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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
theneighborhoodbk.org/extra-ev

the-neighborhood Bubble Schmeisis: March 20-29Featuring

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.

#art
#poetry
#theatre
#opera
#literature

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 - marktisdaleart.etsy.com/listin

Pixels - mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featur

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

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.

Fortepan [138287] / Zoltán Szalay

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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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Stoo

She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/383

#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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue

George V. Hobart at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44

#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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(

Ghosts at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/2467
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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_