Wednesday, 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 07:26PMSunday, April 24, 2022
(Dalya Alberge’s article appeared in the Observer, 4/24; Photo: Tom Hiddleston as Posthumus and Jodie McNee as Innogen in Cymbeline at the Barbican in 2007. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:01PMThursday, April 21, 2022
(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/21; Photo: Frail body, strong mind … Mark Quartley in Henry VI: Rebellion at the Royal Shakespeare theatre. Photograph: Ellie Kurttz/R…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:49PMWednesday, April 20, 2022
(Brian Marks’s article appeared in the Daily Mail, 4/19; via Pam Green.) FRAIL LIZA MINNELLI, 76, FELT ‘SHAKEN’ AND ‘SABOTAGED’ AFTER BEING FORCED ON STAGE IN WHEELCHAIR AT OSCAR…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:56PMTuesday, April 19, 2022
(Connal Parr’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 4/18; The cast of the new production of Over The Bridge; Photo: The cast of the new production of Over The Bridge. ) Sam Thompson’s …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:29PMMonday, April 18, 2022
(via The Culture News [email protected] ) LET’S GO! Under star and director David Serero, the French musical The Ten Commandments—finally in English–based on the biblical story …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:23PMSunday, April 17, 2022
(Alexandra Schwartz’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 4/11; Illustration: “Suffs” braids the tangled history of the American suffrage movement into drama. Illustration by Kati Szi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:50PMThursday, April 14, 2022
(A.J. Goldmann’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/7/22; via Pam Green; Photo: The ensemble in “Oasis de la Impunidad” (“Oasis of Impunity”), directed by Marco Layera, at…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:11PMTuesday, April 12, 2022
(Rebecca Mead’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 4/11; Mike Bartlett Illustration by João Fazenda.) A few years ago, the British playwright Mike Bartlett offered an ingenious take on f…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:36PMMonday, April 11, 2022
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/10; Photo: Tom Larkin and Hiran Abeysekera in Life of Pi. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Find out who won what at the Royal Albert Hall…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:19PMSunday, April 10, 2022
(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/10; via Pam Green; Photo: Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker celebrated the long-delayed opening of “Plaza Suite,” …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:10PMFriday, April 8, 2022
(Gareth Llŷr Evans’s review appeared in the UK Guardian, 4/8; Photograph: Curtis Richard Photography.) Bristol Old Vic Giles Terera’s lyrical and inventive drama about a brutal episode …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:09AMThursday, April 7, 2022
(Sophia Kishkovsky’s article appeared in The Art Newspaper, 4/7/2022. Photo: Images of the performance about the Bucha massacre were distributed by the independent news site Holod© Telegr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:06PMWednesday, April 6, 2022
(Lyndsey Winship’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/5/22; via Pam Green; Photo: After Putin invaded Ukraine, the Russian dancer denounced the war, left the Kremlin-allied company – …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:29AMTuesday, April 5, 2022
(Joe Westerfield’s article appeared in Newsweek, 3/29; Photo: Irish Repertory’s Ciarán O’Relly talked to Newsweek about the how the company got through and came out of the pandemic sh…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:04PMMonday, April 4, 2022
(Sarah Larson’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 4/4/22; Illustration: Sam Rockwell, Darren Criss, Laurence FishburneIllustration by João Fazenda.) “American Buffalo” ’s Laurence…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:35PMSaturday, April 2, 2022
(Cameron Woodhead’s article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 3/31/22; Photo: Old tensions surface in this rare drama. CREDIT:JODIE HUTCHINSON.) Heroes of the Fourth Turning…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:55PMThursday, March 31, 2022
(Ryan Gilbey’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/31; Photo: Taut with tension … Toby Osmond and George Kemp in Diary of a Somebody. Photograph: Brittain Photography.) Seven Dials Pl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:16PM(The following article was compiled and written after listening to an interview with artistic collaborators from Belarus Free Theatre, 3/22; by Bob Shuman, Stage Voices. ) An old saying: “…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:03AMTuesday, March 29, 2022
(Mary McNamara’s appeared in the Los Angeles Times, 3/29; Photo: Holland Taylor portrays former Texas Gov. Ann Richards in “Ann” at the Pasadena Playhouse. [Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:03PMMonday, March 28, 2022
(Rebecca Mead’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 3/26; illustration: from The New Yorker.) How David Hare took a few Moses-esque liberties when writing “Straight Line Crazy,” which …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:02PMSunday, March 27, 2022
(Andrea Kasiske’s article appeared in DW, 3/27; Photo: A scene from “The Artist is Present.”) The Serbian artist is redesigning her legendary 2010 performance “The Artist is Present,…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:26PM 
