Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Chekhov was in reality a practical joker and a schoolboy in spirit. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:15AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2020
(Anthony Breznican's article appeared in Vanity Fair, 3/16; photo: Vanity Fair; via the Drudge Report.) The director talks about reimagining the musical that riveted him as a child.H 16, 202…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2020
(Jesse Green's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/12; photo: love4musicals.com;Â via Pam Green.) "Where you going?" a person asks the lady leaving his mattress one morning " probab…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2020
(Matt Clinch's article appeared on CNBC 3/24; via the Dridge Report.) KEY POINTS Italy is one of the worst affected countries by COVID-19. It has 17,660 confirmed cases and 1,266 deaths, acc…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:11PM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2020
(Norman Lebrecht's note appeared on slippedisc.com, 3/12; photo: reviewtimes.com.) Two reasons: 1 Insurers 2 Lawyers (Read more)Â Â
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2020
 (Michael Riedel's article appeared in the New York Post, 3/12.) Broadway will shut down tonight until April 12, due to the coronavirus outbreak, several sources told The Post. In what…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:36PM[SHARE]By Bob Shuman SCENE: A dog park in the Bronx. There are two benches. The first is near the entrance to the run"the second it toward the opposite end. MARY JANE, early 70's, sits on one side …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
The production of "The Cherry Orchard" was accomplished with great hardships. The play is delicate, it has all the tenderness of a flower. Break its stem and the flower dries, its odor vanis…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:52PM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2020
(Robert Berkvist's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/9; photo: BFI.) Widely hailed as one of the finest actors of his generation, Mr. von Sydow formed a close relationship with the d…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2020
(Ben Brantley's review appeared in The New York Times, 3/6; photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times; via Pam Green.) This ravishing and singular musical, written and directed by Conor McPher…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 7, 2020
(Emma Smith's article appeared in the Spectator, 3/6; photo: The Spectator.) Shakespeare's single explicit reference to America is found in The Comedy of Errors. The two Dromios are anato…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:18PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2020
By Bob Shuman SCENE: A dog park in the Bronx. (MARY JANE, early 70s, sits on a bench in the dog run. Using a launcher, SHE plays fetch with her spaniel, HUDSON. CHRISTIE, male, late 50s,…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2020
(via Rita Battat Silverman.) Written by: James Robb, MD FCAP Information: PLEASE SHARE THIS ARTICLE Corona virus: Dear Family and Friends, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor o…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2020
(Tim Baysinger's article appeared in the Wrap, 3/ 4.) Â "We'll engage in a process and look at strategic alternatives for Simon & Schuster," the ViacomCBS CEO said during the Morgan St…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2020
(Reuters, 3/2; via Pam Green; photo: articlebio.com) James Lipton, the creator and host of the long-running U.S. television show "Inside the Actors Studio" has died at the age of 93, his wif…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:27PM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2020
A Streetcar Named Desire Listen Drama on 3 Anne Marie Duff leads a stellar cast in a new landmark production of Tennessee Williams's iconic play, telling the story of a catastrophic confront…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 1, 2020
(Julia Jacobs's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/26; via Pam Green;Â Photo: Todd Heisler/The New York Times.) Madison Square Garden opened its doors for the first time to a Broadw…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 29, 2020
What road was one to take in the approach to a social and political play? One must himself live with the thoughts and feeling of the role and act in concordance with them. Just as logical ac…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2020
(Julia Jacobs's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/18; via Pam Green; photo: Devin Yalkin for The New York Times.) Â Â A new documentary play at the Public Theater weaves togethe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2020
The creative goal of the author and the tendency of the play were created not by the actor but by the spectator, as the result of all that he saw and heard in the theatre. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2020
(Neil Genzlinger's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/18; via Pam Green; Photo: Patrick A. Burns/The New York Times.) ZOE CALDWELL, WINNER OF FOUR TONY AWARDS, IS DEAD AT 86 Her signa…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2020
(John Varoli's article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 2/20; ; photo: John Varoli, Alexander Krasavin/Sputnik.)Â The Nicholas Roerich Museum in Manhattan is North America's only …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2020
(Gemma Tipton's article appeared in the Irish Times, 2/15.) Garry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that's still of the moment Power comes in many forms. There is physical po…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:37PM[SHARE]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 whe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:09PM[SHARE]Monday, 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…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 techniq…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:22AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 Crucib…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 especial…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:21PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 48th …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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…
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