Saturday, October 5, 2019
Gillian Slovo Listen Novelist Gillian Slovo's letter to her mother, the anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First. Part of a series in which writers from around the world read letters on the theme…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:06PM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2019
(Margalit Fox's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/4; via Pam Green.) Diahann Carroll, who more than half a century ago transcended racial barriers as the star of "Julia," the fir…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2019
By Bob Shuman  A cello stands at the center of This Is Why We Live, at La Mama, which closed September 29 and Oedipus, Sex with Mum was Blinding, at BAM Fisher, which also ended…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2019
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/26; via Pam Green.) An easily legible production of the ancient Greek tragedy borrows from the tradition of Noh theater at t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:19PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2019
The fantastic is a glass of foaming champagne. . . . In The Snow Maiden there is exceptionally beautiful Russian epos, and in The Blue Bird an artistically interpreted symbol. It is engaging…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:29PM[SHARE](via Gwendolyn Quinn) (New York, NY " September 30, 2019) " It is with deep sadness and sorrow that we announce the passing of international opera star Jessye Norman, in a statement issue…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:15PM[SHARE](Michael Cooper's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/24; via Pam Green.) The star singer, accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, dropped out of Verdi's "Macbeth" and indicate…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2019
We are sentimental . . . we actors, and we love to play the part of injured innocence not only on the stage, but in life also. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:03PM[SHARE](Boyd Tonkin's article appeared in the Spectator, 9/26.) The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen reviewed Pick up a Penguin Classic from a cult Danish author w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 28, 2019
My business of stage directing was done, it was behind me; the matter lay in the hands of the actors now. Only they could bring the performance to life, and I could do nothing more than …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:47PM[SHARE](Derek O'Connor's article appeared in The Irish Times, 9/23.) Derek O'Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre I never saw Diego Maradona play football. I never saw Nijin…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:33PM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2019
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/13; via Pam Green.) Â Ntozake Shange's play, with its unflinching depiction of black women's experience, is coming back t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2019
"If we could only see the image, see how he walks, talks, laughs, and come to know the quality of his voice," we said to ourselves when we approached the role. "If we can find the image,…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:47PM[SHARE]Part of Citywide Recognition Peter Brook/NY, This Free Event Will Be Captured by Partner Organization WNET/ALL ARTS for Future Broadcast Thursday, September 26 at approximately 8:45pm Pol…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2019
In order to rejuvenate art, we declared war on all the conventionalities of the theatre wherever they might occur"in the acting, in the properties, in the scenery, the costumes, the interpre…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:21PM[SHARE]Listen In 2011 Ai Weiwei was arrested without notice by the Chinese authorities and detained for 81 days. Here he writes a letter to his son Ai Lao who was two years old when he disappeared.…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:59PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2019
(from the Guardian, 9/20/19.) 20 September 1960Â Promoting her latest play, The Lion in Love, Delaney says 'I would rather write a terrible play than a mediocre one' Surrounded by a clutch…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:52PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2019
"Lateness, laziness, caprice, hysterics, bad character, ignorance of the role, the necessity of repeating anything twice are all equally harmful to our enterprise and must be rooted out."Â…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:04PM[SHARE](Gia Kourlas's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/20; via Pam Green.) In Elizabeth Streb and Anne Bogart's "Falling & Loving," dancers and actors share the stage with the Guck Mac…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 21, 2019
"All disobedience to the creative life of the theatre is a crime."Â Â (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:14PM[SHARE]Listen on BBC Radio 4Â Â Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and biographer Ben Moser debate Susan Sontag's life and ideas with presenter Laurence Scott, focusing in on her 1966 essay collec…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2019
"The poet, the actor, the artist, the tailor, the stage hand, serve one goal, which is placed by the poet in the very basis of his play."Â (MLIA) Â
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:47PM[SHARE](via Craig Smith) Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Artistic Director Elise Stone announces the appointment of Kevin Confoy as Producing Director starting October 2, 2019. Confoy, who is a reside…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:26PM[SHARE](Rosalyn Sulcas's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/13; via Pam Green.)  The Théâtre du Châtelet is reopening after a two-and-a-half-year makeover, with a new artistic dir…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2019
"Today Hamlet, tomorrow a supernumerary (walk-on actor), but even as a supernumerary you must become an artist."Â (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:32PM[SHARE](Chabon's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 9/26 issue)  This essay will appear in somewhat different form in Fight of the Century, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2019
(Eric Grode's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/11; via Pam Green.) It often seems like safety first on Broadway, but the commercial stage has historically been home to shows that pu…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2019
(via Katie Rosin, Kampfire PR, 9/17/19) New York, NY: On Monday, September 16, 2019, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation announced the 2019 recipients at the annual Off-Off-Broadway I…
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