(Miriam Gillinsons'article appeared in the Guardian, 7/24.) Â Leicester Curve Nikolai Foster's new version is more like a play with dance and songs, giving ideas around love and loss, comm…
(Via Andrea Alton/Alton PR; Photo: Tanya O'Debra and Gregg Bellón in Shut UP, Emily Dickinson. Photo by Molly Broxton.) Tanya O'Debra's award-winning play Shut UP, Emily Dickinson, will b…
(from Radio Free Europe, 7/20/22.) Influential Russian playwright Mikhail Durnenkov fled Russia for Finland shortly after Moscow's February 24 invasion of Ukraine. Durnenkov's opposition to …
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20.) Chichester Festival theatre Instantly infectious melodies, superb choreography and irresistible comedy are met with astonishing perfor…
(via Phylliswheeler.com) Phyllis Wheeler's novel The Long Shadow, represented by Marit Literary Agency, has won a Purple Dragonfly Award! These awards are judged by Story Monsters …
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The very best that can happen​ is to have the actor completely carried away by the play. Then regardless of his own will he lives …
 (Dalya Alberge's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/17; via Pam Green.) Remedies used by healer Susanna Hall and her doctor husband will be planted at Stratford home In Shakespeare's…
(Sara Keating's article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/16/22.) For Methven, who stars as Prospero in Rough Magic's The Tempest, the rehearsal room is the beating heart of a theatre productio…
(Oliver Salazar-Winspear's, Natastacha Milleret's, Magali Faure's, and Marion Chaval's report appeared on France 24, 7/14/22.) Avignon may be France's oldest arts festival, but it has a reso…
(Andrew Gans's article appeared on Playbill, 7/14.)  This week Playbill catches up with two-time Tony nominee Alison Fraser, cast as Big Mama in Ruth Stage's production of Tennesse…
(Torsten Landsberg's article appeared in DW, 7/12.) ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus has adapted a Pippi Longstocking story, written by popular Swedish children's books author Astrid Lindgren, into a m…
(Michael Hogan's article appeared in the Observer, 7/10; via Pam Green.) The actor's breakup with comedian Seann Walsh went viral after he cheated on her with his dance partner and she respo…
(Carmel Dagan's article appeared in Variety, 7/7; via Pam Green.) James Caan, whose indelible, Oscar-nominated performance as Sonny Corleone, the recklessly hotheaded son of Marlon Brando's …
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: ​Above all look for what is fine in art and try to understand it. (AP)
(Sara Keating's article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/2.) Your Wellness In response to Galway's high suicide rate, more than 150 participants will tightrope-walk across the Corrib this mont…
(Benedict Nightingale's article appeared in The New York Times, 7/3/22; He was called "the greatest innovator of his generation," leaving an indelible mark with plays, musicals, opera and a …
(Miriam Gillinson's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/1.) Â Park theatre, London Joshua Collins is magnetic as a US soldier awaiting trial for murder in this hard-hitting drama hamstrung…
Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker wrote that Donald Trump's need to be comforted by Broadway music "degrades both the office of the Presidency and a great American institution" (Rachel Hagan's a…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: ​I was ready to turn myself inside out​, to give [the audience] everything I had; yet inside of me I had never felt so empty.…
(Lyndsey Winship's article appeared in the Guardian, 6/26; via Pam Green.) Due to open in Stratford next year, the sibling to the Islington institution will have a special emphasis on local …
(Susan Orlean's article appeared in the New Yorker, 6/22.) Puppeteering is rarely an obvious career choice, but how Margo Lovelace (1922-2022) came to be a puppeteer is actually quite logica…
(Catherine Bennett's article appeared in the Observer, 6/19;via Pam Green.) One irritating theatre reviewer shouldn't hide the fact that too many writers pull punches Legally Blonde at Regen…
(Benjamin Lee's article appeared in the Guardian, 6/22.) The award-winning writer, whose hit musical originally opened on Broadway in the late 60s, died in New York City of cardiorespiratory…
(from France24, 6/17.) In this edition we focus on France's foremost playwright. Molière's witticisms and deft handling of the French language still dazzle, four centuries after he was b…
(Jennifer Schuessler's article appeared in The New York Times, 6/15; via Pam Green; Photo:Â Will Arbery with Jamie Brewer, one of the stars of his play "Corsicana," which was inspired by …