Tuesday, February 18, 2020
(Peter Khoury’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/13; via Pam Green.) An Illinois farm boy who came to New York to be a singer left an indelible mark on the Upper West Side co-op w…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:09PMMonday, February 17, 2020
(Alexis Soloski’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/27; via the Drudge Report.) Ivo van Hove likes it in America. Broadway rarely warms to avant-garde Belgian directors, but it has embr…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 12:14PMSunday, February 16, 2020
Perhaps in our art there exists only one correct path—the line of the intuition of feelings! And out of it grow unconsciously the outer and inner images, their form, the idea and the techn…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:22AMFriday, February 14, 2020
(Brian Schaefer’s article appeared on Bloomberg, 2/13.) In spring 2016, Belgian theater director Ivo van Hove was in New York, preparing his Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s The Cr…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 12:41PMWednesday, February 12, 2020
By Bob Shuman The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (NYGASP) brought its production of The Mikado to the Kaye Playhouse over the holiday season (12/27-1/5)—perhaps especially top…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:21PMMonday, February 10, 2020
(Norman Lebrecht’s article appeared on Slipped Disc, 2/10.) Message from HKAF: We regret to inform our friends and supporters that the February and March performances and events of the 48t…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 05:32PMSunday, February 9, 2020
(Ellen Gutoskey’s article appeared, 2/4, on mentalfloss.com; via Pam Green.) One of the many reasons Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century magnum opus The Canterbury Tales is considered a gr…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 04:14PMSaturday, February 8, 2020
(Released On: 05 Feb 2020, BBC 3.) Listen Lisa Dwan tells Philip Dodd what playing Beckett taught her about herself and feminism; playwright Mark Ravenhill, arts editor Jan Dalley & s…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 12:24PM(Robert Berkvist’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/2; via Pam Green.) Kirk Douglas, one of the last surviving movie stars from Hollywood’s golden age, whose rugged good looks a…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 11:55AMFriday, February 7, 2020
Playing a role in a play that was one of the social and political productions, I struck on the line of the intuition of feelings and forgot the politics in the play, which became all the str…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 12:34PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
(Marc Malkin’s article appeared in Variety, 2/4.) Liza Minnelli is getting ready to be photographed for the cover of Variety. She’s wearing an off-the-shoulder black beaded shirtdress…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 12:26PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
(Chris Jones’s review appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 2/4.) Like a sleeping Midwestern beast loosed from its cage of self-imposed timidity and graduate-school moralism, the old-school Ste…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 05:34PMMonday, February 3, 2020
I only had to assume the manners and habits [of the character], on the stage or off, and in my soul there were born the feelings and perceptions that had given them birth. In this manner, in…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:42AMSaturday, February 1, 2020
(Alexandra Guzeva’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 1/28.) America in the early 20th century turned out to be an even more puritan country than Russia. In the spring of 19…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:17PMFriday, January 31, 2020
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/20; via Pam Green.) There was blood on the floor as usual, and on the costumes, too, when “Oklahoma!” finished its Bro…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 07:45PMThursday, January 30, 2020
From the intuition of feelings I went to the outer image, for it flowed naturally from the inner image, and the body and soul of [the character]-Stanislavski became one organically. (MLIA)
Linked From stagevoices.com at 12:05AMTuesday, January 28, 2020
(Douglas Murray’s article appreared in The Spectator, 1/27.) Tom Stoppard talks about inspiration, growing older and his new play, Leopoldstadt Sir Tom Stoppard is Britain’s — perhaps …
Linked From stagevoices.com at 04:33PMSaturday, January 25, 2020
From the intuition of feelings I passed naturally to the inner image with its peculiarities and details. (MLIA)
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:38PMThursday, January 23, 2020
(Lauren Shook’s article appeared in Shakespeare and Beyond, 1/7; via Pam Green.) In 1608, famine plagued England. Preachers responded with sermons begging the gentry to show compassion for…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 09:41PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
I sincerely sympathized with Stockman (“The Enemy of the People”) and understood his feelings when his eyes saw the rotten souls of the men who had once been his friends. I feared in tho…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 07:00PMSunday, January 19, 2020
(Robert Ito’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/17; via Pam Green.) The Ethiopian-Irish actress returns to a “completely destroying” stage role. Next: a film adaptation of a 19…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:00PMSaturday, January 11, 2020
Friday, January 10, 2020
In those days (1905) “The Enemy of the People” (Ibsen) had not only artistic but social meaning and was to a great extent the expression of the time. It is not remarkable that the play a…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 07:57PMSunday, January 5, 2020
(Ben Brantley’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/ 2; via Pam Green. Those who like Death of a Salesman may also enjoy End Zone, playing at Dixon Place, 2/25.) An electrifying re…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 06:31PMFriday, January 3, 2020
BE A PRODUCER! Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the January Panel, New Year, New Rules: The Updated Equity Agreements and Contracts, on Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 7:30pm at …
Linked From stagevoices.com at 08:34PMThursday, January 2, 2020
Dixon Place is thrilled to announce our 2020 season, featuring nine commissioned original productions and four puppetry productions, including Concrete Temple Theatre, Sara Juli, Eszter Bali…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 05:49PMWednesday, January 1, 2020
Naturalism on the stage is only naturalism when it is justified by the inner experience of the actor. Once naturalism is justified, it either becomes necessary (especially in Tolstoy’s pla…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 05:47PMMonday, December 30, 2019
We studied the buildings, and made plans of them, of the natural geography and topography of the courtyards, barns, outhouses, and main structures of the estate. We studied the customs, the …
Linked From stagevoices.com at 05:26PMSunday, December 29, 2019
(Jesse Green’s article appeared in The New York Times, 12/27; via Pam Green.) A comedy number from the flop “Mack & Mabel” found the unexpected sweet spot between Irving Berlin and…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:34AMSaturday, December 28, 2019
(Peter Crawley’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 12/7.) Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work It was a dramatic year for th…
Linked From stagevoices.com at 10:15PMFriday, December 27, 2019
