(Julia Jacobs's article appeared in The New York Times, 6/4; via Pam Green; Photo: National Black Theater is working with developers to replace its longtime home. This rendering shows a plan…
(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity) New York, NY " New Ohio Theatre is excited to announce that the 28th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival will return to live in-person performanc…
(Nicolai Khalezin's article appeared in The Brussels Times, 6/2; Photo: Nicolai Khalezin performing in Generation Jeans, an autobiographical duologue about rock music and resistance.) This i…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
Great reads for summer 2021, represented by Marit Literary Agency: REAGAN'S COWBOYS: INSIDE THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN'S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRAROÂ by John B. Roberts I…
(Stuart Miller's article appeared in The New York Times, 5/26; via Pam Green; Photo:Â Lucie Tiberghien directing the staged reading of "Tartuffe" for Molière in the Park, the company she…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: What torture it is to feel truthfully but to incarnify your true feelings falsely and in unworthy form. I bore these pains for two seasons in…
(David Brennan's article appeared in Newsweek, 5/28; Photo: Newsweek.) Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko shocked the world when a fake bomb threat forced a passenger plane to divert …
(Lan's article appeared in the Guardian 5/26; Photo: Then, as now, theatre was in every sense political' …David Lan. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian.) The theatre director and writer…
(Haley Bosselman's article appeared in Variety, 5/25; Photo: Variety.) Samuel E. Wright, the actor who voiced Sebastian in "The Little Mermaid," has died. He was 74. The news of his death wa…
(Alastair Lockhart's article appeared on Express, 5/25.) The video released of arrested Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich is a "hostage video," a Belarusian exile has said. View:Â ht…
(David Storey's article appeared in the Guardian, 5/23; Photo: David Storey at home in Belsize Park, London, 1961, with his paintings in the background. Photograph: Courtesy of the Storey…
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 5/19; via Pam Green; Photo:Â The Drama Book Shop, in a former location. When it reopens next month, it will also have a cafe.Cre…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(Larry Getlen's article appeared in the New York Post, 5/21; via the Drudge Report;Â Photo: the New York Post.) Before she became America's sweetheart, Lucille Ball's path to stardom was …
(Williamson's article appeared in the Spectator, 5/17; Photo:Â Wise blood: Flannery O'Connor in 1952.) Was Flannery O'Connor a racist, or was she not? Since the racial riots last summer, …
(Charles Bramesco's article appeared in the Guardian, 5/19; Photo: A still of Orson Welles from New Deal for Artists. Photograph: Corinth Films.) For its 40th anniversary, the Orson W…
(Olivia Salazar-Winspear's article appeared on France 24, 5/13.)  As a storytelling tool, a ritual or a release, dance has been with us since our earliest days as humans. As live perf…
(Neil Genzlinger's article appeared in The New York Times, 5/18; Photo: The actor Charles Grodin with the title dog in the hit 1992 family movie "Beethoven."Â "I don't complain," he said, …
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: First-class workers must receive first-class pay. (MLIA) Â
(Alexis Soloski's article appeared in The New York Times, 5/12; via Pam Green; Photo: Denée Benton, left, and Louisa Jacobson during filming of the coming HBO historical drama "The Gilded A…
(Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 5/11; Photo: Cracks in a marriage … Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti in The Salesman. Photograph: Allstar/Memento Films Production. …
(Alexandra Guzeva's article appeared on Russia Beyond, 5/15;Â Photo: Press photo; Public domain.) One of the most mysterious and funniest Russian writers, he had a turbulent, complicated …
(Nick Miller's article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 5/14; Photo: Pope Alice will appear at the 2021 Dark Mofo festival.) Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Hobart…
The Bacchae Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euripides' great tragedy, which was first performed in Athens in 405 BC when the Athenians were on the point of defeat and …