I saw the opening night of this last night at The Brick here in Brooklyn, what a hoot. I'm told it's been running in London for years and quite well known over there. an extended steam-room monologue with many tangents and musical interludes and sound effects from klezmer accordion and clarinet. 
highly recommended
https://www.theneighborhoodbk.org/extra-events-details/bubble-schmeisis%3A-march-20-29
If you want to know how powerful and influential the arts are consider the efforts to ban, cancel, influence and manipulate them made by current and past extremist governments.
The Emporer Augustus, Hitler and Stalin (to mention just a few) all had a real fear of the potency of the arts and how they affect hearts and minds.
And now it's Trump's turn.
Don't imagine that Dutton and his band of ignorant little Philistines would be any different.
Bereft as they are of creativity they will not recognise the value of it in others.
Beijing theatre For #MarchIntoLandscapes #East (Nikon Coolpix in low light, so quality is what it is) #photography #interior #theatre #action #urban #Beijing #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin
De longs cheveux aux pouvoirs magiques, c’est l’histoire d’un Opéra maudit : Samson – ARTE Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2aallxhzno
#youtube_arteconcert #ARTE #ARTE_Concert #Musique #Music #live #web #scène #gig #concert #samson #opéra #rameau #voltaire #theatre #claus_guth #raphael_pichon #classique #baroque #Théâtre_de_l_Archevêché #Festival_d_Aix_en_Provence #musicale #théâtrale #compositeur_français #compositeur #mezzo_soprano #soprano #Dalila #Partition
A rainy night, a glowing marquee, and the magic of the theater, just timeless. This scene is based on a black and white photo from 1949. Can you hear the buzz of the crowd and sound of the falling rain?
For those interested, prints available on Etsy (US) and Pixels (most locations and more options)
Etsy - https://marktisdaleart.etsy.com/listing/1761776510/chicago-wall-art-chicago-theatre-print
Pixels - https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/rainy-night-entertainment-chicago-1949-mark-e-tisdale.html
La conscience environnementale au théâtre avec Coupes à blanc
La pièce de théâtre Coupes à blanc est un plongeon dans un monde où 1% de la population devra quitter la Terre rendue invivable. Cette première oeuvre théâtrale de Charlie Cameron-Verge amène les spectateurs dans une tragédie grecque où la conscience envrionnementale est la figure de proue du scénario
Making a list of the plays I’ve watched so far using the reduced price National Theatre at Home subscription I bought before Christmas. They also now offer rentals of individual plays:
London Tide (Our Mutual Friend)
Prima Facie - Jodie Comer
Present Laughter - Andrew Scott
Nye - Michael Sheen
If you are involved in any way in helping to organize a conference in the US at this time, it is imperative that you offer online attendance and speaker options.
And not just because it's the right thing to do for environmental and accessibility reasons (but you should do it for those reasons, anyway).
If you are in the #netherlands , you have to see this! Starting April 5th I will be playing in this typical Dutch #play ; Adel Blank. The staff of this strange household has a weird secret. Only in #theatre for 2 months, in the Microtheatre in #delft
Tickets are available here:
https://www.deflits.nl/reserveren/
"The strong man is strongest when alone."
Tell, Act I, sc. iii
#OTD in 1804.
The first performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell takes place at Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tell_(play)
William Tell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2782
Julie Benz | 2010 American Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, CA (November 21, 2010) https://www.inbella.com/954632/julie-benz-2010-american-music-awards-at-the-nokia-theatre-in-los-angeles-ca-november-21-2010/ #American #Angeles #awards #Benz #Celeb #CelebEvents #Celebrities #Celebrity #Celebs #cleavage #events #Julie #los #music #Nokia #november #theatre
Budapest, 1965. Hungary's much-loved national theatre, constructed in 1875, was controversially demolished in 1965, supposedly to make way for the construction of subway stops. More likely, the Communist regime hated it as a symbol of Hungary's bourgeois past, pride, and sense of nationalism. A new national theatre located elsewhere would eventually be opened in 2002.
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@karlauerbach Ooo. And Pericles, a play I love.
Everyone who likes Shakespeare plays should save a few which they haven’t seen or read to see them live if possible and to follow them as a play and be surprised by the changes and turns.
Not everyone likes #Shakespeare of course, but if you do, and you like live theatre, it’s worth saving some to experience “for a first time” as a play.
“To sing a song that old was sung…”
#OTD in 1773.
Oliver Goldsmith's comedy She Stoops to Conquer is performed for the first time, at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.
Initially the play was titled Mistakes of a Night and the events within the play take place in one long night. In 1778, John O'Keeffe wrote a loose sequel, Tony Lumpkin in Town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Stoops_to_Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/383
"Ce n'est pas une cause
Que j'attaque ou que je défends
Et ceci n'est pas autre chose
Que l'histoire d'un pauvre enfant."
#OTD in 1900.
Sarah Bernhardt stars in premiere of Edmond Rostand's l'Aiglon. The title of the play comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for "eaglet" (a young eagle).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Aiglon
L´Aiglon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66793
#OTD in 1920.
The Blue Flame, a four-act play by George V. Hobart and John Willard after Leta Vance Nicholson, opens at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway before a year's U.S. tour. Though described by a critic as "one of the worst plays ever written," it is a commercial success, largely due to Theda Bara as the central character of a vamp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Flame_(play)
George V. Hobart at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4454
#OTD in 1889.
August Strindberg's naturalistic drama Miss Julie (Fröken Julie), 1888, is first performed, by the Scandinavian Experimental Theater at the University of Copenhagen. His wife Siri von Essen plays the title rôle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Julie
Miss Julie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14347
#OTD in 1891.
Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts (published in 1881) achieves a single London performance, its English-language stage première (at the Royalty Theatre). To evade the Lord Chamberlain's Office's censorship, it has to be staged privately by the Independent Theatre Society, but still attracts strong criticism on moral grounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(play)
Ghosts at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2467
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/8121
#OTD in 1794.
The rebuilt Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London, designed by Henry Holland, opens to the public.
Actress Sarah Siddons, then part of the Drury Lane company, called it "a wilderness of a place". Not only was any sense of intimacy and connection to the company on stage lost, but the very size of the theatre put a great deal of the audience at such a distance from the stage so as to make hearing a player's voice quite difficult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane#Third_theatre_(1794)
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