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Thursday, June 27, 2024

DOUBLE BILL DEBUTS: DOGTEAM THEATRE OPENS WITH FORNÉS AND COLLIER (7/9-8/4) by Robert Shuman

(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity) Dogteam Theatre Project launches its inaugural Off-Broadway season with two world premieres. “La Viuda,” by Cuban American pioneer María Irene Fornés,…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:27PM
Monday, June 24, 2024

NEW YORK THEATER VETERAN STAGES STRINDBERG’S “MISS JULIE” IN ROARING TWENTIES SETTING by Robert Shuman

Don’t miss a fresh take on classic drama, June 27 to July 7, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 3:00 PM. Theater for the New City is presenting August Strindberg Rep‘…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:40PM
Sunday, June 23, 2024

‘TONGS AND BONES SHAKESPEARE’ BY BOB SHUMAN:  TALKING WITH . . . by Robert Shuman

In May, when director Frank Farrell began working with playwright Bob Shuman on staging Tongs and Bones Shakespeare–coming to Theater for the New City, as part of the Dream Up Festival (at…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:35PM
Friday, June 21, 2024

‘THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR’ OFFERS STRONG EVIDENCE THAT SHAKESPEARE WAS NOT ITS AUTHOR by Robert Shuman

(Jacobi’s and Anderson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/13; Photo/ illustrations: Relentless in his self-satire … Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Photograph: Alamy.) Derek J…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:03PM
Monday, June 17, 2024

IAN MCKELLEN HOSPITALIZED AFTER FALLING OFF STAGE DURING WEST END PERFORMANCE by Robert Shuman

(Ethan Shanfeld’s article appeared in Variety, 6/17. Photo:  Ian McKellen plays John Falstaff in Player Kings. Photograph: Manuel Harlanthe Guardian.) Ian McKellen was hospitalized aft…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:06PM

TONY AWARD WINNERS 2024: THE FULL LIST by Robert Shuman

(Rachel Sherman’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/17. Photo: Mashable SEA.) The Tony Awards were held on Sunday at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater in New York City. Male…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:06AM
Sunday, June 16, 2024

FIELDING’S ‘TOM JONES’ (LISTEN NOW ON BBC RADIO 4–IN OUR TIME–DISCUSSION PROGRAM) by Robert Shuman

Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling” (1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), one of the most influential of the early English novels a…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:17PM
Monday, June 10, 2024

TRIAL OF RUSSIAN THEATER DIRECTOR ADJOURNED AFTER AMBULANCE CALLED IN COURTROOM by Robert Shuman

(From Radio Free Europe. Photo: Theatre director Zhenya Berkovich, left, and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk are seen in a glass cage prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:26PM
Friday, June 7, 2024

5 IN 1: AUDITIONS ANNOUNCED FOR 5 PRODUCTIONS, 6/15/24, NYC–INCLUDING ‘TONGS AND BONES SHAKESPEARE’ AT THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (BY BOB SHUMAN, by Robert Shuman

(6/7/2024) Director Frank Farrell is announcing auditions for five productions – Saturday, June 15 from 2pm – 7pm at Houghton Hall Arts Community, 22 East 30th Street in NYC.  Actors a…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:40PM
Thursday, June 6, 2024

***** ‘VIOLA’S ROOM’ REVIEW – PUNCHDRUNK’S GOTHIC TALE OF PUZZLING WONDER   by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/3; Photo: Teenage kicks … an audience member in Viola’s Room.  Photograph: Julian Abrams.) One Cartridge Place, London Helena Bonham…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:32PM
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

ELLA FITZGERALD, BOUND FOR FREEDOM, IN “ELLA THE UNGOVERNABLE” by Robert Shuman

Theater for the New City to present “Ella The Ungovernable,” a play by David McDonald about 15 year-old Ella Fitzgerald’s incarceration in Hudson, NY, in 1933 and the escape that laun…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:57PM
Monday, June 3, 2024

FANGS FOR THE MEMORIES: HOW DRACULA WAS MADE IN DERBY (U.K.) by Robert Shuman

(Caroline Butterwick’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/3; Cape fear … Bela Lugosi in a publicity still for the 1931 film of Dracula. Photograph: Universal/Allstar.) The iconography …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:16PM
Sunday, June 2, 2024

‘ANTIGONE’ BY JEAN ANOUILH (LISTEN NOW ON BBC RADIO 3; LINK BELOW) by Robert Shuman

Listen Drama on 3 Antigone by Jean Anouilh Translated by Barbara Bray After the deaths of Antigone’s brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, the king Creon, orders that Polynices’s body be le…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:13PM
Friday, May 31, 2024

ANNOUNCING: ‘TONGS AND BONES SHAKESPEARE’ AT THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (BY BOB SHUMAN; DIRECTED BY FRANK FARRELL) by Robert Shuman

Get ready for a theatrical experience like no other, based on characters from the plays of Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and The Tempest)!  The highly anticipate…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:20PM
Thursday, May 30, 2024

EXIT, PURSUED BY A PANDA: THE BRITS BRINGING EYE-POPPING SHAKESPEARE TO THE BALTICS by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/27; Photo: Not your traditional Shakespeare … Winter’s Tale at Dailes theatre. Latvia. Photograph: Marcis Baltskars.) The Winter’…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:39AM
Thursday, May 23, 2024

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND: **ALL FREE** FULL SCHEDULE RELEASED FOR THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY’S LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS, MAY 24 TO 26 by Robert Shuman

COME ONE, COME ALL, FOR FREE THEATER Theater for the New City has posted the full schedule of performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers appearing …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:12AM
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

CASTING CALL – SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS PLAY by Robert Shuman

Seeking: Non-union male actors, of any race, aged 45-60 for a play about Shakespeare characters. Experience with Shakespeare plays is helpful but not required. Production: Play to be perfor…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:30AM
Monday, May 20, 2024

NEED PROOF WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS? SEE THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/20.  Photo Lucy Tregear as Meg Page, Richard Cordery as Sir John Falstaff and Claire Carrie as Alice Ford in The Merry Wives of W…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:06PM
Friday, May 17, 2024

NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS’ CIRCLE AWARD WINNERS: ‘STEREOPHONIC’ AND ‘DEAD OUTLAW’ WIN TOP HONORS by Robert Shuman

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle has unveiled its annual awards, and this year’s ceremony promises exciting winners. David Adjmi’s “Stereophonic,” a play that premiered at Playwr…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:41PM
Thursday, May 16, 2024

TAKE ME TO THE CIRCUS: THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY’S OFFBEAT DOUBLE BILL– “PARTY CLOWN OF THE RICH & FAMOUS AND THE HUNGRY MIND BUFFET” by Robert Shuman

The first act, at Theater for the New City, features Stan Baker, a man with a treasure trove of tales from the fringes of fame. Baker’s one-man show, “Party Clown of the Rich & Famou…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:24PM
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

CATHERINE FILLOUX AT LA MAMA: ‘HOW TO EAT AN ORANGE’–5/30-6/16, 2024 by Robert Shuman

FOR THE PAST THREE DECADES FRENCH ALGERIAN AMERICAN AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT, LIBRETTIST AND ACTIVIST CATHERINE FILLOUX HAS BEEN TRAVELING TO CONFLICT AREAS WRITING PLAYS THAT ADDRESS HUMA…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:25PM
Monday, May 13, 2024

OUT OF THE DARK: REVISITING COMPOSERS SUPPRESSED BY THE NAZIS by Robert Shuman

(Alex Ross’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 5/13; Zemlinsky, once regarded as a weak-willed eclecticist, is attracting modern admirers. Illustration by Romy Blümel.) The Musica Non G…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:40PM
Friday, May 10, 2024

“GRENFELL: IN THE WORDS OF SURVIVORS” ON DEMOCRACY NOW!: SURVIVOR RECOUNTS DEADLY 2017 LONDON FIRE THAT INSPIRED PLAY—ONLY THROUGH SUN., 5/12 AT by Robert Shuman

(On Democracy Now!, 5/10.) The play Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors, which is being staged this week in Brooklyn, tells the story of the 2017 apartment fire at Grenfell Tower in London t…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:48PM

‘THEY’RE TEACHING ME’: GREG DORAN ON STAGING SHAKESPEARE’S UNLOVED TWO GENTS WITH STUDENTS by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/10;  Photograph: Geraint Lewis.)  The theatre director, now teaching at Oxford after years running the RSC, thinks The Two Gentl…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:29AM
Thursday, May 9, 2024

8TH BIENNIAL SEGAL CENTER FILM FESTIVAL ON THEATRE & PERFORMANCE MAY 16-20 WILL FEATURE MORE THAN 30 FILMS BY INTERNATIONAL THEATER ARTISTS PLUS D by Robert Shuman

ALL FREE WHERE AND WHEN: May 16 to 20, 2024 The Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street FREE – First Come, First Served So…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:37PM
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (167) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: [Using the concept of] If is also a stimulus to the creative subconscious. Besides it helps us to carry out another fundamental principle of…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:25PM
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

LEBANESE PLAYWRIGHT CHRYSTÈLE KHODR’S DRAMATIC ‘TRIAL BY ORDEAL’ ON STAGE IN PARIS by Robert Shuman

(Solene Clausse’s Olivia Salazar-Winspear’s, Jennifer Ben Brahim’s Marion Chaval’s, Magali Faure’s and Clemence Delfaure’s article  appeared on France24, 5/7. Photo: arts24 © …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:13PM
Friday, May 3, 2024

***** THE CHERRY ORCHARD REVIEW – BENEDICT ANDREWS BRINGS CHEKHOV BANG UP TO DATE by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/3; Photo: The party’s over … Nina Hoss in The Cherry Orchard. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Donmar Warehouse, London Nina Hoss stars i…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:30PM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

DIVE DEEP INTO JON FOSSE’S PLAYS: A THEATRICAL MARATHON IN NEW YORK (NEXT MONDAY, MAY 6, 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM) by Robert Shuman

INTO THE EVERYDAY AND EXISTENTIAL Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse’s Texts for Performance in New York 2004 to the present NEXT MONDAY, MAY 6 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM Ongoing engagement and experiment…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:00PM

 ‘I WAS BROUGHT UP AMONG GIANTS’: GILLIAN SLOVO ON HER REVOLUTIONARY PARENTS – AND HER MOTHER’S MURDER by Robert Shuman

(Emma Brockes’s interview appeared in the Guardian, 4/29; Photo: Photograph: Teddy Wolff.) As she takes the words of Grenfell Tower fire survivors to the New York stage, the playwright tal…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:05AM
Monday, April 29, 2024

RALPH FIENNES IN ‘MACBETH’ COMES TO MOVIE THEATERS FOR TWO DAYS ONLY: THURSDAY, MAY 2, AND SUNDAY, MAY 5 (REVIEW FROM NEW YORK) by Robert Shuman

By Bob Shuman Director Simon Godwin’s structured, composed descent into the “defilement of a mind” in Macbeth is objective and clear, filmed unpoetically,  yet sustained with uniforml…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:04PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime