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"All disobedience to the creative life of the theatre is a crime."Â Â (MLIA)
Listen on BBC Radio 4Â Â Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and biographer Ben Moser debate Susan Sontag's life and ideas with presenter Laurence Scott, focusing in on her 1966 essay collec…
"The poet, the actor, the artist, the tailor, the stage hand, serve one goal, which is placed by the poet in the very basis of his play."Â (MLIA) Â
(via Craig Smith) Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Artistic Director Elise Stone announces the appointment of Kevin Confoy as Producing Director starting October 2, 2019. Confoy, who is a reside…
(Rosalyn Sulcas's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/13; via Pam Green.)  The Théâtre du Châtelet is reopening after a two-and-a-half-year makeover, with a new artistic dir…
"Today Hamlet, tomorrow a supernumerary (walk-on actor), but even as a supernumerary you must become an artist."Â (MLIA)
(Chabon's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 9/26 issue)  This essay will appear in somewhat different form in Fight of the Century, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet …
"One must love art and not one's self in art."Â (MLIA)
(Eric Grode's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/11; via Pam Green.) It often seems like safety first on Broadway, but the commercial stage has historically been home to shows that pu…
"There are no small parts, there are only small actors." (MLIA)
(via Katie Rosin, Kampfire PR, 9/17/19) New York, NY: On Monday, September 16, 2019, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation announced the 2019 recipients at the annual Off-Off-Broadway I…
It is not enough to be simply talented and to have natural gifts; one needs ability, technique, and art. (MLIA)
(Alison Flood's article appeared in the Guardian, 9/16.) Hailed as one of the most significant archival discoveries of modern times, text seems to show the Paradise Lost poet making careful …
 TABULA RASA NYC THEATER AND PERFORMANCE LAB Proudly Presents the World Premiere of the Spanish Language Version of "Powerful production by Ramiro Antonio Sandoval." " Carlos Navedo, Imp…
Palpable objects seen by us on the stage are much more necessary and important for us actors than colorful canvases that we do not see. Sculptural things live with us and we with them, w…
(Benjamin Moser's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 9/9.) David Rieff went to Bosnia in September 1992, at the end of the first summer of siege. Like so many of the journalis…
It is much easier to destroy the old than to create the new. (MLIA) Â
Listen Fiona Shaw, BAFTA award-winning star of Killing Eve, joins Matthew Parris to explore the life of one of history's most remarkable actresses whose name has slipped from public memo…
If one is forced to give talentless actors big parts, one is also forced, for the sake of the performance, to hide their faults. Â (MLIA)
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/4; via Pam Green.) Eccentric and prodigious, the writer Jack Thorne won a Tony for "Cursed Child." Up next: "Sunday" at the Atlan…
Let someone teach us to speak simply, musically, nobly, beautifully, but without vocal acrobatics, actors' pathos and all the odds and ends of scenic diction. We want the same thing in m…
(Damian Thompson's article appeared in the Spectator, 9/7.) She was one of only four women to record the complete Beethoven piano sonatas but the state kept her in obscurity Only four women …
In the repertoire of an actor, among the large number of parts played by him, there are some that seem to have been creating themselves in his inner consciousness for a long time. One on…
(Masha Gessen's article appeared in the New Yorker, 9/10.) Russia released its most famous prisoner on Saturday. Oleg Sentsov, a forty-three-year-old Crimean journalist and film direct…
How many actors' sins are covered by the artist, his line and color. How easily he gives an artistic shading to the whole performance. It is not in vain that so many talentless actor…
