(via Gwendolyn Quinn) (New York, NY " October 7, 2019) " The family of international opera star Jessye Norman announces today through the family spokesperson, Gwendolyn Quinn, the H…
Listen The Mother by Bertolt Brecht with original musical score by Hanns Eisler. Translated by Mark Ravenhill, from a literal translation by Marc Funda, with song lyrics translated by St…
It is necessary to play a role hundreds of times, to crystallize its essence, to perfect the crystal, and in showing it, to interpret the quintessence of its contents. (MLIA)
LET'S GO: AUSTIN PENDLETON AND PETER BLOCH RETEAM TO HELM CHILLING NEW VERSION OF THE GLASS MENAGERIE TO USHER IN THE HALLOWEEN SEASON AT THE WILD PROJECT Â New York, New York " Ruth Stage…
It is a hard nut to crack"the Symbol. It is successful when it has its source not in the mind, but in the inner soul. In this sense symbol and grotesque are alike. (MLIA)
Gillian Slovo Listen Novelist Gillian Slovo's letter to her mother, the anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First. Part of a series in which writers from around the world read letters on the theme…
(Margalit Fox's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/4; via Pam Green.) Diahann Carroll, who more than half a century ago transcended racial barriers as the star of "Julia," the fir…
By Bob Shuman  A cello stands at the center of This Is Why We Live, at La Mama, which closed September 29 and Oedipus, Sex with Mum was Blinding, at BAM Fisher, which also ended…
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/26; via Pam Green.) An easily legible production of the ancient Greek tragedy borrows from the tradition of Noh theater at t…
The fantastic is a glass of foaming champagne. . . . In The Snow Maiden there is exceptionally beautiful Russian epos, and in The Blue Bird an artistically interpreted symbol. It is engaging…
(via Gwendolyn Quinn) (New York, NY " September 30, 2019) " It is with deep sadness and sorrow that we announce the passing of international opera star Jessye Norman, in a statement issue…
(Michael Cooper's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/24; via Pam Green.) The star singer, accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, dropped out of Verdi's "Macbeth" and indicate…
We are sentimental . . . we actors, and we love to play the part of injured innocence not only on the stage, but in life also. (MLIA)
(Boyd Tonkin's article appeared in the Spectator, 9/26.) The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen reviewed Pick up a Penguin Classic from a cult Danish author w…
My business of stage directing was done, it was behind me; the matter lay in the hands of the actors now. Only they could bring the performance to life, and I could do nothing more than …
(Derek O'Connor's article appeared in The Irish Times, 9/23.) Derek O'Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre I never saw Diego Maradona play football. I never saw Nijin…
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/13; via Pam Green.) Â Ntozake Shange's play, with its unflinching depiction of black women's experience, is coming back t…
"If we could only see the image, see how he walks, talks, laughs, and come to know the quality of his voice," we said to ourselves when we approached the role. "If we can find the image,…
Part of Citywide Recognition Peter Brook/NY, This Free Event Will Be Captured by Partner Organization WNET/ALL ARTS for Future Broadcast Thursday, September 26 at approximately 8:45pm Pol…
In order to rejuvenate art, we declared war on all the conventionalities of the theatre wherever they might occur"in the acting, in the properties, in the scenery, the costumes, the interpre…
Listen In 2011 Ai Weiwei was arrested without notice by the Chinese authorities and detained for 81 days. Here he writes a letter to his son Ai Lao who was two years old when he disappeared.…
Our goal was to destroy the ancient hokum of the theatre. (MLIA)
(from the Guardian, 9/20/19.) 20 September 1960Â Promoting her latest play, The Lion in Love, Delaney says 'I would rather write a terrible play than a mediocre one' Surrounded by a clutch…
"Lateness, laziness, caprice, hysterics, bad character, ignorance of the role, the necessity of repeating anything twice are all equally harmful to our enterprise and must be rooted out."Â�…
(Gia Kourlas's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/20; via Pam Green.) In Elizabeth Streb and Anne Bogart's "Falling & Loving," dancers and actors share the stage with the Guck Mac…