Friday, July 22, 2022
(Via Andrea Alton/Alton PR; Photo: Tanya O’Debra and Gregg Bellón in Shut UP, Emily Dickinson. Photo by Molly Broxton.) Tanya O’Debra’s award-winning play Shut UP, Emily Dickinson, wi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:46PMThursday, July 21, 2022
(from Radio Free Europe, 7/20/22.) Influential Russian playwright Mikhail Durnenkov fled Russia for Finland shortly after Moscow’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine. Durnenkov’s opposition…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:54PM(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20.) Chichester Festival theatre Instantly infectious melodies, superb choreography and irresistible comedy are met with astonishing perf…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:20PMTuesday, July 19, 2022
(via Phylliswheeler.com) Phyllis Wheeler’s novel The Long Shadow, represented by Marit Literary Agency, has won a Purple Dragonfly Award! These awards are judged by Story Monsters Ink …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:11PMMonday, July 18, 2022
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The very best that can happen is to have the actor completely carried away by the play. Then regardless of his own will he lives the par…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:27PMSunday, July 17, 2022
(Dalya Alberge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/17; via Pam Green.) Remedies used by healer Susanna Hall and her doctor husband will be planted at Stratford home In Shakespeare’s…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:55PMSaturday, July 16, 2022
(Sara Keating’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/16/22.) For Methven, who stars as Prospero in Rough Magic’s The Tempest, the rehearsal room is the beating heart of a theatre produ…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:45PMFriday, July 15, 2022
(Oliver Salazar-Winspear’s, Natastacha Milleret’s, Magali Faure’s, and Marion Chaval’s report appeared on France 24, 7/14/22.) Avignon may be France’s oldest arts festival, but it …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:24PMThursday, July 14, 2022
(Andrew Gans’s article appeared on Playbill, 7/14.) This week Playbill catches up with two-time Tony nominee Alison Fraser, cast as Big Mama in Ruth Stage’s production of Tennessee …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:29PMTuesday, July 12, 2022
(Torsten Landsberg’s article appeared in DW, 7/12.) ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus has adapted a Pippi Longstocking story, written by popular Swedish children’s books author Astrid Lindgren, in…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:46PMSunday, July 10, 2022
(Michael Hogan’s article appeared in the Observer, 7/10; via Pam Green.) The actor’s breakup with comedian Seann Walsh went viral after he cheated on her with his dance partner and she r…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:08PMThursday, July 7, 2022
(Carmel Dagan’s article appeared in Variety, 7/7; via Pam Green.) James Caan, whose indelible, Oscar-nominated performance as Sonny Corleone, the recklessly hotheaded son of Marlon Brando�…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:27PMWednesday, July 6, 2022
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Above all look for what is fine in art and try to understand it. (AP)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:55PMTuesday, July 5, 2022
(Sara Keating’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/2.) Your Wellness In response to Galway’s high suicide rate, more than 150 participants will tightrope-walk across the Corrib this …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:30PMSunday, July 3, 2022
(Benedict Nightingale’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/3/22; He was called “the greatest innovator of his generation,” leaving an indelible mark with plays, musicals, opera …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:56PMFriday, July 1, 2022
(Miriam Gillinson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/1.) Park theatre, London Joshua Collins is magnetic as a US soldier awaiting trial for murder in this hard-hitting drama hamstrung…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:15PMWednesday, June 29, 2022
Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker wrote that Donald Trump’s need to be comforted by Broadway music “degrades both the office of the Presidency and a great American institution” (Rachel Hag…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:29PMMonday, June 27, 2022
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: I was ready to turn myself inside out, to give [the audience] everything I had; yet inside of me I had never felt so empty. The effor…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:21PMSunday, June 26, 2022
(Lyndsey Winship’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/26; via Pam Green.) Due to open in Stratford next year, the sibling to the Islington institution will have a special emphasis on loca…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:06PMFriday, June 24, 2022
(Susan Orlean’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 6/22.) Puppeteering is rarely an obvious career choice, but how Margo Lovelace (1922-2022) came to be a puppeteer is actually quite logi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:54PMThursday, June 23, 2022
(Catherine Bennett’s article appeared in the Observer, 6/19;via Pam Green.) One irritating theatre reviewer shouldn’t hide the fact that too many writers pull punches Legally Blonde at R…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:52PMWednesday, June 22, 2022
(Benjamin Lee’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/22.) The award-winning writer, whose hit musical originally opened on Broadway in the late 60s, died in New York City of cardiorespirato…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:45PMTuesday, June 21, 2022
(from France24, 6/17.) In this edition we focus on France’s foremost playwright. Molière’s witticisms and deft handling of the French language still dazzle, four centuries after he was…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:11PMSunday, June 19, 2022
(Jennifer Schuessler’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/15; via Pam Green; Photo: Will Arbery with Jamie Brewer, one of the stars of his play “Corsicana,” which was inspired…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:30PMFriday, June 17, 2022
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: There is a good side to this period of waiting [to go on stage]. It drives you into such a state that all you can do is to long for your turn…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:08PMThursday, June 16, 2022
(Rory Carroll’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/16/22; Photo: James Joyce in Zurich in 1915. Photograph: Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy.) 1933 trial that vindicated ‘porno…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:44AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
(via Scott Klein, Ken Sherman & Associates; Photos: Kyiv City Ballet.) www.KCBTheater.com The Kyiv City Ballet (www.kcbtheater.com), under the artistic direction of Ivan Kozlov, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:42PMTuesday, June 14, 2022
(Sara Keating’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 6/12; Photo: Best actress: Bríd Ní Neachtain won for her role in Happy Days. Photograph: Andrew Downes/Xposure.) Six months ago Irela…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:26PMMonday, June 13, 2022
(from The New York Times, 6/12, compiled by Rachel Sherman; Photo: Ben Power accepting the Tony for best new play for “The Lehman Trilogy.”Credit…Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:35AMSunday, June 12, 2022
(Simon Hattenstone’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/11; via Pam Green; Photo: Paapa Essiedu: ‘Before the first day on a job, I have a nervous breakdown.’ Photograph: Elliott Wilco…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:46PMFriday, June 10, 2022
I went out to the front of the stage and stared into that awful hole beyond the footlights, trying to become accustomed to it, and to free myself from its pull; but the more I tried not to n…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:20PM 
