Sunday, December 22, 2019
The spectator would not be bored in looking at us and listening to us; he would find it pleasant to believe us all of the time, for the spiritual content of Gorky and of ourselves would just…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:45PM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2019
It was necessary to enter into the spiritual springs of Gorky himself, just as we had done in the case of Chekhov, and find the current of the action in the soul of the writer. Having made o…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2019
(Acocella's article appeared in The New York Review of Books, 12/19.) Souls in Single File Marius Petipa: The Emperor's Ballet Master by Nadine Meisner Oxford University Press, 497 pp., $34.…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2019
(via Sean Katz, Katz PR) The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, America's Preeminent Gilbert & Sullivan Repertory Ensemble, Presents The Mikado Novel Production of Enduring Classic…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2019
The spectator can make his own conclusions, and create his own tendency from what he receives in the theatre. The natural conclusion is reached of itself in the soul and mind of the spectato…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:25PM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2019
PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bob Shuman, Bobjshuman@gmail.com Dixon Place Presents End Zone by Bob Shuman, starring Roger Hendricks Simon, the Simon Studio; Michae…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 15, 2019
(Palko Karasz's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/13; via Pam Green.) With new rules on funding, the government has taken a further step in controlling arts in the country, promptin…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 14, 2019
True art fades whenever it approaches tendential, utilitarian, unartistic paths. In art tendency must change into its own ideas, pass into emotion, become a sincere effort and the second nat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:48PM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2019
(Marissa Nicosia's article appeared in Folger's Shakespeare Library's Shakespeare Plus, 12/3.) Knots, cookies, and women's skill A plate of beautifully baked cookies is a wonderful thing. It…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2019
Artistic truth, hinted to us by nature, is incomparably more aesthetic and more beautiful, and what is even more important, more scenic than relative truth and theatrical conventionality wit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2019
By Frank Gagliano, 12/10 The death of actor Renè Auberjonois (at age 79) is another sad RIP instance of a recent extraordinary theatre personality who once touched my life. In 1968, Joh…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2019
(Laura Cappelle's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/5; via Pam Green.) The genre has long been seen as minor in the French capital, but a string of English-language productions is c…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:48PM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2019
On that occasion so important for me, at that performance in the dawn . . . the trees, the air, the sun hinted to us of such real, beautiful and artistic truth which cannot, because of its a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2019
How conventional we saw to be what we had become used to do on the stage, considering our scenic truth to be real truth. Theorists will say, "This is as it must be," and they will develop a …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2019
(Benedict Nightingale's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/27; via Pam Green. Listen to a BBC interview with Jonathan Miller.) Known for his radical restagings of classic works, …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2019
I could not continue my false and theatrical pose. All that I had done seemed untrue to nature, to reality. And it had been said of us that we had developed simplicity to a point of naturali…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 1, 2019
By Bob Shuman John Doyle's production of Macbeth, playing through December 15 at Classic Stage Company (CSC), should fit into the current zeitgeist exactly. In a world of 280-characte…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2019
(Robert D. McFadden's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/25; via Pam Green.) Â Prolific, erudite and caustic in his wit, he surveyed the entire cultural landscape John Simon, one …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 24, 2019
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/11; via Pam Green.) The return of Tony Kushner's "A Bright Room Called Day" prompted us to ask leading writers:Â How did …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:01PM[SHARE]Friday, November 22, 2019
By Bob Shuman Aaron Monaghan, as Richard III, in Ireland's Druid Theatre U.S. production premiere of Shakespeare's history"it plays until November 23 as part of Lincoln Center's White Light …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 17, 2019
We, who knew the true nature of the Theatre, understood that the boards of our stage could never become a platform for the spread of propaganda, for the simple reason that the very least uti…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:13AM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2019
(Geoffrey O'Brien's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 11/21.) Â Porgy and Bess an opera by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, at the Metropolit…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2019
(Joshua Barone's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/6; via Pam Green.) The French wunderkind's books have quickly become magnets for the stage. Adaptations of "History of Violenc…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 10, 2019
The darker side of human nature is on display in DruidShakespeare: Richard III, a chilling story of power and ambition in a wickedly comic production from Ireland's Druid thea…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:43PM[SHARE](Roger Friedman's article appeared on Show Biz 411, 11/10; via the Drudge Report.) Last year, director Ivo von Hove brought his hit London production of "Network" to New York and caused a lo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:04AM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2019
Interview with Tania Fisher, Author of Children's Book, "Grandma's Garden" By Lori Beedsler  Briefly, what's the book about? To a grown up all that happens in this book is that a child t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2019
Doctor Stockman became popular at once in Moscow, and especially so in Petrograd. "The Enemy of the People" became the favorite play of the revolutionists, notwithstanding the fact that Stoc…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:10PM[SHARE](Martin Scorsese's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/6.) When I was in England in early October, IÂ gave an interview to Empire magazine. I was asked a question about Marvel movie…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Children's Book:Â "Grandma's Garden" Author Tania Fisher, Illustrator Riley Hagan Review by Lori Beedsler A simple and inviting title, once you enter "Grandma's Garden", you will discover…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:13PM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2019
POWER PLAYS Listen As East Germany crumbled in 1989, actors were centre stage. Andrew Dickson discovers how had theatre had survived under communist rule, with its censors and secret police …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:20PM[SHARE]Friday, November 1, 2019
Chekhov always had the best of opinion about military men, especially those in active service, for they, in his own words, were to a certain extent the bearers of a cultural mission, since, …
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