(Chris Jones's review appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 2/4.) Like a sleeping Midwestern beast loosed from its cage of self-imposed timidity and graduate-school moralism, the old-school Stepp…
I only had to assume the manners and habits [of the character], on the stage or off, and in my soul there were born the feelings and perceptions that had given them birth. In this manner, in…
(Alexandra Guzeva's article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 1/28.) America in the early 20th century turned out to be an even more puritan country than Russia. In the spring of 1906…
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 1/20; via Pam Green.) There was blood on the floor as usual, and on the costumes, too, when "Oklahoma!" finished its Broadway …
From the intuition of feelings I went to the outer image, for it flowed naturally from the inner image, and the body and soul of [the character]-Stanislavski became one organically. (MLIA) �…
(Douglas Murray's article appreared in The Spectator, 1/27.) Tom Stoppard talks about inspiration, growing older and his new play, Leopoldstadt Sir Tom Stoppard is Britain's " perhaps the wo…
From the intuition of feelings I passed naturally to the inner image with its peculiarities and details. (MLIA)
(Lauren Shook's article appeared in Shakespeare and Beyond, 1/7; via Pam Green.) In 1608, famine plagued England. Preachers responded with sermons begging the gentry to show compassion for t…
I sincerely sympathized with Stockman ("The Enemy of the People") and understood his feelings when his eyes saw the rotten souls of the men who had once been his friends. I feared in those m…
(Robert Ito's article appeared in The New York Times, 1/17; via Pam Green.) The Ethiopian-Irish actress returns to a "completely destroying" stage role. Next: a film adaptation of a 1920s no…
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In those days (1905) "The Enemy of the People" (Ibsen) had not only artistic but social meaning and was to a great extent the expression of the time. It is not remarkable that the play at on…
(Ben Brantley's article appeared in The New York Times, 1/ 2; via Pam Green. Those who like Death of a Salesman may also enjoy End Zone, playing at Dixon Place, 2/25.) An electrifying re…
BE A PRODUCER! Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the January Panel, New Year, New Rules: The Updated Equity Agreements and Contracts, on Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 7:…
Dixon Place is thrilled to announce our 2020 season, featuring nine commissioned original productions and four puppetry productions, including Concrete Temple Theatre, Sara Juli, Eszter Bali…
Naturalism on the stage is only naturalism when it is justified by the inner experience of the actor. Once naturalism is justified, it either becomes necessary (especially in Tolstoy's plays…
We studied the buildings, and made plans of them, of the natural geography and topography of the courtyards, barns, outhouses, and main structures of the estate. We studied the customs, the …
(Jesse Green's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/27; via Pam Green.) A comedy number from the flop "Mack & Mabel" found the unexpected sweet spot between Irving Berlin and Steph…
(Peter Crawley's article appeared in the Irish Times, 12/7.) Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work  It was a dramatic year for th…
(Mark Kennedy's article appeared in Time Magazine, 10/27.) Tony Award-winning composer Jerry Herman, who wrote the cheerful, good-natured music and lyrics for such classic shows as Mame,�…
We exaggerated the outward and external side of manners. . . . . This resulted in naked naturalism. And the nearer it was to reality, the more ethnographical it was"the worse it was for us T…
(Matthew Aucoin's article appeared in the New York of Books 12/19.) Verdi: Creating "Otello" and "Falstaff""Highlights from the Ricordi Archive an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum…
(from the London Review of Books, 12/19, where he reads the entries.) 1 January 2019, Yorkshire. The New Inn, the village pub, always lays on a quarter of an hour of fireworks at midnight, w…
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/18; via Pam Green.) Lois Smith, Estelle Parsons and Vinie Burrows on age, agility, perseverance and steering clear of "self…