MOLIERE IN THE PARK ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORLD PREMIERE OF TARTUFFE OR THE HYPOCRITE, DIRECTED BY LUCIE TIBERGHIEN by Robert Shuman

(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity, www.DarrPublicity.com) Molière in the Park, in partnership with Prospect Park Alliance and LeFrak Center at Lakeside, will present the English language wor…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:25pm on March 23, 2023[SHARE]

DRUID TO STAGE THREE-IN-ONE O'CASEY TRILOGY THIS YEAR by Robert Shuman

(From RTE, 3/21; Photo: Sean O'Casey with Irish actress Siobhan McKenna in March 1953.) Druid Theatre has announced plans to stage three landmark works by Seán O'Casey later this year. Th…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:19pm on March 22, 2023[SHARE]

NOËL COWARD WAS NOT JUST AN AMIABLE JESTER BUT A SCATHING SOCIAL SATIRIST by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/21; Will Young as Nicky Lancaster and Diana Hardcastle as Florence Lancaster in The Vortex at the Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 8:30pm on March 21, 2023[SHARE]

PLAYS FROM THE DISASTER: ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY, HOW DRAMATISTS DOCUMENTED IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN by Robert Shuman

  As Karen Malpede points out in her introduction to Acts of War, tragedy "arose as a complement to, perhaps also as an antidote to, war." The greatest of the early playwrights wrot…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:01am on March 20, 2023[SHARE]

FINAL SONDHEIM MUSICAL WILL BE STAGED IN NEW YORK THIS FALL by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/16/2023; via Pam Green; Photo: Stephen Sondheim's long-in-the-works Luis Buñuel musical will be staged in September at the She…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:12pm on March 19, 2023[SHARE]

SIR DEREK JACOBI: 'THE SOUND AND MAGIC OF VOICE ARE DISAPPEARING FROM THEATRE' by Robert Shuman

(Dalya Alberge's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/18; via Pam Green.) The acclaimed actor " who is to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year's Olivier Awards " says the demise …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 7:19pm on March 18, 2023[SHARE]

VIRAL IRAN DANCE VIDEO INSPIRES IMITATORS TO DEFY REGIME by Robert Shuman

(Ray Furlong's and Golnaz Esfandiari's reporting appeared on Radio Liberty, 3/14.) Five Tehran girls were reported to have voiced contrition after posting a dance video that went viral among…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:06pm on March 17, 2023[SHARE]

REVIEW: IN 'DEAR WORLD,' DONNA MURPHY LEADS A RIGHTEOUS MARCH by Robert Shuman

(Juan A. Ramirez's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/16; via Pam Green' Photo: Donna Murphy, center, as Countess Aurelia in the Encores! production of "Dear World" at the New York Ci…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:29pm on March 16, 2023[SHARE]

EURIPIDES PERSUADES US THAT LOVE IS WHAT MAKES US HUMAN by Robert Shuman

(Michael Bulley's letter appeared in the Guardian, 3/14; Photo: the Guardian.) We ruin, waste and trivialise human life by ignoring that, writes Michael Bulley Charlotte Higgins is right …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 1:40pm on March 15, 2023[SHARE]

LESYA UKRAINKA: UKRAINE'S GREAT POET"AND PLAYWRIGHT"OF HOPE by Robert Shuman

(Kate Laycock's article appeared on DW, 3/8; Photo: DW.)   Ukrainian literary scholar and journalist, Tetyana Ogarkova, pays tribute to Lesya Ukrainka: the poet, playwright and activist w…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:41pm on March 12, 2023[SHARE]

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (147) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Even the externalizing of a role is greatly influenced by the subconscious. In fact no artificial, theatrical technique can even compare with…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 2:20pm on March 11, 2023[SHARE]

TRAVELLING HOMER: HOW THE NATIONAL THEATRE IS STAGING A MULTI-CITY ODYSSEY by Robert Shuman

(Jessica Murray's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/8; Photo: Patsy Browne-Hope and Frank Hickman in rehearsals for The Lotus Eaters, the first episode of NT Public Acts' new five-part Ody…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:57pm on March 10, 2023[SHARE]

ACCLAIMED PLAYWRIGHT DAVID HARE OPENS UP ON HIS NEXT BIG CHALLENGE by Robert Shuman

(Kerrie O'Brien's article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 3/6/2023; Photo: Sydney Morning Herald.) What David Hare wants to write about at the moment is pretty simple: the fact that t…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 2:00pm on March 8, 2023[SHARE]

THE RUMBLE OVER RUSSIAN COMPOSER TCHAIKOVSKY AT AN ELITE UKRAINIAN CONSERVATORY by Robert Shuman

(Rostyslav Khotin's article appeared on Radio Free Europe, 3 /4.) Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky had Ukrainian roots and was influenced by Ukrainian motifs. Should he stay or shou…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:54pm on March 5, 2023[SHARE]

'DOGS OF EUROPE' (BELARUS FREE THEATRE, ADELAIDE FESTIVAL) by Robert Shuman

(Jansson J. Antmann's article appeared in Limelight Magazine, 3/2/2023;  Photo: Dogs of Europe. Photo © Adam Forte, Daylight Breaks.) Exiled from their homeland, the performers of Bela…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:40pm on March 4, 2023[SHARE]

HOW ART, MUSIC AND DANCE AFFECT YOUR BRAIN AND BODY by Robert Shuman

(Bethany Brookshire's article appeared in The Washington Post, 3/2; via the Drudge Report; Illustration: How art, music and dance affect your brain and body© George Wylesol for The Was…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:53pm on March 2, 2023[SHARE]

UKRAINE'S NATIONAL OPERA LOSES MEMBERS TO RUSSIA'S WAR, SAYS ART IS ALWAYS POLITICAL by Robert Shuman

(Olena Makarenko's reporting appeared in the Kyiv Independent, 2/2/23.) Following a three-month break after the start of Russia's all-out war, the National Opera of Ukraine resumed its perfo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:32am on February 28, 2023[SHARE]

'NOBODY CAN GO BACK " WE ALL FACE JAIL': THE DISSIDENT THEATRE COMPANY OPENING ADELAIDE FESTIVAL by Robert Shuman

(Kelly Burke's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/26/23; Photo: … Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada of Belarus Free Theatre in London. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters.) Belarus Free…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 7:31pm on February 27, 2023[SHARE]

'MEDEA' REVIEW " SOPHIE OKONEDO IS MAGNIFICENT AS ANCIENT GREECE'S PREEMINENT REBEL WOMAN by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/17; via Pam Green; Photo: Never an outright monster … Sophie Okonedo, right, and Ben Daniels in Medea. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Med…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:37pm on February 25, 2023[SHARE]

FOR BURT BACHARACH, 'PROMISES, PROMISES' WAS ONE BROADWAY HIT TOO MANY by Robert Shuman

(Laurence Maslon's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/13; via Pam Green; Photo:Burt Bacharach, at the piano, arrived in New York as rehearsals began in September 1968. He was joined b…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:10am on February 19, 2023[SHARE]

RAQUEL WELCH, 'ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.' AND 'THREE MUSKETEERS' ICON, DIES AT 82 by Robert Shuman

(Carmel Dagan's article appeared in Variety, 2/15; via Pam Green; Photo: Corbis via Getty Images.) Raquel Welch, the actor who became an icon and sex symbol thanks to films like "One Million…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:12pm on February 15, 2023[SHARE]

'IT'S A GRIEF AND A HEALING': WHY DANCE-MAKERS LOVE THE RITE OF SPRING by Robert Shuman

(Sarah Crompton's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/12/23; Photo:  'I think you must do it just by feel': Dada Masilo's interpretation of The Rite of Spring, based on the traditional da…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:14am on February 14, 2023[SHARE]

NEW OHIO THEATRE TO CLOSE AUGUST 31, 2023 by Robert Shuman

(via David Gibbs/DARR Publicity, 2/13.) New York, NY " After 30 years as an indispensable pillar of the downtown independent theatre community, New Ohio Theatre will conclude operations at 1…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 7:21pm on February 13, 2023[SHARE]

THE TEMPEST REVIEW " ALEX KINGSTON IS A MAGNIFICENT PROSPERO by Robert Shuman

(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/2; via Pam Green; Revelatory … Alex Kingston as Prospero. Photograph: Ikin Yum.) Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Climat…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:33pm on February 11, 2023[SHARE]

BURT BACHARACH, LEGENDARY POP COMPOSER, DIES AT 94 by Robert Shuman

(Chris Morris's article appeared in Variety, 2/9; via Pam Green; Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images.) Songwriter, composer, producer and arranger Burt Bacharach, a dominant force in American…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:02pm on February 10, 2023[SHARE]