Thursday, February 25, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: My system cannot be explained in an hour or in a day even. It must be systematically and practically studied for years. It does good only whe…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:16PM[SHARE](Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/25. Photo: Richard Blackwood in Ryan Calais Cameron's Typical. Photograph: Franklyn Rodgers. ) Available online This superb play dra…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2021
(Nobuko Tanaka's article appeared in the Japan Times, 2/18; Photo: Playing the bad guy: Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke IV plays Suginoichi, a blind musician who kills and cheats to get ahead…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2021
(Chekhov's story appeared in Russia Beyond, 2/23/2021.) Anton Chekhov. WOLF BAITINGÂ Translated by Dan Biktashev It is said that we live in the nineteenth century. Do not be fooled, reade…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:35PM[SHARE](Chris Wiegand's artciel appeared in the Guardian, 2/23;  Lena Olin and Erland Josephson with the Hedda Gabler sofa in After the Rehearsal. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy.) Ingma…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:31AM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2021
(Claire Thomas's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/22.) I first saw Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne in 2009. I remember the barren stage and the entombed …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 21, 2021
(from RT, 2/21.) On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses with Emily Allen-Hornblower and Marquis McCray the power of the classics, such as Sophocles' play Philoctetes, to elucida…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:40PM[SHARE](Jesse Green's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/19; via Pam Green; Photo:Â From left, Maria Friedman, John Owen Edwards, John Yap and Stephen Sondheim working on the recording of…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 20, 2021
(Neil Genzlinger's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/11; Photo: Jean-Claude Carrière in 1999. He had more than 150 film and television writing credits and also wrote books and plays…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:11PM[SHARE]I take the time needed to express my creativity"and it is always in demand.  Inspiration and invention lead me, and my ship comes in now.  I can easily solve any problem and corr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:42AM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2021
(Olivia Salazar-Winspear's interviews appeared 2/19 on France24.) As part of France24's week-long series about how the arts are dealing with Covid-19, we take a look at the impact of the hea…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:16PM[SHARE](Tim Diovanni's article appeared in the Dallas Morning News, 2/19; SMU professor Aaron Boyd poses with his violin on Thursday.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer; via the Drudge Report.) Wi…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2021
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Much which seemed natural to me was in reality born of old theatrical frumpery. The most terrible thing of all is when self-conceit deceives …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:29PM[SHARE](via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency.) Baryshnikov Arts Center and Cherry Orchard Festival Foundation Co-Present Arlekin Players Theatre's The Cherry Orchard: A New Media Workshop…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2021
(from Shakespeare & Beyond, February 16, 2021.)  | Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth in 1936. Courtesy Library of Congress A struggling economy. Unemployed artis…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:03PM[SHARE] (Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/16; Photo: Slapstick and sentimental songs … Pat Kirkwood in the 1956 musical comedy Stars in Your Eyes. Photograph: networkona…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2021
(from Yonhap 12/12; PHOTO: provided by Acom, shows a scene from the musical "The Last Empress." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) " The South Korean musical scene is elat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:26PM[SHARE](Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/15; via Pam Green; Photo: 'High creative aspirations' … Claire Bloom, photographed in 2016. Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian.…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:37AM[SHARE]Monday, February 15, 2021
(James Varney's article appeared in The Washington Times, 2/15; via the Drudge Report.) The crown teachers once put on Shakespeare now lies uneasy upon his head as the English playwright com…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:41PM[SHARE](Nobuko Tanaka's article appeared in The Japan Times, 2/10; Photo: Behind closed doors: Playwright J.T. Rogers' drama, "Oslo," is based on the true-life clandestine meetings that took place …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 14, 2021
(Seán Hewitt's article appeared in the Irish Times, 2/13; Illustration: JM Synge: For many years, his drama was too close to home.) In the year of the dramatist's 150th anniversary, his w…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:02PM[SHARE]Â Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:43AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2021
(from France 24, 2/13; Photo: France 24; via the Drudge Report.) French-Iranian Rana Gorgani, 37, used to think of whirling as something that should remain behind closed doors JOEL SAGET …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:52PM[SHARE]Â (Keith C. Burris's article appeared in the Journal Inquirer, 2/8.) I have known, in my life, many men who thought of themselves as "great," and were anything but. And I have known a pre…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:54AM[SHARE]Friday, February 12, 2021
(Theo Merz's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/10; photo: Serebrennikov was last year found guilty of fraud after prosecutors accused him and others of siphoning off funds intended for cul…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:24PM[SHARE]By: Adam Sullivan Through COME_TO_EGYPT, international film star Khaled Nabawy, is encouraging those from all over the world, to see the Nile and visit the pyramids. He  recently met …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 11, 2021
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces TRUSpeak … Hear Our Voices! Virtual Fundraiser on Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 5pm (eastern time) via Zoom, presented with the generous…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:55PM[SHARE](Emily Langer's article appeared in the Washington Post, 2/10; via Karen Schimmel; Â PHOTO: Â Maria Guarnaschelli, right, with her daughter, chef Alex Guarnaschelli, in New York in 2013.…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 10, 2021
(Hilton Als's article appeared in The New Yorker, 2/8. PHOTO: Photograph from AKG / TT News Agency. ) The Danish memoirist built a literature of disaster, brick by brick. Don't think yoursel…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:17PM[SHARE](Robin Pogrebin's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/7; via Pam Green. PHOTO: The eminent Broadway wig designer Paul Huntley in 1997, with a hairpiece to be worn by F. Murray Abraham …
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