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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…

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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
Saturday, August 29, 2020

LINN ULLMANN ON HER FATHER, INGMAR BERGMAN: ‘IT WAS AS IF ALL THE WINDOWS OF HIS MIND HAD OPENED’ by Robert Shuman

(Alex Clark’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/29; Ingmar Bergman with his daughter Linn Ullmann during the filming of Autumn Sonata (1978). Photograph: Arne Carlsson © AB Svensk Fil…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:35PM
Friday, August 28, 2020

THE REAL MACBETH: MAD KING OR A CLEVER EYE TO SOLID POWER? by Robert Shuman

(Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh; this article appeared in Brewminate, 8/27; photo: Royal Opera; via Pam Green.) Macbeth appears to have cleverly positioned Scotland between her more powerful …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:24PM
Thursday, August 27, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (90) by Robert Shuman

The actor must first of all believe in everything that takes place on the stage, and most of all he must believe in what he himself is doing. And one can believe only in the truth. Therefore…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:36PM
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

CAN GORE VIDAL FIND REST IN HIS FINAL RESTING PLACE? by Robert Shuman

(Kitty Kelley’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 8/24.) The contentious writer, who liked to say that, after fifty, litigation replaces sex, had very specific plans for his burial. “N…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:50PM
Monday, August 24, 2020

KHALED NABAWY WILL BE A GUEST WITH DIRECTOR MOLLY SMITH ON MOLLY’S SALON THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 AT 7 P.M. by Robert Shuman

Adam Sullivan tells us that international film star Khaled ELnabawy will “be a guest with director Molly Smith on Molly’s Salon next Thursday 7:00 pm Washington D.C. Time and 1:00 am Ca…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:22PM

BELARUS FREE THEATRE: VIDEO SHOWS ARMED BELARUS PRESIDENT AS PROTESTS ROIL CAPITAL by Robert Shuman

(Yuras Karmanau’s article appeared in the Mercury NEws, 8/23; photo: Thousands of people gather for a protest at the Independence square in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. Demonstra…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:44PM
Sunday, August 23, 2020

IN FRANCE, LIVE THEATER CALLS FOR MASKED ACTORS AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS by Robert Shuman

(from The New York Times, 8/20; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) PARIS — In countries where live performances have resumed, masked audiences have become a familiar — if still c…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:05PM
Friday, August 21, 2020

TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR CHICAGO’S ARTS TO TAKE IT OUTSIDE. LET’S NOT WASTE THIS OPPORTUNITY. by Robert Shuman

(Chris Jones’s article appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 8/20; Photo: Chicago Tribune.) We’re safer staying outside. But in Chicago, where summer is short, time rapidly is running out for…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:46PM
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

SOME LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS FOR LONDON’S WEST END by Robert Shuman

(Matt Wolf’s article appeared in The New York Times, 8/13; Photo: Playgoers at the Donmar Warehouse for “Blindness,” a reimagining of José Saramago’s 1995 novel as a sound installat…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:41PM
Monday, August 17, 2020

FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 12 – ‘VOTES FOR WOMEN’ (1907) BY ELIZABETH ROBINS by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/16; Photo:  Pointed arguments and rounded characters … Polly Lister in Votes for Women at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme, in…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:22PM
Sunday, August 16, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (89) by Robert Shuman

The entire physical and spiritual nature of the actor must be concentrated on what is going on in the soul of the person he (or she) plays. (MLIA)

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:32PM
Saturday, August 15, 2020

THEATRE BOTANICAL, STARRING THE PLANTAGENETS by Robert Shuman

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Friday, August 14, 2020

‘A LOVE LETTER TO LEBANON’, AUGUST 15 ONLY by Robert Shuman

(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency) RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER AND NEW YORK THEATRE SALON PRESENT A LOVE LETTER TO LEBANON, AUGUST 15 In the wake of the horrible explosion in Beirut…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:05PM
Thursday, August 13, 2020

IN THESE IMMERSIVE SHOWS, THE JURY IS IN (YOUR HOME) by Robert Shuman

(Alexis Soloski’s article appeared in the New York Times, 8/11; Photo: Good casting: Andrew Anderson, a BBC reporter, portraying a correspondent for a fictional network in “The Evidence …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:24PM
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

PINKERTON: THAT TIME WHEN DEMOCRATS’ VETTING OF A FEMALE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WENT AWRY (REVIEW OF ‘REAGAN’S COWBOYS’, BY JOHN B. ROBER by Robert Shuman

(James P. Pinkerton’s article appeared on Breitbart, 8/12; Photo: Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress.) Male Democrat presidential nominees don’t always do a good job of vetting their …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:13PM

FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 11 – ‘THE HIGH BID’ (1908) BY HENRY JAMES by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/10; Billy Russell in The High Bid at the Mermaid theatre in 1967. Photograph: Tony Gibson/ANL/Rex/Shutterstock.)   James’s ric…

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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (88) by Robert Shuman

The more the actor wishes to amuse his audience, the more the audience will sit in comfort waiting to be amused, . . . not even trying to play its part in the play on the stage before it.  …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:59PM
Monday, August 10, 2020

***** ‘GHOST LIGHT’ REVIEW – A FEAST OF DREAMS FROM THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND (ONLY UNTIL 8/28) by Robert Shuman

(Mark Fisher’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/8; Photo: Fairy glow … Ghost Light was filmed at Edinburgh’s Festival theatre. Photograph: Peter Dibdin.) Hope Dickson Leach’s mag…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:06PM
Sunday, August 9, 2020

ERIC BENTLEY, CRITIC WHO PREFERRED BRECHT TO BROADWAY, DIES AT 103 by Robert Shuman

(Christopher Lehmann-Haupt’s obituary appeared in The New York Times, 8/5; Photo: The New York Times;  via Pam Green.) Mr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of mod…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:59PM
Saturday, August 8, 2020

COVID-19 KNOCKED ACTORS OFF THE BROADWAY STAGE.  BUT ARE THE LIGHT DIM FOREVER? by Robert Shuman

(Daniel Arkin’s article appeared on ABC News on , 8/7; via the Drudge Report. Photos: The livelihoods of thousands of Broadway performers were dramatically upended after the coronavirus cr…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:26PM
Friday, August 7, 2020

BRENT CARVER DIES: TONY AWARD-WINNING ‘KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN’ ACTOR WAS 68 by Robert Shuman

(Greg Evans’s article appeared on Deadline, 8/6; via Pam Green.) Brent Carver, a stage and screen actor who won the 1993 Tony Award for his performance in Broadway’s The Kiss of the S…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:12PM
Thursday, August 6, 2020

WHAT MAKES THE SILVER AGE OF RUSSIAN POETRY SO IMPORTANT? by Robert Shuman

(Alexandra Guzeva’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 7/31; Photo: Russia Beyond the Headlines.) You won’t find another period in Russian literature with such a concentrat…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:55PM
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 10 – ‘MARY ROSE’ (1920) BY JM BARRIE by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/2; Photo: Unnerving questions … Leon Quartermaine and Fay Compton in Mary Rose at the Haymarket theatre, 1926. Photograph: Sash…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:52PM
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

BOOK: JOHN B. ROBERTS II INTERVIEW (Pt. 2): INSIDE THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN’S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRARO by Robert Shuman

DIGGING DEEPER:  JOHN B. ROBERTS II ON THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN’S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRARO, THINKING OUTSIDE THE BALLOT BOX, AND HIS NEW BOOK  ON MORNING IN AMERICA…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:46PM
Monday, August 3, 2020

THE ‘WILDCAT’ EPISODE, OR, DID BROADWAY LOVE LUCY? by Robert Shuman

(Darin Strauss’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/31; Photo: The New York Times;  via Pam Green.) With her sitcom over and marriage finished, Lucille Ball fulfilled an old dream:…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:57PM
Sunday, August 2, 2020

ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S PUBLISHED WORKS LITTERED WITH ERRORS, STUDY CLAIMS by Robert Shuman

(Dalya Alberge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 8/2; Photo:  The Guardian.) Experts find hundreds of errors in the writer’s works, mostly made by editors and typesetters Ernest Hemin…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:15PM
Saturday, August 1, 2020

THE 40 BEST IRISH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS – IN ORDER by Robert Shuman

(Chosen by Rosita Boland, Donald Clarke, Peter Crawley, Martin Doyle, and Hilary Fannin for the Irish Times, 8/1; Photo: The Irish Times.) FROM NIDGE AND CONNELL WALDRON TO GRETTA CONROY…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:09PM
Friday, July 31, 2020

THE HOMEBOUND PROJECT ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR FIFTH AND FINAL EDITION AIRING AUGUST 5–9 by Robert Shuman

(Via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency.) Laurie Metcalf, Kelli O’Hara, Brian Cox, Austin Pendleton, Daniel K. Isaac, and More Premiere New Work by Craig Lucas, Lena Dunham, Sylvia Khoury, …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:27PM
Thursday, July 30, 2020

THE SHOW MUST GO ONLINE: ‘HENRY IV, PART I’ by Robert Shuman

THE SHOW MUST GO ONLINE: HENRY IV PART I   PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list… SUPPORT THE CAST AND CREW: https://patreon.com/theshowmustgoonline HOMEPAGE: https://robmyles.c…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:03PM

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