(Andrew Dickson's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/7; via Pam Green; Photo: Tom Varey and Madeleine Mantock as William and Agnes, the characters based on Shakespeare and Hathaway.Credit�…
(Jack Thorne's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/7; via Pam Green; To thine own self be true … John Gielgud directs Richard Burton in rehearsals for Hamlet. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettm…
(Jesse Green's article appeared in The New York Time, 4/4; via Pam Green; Photo:Â John Kander at home on the Upper West Side. His latest Broadway production, "New York, New York," is sche…
  (Austin Malloy's report appeared on Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, 4/4.) A new photo project by Ukrainian photographer Marta Syrko captures stunning images of soldiers and civilia…
(Anya Ryan's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/2; Photo: Boyish energy … For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy. Photograph: Ali Wright.)  Apollo th…
(John Shand's article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 4/5; Â Photo: The play essentially a one-hander, although Jessica Bentley is also intermittently present.CREDIT:PRUEDENCE UPTON…
(Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/2; Photo: Host Hannah Waddingham at the Olivier awards. Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for SOLT.) Olivier awards: full list of w…
By Bob Shuman Iceland, both the title and central metaphor for an opera by O-Lan Jones (director) and Emmet Tilley (music)"now playing at La MaMa through April 2"is like this year's slow cra…
(Jesse Green's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/26; via Pam Green; Photo: Dark and vengeful: Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford and ensemble members in the new Broadway revival of "Swee…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Only our kind of [acting] art, soaked as it is in the living experiences of human beings, can artistically reproduce the impalpable shadings …
(Arifa Akhar's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/39; Photo: 'Beautiful moments of physical theatre' … Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead at the Barbican, London. Photograph: M…
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/24; via Pam Green; Photo: Andrew Burnap, top, as Arthur in the new Broadway revival of "Camelot," with Jordan Donica as Lancelot …
(Dalya Alberge's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/23.) An almost unknown sonnet in the playbook or script of a 1603 play by Ben Jonson could be a "lost" work by William Shakespeare, ac…
 (via Michelle Tabnick PR)  La MaMa presents in association with Overtone Industries ICELAND a re-Creation Myth an interdisciplinary opera theater work by O-Lan Jones and Emmet…
(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…
(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…
(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…
 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…
(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…
(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 …
(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…
(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…
(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 …
(Kate Laycock's article appeared on DW, 3/8; Photo: DW.) Â Ukrainian literary scholar and journalist, Tetyana Ogarkova, pays tribute to Lesya Ukrainka: the poet, playwright and activist w…
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…