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 Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(Julia Jacobs's article appeared in The New York Times, 1/9; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, right, speaking with Maurine Knighton, program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Founda…
I am most truly successful, as an artist and otherwise, when I am my most authentic self, openly and honestly. Â I adapt my vision to the new theatrical reality"and it has all positive ou…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 1/17. Photo:  Satirical … a sketch for Karel ÄŒapek's RUR by BedÅ™ich Feuerstein. Photograph: Dea Picture Library/De …
(Photos: Mabou Mines) By Bob Shuman Some of us had never seen Lee Breuer working, without a stocking cap"but what is probably most surprising is that we saw a playwright, so hands-on, at all…
(Maya Phillips's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/29/2020 Photo: Brendan Edward Kennedy, center, in the title role of "Henry V" at Brave Spirits Theater in Virginia.Credit…Claire…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(from Mabou Mines) Dear Friends, It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Mabou Mines co-founder Lee Breuer on January 3, 2021. He died peacefully at home surrounde…
Maeterlinck is a charming, kind, and joyful host and companion. For days at a time we spoke about art, and he was very glad to know that actors were entering so deeply into the very being, m…
I adapt my vision to the new theatrical reality"and find deeper understanding and wider horizons. Theatre comes back strong in 2021"and heals us. Â
(Mark Brown's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/31; Photo: Tammy Faye Messner with Jim Bakker. Photograph: Associated Press.) Writer says singer's cancelled farewell tour resulted in '…
Theatre comes back strong in 2021"and heals us.
The hardest thing of all is to begin creative work, to find a goal, a foundation, a ground, a principle, or even a simple scenic piece of hokum and to be enthused by it. Enthusiasm, even the…
(Natasha Tripney's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/30; Photo: A mirror on the world … Mark Rylance in Jerusalem at the Royal Court. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian. ) Whil…
(Berlind played a role in producing more than 100 plays and musicals. And while he kept an eye on the bottom line, he could be seduced by sheer artistry; Photo: Even as he experienced flops,…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/28. Photosgraph: Debonair … Noël Coward. Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock .) A new exhibition is devoted to the visual …
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(Dorian Lynskey's article appeared on the BBC 12/7; Photo, Getty Images, BBC.com; via Pam Green. She gives little away about her private life, and touts a cartoonish public image: how did Do…
Two contrasting pieces of narration set to music. The BBC Singers and conductor Nicolas Chalmers present Hymn " Alan Bennett's early musical recollections, originally set to music written fo…
The production of the stage director and the playing of the actors, may be realistic, conventionalized, modernistic, naturalistic, impressionistic, futuristic,"it is all the same so long as …
(Anita Gates's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/23; Â Photo: Â Rebecca Luker as Maria, surrounded by the von Trapp children, in the 1998 Broadway revival of "The Sound of Music…
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/23; Photo: Clockwise from top left: Death of England, The Outside Dog, Pass Over, Oleanna and Crave. Composite: Nobby Clark, Marc Brenner,…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
MABOU MINES/BECKETT:Â 'IMAGINATION DEAD IMAGINE'"DIRECTED BY RUTH MALECZECH (12/21-12/17) Ruth Nelson (Voice) & Clove Galilee (Figure) __________________________________ Light, voice, …
(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/17; via Pam Green; Photo: At the National Theater in London in September. The city's theaters were closed and reopened twice in 2020, …
