Monday, June 24, 2024
Don’t miss a fresh take on classic drama, June 27 to July 7, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 3:00 PM. Theater for the New City is presenting August Strindberg Rep‘…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:40PMSunday, June 23, 2024
In May, when director Frank Farrell began working with playwright Bob Shuman on staging Tongs and Bones Shakespeare–coming to Theater for the New City, as part of the Dream Up Festival (at…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:35PMFriday, June 21, 2024
(Jacobi’s and Anderson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/13; Photo/ illustrations: Relentless in his self-satire … Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Photograph: Alamy.) Derek J…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:03PMMonday, June 17, 2024
(Ethan Shanfeld’s article appeared in Variety, 6/17. Photo: Ian McKellen plays John Falstaff in Player Kings. Photograph: Manuel Harlanthe Guardian.) Ian McKellen was hospitalized aft…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:06PM(Rachel Sherman’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/17. Photo: Mashable SEA.) The Tony Awards were held on Sunday at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater in New York City. Male…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:06AMSunday, June 16, 2024
Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling” (1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), one of the most influential of the early English novels a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:17PMMonday, June 10, 2024
(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, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:26PMFriday, June 7, 2024
(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…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:40PMThursday, June 6, 2024
(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…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:32PMWednesday, June 5, 2024
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 laun…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:57PMMonday, June 3, 2024
(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 …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:16PMSunday, June 2, 2024
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 le…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:13PMFriday, May 31, 2024
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)! The highly anticipate…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:20PMThursday, May 30, 2024
(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’…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:39AMThursday, May 23, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:12AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Seeking: 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 perfor…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:30AMMonday, May 20, 2024
(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…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:06PMFriday, May 17, 2024
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 Playwr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:41PMThursday, May 16, 2024
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 & Famou…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:24PMTuesday, May 14, 2024
FOR THE PAST THREE DECADES FRENCH ALGERIAN AMERICAN AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT, LIBRETTIST AND ACTIVIST CATHERINE FILLOUX HAS BEEN TRAVELING TO CONFLICT AREAS WRITING PLAYS THAT ADDRESS HUMA…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:25PMMonday, May 13, 2024
(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 G…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:40PMFriday, May 10, 2024
(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…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:48PM(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/10; Photograph: Geraint Lewis.) The theatre director, now teaching at Oxford after years running the RSC, thinks The Two Gentl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:29AMThursday, May 9, 2024
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…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:37PMWednesday, May 8, 2024
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: [Using the concept of] If is also a stimulus to the creative subconscious. Besides it helps us to carry out another fundamental principle of…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:25PMTuesday, May 7, 2024
(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 © …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:13PMFriday, May 3, 2024
(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 i…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:30PMWednesday, May 1, 2024
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 experiment…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:00PM(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 tal…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:05AMMonday, April 29, 2024
By Bob Shuman Director Simon Godwin’s structured, composed descent into the “defilement of a mind” in Macbeth is objective and clear, filmed unpoetically, yet sustained with uniforml…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:04PMSunday, April 28, 2024
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 fa…
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