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 …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:08PM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2019
Listen on BBC Radio 3 Imagine where we'd be without Shakespeare's plays. It's difficult to contemplate now. But it was thanks to another man that many of them were brought to life. Today…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2019
(Gemma Tipton's article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/27.) Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions It's fascinating how the same set of w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2019
(Frank Gagliano is a playwright who has held many positions in the world of theatre, including being the Artistic Director of Carnegie Mellon's Showcase of New Plays and the Benedum Professo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:05PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2019
(Laura Cappelle's article appeared in The New York Times, Â 8/2; via Pam Green.) Despite a history stretching to 1934, it feels like a David to the art exhibition's Goliath. but its progra…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2019
Listen Chris Bowlby travels with Tony Harrison to Prague, to discover how one of Britain's best known poets was shaped by the cultural energy and tragedy of 1960s Czechoslovakia. Harrison re…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:11PM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2019
By Bob Shuman Historians, looking back at contemporary American theatre, will have to evaluate whether our stages were reflections of society or partisan distortions. Were our artists "livin…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2019
(Mark Kennedy's article appeared on the AP, Â 7/31.) NEW YORK (AP) " Harold Prince, a Broadway director and producer who pushed the boundaries of musical theater with such groundbreaking s…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:06PM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2019
Listen on BBC Radio 3Â Vladimir Mayakovsky was THE poet of the Russian Revolution. A revolutionary in his personal life as well as in his art, Mayakovsky sought to overthrow traditional p…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2019
PTP/NYC'S (POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT) INCLUDES WORKS BY TOM STOPPARD, VACLAV HAVEL, HAROLD PINTER & SAMUEL BECKETT THAT RESONATE WITH OUR CULTURAL AND POLITICAL MOMENT PTP/NYC (Potomac The…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:13PM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2019
FREE INTRODUCTION TO TRU'S PRODUCER PROGRAM Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from 6:30pm-8:30pm Polaris North Theatre Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces a Free Introduction to TRU's P…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2019
(Laura Cappelle's article appeared in The New York Times, 7/18; via Pam Green.) An underwhelming official lineup led many festivalgoers to branch out into the less well-known complimentary p…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:48PM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2019
       Listen A celebration of the simple joys of life, and the story of Brecht's much-loved poem that described them. In 1954, poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:49PM[SHARE](Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 7/13; via Pam Green.) Most theaters closed down on their most lucrative night of the week, but some casts gave their fans a memorab…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2019
(From Andrea Alton, Alton PR and Production) Hip to Hip Theatre Company Announces Summer Dates & Venues for 2019 Season Tour of Free Shakespeare in the Parks A Midsummer Night's Dream an…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2019
(Georgianna Ziegler's article appeared in Shakespeare & Beyond, 7/9; via Pam Green.) Shakespeare by the sea, on the river, in the park or garden, on the common " in the summertime Shakes…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2019
(Mark Fisher's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/9.) Crucible, Sheffield Transformative puppetry, design and direction, and a great human lead, make this adaptation of Yann Martel's book u…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2019
UNCLE JIM CALLED (Rabe's story appeared in the 7/8 & 15 New Yorker.) A week ago Thursday, my uncle Jim called. When I picked up the phone and said, "Hello," he said, "Hello." The voice w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:50PM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2019
Listen LORCA Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), author of Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba, who mixed the t…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 6, 2019
(Adam White's article appeared in the Telegraph, 7/3; via Pam Green.) Spare a thought for the Benedict Cumberbatch of an alternate end-of-2017. Having said goodbye to Sherlock, fresh f…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2019
Hamilton Clancy (producer/director/actor/ theatre (producer/director/actor/ theatre maker) has been making theatre in and around Manhattan for the last…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 30, 2019
(Roger Friedman's article appeared on Showbiz 411, 7/29.) Liberace and his glittering pianos are finally on track for Broadway. For the last couple of years, movie producer David Permut"who …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:11PM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2019
(Peter Crawley's article appeared in The Irish Times, 6/25.) Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just you Review: Theatre for One's six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whis…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2019
(Nancy Coleman's article appeared in the New York Times, 6/21; via Pam Green.) Jeremy Wechsler was on his way to rehearsal one morning in March when his phone started, and then wouldn't stop…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 22, 2019
By Bob Shuman Rob Ackerman's Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson, has all the commercial patter of a Tootsie or Neil Simon"even David Ives"comedy, but it's a play for wimps, symptomati…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:03PM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2019
By Bob Shuman Byungkoo Ahn's distillation of the lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Alan Turing, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Hans Christian Andersen, among others, works so effectively"and is so differe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2019
(Frank Iovene's article appeared on AFP, 6/15.) Rome (AFP) " The world of cinema was in mourning Saturday after Italian film and opera legend Franco Zeffirelli, feted for his lavish producti…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:18AM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2019
By Tania Fisher Sitting down with Roger Hendricks Simon is always an interesting experience. Director Oliver Stone put it most succinctly when he referred to Roger as "that wonderful act…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2019
2018 Tony Award-winning LA MAMA PRESENTS 13 FRUITCAKES WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY BYUNGKOO AHN AS PART OF STONEWALL 50 AT LA MAMA JUNE 13 " 16, 2019 Â 'MOre' Zimin from 13 Fruitcakes Photo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:10PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2019
(CBS News, 6/10.) "Hadestown," the brooding musical about the underworld, had a heavenly night at the Tony Awards, winning eight trophies Sunday night including best new musical and getting …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 8, 2019
(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 5/30; via Pam Green.) LONDON " This city's season-long love affair with Arthur Miller reaches an intriguing if emotionally muted conclusi…
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