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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (4) by Robert Shuman

Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved

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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

ARS NOVA ANNOUNCES PROGRAMMING AND EXPANDED RESIDENCIES FOR 2020-2021 SEASON by Robert Shuman

(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency) Here’s what is going on at ARS NOVA: Debut of Ars Nova Supra, New Digital Streaming Platform New $150,000+ Vision Residency Program P.S., Durati…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:49PM
Monday, September 21, 2020

WHEN RUSSIA APPEARED IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS by Robert Shuman

 (Ajay Kamalakaran’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 9/18.) Despite Russia’s overwhelming passion for the bard’s works, few in the country are aware of Shakespeare�…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:06PM
Sunday, September 20, 2020

LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (3) by Robert Shuman

Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:06PM

THE NIGERIAN-BRITISH WRITER PUTTING BLACK JOY ON STAGE AND SCREEN by Robert Shuman

(Alison McCann’s article appeared in The New York Times, 9/18; Photo from The New York Times: Theresa Ikoko; via Pam Green.) “There’s so much more that comes with being Black apart fro…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:48PM
Saturday, September 19, 2020

IRELAND: DRUIDGREGORY REVIEW–CAPTIVATING PERFORMANCE ROOTED IN HISTORY by Robert Shuman

(Ciara L. Murphy’s article appeared in The Irish Times, 9/17; Photo: The Irish Times: Druid combines representations of raw sorrow, naked nationalism, and raucous humour to honour Gregory�…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:42PM
Friday, September 18, 2020

FAUCI SAYS IT COULD BE A YEAR BEFORE THEATER WITHOUT MASKS FEELS NORMAL by Robert Shuman

(Sarah Bahr’s article appeared in The New York Times, 9/13; Broadway theaters have been closed since March 12. Some productions have set dates to reopen in March and April 2021.Credit…Da…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:18PM
Thursday, September 17, 2020

AN AMERICAN WRITER FOR AN AGE OF DIVISION by Robert Shuman

(Alexandra Schwartz’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 9/14.  Photograph by Cole Barash for The New Yorker.)  Ayad Akhtar’s autofictional novel cunningly entwines outrage and ambiva…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:45PM

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (92) by Robert Shuman

I am interested in the truth that is within myself, the truth of my relation to this or that event on the stage, to the properties, the scenery, the other actors who play parts in the drama …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:44PM
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

THEATER RESOURCES UNLIMITED: ANNUAL MEET AND GREET INTRODUCTION TO TRU VIA ZOOM by Robert Shuman

(via Michelle Tabnick Public Relations   Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents its annual free Meet and Greet Introductory gathering, this year revamped for social distancing via Zoom…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:56AM

LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (2) by Robert Shuman

Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:24AM
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

***** RICHARD NELSON: ‘INCIDENTAL MOMENTS OF THE DAY’ REVIEW – A FEAST FOR COVID HISTORIANS (VIEW ON YOUTUBE UNTIL 11/5) by Robert Shuman

(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/13.) In the Guardian on Saturday, Martin Amis predicted it will be years before novelists can make sense of the pandemic. Theatre’s s…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:15PM

MICHAEL FRAYN ON THE STATE OF BRITAIN AND THE FUTURE OF THEATRE by Robert Shuman

(Andrew Dickson’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 9/13; Illustration by Grace J. Kim; source photograph by Roberto Ricciuti / Getty.) A conversation with the playwright and novelist ab…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:15PM
Monday, September 14, 2020

HOW TO BIRTH A NEW AMERICAN THEATER by Robert Shuman

(Jesse Green’s, Maya Phillips’s, Laura Collins-Hughes’s, Elisabeth Vincentelli’s and Alexis Soloski’s article appeared in The New York Times, Sept. 11, 2020; Photo: The New Yo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:59PM
Sunday, September 13, 2020

SHAKESPEARE & FRIENDS (1) by Robert Shuman

  Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:48PM

DIXON PLACE EVENTS, WEEK OF 9/14-9/20 by Robert Shuman

DP TV is free to watch and our artists are compensated. Donations help support the community during this precarious time & ensure DP emerges from this crisis continuing to bring togethe…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:15AM
Saturday, September 12, 2020

INTERNATIONAL FILM STAR IN 2021 WORLD MEN’S HANDBALL CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW by Robert Shuman

Adam Sullivan writes to say that last Saturday the 2021 International World Men’s Handball Championship Draw took place at the Giza Pyramids plateau, with Egyptian actor Khaled El Nabawy, …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:49PM

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (91) by Robert Shuman

I speak of the truth of emotions, of the truth of inner creative urges which strain forward to find expression, of the truth of bodily and physical perceptions. I am not interested in a trut…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:30PM
Friday, September 11, 2020

JAPAN : ‘TWELVE ANGRY MEN’–1950s COURTROOM DRAMA ABOUT CONFRONTING PREJUDICE STILL RINGS TRUE by Robert Shuman

(Nobuko Tanaka’s article appeared in The Japan Times, 9/11; photo of actor Shinichi Tsutsumi.) Back in January, when English director Lindsay Posner visited Tokyo for preparatory meetings …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:20PM
Thursday, September 10, 2020

DIANA RIGG, EMMA PEEL OF ‘THE AVENGERS,’ DIES AT 82 by Robert Shuman

(Anita Gates’s article appeared in The New York Times, 9/10; Photo: Terry Disney, Fulton Archive; via Pam Green.) Ms. Rigg also played many classic roles onstage in both New York and Londo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:59PM
Wednesday, September 9, 2020

TRU COMMUNITY GATHERINGS VIA ZOOM, FRIDAYS, SEPTEMBER 11 AND 18, 2020 AT 4:30PM by Robert Shuman

(via Michelle Tabnick Public Relations; Photo of Bob Ost by Walter McBride.) Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) hosts weekly Community Gatherings every Friday at 4:30pm via Zoom, to explore …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:09PM

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER WARNS ARTS ‘AT POINT OF NO RETURN’ by Robert Shuman

(from the AP, 9/8; via the Drudge Report.) LONDON (AP) — “The Phantom of the Opera” composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has told British lawmakers that the arts are “at the point of no retu…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:35PM
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

MABOU MINES: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS WITH NEW LEADERSHIP by Robert Shuman

Mabou Mines is Thrilled to Announce MALLORY CATLETT and CARL HANCOCK RUX   will join KAREN KANDEL and SHARON ANN FOGARTY as the Company’s new team of Co-Artistic Directors   While…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:40PM

SHE GAVE UP A LOT TO PLAY OTHELLO by Robert Shuman

  (Michael Paulson’s article originally appeared in The New York Times, 9/6; Photo: The New York Times; via artdaily.com and  Pam Green.) Actor Jessika Williams in Staunton, Va., Sept. 3…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:27PM
Monday, September 7, 2020

JANET MALCOLM: “A SECOND CHANCE”—“WHEN SHE WENT ONSTAGE AND PERFORMED LIKE A TROUPER” by Robert Shuman

(Malcolm’s article appeared in The New York Review of Books, 9/24.) Once a week in the spring of 1994 I would bicycle over to a brownstone on West 16th Street to see a man named Sam Chwat …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:23PM
Saturday, September 5, 2020

10 FACTS ABOUT THE COMPOSER IGOR STRAVINSKY YOU NEED TO KNOW by Robert Shuman

(Anna Galayda’s  article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 9/4; Photo: classicstogo.nl) The legendary musician lived for 88 years (1882-1971). He witnessed some of the most dramati…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:51PM
Thursday, September 3, 2020

13 ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR THEATRE STUDENTS by Robert Shuman

(Dan Meyer’s article Appeared on Playbill, 9/3.) Check out these reads before heading to class this semester. Now that the school year is here, it’s time for students to put down their s…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:04PM
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

CAN GREEK TRAGEDY GET US THROUGH THE PANDEMIC? by Robert Shuman

(Elif Batuman’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 9/1; photo: In Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King,” staged via Zoom by Theater of War Productions, the city of Thebes is in the grip of …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:10PM
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

NEWS FROM THE WOOSTER GROUP: THE B-SIDE AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING THROUGH SEPTEMBER 14 by Robert Shuman

(from Jim Byk/Kelly Guiod, the Press room, 9/1) NEWS FROM THE WOOSTER GROUP:  THE B-SIDE AVAILABLE TO STREAM ONLINE, CAPPING SUMMER OF OPENED ARCHIVES European tour of The Mother, postpon…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:14PM
Monday, August 31, 2020

BELARUS FREE THEATRE’S REBEL TROUPES STAND UP TO THE LUKASHENKO REGIME by Robert Shuman

(Shaun Walker’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/31; Svetlana Sugako in rehearsals for the Belarus Free theatre. Photograph: Misha Friedman.) For 15 years, the acclaimed company has be…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:03PM
Sunday, August 30, 2020

REVIEW: CHLOROFORM, LIES AND RACISM FIRE UP ‘THE JACKSONIAN’ by Robert Shuman

(Ben Brantley’s article appeared in The New York times, 8/28; Clockwise from top left: Bill Pullman, Carol Kane, Amy Madigan, Juliet Brett and Ed Harris in “The Jacksonian;” via Pam Gr…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:25PM

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