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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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. …

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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Saturday, March 11, 2023

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (147) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Even the externalizing of a role is greatly influenced by the subconscious. In fact no artificial, theatrical technique can even compare with…

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Friday, March 10, 2023

TRAVELLING HOMER: HOW THE NATIONAL THEATRE IS STAGING A MULTI-CITY ODYSSEY by Robert Shuman

(Jessica Murray’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/8; Photo: Patsy Browne-Hope and Frank Hickman in rehearsals for The Lotus Eaters, the first episode of NT Public Acts’ new five-part…

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Wednesday, March 8, 2023

ACCLAIMED PLAYWRIGHT DAVID HARE OPENS UP ON HIS NEXT BIG CHALLENGE by Robert Shuman

(Kerrie O’Brien’s article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 3/6/2023; Photo: Sydney Morning Herald.) What David Hare wants to write about at the moment is pretty simple: the fact th…

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Sunday, March 5, 2023

THE RUMBLE OVER RUSSIAN COMPOSER TCHAIKOVSKY AT AN ELITE UKRAINIAN CONSERVATORY by Robert Shuman

(Rostyslav Khotin’s article appeared on Radio Free Europe, 3 /4.) Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky had Ukrainian roots and was influenced by Ukrainian motifs. Should he stay or sh…

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Saturday, March 4, 2023

‘DOGS OF EUROPE’ (BELARUS FREE THEATRE, ADELAIDE FESTIVAL) by Robert Shuman

(Jansson J. Antmann’s article appeared in Limelight Magazine, 3/2/2023;  Photo: Dogs of Europe. Photo © Adam Forte, Daylight Breaks.) Exiled from their homeland, the performers of Belaru…

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Thursday, March 2, 2023

HOW ART, MUSIC AND DANCE AFFECT YOUR BRAIN AND BODY by Robert Shuman

(Bethany Brookshire’s article appeared in The Washington Post, 3/2; via the Drudge Report; Illustration: How art, music and dance affect your brain and body© George Wylesol for The Washi…

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

UKRAINE’S NATIONAL OPERA LOSES MEMBERS TO RUSSIA’S WAR, SAYS ART IS ALWAYS POLITICAL by Robert Shuman

(Olena Makarenko’s reporting appeared in the Kyiv Independent, 2/2/23.) Following a three-month break after the start of Russia’s all-out war, the National Opera of Ukraine resumed its p…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:32AM
Monday, February 27, 2023

‘NOBODY CAN GO BACK – WE ALL FACE JAIL’: THE DISSIDENT THEATRE COMPANY OPENING ADELAIDE FESTIVAL by Robert Shuman

(Kelly Burke’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/26/23; Photo: … Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada of Belarus Free Theatre in London. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters.) Belarus Free…

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Saturday, February 25, 2023

‘MEDEA’ REVIEW – SOPHIE OKONEDO IS MAGNIFICENT AS ANCIENT GREECE’S PREEMINENT REBEL WOMAN by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/17; via Pam Green; Photo: Never an outright monster … Sophie Okonedo, right, and Ben Daniels in Medea. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Med…

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Sunday, February 19, 2023

FOR BURT BACHARACH, ‘PROMISES, PROMISES’ WAS ONE BROADWAY HIT TOO MANY by Robert Shuman

(Laurence Maslon’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/13; via Pam Green; Photo:Burt Bacharach, at the piano, arrived in New York as rehearsals began in September 1968. He was joined…

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

RAQUEL WELCH, ‘ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.’ AND ‘THREE MUSKETEERS’ ICON, DIES AT 82 by Robert Shuman

(Carmel Dagan’s article appeared in Variety, 2/15; via Pam Green; Photo: Corbis via Getty Images.) Raquel Welch, the actor who became an icon and sex symbol thanks to films like “One Mil…

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

‘IT’S A GRIEF AND A HEALING’: WHY DANCE-MAKERS LOVE THE RITE OF SPRING by Robert Shuman

(Sarah Crompton’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/12/23; Photo:  ‘I think you must do it just by feel’: Dada Masilo’s interpretation of The Rite of Spring, based on the traditio…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:14AM
Monday, February 13, 2023

NEW OHIO THEATRE TO CLOSE AUGUST 31, 2023 by Robert Shuman

(via David Gibbs/DARR Publicity, 2/13.) New York, NY – After 30 years as an indispensable pillar of the downtown independent theatre community, New Ohio Theatre will conclude operations at…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:21PM
Saturday, February 11, 2023

THE TEMPEST REVIEW – ALEX KINGSTON IS A MAGNIFICENT PROSPERO by Robert Shuman

(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/2; via Pam Green; Revelatory … Alex Kingston as Prospero. Photograph: Ikin Yum.) Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Climat…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:33PM
Friday, February 10, 2023

BURT BACHARACH, LEGENDARY POP COMPOSER, DIES AT 94 by Robert Shuman

(Chris Morris’s article appeared in Variety, 2/9; via Pam Green; Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images.) Songwriter, composer, producer and arranger Burt Bacharach, a dominant force in American…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:02PM
Thursday, February 9, 2023

VÁCLAV HAVEL: ‘AUDIENCE’ AT LA MAMA–THROUGH FEBRUARY 19 (REVIEW FROM NEW YORK) by Robert Shuman

by Bob Shuman Visit La MaMa Translated and Directed by Vít Hořejš Performed by Vít Hořejš & Theresa Linnihan Production design: Alan Barnes Netherton ‍Marionettes: Milos Kas…

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Thursday, February 2, 2023

ANCIENT GREEK PLAY ECHOES FIGHT TO PROTECT AMAZON (BRAZIL) by Robert Shuman

(Suzanne Cords’s article appeared in DW, 1/27; Photo from DW.) Activist Kay Sara portrays Antigone in Milo Rau’s modern-day tragedy about the Indigenous people’s fight for survival. An…

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