Monday, September 16, 2019
It is not enough to be simply talented and to have natural gifts; one needs ability, technique, and art. (MLIA)
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:11PM(Alison Flood’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/16.) Hailed as one of the most significant archival discoveries of modern times, text seems to show the Paradise Lost poet making carefu…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:31PMSunday, September 15, 2019
TABULA RASA NYC THEATER AND PERFORMANCE LAB Proudly Presents the World Premiere of the Spanish Language Version of “Powerful production by Ramiro Antonio Sandoval.” – Carlos Navedo,…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 12:06PMPalpable objects seen by us on the stage are much more necessary and important for us actors than colorful canvases that we do not see. Sculptural things live with us and we with them, whi…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:04AMSaturday, September 14, 2019
(Benjamin Moser’s article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 9/9.) David Rieff went to Bosnia in September 1992, at the end of the first summer of siege. Like so many of the journal…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 03:47PMFriday, September 13, 2019
It is much easier to destroy the old than to create the new. (MLIA)
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:32PMListen Fiona Shaw, BAFTA award-winning star of Killing Eve, joins Matthew Parris to explore the life of one of history’s most remarkable actresses whose name has slipped from public memo…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:08PMThursday, September 12, 2019
If one is forced to give talentless actors big parts, one is also forced, for the sake of the performance, to hide their faults. (MLIA)
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:15PM(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 9/4; via Pam Green.) Eccentric and prodigious, the writer Jack Thorne won a Tony for “Cursed Child.” Up next: “Sunday” at…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 02:15PMWednesday, September 11, 2019
Let someone teach us to speak simply, musically, nobly, beautifully, but without vocal acrobatics, actors’ pathos and all the odds and ends of scenic diction. We want the same thing in m…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:53PM(Damian Thompson’s article appeared in the Spectator, 9/7.) She was one of only four women to record the complete Beethoven piano sonatas but the state kept her in obscurity Only four wome…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:13PMTuesday, September 10, 2019
In the repertoire of an actor, among the large number of parts played by him, there are some that seem to have been creating themselves in his inner consciousness for a long time. One only…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:27PM(Masha Gessen’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 9/10.) Russia released its most famous prisoner on Saturday. Oleg Sentsov, a forty-three-year-old Crimean journalist and film director…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 05:30PMMonday, September 9, 2019
How many actors’ sins are covered by the artist, his line and color. How easily he gives an artistic shading to the whole performance. It is not in vain that so many talentless actors …
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:23PM(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/9.) The British writer, whose plays include Privates on Parade and The National Health, died on Saturday The playwright Peter Nichols,…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 06:01PMSunday, September 8, 2019
The stage director can do a great deal, but he cannot do everything. The most important thing is in the hands of the actor, whom one must help, who must be guided in the proper direction. …
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:14PMAuthor Phyllis Wheeler talks to Bob Shuman, at Marit Literary Agency and Stage Voices, about her YA novel The Long Shadow, a Huckleberry Finn story for the 21st century. A white suburban, co…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:19AMSaturday, September 7, 2019
Mechanical outward play is a long way ahead of true inner experiences. In order to stop this meaningless movement along the surface of the role, it is necessary to give the initiative of c…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 07:33PM(Peter Crawley’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 9/7.) As the world that made Samuel Beckett who he was becomes magically apparent, the point of Dead Centre’s unusual approach begin…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 07:05PMFriday, September 6, 2019
(Ben Brantley’s article appeared in The New York Times, 9/5.) How can a naked space seem so full? Feelings furnish the stage in the resplendently spare new production of Harold Pinter’s …
Linked From stagevoices.com at 02:37PMThursday, September 5, 2019
The more times emotion is forced to attack problems too difficult for it, the more timid it becomes and the more used to its buffers. And the more the buffers are developed, the harder it …
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:31PM(This article appeared in the Irish Times, 9/2.) With 10 world premieres and 14 international productions, there’s something for everyone at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival Dublin Th…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:58PMWednesday, September 4, 2019
The actor becomes a prostitute who appears so many hours each evening for the purpose of exhibiting his beauty, his legs, his breast, his muscles, his animal temperament and passion, his lou…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:14PM(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/4.) As Hansard opens at the National Theatre and drama heats up in Westminster, our critic picks his favourite political theatre C…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 03:46PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
All actors must be character actors, of course not in the sense of outer, but of inner characteristics. But even outwardly it is best for the actor to leave himself at times. This does n…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 12:15AMSunday, September 1, 2019
When my opinion was asked, I made my remarks. Good and true words come not when you want to say them, but only when you do not think of them, when they become necessary themselves. (MLIA)
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:24PM(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/30; via Pam Green.) The revival, starring Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone, will open next spring on Stephen Sondheim’s 90th bir…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 07:18PMSaturday, August 31, 2019
When you play a good man look for the places where he is evil, and in an evil man look for the places where he is good. (MLIA)
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:48PM(Steven McElroy’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/23; via Pam Green.) “Mouthpiece” by Kieran Hurley won $25,000 to fund a transfer from the Edinburgh Fringe to New York. “M…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:18PMFriday, August 30, 2019
What is done on the stage is seen better from the auditorium than from the stage itself. Looking from the auditorium I comprehended the mistakes on the stage at once. . . . (MLIA)
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:16PM(Alexandra Guzeva’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the HEadlings, 6/3.) Nowadays, most theaters have stopped using prompters, but the Maly Theater cherishes this tradition and regards p…
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