Friday, August 30, 2019
What is done on the stage is seen better from the auditorium than from the stage itself. Looking from the auditorium I comprehended the mistakes on the stage at once. . . . (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:16PM[SHARE](Alexandra Guzeva's article appeared in Russia Beyond the HEadlings, 6/3.) Nowadays, most theaters have stopped using prompters, but the Maly Theater cherishes this tradition and regards pro…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2019
(Mia Galuppo's article appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, 8/29; via the Drudge Report.) Blake Jenner, Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt will star in an adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim music…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:02PM[SHARE]The feeling of truth is the best awakener of emotion and the sense of living. . . . At first I did not have to imitate any one, and I felt well on the stage. There was only one unple…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:33PM[SHARE]Listen Timberlake Wertenbaker's adaptation from the French of Marcel Proust's allegorical reflection on time, memory, art and love. It begins with the vivid memory of a young boy's child…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2019
The greatest obstacle in the artistic development of an actor is hurry, the forcing of his immature powers, the eternal desire to play leading parts and tragic heroes. To give heavy work…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:23PM[SHARE](Laura Cappelle's article appeared in The New York Times, 8/22; via Pam Green.) PARIS " Anémone, 65, an impersonator at the famous Chez Michou cabaret, and Freya Kor, 22, the winner of the"…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2019
The secret . . . Physical bodily restraint, the taming of the anarchy of muscles, to reveal emotion in the strong places and think of nothing, to work out my own image which I was to copy an…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:37PM[SHARE](Chris Jones's article appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 8/21.) I find myself haunted by the funerals of the AIDS era. I attended too many of them and the creative lives they celebrated were …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:37PM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2019
It is much better to imitate an image created by yourself than another's methods of play or another's mannerisms. (MLIA)
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:26PM[SHARE](Clare Brennan's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/25.) The annual celebration of the work of Brian Friel carries powerful reminders of the work of building community "Politics are so obtr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 25, 2019
In order to make the effect true, one must do things to [the voice] . . . that in real life are not true. The same applies to make-up. One must paint, and pencil the brows to mak…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:35PM[SHARE](Eric Grode's article appeared in The New York Times, 8/19; via Pam Green.) George Bernard Shaw's 6-Hour 'Beast'? She's All In A dancer turned director, Kimberley Rampersad is tackling "Man …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 24, 2019
Emotion rose from the lowest to the highest notes, from calmness to insanity. This is what you must remember. Control yourself while you have strength to control yourself,"the longer…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:48PM[SHARE](Holly Williams's article appeared in the Independent, 8/2.) It's nearly that time again: when crowds descend on Edinburgh for the world's biggest arts festival, where every pub basement and…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:40PM[SHARE]Friday, August 23, 2019
Faith has great meaning for the actor. Physical truth, and faith in that truth, call out inner spiritual truth and faith, and these free emotion, which comes from its secret hiding place…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:50PM[SHARE](Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/21.) Juliet Stevenson delivers one of the peak performances of the theatrical year in Robert Icke's striking reimagining of Schnitzl…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 22, 2019
It is far from easy to stand motionless on the stage in the full sight of more than a thousand pair of eyes. I was successful but only at the cost of a tremendous bodily strain. I or…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:24PM[SHARE](Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 8/21; via Pam Green.) The screen and stage star is making his Broadway debut as the bottled-up husband wearing a "mask of cont…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Craftsmanship teaches the actor how to walk on the stage and play. But true art must teach him how to awaken consciously his subconscious creative self for its superconscious organic cre…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:36PM[SHARE](Andrew Eglinton's and Mika Eglinton's article appeared in the Japan Times, 8/13.) Since the late 1970s, people from all over the world have traveled to the village of Toga in rural Toyama P…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2019
One accidental touch, the bud opened and from it burst fresh young petals, seeking he warmth of the sun. And with me, an accidental touch of the makeup brush on my face served to open th…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:34PM[SHARE]By Tania Fisher So how does the son of a mailman, from a small town near Pittsburgh, end up directing more live network television than anyone else in the history of the medium"and being …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:11PM[SHARE]WORKS & PROCESS, THE PERFORMING ARTS SERIES AT THE GUGGENHEIM, ANNOUNCES FALL 2019 SEASON  Highlights · New commissions by Machine Dazzle and Caroline Shaw · Rotunda pe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:58PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2019
One feature in my makeup gave a living and comic expression to my face, and something suddenly turned within me. All that was dim became clear, all that was groundless suddenly had groun…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:19PM[SHARE](Jesse Green's article appeared in The New York Times, 8/12; via Pam Green.) A sumptuous Ibsen revival starring Uma Thurman and a knockout premiere by Adam Bock close the Williamstown season…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2019
(Alexandra Guzeva's article appeared in Russia Beyond, 8/16.) Russian plays are no less famous in the theater and opera world than the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in the literary. If yo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 17, 2019
(John Muller's article appeared in Shakespeare and Beyond, 7/19; via Pam Green.) In his life and times Frederick Douglass was known around the world as an orator, abolitionist, suffragist, a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:55PM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2019
 Andrea Andresakis, Stage Director/Choreographer, has written about her Woodstock Anniversary Tribute: "I just finished editing this short video in time for the 50th Anniversary …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Listen Robert McCrum explores the elusive Samuel Beckett's astonishing literary career through rare audio tape recordings from the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:23PM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2019
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Time, 8/8; via Pam Green.) With plays and musicals folding left and right, Broadway stars impart wisdom they gained when it happened …
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