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One must be a great connoisseur and specialist in our art to differentiate the work of every co-creator of a performance and to judge it at its real value. But the crowd meets the actor face…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
Don't miss Jim Turner & Ellie Covan's Unbirthday! A Very Merry Unbirthday To Us The Raising Cain Campaign Wrap Party Field Marshalled by the Birthday Kids Jim Turner & Ellie Co…
(Shawn's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, October 27, 2020; Photo:kcrw.com. ) I wonder if anyone but me remembers that during the years after the end of World War II, there …
(Donna Ferguson's article appeared in the Guardian, 10/25; Photo: JM Barrie, who shared a deep friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson. Photograph: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images; via…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(Andrew Kleidon's article appeared in the Door County Pulse, Â 10/23; Photo of Hallie Flanagan, Door County Post. ) A Quick and Decisive Blow to Progressive Theater In fewer than three yea…
How many productions in the theatres of all time can be mentioned where giftless actors hid behind an artistic stage director. How many times the background overcame the most important thing…
(Kate Wyver's article appeared in the Guardian, 10/18; Photo: Clown theatre company Silent Faces would legally have to wait until 2059 (70 years after Samuel Beckett's death) to perform Wait…
 Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(via Michelle Tabnick, Michelle Tabnick Public Relations) Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is offering their popular Writer-Producer Virtual Speed Date event on Sunday, November 8…
(Jesse Green's and Ben Brantley's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/13; Photo of Karen Finley: Credit…Dona Ann McAdams;Â via Pam Green.) After 27 years and more than 2,500 revi…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved. Â
(Alexandra Guzeva's article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 10/15.) Long before the Bolshoi was founded in Moscow, this leading Russian theater was a favorite with emperors and empr…
(Friedman's article appeared in the Guardian, 10/15; Photo: Chaotic and farcical … The Pin " Ben Ashenden, left, and Alex Owen " are coming to the West End. Photograph: Oliver Rosser/Feast…
(Brent Lang's article appeared in Variety, 10/15.) Tony Awards "Jagged Little Pill," a ferocious reimagining of Alanis Morissette's album of the same name, captured a leading 15 Tony Award n…
It is easy to dream and create theories in art, but it is hard to practice them. It would seem that there is nothing simpler than naked passion and nothing else. But the simpler the thing is…
 Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved. Â
(Ben Brantley's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/13; via Pam Green.) After 27 years on the job, the writer Ben Brantley bids farewell with one last recommendation: Watch a show as …
DRAMA DESK AWARD-WINNING WORKINGÂ THEATER LEADS THE NEW DIGITAL AGE OF THEATER ANNOUNCING 2020-2021 SEASON PRESENTING WORKS BY LEILA BUCK, MICHAEL PREMO, RACHEL FALCONE and LISA RAMIREZ WO…
(Rachel Syme's article appeared in The New Yorker, 10/11; Â From his converted farmhouse, in upstate New York, the actor talks about his four-decade career and his social-media stardom in …
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(Mark Kennedy's article appeared on the AP, 10/8; via the Drudge Report.) NEW YORK (AP) " Fans of Broadway will have to wait a little longer for shows to resume " until at least late May. Al…
(Vinson Cunningham's article appeared in The New Yorker, 10/5.) With so much time away from in-person performance, we are undergoing a worldwide reconstrual of what it means to be a…
I understood that on the stage truth is that in which the actor sincerely believes. I understood that even a palpable lie must become a truth in the theatre so that it may become art. For th…
