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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

COMMENTARY: THE BEST THEATER IN L.A. RIGHT NOW? IT’S IN PASADENA by Robert Shuman

(Charles McNulty’s article appeared in the L.A. Times,  4/5.) “It’s a radical act to ask someone to go to the theater these days,” Pasadena Playhouse Producing Artistic Director Dan…

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Sunday, April 16, 2023

AN EXTRAORDINARY FEAT’: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ENDS ITS 35-YEAR BROADWAY RUN by Robert Shuman

(David Smith’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/15; via Pam Green; Photo: The Phantom of the Opera has been seen by more than 140 million people worldwide. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:26PM
Saturday, April 15, 2023

KABUKI|NATIONAL THEATRE, TOKYO (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) by Robert Shuman

(via 国立劇場 National Theatre, Tokyo . What’s KABUKI?  

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:54PM
Thursday, April 13, 2023

***** ‘BEYOND BELIEF: THE LIFE AND MISSION OF JOHN HUME’ REVIEW – PROFOUNDLY AFFECTING by Robert Shuman

(Clare Brennan’s article appeared in the Observer, 4/9; Photo: Conor O’Kane as John Hume and Naiomh Morgan as his wife, Pat, in Beyond Belief. Photograph: The Playhouse Derry-Londonderr…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:09AM
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (149) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The organic bases of the laws of nature on which our art is founded will protect you in the future from going down the wrong path. Who knows …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:46PM
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

O’HARA/D’ARCY JAMES/GUETTEL/LUCAS/GREIF: ‘DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES’–STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 5TH, 2023 by Robert Shuman

(via Angela Yamarone, bbbway.com.) Atlantic Theater Company Announces Complete Casting and Extension for Exclusive World Premiere Musical Event DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES Book by Craig Lucas Mu…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:42PM
Monday, April 10, 2023

AMID EXILE AND FIRE, A REVERED RUSSIAN THEATER DIRECTOR IS REBORN by Robert Shuman

(Dan Bilefsky’s and Jeremy Fassler’s  article appeared in The New York Times, 4/7; via Pam Green; Photo: Dmitry Krymov, one of Russia’s most important theater directors, has remained …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:35PM
Sunday, April 9, 2023

IN ‘HAMNET,’ SHAKESPEARE’S WIFE TAKES THE SPOTLIGHT, AT LAST by Robert Shuman

(Andrew Dickson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/7; via Pam Green; Photo: Tom Varey and Madeleine Mantock as William and Agnes, the characters based on Shakespeare and Hathaway.Credit…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:38PM
Saturday, April 8, 2023

‘WE GET INSIDE THEIR SHAME, THEIR EGO, THEIR DESTRUCTION’: JACK THORNE BRINGS BURTON AND GIELGUD BACK TO THE STAGE by Robert Shuman

(Jack Thorne’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/7; via Pam Green; To thine own self be true … John Gielgud directs Richard Burton in rehearsals for Hamlet. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettm…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:16AM
Friday, April 7, 2023

JOHN KANDER’S MAJOR CHORD, UNDIMINISHED by Robert Shuman

(Jesse Green’s article appeared in The New York Time, 4/4; via Pam Green; Photo:  John Kander at home on the Upper West Side. His latest Broadway production, “New York, New York,” is …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:59AM
Thursday, April 6, 2023

UKRAINIAN PHOTOGRAPHER TURNS WAR WOUNDS INTO WORKS OF ART by Robert Shuman

   (Austin Malloy’s report appeared on Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, 4/4.) A new photo project by Ukrainian photographer Marta Syrko captures stunning images of soldiers and civilians…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:07PM
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

***** FOR BLACK BOYS … REVIEW – A MOVING MEDITATION ON BLACK MASCULINITY by Robert Shuman

(Anya Ryan’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/2; Photo: Boyish energy … For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy. Photograph: Ali Wright.)  Apollo thea…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:51PM
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

JUSTINE CLARK BRILLIANTLY BECOMES JULIA GILLARD IN THIS HEROIC PERFORMANCE (EDITOR’S PICK, AUSTRALIA) by Robert Shuman

(John Shand’s article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 4/5;  Photo: The play essentially a one-hander, although Jessica Bentley is also intermittently present.CREDIT:PRUEDENCE UPTON…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:16PM
Monday, April 3, 2023

‘MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO’ TRIUMPHS AT OLIVIER AWARDS by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/2; Photo: Host Hannah Waddingham at the Olivier awards. Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for SOLT.) Olivier awards: full list of w…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:43PM
Saturday, April 1, 2023

‘ICELAND’ AT LA MAMA (REVIEW FROM NEW YORK) by Robert Shuman

By Bob Shuman Iceland, both the title and central metaphor for an opera by O-Lan Jones (director) and Emmet Tilley (music)–now playing at La MaMa through April 2–is like this year’s sl…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:40PM
Friday, March 31, 2023

REVIEW: THE MANY THRILLING FLAVORS OF A FULL-SCALE ‘SWEENEY TODD’ by Robert Shuman

(Jesse Green’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/26; via Pam Green; Photo: Dark and vengeful: Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford and ensemble members in the new Broadway revival of “…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:31PM
Thursday, March 30, 2023

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (148) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Only our kind of [acting] art, soaked as it is in the living experiences of human beings, can artistically reproduce the impalpable shadings …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:30PM
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

***** ‘DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD REVIEW’ – A MAGNIFICENT COMPLICITÉ CREATION by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akhar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/39; Photo: ‘Beautiful moments of physical theatre’ … Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead at the Barbican, London. Photograp…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:20PM
Sunday, March 26, 2023

AARON SORKIN REVAMPS ‘CAMELOT,’ WITH CHALLENGES CLASSIC AND NEW by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/24; via Pam Green; Photo: Andrew Burnap, top, as Arthur in the new Broadway revival of “Camelot,” with Jordan Donica as Lan…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:46PM
Saturday, March 25, 2023

BEN JONSON WORK FROM 1603 MAY CONTAIN ‘LOST’ SHAKESPEARE SONNET, SAY EXPERTS by Robert Shuman

(Dalya Alberge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/23.) An almost unknown sonnet in the playbook or script of a 1603 play by Ben Jonson could be a “lost” work by William Shakespeare…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:57PM
Friday, March 24, 2023

ICELAND A RE-CREATION MYTH–INTERDISCIPLINARY OPERA THEATER BY O-LAN JONES AND EMMETT TINLEY, AT LA MAMA, 3/24-4/2 (LET’S GO THEATRE!) by Robert Shuman

 (via Michelle Tabnick PR)  La MaMa presents  in association with Overtone Industries  ICELAND a re-Creation Myth an interdisciplinary opera theater work by O-Lan Jones and Emmett Tinley…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:51PM
Thursday, March 23, 2023

MOLIERE IN THE PARK ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORLD PREMIERE OF TARTUFFE OR THE HYPOCRITE, DIRECTED BY LUCIE TIBERGHIEN by Robert Shuman

(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity, www.DarrPublicity.com) Molière in the Park, in partnership with Prospect Park Alliance and LeFrak Center at Lakeside, will present the English language wor…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:25PM
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

DRUID TO STAGE THREE-IN-ONE O’CASEY TRILOGY THIS YEAR by Robert Shuman

(From RTE, 3/21; Photo: Sean O’Casey with Irish actress Siobhan McKenna in March 1953.) Druid Theatre has announced plans to stage three landmark works by Seán O’Casey later this year. …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:19PM
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

NOËL COWARD WAS NOT JUST AN AMIABLE JESTER BUT A SCATHING SOCIAL SATIRIST by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/21; Will Young as Nicky Lancaster and Diana Hardcastle as Florence Lancaster in The Vortex at the Royal Exchange theatre, Manchest…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:30PM
Monday, March 20, 2023

PLAYS FROM THE DISASTER: ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY, HOW DRAMATISTS DOCUMENTED IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN by Robert Shuman

  As Karen Malpede points out in her introduction to Acts of War, tragedy “arose as a complement to, perhaps also as an antidote to, war.” The greatest of the early playwrights wrote …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:01AM
Sunday, March 19, 2023

FINAL SONDHEIM MUSICAL WILL BE STAGED IN NEW YORK THIS FALL by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/16/2023; via Pam Green; Photo: Stephen Sondheim’s long-in-the-works Luis Buñuel musical will be staged in September at the S…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:12PM
Saturday, March 18, 2023

SIR DEREK JACOBI: ‘THE SOUND AND MAGIC OF VOICE ARE DISAPPEARING FROM THEATRE’ by Robert Shuman

(Dalya Alberge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/18; via Pam Green.) The acclaimed actor – who is to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Olivier Awards – says the…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:19PM
Friday, March 17, 2023

VIRAL IRAN DANCE VIDEO INSPIRES IMITATORS TO DEFY REGIME by Robert Shuman

(Ray Furlong’s and Golnaz Esfandiari’s reporting appeared on Radio Liberty, 3/14.) Five Tehran girls were reported to have voiced contrition after posting a dance video that went viral a…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:06PM
Thursday, March 16, 2023

REVIEW: IN ‘DEAR WORLD,’ DONNA MURPHY LEADS A RIGHTEOUS MARCH by Robert Shuman

(Juan A. Ramirez’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/16; via Pam Green’ Photo: Donna Murphy, center, as Countess Aurelia in the Encores! production of “Dear World” at the New…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:29PM
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

EURIPIDES PERSUADES US THAT LOVE IS WHAT MAKES US HUMAN by Robert Shuman

(Michael Bulley’s letter appeared in the Guardian, 3/14; Photo: the Guardian.) We ruin, waste and trivialise human life by ignoring that, writes Michael Bulley Charlotte Higgins is right …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:40PM
Sunday, March 12, 2023

LESYA UKRAINKA: UKRAINE’S GREAT POET—AND PLAYWRIGHT–OF HOPE by Robert Shuman

(Kate Laycock’s article appeared on DW, 3/8; Photo: DW.)   Ukrainian literary scholar and journalist, Tetyana Ogarkova, pays tribute to Lesya Ukrainka: the poet, playwright and activist w…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:41PM

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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 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic