Saturday, December 11, 2021
(Chilton Williamson Jr.’s article appeared in the Spectator, 12/1; Photo: Sobran’s.) A few philosophers since ancient Greece have been wise, scarcely any humble. None at all, to my knowl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:26PMThursday, December 9, 2021
(Peter Bradshaw’s article appeared in the Guardian, 12/9; Photo: Mordant and subversive … Lina Wertmüller. Photograph: Camilla Morandi/AGF/REX/Shutterstock.) Lina Wertmüller dies aged …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:44PMWednesday, December 8, 2021
‘THE DECADENT MOVEMENT’ Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the British phase of a movement that spread across Europe in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries. Influence…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:29PMTuesday, December 7, 2021
Great reads for Christmas and the holidays 2021, represented by Marit Literary Agency: REAGAN’S COWBOYS: INSIDE THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN’S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRA…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:43PMMonday, December 6, 2021
(Harriet Sherwood and Andrew Roth in Moscow—their article appeared in the Guardian, 12/6; Photo: Some of the 16 Belarus Free Theatre members currently in London rehearsing for a product…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:50PM(Jesse Green’s, Maya Phillips’s, Laura Collins-Hughes’s, Scott Heller’s, Alexis Soloski’s, and Elisabeth Vincentelli’s article appeared 12/3 in The New York Times; via Pam Green;…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:27AMFriday, December 3, 2021
FORNÉS RETURNS TO MABOU MINES FOR UNDER THE RADAR THE PUBLIC THEATER’S UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL MABOU MINES & WEATHERVANE PRODUCTIONS PRESENT MUD/DROWNING WRITTEN BY MARÍA IR…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:50PMThursday, December 2, 2021
(Robyn Dixon’s and Mary Ilyushina’s article appeared in The Washington Post, 12/2; via the Deudge Report.) MOSCOW — A Russian video comedy troupe in a small provincial city was doing j…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:11PMWednesday, December 1, 2021
(Andrew Gans’s article appeared on Playbill.com, 11/28; via Pam Green; Photo: Angela Lansbury and George Hearn in Sweeney Todd Martha Swope.) The five-time Tony winner spoke exclusive…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:20AMTuesday, November 30, 2021
(Ryan Lattanzio’s and Chris Lindahl’s article appeareded on IndieWire, 11/29; via Drudge Report; photo 20th Century Studios.) Steven Spielberg’s musical has finally screened, and ecst…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:22AMSunday, November 28, 2021
(Amy Weiss-Meyer’s article appeared in The Atlantic 11/27; via Pam Green; photo: Douglas Elbinger / Getty.) His work was strongest when it lingered in the pain of knowing that no ever a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:52AMFriday, November 26, 2021
(Bruce Weber’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/26; via Marit Shuman; photo: Stephen Sondheim, one of Broadway history’s songwriting titans, whose music and lyrics raised and r…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:12PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
(Charles Bramesco’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/18; via Pam Green; Photo: Charlie Chaplin was ‘chameleonic in the way he reflected back to people what they wanted’. Photogr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:16PMMonday, November 15, 2021
(Mary Beth Sheridan’s article appeared in the Washington Post, 11/15; via the Drudge Report.) Security forces surrounded the homes of Cuban activists on Sunday, the day before a planned ma…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:54AM(Desiree Ibekwe’s article appeared in The New York Times, 11/12; via Pam Green. Photo: From left, the actress Clare Perkins, who plays the lead in “The Wife of Willesden”; the writer Z…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:37AMSaturday, November 13, 2021
(Nobuko Tanaka’s article appeared in the Japan Times, 11/11.) For “The Doctor,” playwright Robert Icke adapted the 1912 play “Professor Bernhardi,” changing the setting to the mo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:39PMThursday, November 11, 2021
(From Russia Beyond, 11/11/21; Photo: Ksenia Ugolnikova / Stage Russia.) The most exciting Russian stage productions presented both in cinemas and online. Visiting Russia is still a big…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:07PMWednesday, November 10, 2021
(Michael Seaver’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 11/8; Photo: contemporary choreography creates a visceral connection between performers, work and audience. Photograph: Hervé Deroo.…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:57AMTuesday, November 9, 2021
(Sarfraz Manzoor’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/9; ‘You are the entire ocean in a drop’ … Rumi. Photograph: CPA Media Pte Ltd/Alamy.) A new stage production aims to tell the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:08AMMonday, November 8, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The only . . . ruler of the stage is the talented actor. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:22AMWednesday, November 3, 2021
(Mark Fisher’s article appared in the Guardian, 11/3; Photo: Fierce and ferocious … Anna Russell-Martin as Rosaura in Life Is a Dream at Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. Photograph: Ryan Buchana…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:11AMTuesday, November 2, 2021
(Casey Cep’s article appeared in the New Yorker,11/1; Illustration by Lilli Carré’.) In “H of H Playbook,” the poet considers war, guilt, and the mythological strongman. “H of …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:26PMMonday, November 1, 2021
(from the BBC; Youtube, 10/23; via Pam Green.) Dame Judi Dench’s first part she played was Ophelia in Hamlet but her connection to Shakespeare runs centuries deeper.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:35AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
(from Newmax, 10/27; Photo: Philadelphia School of Circus Arts.) Four years after the “Greatest Show On Earth” shut down, officials are planning to bring back the Ringling Bros. and Barn…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:30PMMonday, October 25, 2021
(Alison Flood’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/25; Photo: William Shakespeare Photograph: Stock Montage/Getty Images.) An original fragment from the first folio, estimated to be w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:27AMSunday, October 24, 2021
(Jonathan Allen’s article appeared on Reuters, 10/24; Photo: Leading actors Ben Crawford and Meghan Picerno rehearse a scene during preparations to reopen “Phantom of the Opera” at New…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:32PMThursday, October 21, 2021
(Chris Jones’s article appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 10/19. Photo: Kelvin Roston, Jr. and Amanda Drinkall in “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice” at Court Theatre in Hyde Pa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:53AMTuesday, October 19, 2021
(Benjamin Lee’s article appeared in the Guardian 10/19; Photo: Leslie Bricusse in 2005. Photograph: David Rose/Shutterstock.) The Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter, whose work drew ac…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:06PMMonday, October 18, 2021
(Guy Lodge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/18; Photo: West Side Story: never had bodies in motion been used to shape and dictate a film’s own rhythm quite like this. Photograph…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:22PMSunday, October 17, 2021
(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 10/14; Photo: From left, Adam Godley, Adrian Lester and Simon Russell Beale in “The Lehman Trilogy,” at the Nederlande…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:52PMSaturday, October 16, 2021
(Nobuko Tanaka’s article appeared in Japan Times, 10/16/21.) Rena Matsui plays the pivotal role of Mark Antony, a general and follower of the charismatic leader of the Roman republic, in �…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:05PM 
