex Marshall’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/9; updated 9/14 : Photo: A security guard takes ticket holders’ temperatures before a performance of “Six” in London, on D…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:57PMTuesday, 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 07:26PM 
