Friday, August 25, 2023
(Mark Fisher’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/14/2023; Photo: Dark and surreal … Inga Mikshina-Zotova and Roman Mikshin-Zotov in The Last of the Soviets. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:47PMTuesday, August 22, 2023
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: To reproduce feelings you must be able to identify them out of your own experience. But as mechanical actors do not experience feelings they …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:03AMSunday, August 20, 2023
(Natalia Chekotum’s and Liza Pyrozhkova’s vidieo appeared in the Kyiv Independent, 8/8; Photo: Kyiv Independent.) Launched in February last year, Russia’s war against Ukraine has taken…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:42PMSaturday, August 19, 2023
(Tim Ashley’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/19; Dramatic pressure … Endgame. Photograph: Sisi Burn.) Royal Albert Hall, London For its UK premiere, György Kurtág’s opera faced…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:07PMWednesday, August 16, 2023
By Bob Shuman Who is this Shakespeare who needs to be banned in Florida public schools, who dared to write a play called Romeo and Juliet? Was he decadent? Was he warped? Has he really…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:42AMSunday, August 13, 2023
PROM 36 A SPACE ODYSSEY: LPO/GARDNER REVIEW Listen (Tim Ashley’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/13. ) Royal Albert Hall, London Intense and finely focused performances of the Liget…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:50AMFriday, August 11, 2023
(Jeffrey S. Solochek’s article appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, 8/8; via the Drudge Report.) The big story: After Florida adopted its Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking standards i…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:10AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
(Via Emily Owens, Emily Owens PR–rehearsal photo from Ladies at Tea.) First Flight Theatre Company presents Shakespeare’s Ladies at Tea or I Thought You’d Never Asp Written by…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:45PMMonday, August 7, 2023
(Mark Fisher’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/7/2023. Only the merciless survive … Dark Noon. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod) Pleasance @ EICC, Edinburgh South African actors replay the …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:54AMTuesday, August 1, 2023
(Javier C. Hernandez’s article appeared in The New York Times and Japan Times, 7/27. Photo: Cincinnati Opera’s new production of “Madame Butterfly,” directed by Matthew Ozawa, frames…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:36PMSunday, July 30, 2023
(Clare Brennan’s article appeared in The Observer, 7/30; Photo: ‘Ophelia-like’ Sophie Lenglinger as Nora, with Liam Heslin as Jack, in The Plough and the Stars. Photograph: Ros Kavana…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:17PMFriday, July 28, 2023
(Marion Chaval’s, Magali Faure’s, and Eve Jackson’s article appeared on France24, 7/26.) Just over 100 years ago, painters, sculptors, writers and musicians battled for gold, silver an…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:23PMWednesday, July 26, 2023
NEW DAWN: THEATRE AFFIRMATIONS I got a show to do, remember, baby? Oh baby, I got a show to do. (Dreamgirls) I’m all right, right now (from The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle) I love my e…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:11PMTuesday, July 25, 2023
(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20; Photo: Gripping … Sarah Slimani in Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors at Dorfman theatre, London. Photograph: Myah Jeffers.) Dorf…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:27PMMonday, July 24, 2023
(Dalya Alberge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/23; Photo: Gertrude Robins, pictured in 1911: she depicted women’s often limited choices between second-rate marriages and independen…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:49PMSunday, July 23, 2023
(Jesse Green’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/20; Photo: Jose Llana, left, and Arielle Jacobs as Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in “Here Lies Love” at the Broadway Theater in M…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:14PMFriday, July 21, 2023
(Via Emily Owens PR) Barefoot Shakespeare Company PRESENTS LADY CAPULET Written by Melissa Bell Directed by Emily Gallagher Presented as part of the 2023 Little Shakespeare Festiva…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:09PMThursday, July 20, 2023
(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/18.Photo: ‘The power to draw the audience together’ … the Swan Theatre at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon. Photograph: Tris…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:10PMTuesday, July 18, 2023
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: It is important to know what you are feeling on the stage, because it often happens that even the most experienced actors work out at home an…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:14PMMonday, July 17, 2023
(via France24, 7/14/2023) We bring you a special edition from the 77th international theatre festival in the southern French city of Avignon, where change is in the air under its new Portug…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:28PMSunday, July 16, 2023
(David Ng’s article appeared on Breitbart, 7/15.) New York’s prestigious Public Theater — which staged the assassination of President Donald Trump in its infamous 2017 production of Sh…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:30PMSaturday, July 15, 2023
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/4; Photo: Divine … Stephen Jackman-Torkoff as Richard II. Photograph: David Hou.) A disco king hits the dancefloor, Beatrice and Bene…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:09PMFriday, July 14, 2023
(Casey Cep’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 7/10,17/23; Photograph by Vandamm Studio © Billy Rose Theatre Division / NYPL for Performing Arts.) A collection of previously unpublished…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:22PMThursday, July 13, 2023
(Rana Moussaoui’s article appeared on Barron’s, 7/12; via Drudge Report; Pictures by Clement Mahoudeau.) Brazilian performer Carolina Bianchi was herself raped after being drugged on a n…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:51PMWednesday, July 12, 2023
(Richard Lea’s and Sian Cain’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/12 Photo: Questions, not answers … Milan Kundera in 2002. Photograph: -/AFP.) The Czech novelist found himself silenc…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:14AMTuesday, July 11, 2023
(from Radio Free Europe, 7/11; Photo: Ales Pushkin in his workshop in Minsk in June 2020.) Belarusian artist and political prisoner Ales Pushkin has died in intensive care under unknown circ…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:47PMSunday, July 9, 2023
Listen Drama on 3 The second part of Ibsen’s epic two-part stage play telling the story of Julian the Apostate and his ill-fated attempt to abolish Christianity in the Roman Empire. In the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:51PMSaturday, July 8, 2023
(Laura Döing’s article appeared on DW, 7/7; Photo: Wolf Biermann in Cologne in November 1976: He didn’t even play his most critical songs — out of caution Image: Wilhelm Bertram/dpa/…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:01PMFriday, July 7, 2023
(via Emily Owens PR) PRESENTED BY FRIGID NEW YORK AUGUST 3-19 AT UNDER ST. MARKS FRIGID New York has announced the schedule of performances for their 3rd annual Little Shakespeare Fest…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:10PMWednesday, July 5, 2023
(Emma Bockes’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/5; Photo: ‘All the neglect he suffered meant he made sure that that was not my life’ … Jennifer Grant. Photograph: Andrzej Lawnik…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:14PMTuesday, July 4, 2023
(from Radio Liberty, 7/2.) A Kyrgyz artist is keeping alive a puppet theater tradition that dates back centuries. Esenbek Mairykov, 71, learned to carve his dancing mountain goats from his g…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:20AM 
