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…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:50PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2019
It is not enough to be simply talented and to have natural gifts; one needs ability, technique, and art. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:11PM[SHARE](Alison Flood's article appeared in the Guardian, 9/16.) Hailed as one of the most significant archival discoveries of modern times, text seems to show the Paradise Lost poet making careful …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2019
 TABULA RASA NYC THEATER AND PERFORMANCE LAB Proudly Presents the World Premiere of the Spanish Language Version of "Powerful production by Ramiro Antonio Sandoval." " Carlos Navedo, Imp…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:06PM[SHARE]Palpable objects seen by us on the stage are much more necessary and important for us actors than colorful canvases that we do not see. Sculptural things live with us and we with them, w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 14, 2019
(Benjamin Moser's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 9/9.) David Rieff went to Bosnia in September 1992, at the end of the first summer of siege. Like so many of the journalis…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:47PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2019
It is much easier to destroy the old than to create the new. (MLIA) Â
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:32PM[SHARE]Listen Fiona Shaw, BAFTA award-winning star of Killing Eve, joins Matthew Parris to explore the life of one of history's most remarkable actresses whose name has slipped from public memo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2019
If one is forced to give talentless actors big parts, one is also forced, for the sake of the performance, to hide their faults. Â (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:15PM[SHARE](Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/4; via Pam Green.) Eccentric and prodigious, the writer Jack Thorne won a Tony for "Cursed Child." Up next: "Sunday" at the Atlan…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Let someone teach us to speak simply, musically, nobly, beautifully, but without vocal acrobatics, actors' pathos and all the odds and ends of scenic diction. We want the same thing in m…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:53PM[SHARE](Damian Thompson's article appeared in the Spectator, 9/7.) She was one of only four women to record the complete Beethoven piano sonatas but the state kept her in obscurity Only four women …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2019
In the repertoire of an actor, among the large number of parts played by him, there are some that seem to have been creating themselves in his inner consciousness for a long time. One on…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:27PM[SHARE](Masha Gessen's article appeared in the New Yorker, 9/10.) Russia released its most famous prisoner on Saturday. Oleg Sentsov, a forty-three-year-old Crimean journalist and film direct…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:30PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2019
How many actors' sins are covered by the artist, his line and color. How easily he gives an artistic shading to the whole performance. It is not in vain that so many talentless actor…
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