Thursday, January 14, 2021
(Paul Davenport’s article appeared on the AP, 1/14; via the Drudge Report; Photo: Sigfried, left, with tiger: Reviewjournal.com.) Siegfried Fischbacher, the surviving member of the magic d…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 03:34PM(Sarah Bahr’s article appeared in The New York Times 1/12; via Pam Green. Photo: “New York City is not New York without Broadway,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday in unveiling p…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:37AMWednesday, January 13, 2021
Gordon Craig dreamed of a theatre without men and women, without actors. He wanted to supplant them with marionettes who had no bad habits or bad gestures, no painted faces, no exaggerated v…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 02:39PM(Chris McCormack’s article appeared in The Irish Times, 1/13; Photo: When the curtain came down on Our New Girl, did it come down on innovative programming along with it? Credit: Ros Kavan…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:38AMTuesday, January 12, 2021
“We will definitely find you … and we will hang you, side-by-side,” the main Belarusian government newspaper, Sovietska Belarus, wrote on 27 December 2020.reetheatre.com) “Death thre…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 05:28PM(Laura Collin-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/6; via Pam Green. In a Broadway production of “Our Town,” Helen Hunt, right, played Emily Webb with Jason Gedrick, le…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 01:22PMMonday, January 11, 2021
(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman) Highlights include 9th Annual PROTOTYPE Festival, Soundwalks in Harlem and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Online Premieres The OBIE-winning HERE (Kristin Mar…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 03:45PM Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:42AMSunday, January 10, 2021
(Julia Jacobs’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/9; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, right, speaking with Maurine Knighton, program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Founda…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:22AMSaturday, January 9, 2021
I am most truly successful, as an artist and otherwise, when I am my most authentic self, openly and honestly. I adapt my vision to the new theatrical reality—and it has all positive ou…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 11:31AMFriday, January 8, 2021
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/17. Photo: Satirical … a sketch for Karel Čapek’s RUR by Bedřich Feuerstein. Photograph: Dea Picture Library/De Agostin…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 06:29PMThursday, January 7, 2021
(Photos: Mabou Mines) By Bob Shuman Some of us had never seen Lee Breuer working, without a stocking cap—but what is probably most surprising is that we saw a playwright, so hands-on, at a…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 06:05PMWednesday, January 6, 2021
(Maya Phillips’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/29/2020 Photo: Brendan Edward Kennedy, center, in the title role of “Henry V” at Brave Spirits Theater in Virginia.Credit……
Linked From stagevoices.com at 06:21PMTuesday, January 5, 2021
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:17AMMonday, January 4, 2021
(from Mabou Mines) Dear Friends, It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Mabou Mines co-founder Lee Breuer on January 3, 2021. He died peacefully at home surrounded by l…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:27AMSunday, January 3, 2021
Maeterlinck is a charming, kind, and joyful host and companion. For days at a time we spoke about art, and he was very glad to know that actors were entering so deeply into the very being, m…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 05:15PMSaturday, January 2, 2021
I adapt my vision to the new theatrical reality—and find deeper understanding and wider horizons. Theatre comes back strong in 2021—and heals us.
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:13PMFriday, January 1, 2021
(Mark Brown’s article appeared in the Guardian, 12/31; Photo: Tammy Faye Messner with Jim Bakker. Photograph: Associated Press.) Writer says singer’s cancelled farewell tour resulted in…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:20PMTheatre comes back strong in 2021—and heals us.
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:10PMThursday, December 31, 2020
The hardest thing of all is to begin creative work, to find a goal, a foundation, a ground, a principle, or even a simple scenic piece of hokum and to be enthused by it. Enthusiasm, even the…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 02:34PMWednesday, December 30, 2020
(Natasha Tripney’s article appeared in the Guardian, 12/30; Photo: A mirror on the world … Mark Rylance in Jerusalem at the Royal Court. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian. ) Whil…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:22PMTuesday, December 29, 2020
(Berlind played a role in producing more than 100 plays and musicals. And while he kept an eye on the bottom line, he could be seduced by sheer artistry; Photo: Even as he experienced flops,…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 02:13PMMonday, December 28, 2020
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 12/28. Photosgraph: Debonair … Noël Coward. Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock .) A new exhibition is devoted to the visual fl…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:36AMSunday, December 27, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 02:34PMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
Linked From 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…
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