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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
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 9 – ‘THE WORDS UPON THE WINDOW-PANE’ AND ‘PURGATORY’ BY WB YEATS by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian,  7/27; Above, Yeats’s masterpiece … Peter Cormican as the Old Man in a 2009 production of Purgatory at the Irish Repertory Thea…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:38PM
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

BOOK: JOHN B. ROBERTS II INTERVIEW (Pt. 1): INSIDE THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN’S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRARO by Robert Shuman

MOB RULE:  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 12:01PM
Monday, July 27, 2020

AUDRA MCDONALD INTERVIEW: “THEATRE CAN’T MISS THIS MOMENT” by Robert Shuman

(Michael Schulman’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 7/26; Illustration by Nhung Lê.) Audra McDonald came out of Juilliard in 1993, a twenty-two-year-old with a lyric soprano as pristi…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:06PM

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND, ‘GONE WITH THE WIND’ STAR, DIES AT 104 by Robert Shuman

(Tim Gray’s article appeared in Variety, 7/26; photo: Associated Press; via Pam Green.) Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, two-time Acade…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:40PM
Sunday, July 26, 2020

BLACK PLAYS ARE KNOCKING ON BROADWAY’S DOOR. WILL IT OPEN? by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/22; Photo: Adrienne C. Moore, center, in the Public Theater production of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ Whe…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:43PM
Saturday, July 25, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (87) by Robert Shuman

I felt so pleasantly and comfortably on the stage because . . . [I] centered my attention on the perceptions and states of my body, at the same time drawing my attention away from what was h…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:42PM
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

ENTERING A PARIS THEATER, WARILY, AND FINDING A WEIGHT LIFTED by Robert Shuman

(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/16; Photo:“Ionesco Suite,” directed by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota at the Espace Cardin in Paris. Credit…Jean-Louis Fernandez; …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:14PM
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 8 – ‘SAINT’S DAY’ (1951) BY JOHN WHITING by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20;  photo: Pioneer … John Whiting, right, with CE Webber and Enid Bagnold at the Arts theatre in 1951. Photograph: Bentley Arc…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:47PM
Monday, July 20, 2020

ALAN BENNETT: ‘AN ORDINARY WOMAN’–A MONOLOGUE by Robert Shuman

(Bennett’s monologue appeared in the London Review of Books, 7/16.)  An ordinary kitchen. Gwen, a middle-aged wo­man, talks to the camera. He​ pulled up his trousers. ‘You are nice…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:51PM
Friday, July 17, 2020

FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 7 – ‘SKYVERS’ (1963) BY BARRY RECKORD by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/12;  Riveting drama … from left, David Hemmings, Chloe Ashcroft and Phillip Martin in Skyvers at the Royal Court. Photograph: A…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:14PM
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

QUEER KIDS, NERDS AND SWORD FIGHTS: IT’S THE HOT SCHOOL PLAY by Robert Shuman

(from The New York Times, 7/2; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.)   This is a narrative about youngsters who make up tales. This is a narrative through which ladies wield swords, qu…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:28PM
Monday, July 13, 2020

DIXON PLACE: THE HOT FESTIVAL—THE NYC CELEBRATION OF QUEER CULTURE by Robert Shuman

JULY 6 – AUGUST 1, 2020   Theater, dance, music, literature and homoeroticism for the whole family! Since 1992, it remains the longest running festival of its kind in the world.    In…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:42PM
Saturday, July 11, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (86) by Robert Shuman

In Duse, Yermolova, Fedotova, Savina, Salvini, Chaliapin, Rossi, as well as in the actors of our Theatre when they appeared to best advantage in their roles, I felt he presence of something …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:39PM
Thursday, July 9, 2020

FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 6 – OCCUPATIONS (1970) BY TREVOR GRIFFITHS by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/5,) The collapse of the 1968 protests left this incisive political dramatist searching for answers – and his response delved bri…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:15PM
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

HAMILTON REVIEW – BROADWAY HIT IS NOW A BREATHTAKING SCREEN SENSATION by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/30; photo: The Guardian.) Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical is smart, witty, funky and leaves us reflecting on America’s past and future H…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:05AM
Sunday, July 5, 2020

BEYOND BROADWAY, THE SHOW DOES GO ON by Robert Shuman

(from the New York Times, 7/4; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) Inside a former firehouse in Richmond, Va., a lone actor performs “The Picture of Dorian Gray” for audiences as …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:21PM
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

CARL REINER, MULTIFACETED MASTER OF COMEDY, IS DEAD AT 98 by Robert Shuman

(From the New York Times, 6/30; photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) Carl Reiner, who as performer, writer and director earned a place in comedy history several times over, died on Mon…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:29PM
Monday, June 29, 2020

FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 5 – ‘OWNERS’ (1972) BY CARYL CHURCHILL by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/28; photo: Urge for ownership … David Swift and Jill Bennett starred in Owners at the Royal Court. Photograph: Frank Barratt/Get…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:54PM
Sunday, June 28, 2020

MISERY AND MEGALOMANIA: HOW DAVID ADJMI BECAME A PLAYWRIGHT by Robert Shuman

(From The New York Times, 6/24; photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) It took David Adjmi 10 years to write his new memoir, “Lot Six” (HarperCollins). The last four months were spen…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:54PM
Friday, June 26, 2020

‘ENDGAME’ BY SAMUEL BECKETT: LIFE CONSPIRES TO MIMIC ART … YET AGAIN by Robert Shuman

(Terence Killeen’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 6/15.; Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, directed by Conor McPherson (left) and Michael Gambon at the Beckett Film Project. Photograph: Pa…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:12PM
Thursday, June 25, 2020

THE ANGLE PROJECT IS INVITING YOU TO SHARE YOUR STORY ABOUT COVID 19 HEALTH PROFESSIONALS by Robert Shuman

The Angle Project is inviting you to share your story. We are creating a storytelling series to showcase humanity behind the COVID 19 pandemic. TAP is seeking partnerships with hospitals,…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:55AM
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

A BACKSTAGE WALK THAT’S PURE DRAMA by Robert Shuman

(from The New York Times, 6/11; via Pam Green.) STUTTGART, Germany — Midway through “We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On,” a theatrical walkabout through the Stuttgart State Theate…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:34PM
Monday, June 22, 2020

FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 4 – BLOODY POETRY (1984) BY HOWARD BRENTON by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/22.) This magnificently honest play about the Shelleys and Byron’s summer of sexual experimentation raises difficult questions a…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:04PM
Sunday, June 21, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (85) by Robert Shuman

When I asked one of the journalists how they produced such remarkable critics, I was told of a very clever and purposeful method used in Germany. They let a young critic, he told me, always …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:23PM
Friday, June 19, 2020

SIR IAN HOLM OBITUARY by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s and Ryan Gilbey’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/19; above:  Ian Holm in 2003. On stage he was especially noted for his performances in Shakespeare and Pinter…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:00PM
Thursday, June 18, 2020

STRATFORD FESTIVAL ON FILM: ‘KING JOHN’ by Robert Shuman

Stratford Festival King John house program: https://cdscloud.stratfordfestival.ca… When the rule of a hedonistic king is questioned, rebellion ensues, culminating in the chilling attempt t…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:50PM
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

WATCH KATRINA LENK, PATTI LUPONE, AND THE CAST OF COMPANY PERFORM THE SHOW’S OPENING NUMBER by Robert Shuman

(from Theatermania, 6/15; via Pam Green.) Marianne Elliott directs the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical. Author David Gordon Locations Broadway June 15, 2020 The cast of Stephen Sondhei…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:54PM
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 3 – ‘THE COUP’ (1991) BY MUSTAPHA MATURA by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/15; The Coup, with Tony Armatrading as Black Lightning. Photograph: Ivan Kyncl/ArenaPAL.) A Caribbean-set ‘play of revolutionar…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:46PM
Monday, June 15, 2020

SHELAGH DELANEY AND HER LANDMARK 1958 PLAY, ‘A TASTE OF HONEY’ by Robert Shuman

(from the London Review of Books.)  Listen to Podcast ‘NO, I’M NOT GETTING MARRIED!’:  SUSAN PEDERSEN AND JOANNA BIGGS ABOUT SHELAGH DELANEY AND HER LANDMARK 1958 PLAY, A TASTE OF…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:51PM
Sunday, June 14, 2020

FOUR BLACK ARTISTS ON HOW RACISM CORRODES THE THEATER WORLD by Robert Shuman

(from The New York Times, 6/10; Interviews by Laura Collins-Hughes, Michael Paulson and Salamishah Tillet; Photos: Clockwise from top left: the playwright Lydia R. Diamond; the actor Jel…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:57PM

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