(Shaun Walker's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/16; Photo: The bombed theatre in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine. Reuters.) When the bombs hit the Mariupol Drama theat…
The next few weeks promise new excitement on Broadway with noteworthy productions due to open: An Enemy of the People(Golden Theatre, 252 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036). Previews begi…
(From Shakespeare Plus, Folger Magazine blog, 3/15/2024; This article was originally published in the Spring 2010 issue of Folger Magazine. Listen to an NPR interview from 2009 with Ge…
A look at current issues, challenges, and controversies spilling beyond the proscenium. The following three stories, discussed by prominent stage journalists, provided tension and debate …
Walt Kelly's Songs of the Pogo Presented by Frank Farrell Productions " Ridgewood, New Jersey WALT KELLY'S SONGS OF THE POGO recreates the hysterical, imaginative and wonderful world of cart…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: If an action has no inner foundation, it cannot hold your attention. If you were compelled (to do something) . . . for a particular purpose (…
(Kateryna Bankova's and Will Tizard's report appeared on Radio Free Europe, 3/12.) Petro Konoplya, a celebrated Ukrainian stage and film actor, once just played soldiers onscreen. Now, after…
(from the Guardian, 3/12/2024; Photo: Tom Francis as Joe Gillis and Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Photograph: Marc Brenner. ) Sunset Boulevard and Dear Engl…
Off-off Broadway, a vibrant realm of artistic exploration, is set to showcase an eclectic array of productions, each promising to captivate audiences with its unique narrative and thematic d…
(Nick Ahad's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/10/2024. Magnetic … Anoushka Lucas and Simon Manyonda in The Crucible at Crucible, Sheffield. Photograph: Manuel Harlan.) Crucible, She…
Just as Andrei Sakharov tirelessly championed human dignity in the face of Soviet oppression, and Narges Mohammadi continues her fight for freedom of expression in Iran, we must stand gua…
(Bohdan Nahaylo's article appeared in the Kyiv Post, 3/19; Â This article was originally published in the May 2019 issue of the monthly in-flight magazine of Ukraine's International Airlin…
(Edward Bond's essay appeared in the Guardian, 3/6/2024; From the archive:Â In this piece first published on 28 June 1995, the late playwright asks if Shakespeare was a Tory and suggests w…
The past week's international stage highlights, brought to you via the world's foremost journalism.  Gemini, the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity, provided informati…
(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the guardian, 3/8; Near deranged … James Lance as Vanya. Photograph: Manuel Harlan.) Orange Tree theatre, London This chamber staging, movingly played…
(Bard [Gemini], the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity AI, the innovative AI search engine and knowledge discovery platform, provided information, insights, and materials fo…
(Mathias Cena's article appeared on Yahoo News, 3/6; via Drudge Report; Photo: Mayuko Kashiwazaki (2nd R) gets into costume before a dress rehearsal for 'Dojoji', a drama about the revenge o…
Released On: 03 Mar 2024 Available for 27 days Listen Spanish Golden Age comedy starring Olivia Poulet and Joe Thomas. Lope de Vega, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was one of Spain's …
On March 6, 1997, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London reopened its gates, marking a triumphant resurrection of Elizabethan-era theater. Spearheaded by American actor and director Sam Wanam…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/5; Photo:Â Increasingly polemical … Edward Bond. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian.) One of the greatest dramatists of the…
(Max Zander's article appeared on DW, 3/3/2024; Photo: DW.) A dance school in Kharkiv offers children a reprieve from the war. The Ukrainian city has been targeted by Russian air strikes for…
(Bard [Gemini], the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity AI, the innovative AI search engine and knowledge discovery platform, provided information, insights, and materials fo…
The Theater for the New City proudly presents the 25th Anniversary production of "Orson's Shadow" by Austin Pendleton, and, for the first time, the play is directed by the author himself (th…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: What needs to burn is your imagination. (AP) Â
(Peter Conrad's article appeared in the Observer, 2/27.) Tricia Romano's entertaining oral history of the radical New York newspaper is an elegy to a rough and ready era of punch-ups and pas…