(From Radio Free Europe. Photo: Theatre director Zhenya Berkovich, left, and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk are seen in a glass cage prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, …
(6/7/2024) Director Frank Farrell is announcing auditions for five productions " Saturday, June 15 from 2pm " 7pm at Houghton Hall Arts Community, 22 East 30th Street in NYC. Actors a…
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 6/3; Photo: Teenage kicks … an audience member in Viola's Room. Photograph: Julian Abrams.) One Cartridge Place, London Helena Bonham C…
Theater for the New City to present "Ella The Ungovernable," a play by David McDonald about 15 year-old Ella Fitzgerald's incarceration in Hudson, NY, in 1933 and the escape that launched…
(Caroline Butterwick's article appeared in the Guardian, 6/3; Cape fear … Bela Lugosi in a publicity still for the 1931 film of Dracula. Photograph: Universal/Allstar.) The iconography …
Listen Drama on 3 Antigone by Jean Anouilh Translated by Barbara Bray After the deaths of Antigone's brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, the king Creon, orders that Polynices's body be left u…
Get ready for a theatrical experience like no other, based on characters from the plays of Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and The Tempest)! Â The highly anticipate…
(Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 5/27; Photo: Not your traditional Shakespeare … Winter's Tale at Dailes theatre. Latvia. Photograph: Marcis Baltskars.) The Winter's Tale…
COME ONE, COME ALL, FOR FREE THEATER Theater for the New City has posted the full schedule of performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers appearing …
Seeking:Â Non-union male actors, of any race, aged 45-60 for a play about Shakespeare characters. Experience with Shakespeare plays is helpful but not required. Production: Play to be perf…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 5/20. Photo Lucy Tregear as Meg Page, Richard Cordery as Sir John Falstaff and Claire Carrie as Alice Ford in The Merry Wives of W…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has unveiled its annual awards, and this year's ceremony promises exciting winners. David Adjmi's "Stereophonic," a play that premiered at Playwrights Hori…
The first act, at Theater for the New City, features Stan Baker, a man with a treasure trove of tales from the fringes of fame. Baker's one-man show, "Party Clown of the Rich & Famous," …
FOR THE PAST THREE DECADES FRENCH ALGERIAN AMERICAN AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT, LIBRETTIST AND ACTIVIST CATHERINEÂ FILLOUXÂ HAS BEEN TRAVELING TO CONFLICT AREAS WRITING PLAYS THAT ADDRESS …
(Alex Ross's article appeared in the New Yorker, 5/13; Zemlinsky, once regarded as a weak-willed eclecticist, is attracting modern admirers. Illustration by Romy Blümel.) The Musica Non Gra…
(On Democracy Now!, 5/10.) The play Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors, which is being staged this week in Brooklyn, tells the story of the 2017 apartment fire at Grenfell Tower in London t…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 5/10;Â Photograph: Geraint Lewis.)Â The theatre director, now teaching at Oxford after years running the RSC, thinks The Two Gen…
ALL FREE WHERE AND WHEN: May 16 to 20, 2024 The Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street FREE " First Come, First Served So…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: [Using the concept of]Â If is also a stimulus to the creative subconscious. Besides it helps us to carry out another fundamental principle …
(Solene Clausse's Olivia Salazar-Winspear's, Jennifer Ben Brahim's Marion Chaval's, Magali Faure's and Clemence Delfaure's article appeared on France24, 5/7. Photo: arts24 © FRANCE…
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 5/3; Photo: The party's over … Nina Hoss in The Cherry Orchard. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Donmar Warehouse, London Nina Hoss stars in …
INTO THE EVERYDAY AND EXISTENTIAL Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse's Texts for Performance in New York 2004 to the present NEXT MONDAY, MAY 6 11:00 AM " 9:00 PM Ongoing engagement and experiments th…
(Emma Brockes's interview appeared in the Guardian, 4/29; Photo: Photograph: Teddy Wolff.) As she takes the words of Grenfell Tower fire survivors to the New York stage, the playwright talks…
By Bob Shuman Director Simon Godwin's structured, composed descent into the "defilement of a mind" in Macbeth is objective and clear, filmed unpoetically, Â yet sustained with uniformly st…
Henry V Listen Drama on 3 by William Shakespeare A new production of Shakespeare's hugely popular history play. As King Henry's ambitions lead him to invade France, he finds himself faci…