By Bob Shuman SCENE: In the woods. A small clearing, off a parking lot"hardly more than a triangle where two parallel felled logs act as benches. MARY JANE, early 70's, sits on a log. As…
(Maureen Lee Lenker's article appeared in Entertainment Weekly, 4/21; photo: EW; via Pam Green.) It's time for a virtual celebration of 90 years of Stephen Sondheim being alive. EW…
(Natasha Tripney's interview appeared in the Guardian, 4/21.) Natalia Kaliada and Nikolai Khalezin explain how political exile prepared them for lockdown and why their latest project is abou…
(from The New York Times, 4/16; photo: The New York Times;Â via Pam Green.) The Belarus Free Theater, founded in 2005 by dissident artists in the former Soviet republic, has operated clan…
(By Frank Gagliano, 4/19.) When I think of Wynn Handman's recent death, I feel guilty for not staying in touch with him over the years. And I feel (in this plague year, when all theaters …
In moments of inspiration, when, due to reasons unexplainable to us, one feels not the conception of the words themselves, but the deep meaning that is hidden in them, one finds the simplici…
Dear Friends, Of all of New York City's traditions, our favorite is this: every summer, we gather under the stars at the magical Delacorte Theater for Free Shakespeare in the Park. We co…
(Carmel Dagan's article appeared in Variety, 4/16.) Brian Dennehy, the winner of two Tonys in a career that also spanned films including "Tommy Boy," "First Blood" and "Cocoon," and televisi…
(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 4/9; via Pam Green.) LONDON " We live in unprecedented times " or so they tell us. The coronavirus lockdown, which began in Britain on Ma…
(Nathaniel Rich's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 4/23.) American Humbug Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson Simon and Schuster, 341 pp., $28.00 Since his heyday in t…
ROGER HENDRICKS SIMON has just won the BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE award from INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS 2020 for DANIEL KEITH's multi award winning feature film LOVE…
Beloved Artists! I know we're all settling into our new lives inside and we here at Dixon Place are leaning into our new lives online. We have an Online Event Page that lists …
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 4/1; Photo: Among the playwrights commissioned to write short plays that can be read or performed by people sheltering in place: Â…
By Bob Shuman SCENE: A dog park in the Bronx. NARRATOR: As Mary Jane suspected, the dog park was closed, on 4/6/2020, along with all runs throughout the city. Fearing Coronavirus…
(Chris Wiegands' Guardian interview appeared 4/7.) (Go to National Theatre at Home) As her bold staging of the classic novel is screened as part of National Theatre at Home, the director dis…
(Greg Evans's article appeared on Deadline, 4/8; via the Drudge Report.) Broadway will remain closed through June 7, a two-month extension of the current coronavirus shutdown that w…
(From Reuters, 4/7; via the Drudge Report. ) MILAN, April 7 (Reuters) " Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli, one of the world's most famous tenors, will perform from Milan's empty Duomo cath…
(Stacy Perman's article appeared in the Los Angeles Times, 4/4; photo:Â Patricia Bosworth, left, with Audrey Hepburn in "The Nun's Story." [Patricia Bosworth]). Patricia Bosworth, known fo…
In us there are two types of movement and gestures, one normal, natural and lifelike, used in everyday life; the other abnormal, unnatural, non-lifelike, used to imitate something that you c…
By Bob Shuman Photo of Juno (Junie) SCENE: A dog park in the Bronx. There are two benches. The first is near the entrance to the run"the second is toward the opposite end. MARY JANE, early 7…
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(Emma Smith's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/1.) With theatres closed, now is the time to find pleasure in Shakespeare's texts. His first fans used them for chat-up lines " and read the…
New for Stage Voices, from our Mideast correspondent. Keep an eye out for: KINGDOMS OF FIRE By: Adam Sullivan International Egyptian Actor Khaled Nabawy as Tuman in Kingdoms of Fire T…
(Brian Hiatt's article appeared in Rolling Stone, 3/27; Photo: Rolling Stone.) Bob Dylan, who hasn't released an original song since 2012's Tempest, unexpectedly dropped a previously u…
(Richard Brody's article appeared in the New Yorker, 3/27; Photo Source: Atlas Media via Pam Green.) March 27, 2020 The coronavirus lockdown adds wild emotional lurches to the movie-vi…