Friday, 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 07:20PMThursday, 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
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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 07:02PM 
