Friday, 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 07:20PMThursday, June 9, 2022
(via Scott Klein, Keith Sherman & Associates) WINNERS ANNOUNCED Awards will be presented Tuesday, June 14 at Sardi’s Restaurant www.DramaDeskAwards.com Winners for t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:20AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
(Via Michelle Farabaugh, BBB, Adrian Bryan-Brown; Photo: The Original West End Company of Leopoldstadt (Credit: Marc Brenner) ★★★★★ “Magnificent! Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece.…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:44PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
“Reagan’s Cowboys is something of a memoir of Roberts’s career with the 40th president, and as such, it’s a time machine back to the days of typewriters, hard-line telephones, and Ma…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:25PM(Ammar Kalia’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/31; via Pam Green; Photo: Arinzé Kene in Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical and Shirley Henderson with Adam James in Girl from …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:44PMMonday, June 6, 2022
(Chris McCormack’s article appeared in Irish Times, 6/6/22; Photo: Louis Lovett weighs up the challenge of The Tin Soldier: `What a child knows is their own world. So we like to bring in a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:11AMSaturday, June 4, 2022
(Harper’s Bazaar; via Pam Green; Photo: Yahoo Finance)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:03PMFriday, June 3, 2022
(Chris Wiegand, 5/31, the Guardian; Photo: of Neda Nezhdana, Litgazeta.com.ua) Neda Nezhdana’s urgent exploration of war is a collaboration with the Theatre of Playwrights in Kyiv. Otvetk…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:06PMWednesday, June 1, 2022
(via Radio Free Europe, 5/31) It’s billed as an escape from anxiety for kids who have been evacuated from war-torn parts of Ukraine. The Odesa Youth Theater is staging special performances…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:35PMTuesday, May 31, 2022
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: To arouse a desire to create is difficult; to kill that desire is extremely easy. If I interfere with my own work, it is my own affair, but w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:47PMSaturday, May 28, 2022
(Arifa Akbar’s aicle appeared in the Guardian, 5/26; via Pam Green; Photo: A terrible, startling drama … Eileen Walsh (Clytemnestra) and David Walmsley (Agamemnon) in Girl on an Altar. …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:41PMWednesday, May 25, 2022
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/25; Photo: The instrument of the human body … James Thierrée in Room. Credit: Richard Haughton.) The circus star turns singer in …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:48PMTuesday, May 24, 2022
(Sarah Bahr’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/19; via Pam Green; Photo: The cast and creative team of the original production of “Little Shop of Horrors.” In the front at c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:36PMMonday, May 23, 2022
(Arifa Akbar’s aricle appeared in he Guardian, 5/2; Seething with anger … Hala Omran as Reem in Two Palestinians Go Dogging at the Royal Court, London. Photograph: Ali Wright.) Royal Co…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:28PMFriday, May 20, 2022
(Henry Alford’s article appeared in the The New Yorker, 5/16; Photo: WFMJ.com.) The actor and director hangs at the lounge of Studio 54, where he is performing in “The Minutes,” to dis…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:12PMThursday, May 19, 2022
(Kate Connolly’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/14/22; Photo: Frederik Mayet as Jesus Christ in the 42nd Oberammergau passion play. Photograph: Lukas Barth/Reuters.) In 1633 the Ba…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:02PMWednesday, May 18, 2022
(Maya Phillips’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/26; Photo: Jaquel Spivey, center, as Usher, a 25-year-old Broadway usher, in “A Strange Loop” at the Lyceum Theater in Manhat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:40AMTuesday, May 17, 2022
DRAMA DESK AWARDS 2022 NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED (via Scott Klein / Logan Metzler at Keith Sherman & Associates; visit www.DramaDeskAwards.com .) (Monday, May 16, 2022) – Nom…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:38AMMonday, May 16, 2022
(Michael Seaver’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 5/14; Photos (top to bottom): Choreographer Áine Stapleton has spent eight years exploring Joyce’s artistry; Lucia Joyce: Whenever…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:09PMSunday, May 15, 2022
(Kate Wyver’s article appeared in the guardian 5.9; via Pam Green; Photo: The stars of Showwomen: (left to right) Fancy Chance, Marisa Carnesky, Lucifire and Livia Kojo Alour. Photograph…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:32PMFriday, May 13, 2022
(from France24, 5/13; Photo: Dancers perform at the Lido cabaret in Paris on September 10, 2019. © Christophe Archambault, AFP.) High-kicking showgirls and nightly cabaret shows at the fam…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:24AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
(By AFP-Agence France Presse, 5/11/22; via Drudge Report.) Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina has left Russia, she said in an interview, after disguising herself as a food delivery courier to…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:15AMTuesday, May 10, 2022
(Hillel Italie’s article for the Associated Press, appeared in USA TODAY, 5/9.) Joshua Cohen’s “The Netanyahus” has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The work, titled in full “…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:16PMSunday, May 8, 2022
(Dalya Alberge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/8; Photo: Noël Coward in 1953. Photograph: Haywood Magee/Getty Images.) Playwright planned scenes on same-sex relationship at a tim…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:03AMThursday, May 5, 2022
(Lori Hinnant’s, Msyslav Chernov’s, and Vasilisa Stephenko’s article appeared on the AP, 5/5; Photo: GMToday.com.) LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — She stood in just her bathrobe in the freezing…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:55AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian 5/4; via Pam Green; Photo: A vast cast for a huge talent … the curtain call for the gala performance. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:27PMMonday, May 2, 2022
(Michael Schulman’s article appeared in the New Yorkers, 5/2; Illustration: The New Yorker.) How a dramaturge and a director resurrected Alice Childress’s play “Wedding Band,” about …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:14PMThursday, April 28, 2022
(Chris McCormack’s review appeared in the Irish Times, 4/27; Photo: Patrick Martins as M’Closky in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh.) Centuries of obscen…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:23PMWednesday, April 27, 2022
(Sally Weale’s article appeared in the UK Guardian, 4/27; The Empress by Tanika Gupta is one of four new plays added to AQA’s GCSE drama curriculum. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guar…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:33PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/22/22; via Pam Green; The Tony Awards ceremony will return to Radio City Music Hall on June 12, after being presented at th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:51PMMonday, April 25, 2022
(Alexandra Schwartz’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 4/28/ 22; The mania and melancholy of James McAvoy’s Cyrano disguise a desperate rage.Illustration by Matt Williams.) A new stag…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:26PM 
