(Chris Wiegand's artciel appeared in the Guardian, 2/23;  Lena Olin and Erland Josephson with the Hedda Gabler sofa in After the Rehearsal. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy.) Ingma…
(Claire Thomas's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/22.) I first saw Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne in 2009. I remember the barren stage and the entombed …
(from RT, 2/21.) On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses with Emily Allen-Hornblower and Marquis McCray the power of the classics, such as Sophocles' play Philoctetes, to elucida…
(Jesse Green's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/19; via Pam Green; Photo:Â From left, Maria Friedman, John Owen Edwards, John Yap and Stephen Sondheim working on the recording of…
(Neil Genzlinger's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/11; Photo: Jean-Claude Carrière in 1999. He had more than 150 film and television writing credits and also wrote books and plays…
I take the time needed to express my creativity"and it is always in demand.  Inspiration and invention lead me, and my ship comes in now.  I can easily solve any problem and corr…
(Olivia Salazar-Winspear's interviews appeared 2/19 on France24.) As part of France24's week-long series about how the arts are dealing with Covid-19, we take a look at the impact of the hea…
(Tim Diovanni's article appeared in the Dallas Morning News, 2/19; SMU professor Aaron Boyd poses with his violin on Thursday.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer; via the Drudge Report.) Wi…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Much which seemed natural to me was in reality born of old theatrical frumpery. The most terrible thing of all is when self-conceit deceives …
(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency.) Baryshnikov Arts Center and Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation Co-Present Arlekin Players Theatre's The Cherry Orchard: A New Media Workshop…
(from Shakespeare & Beyond, February 16, 2021.)  | Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth in 1936. Courtesy Library of Congress A struggling economy. Unemployed artis…
 (Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/16; Photo: Slapstick and sentimental songs … Pat Kirkwood in the 1956 musical comedy Stars in Your Eyes. Photograph: networkona…
(from Yonhap 12/12; PHOTO: provided by Acom, shows a scene from the musical "The Last Empress." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) " The South Korean musical scene is elat…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/15; via Pam Green; Photo: 'High creative aspirations' … Claire Bloom, photographed in 2016. Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian.…
(James Varney's article appeared in The Washington Times, 2/15; via the Drudge Report.) The crown teachers once put on Shakespeare now lies uneasy upon his head as the English playwright com…
(Nobuko Tanaka's article appeared in The Japan Times, 2/10; Photo: Behind closed doors: Playwright J.T. Rogers' drama, "Oslo," is based on the true-life clandestine meetings that took place …
(Seán Hewitt's article appeared in the Irish Times, 2/13; Illustration: JM Synge: For many years, his drama was too close to home.) In the year of the dramatist's 150th anniversary, his w…
 Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(from France 24, 2/13; Photo: France 24; via the Drudge Report.) French-Iranian Rana Gorgani, 37, used to think of whirling as something that should remain behind closed doors JOEL SAGET …
 (Keith C. Burris's article appeared in the Journal Inquirer, 2/8.) I have known, in my life, many men who thought of themselves as "great," and were anything but. And I have known a pre…
(Theo Merz's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/10; photo: Serebrennikov was last year found guilty of fraud after prosecutors accused him and others of siphoning off funds intended for cul…
By: Adam Sullivan Through COME_TO_EGYPT, international film star Khaled Nabawy, is encouraging those from all over the world, to see the Nile and visit the pyramids. He  recently met …
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces TRUSpeak … Hear Our Voices! Virtual Fundraiser on Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 5pm (eastern time) via Zoom, presented with the generous…
(Emily Langer's article appeared in the Washington Post, 2/10; via Karen Schimmel; Â PHOTO: Â Maria Guarnaschelli, right, with her daughter, chef Alex Guarnaschelli, in New York in 2013.…
(Hilton Als's article appeared in The New Yorker, 2/8. PHOTO: Photograph from AKG / TT News Agency. ) The Danish memoirist built a literature of disaster, brick by brick. Don't think yoursel…