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Monday, April 11, 2022

OLIVIER AWARDS 2022: THE FULL LIST OF WINNERS by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/10; Photo:  Tom Larkin and Hiran Abeysekera in Life of Pi. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Find out who won what at the Royal Albert Hall…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:19PM
Sunday, April 10, 2022

BROADWAY BETS BIG ON A SPRING REBOUND. WILL THE VIRUS COOPERATE? by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/10; via Pam Green; Photo: Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker celebrated the long-delayed opening of “Plaza Suite,” …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:10PM
Friday, April 8, 2022

***** ‘THE MEANING OF ZONG’ REVIEW – A MASTERFUL MEDITATION ON THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY by Robert Shuman

(Gareth Llŷr Evans’s review appeared in the UK Guardian, 4/8; Photograph: Curtis Richard Photography.) Bristol Old Vic Giles Terera’s lyrical and inventive drama about a brutal episode …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:09AM
Thursday, April 7, 2022

RUSSIAN ARTIST STAGES PROTEST PERFORMANCE AGAINST BUCHA MASSACRE by Robert Shuman

(Sophia Kishkovsky’s article appeared in The Art Newspaper, 4/7/2022. Photo: Images of the performance about the Bucha massacre were distributed by the independent news site Holod© Telegr…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:06PM
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

‘I COULDN’T KEEP IT INSIDE’: BALLET STAR OLGA SMIRNOVA ON QUITTING THE BOLSHOI AND FLEEING RUSSIA by Robert Shuman

(Lyndsey Winship’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/5/22; via Pam Green; Photo:  After Putin invaded Ukraine, the Russian dancer denounced the war, left the Kremlin-allied company – …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:29AM
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

CIARÁN O’REILLY REFLECTS ON IRISH REP, THE PANDEMIC AND STEPHEN SONDHEIM by Robert Shuman

(Joe Westerfield’s article appeared in Newsweek, 3/29; Photo: Irish Repertory’s Ciarán O’Relly talked to Newsweek about the how the company got through and came out of the pandemic sh…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:04PM
Monday, April 4, 2022

WHAT DO SHAKESPEARE AND MAMET HAVE IN COMMON? by Robert Shuman

(Sarah Larson’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 4/4/22; Illustration: Sam Rockwell, Darren Criss, Laurence FishburneIllustration by João Fazenda.) “American Buffalo” ’s Laurence…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:35PM
Saturday, April 2, 2022

**** CULTURE WARS AND CONSERVATIVES: THE RIVETING PLAY SET AT A DRUNKEN HOUSE PARTY by Robert Shuman

(Cameron Woodhead’s article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 3/31/22; Photo: Old tensions surface in this rare drama. CREDIT:JODIE HUTCHINSON.)      Heroes of the Fourth Turning…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:55PM
Thursday, March 31, 2022

***** ‘DIARY OF A SOMEBODY’ REVIEW – STUNNING DRAMA FROM JOE ORTON’S JOURNAL by Robert Shuman

(Ryan Gilbey’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/31; Photo:  Taut with tension … Toby Osmond and George Kemp in Diary of a Somebody. Photograph: Brittain Photography.) Seven Dials Pl…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:16PM

BELARUS FREE THEATRE: NICOLAI KHALEZIN/ SVETLANA SUGAKO/ FRANK HENTSCHKER/ DANIELLA KALIADA–CASSANDRAS DURING WAR by Robert Shuman

(The following article was compiled and written after listening to an interview with artistic collaborators from Belarus Free Theatre, 3/22; by Bob Shuman, Stage Voices. ) An old saying: “…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:03AM
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

REVIEW: IF YOU NEED ANOTHER VISION OF TEXAS STATE POLITICS, GO SEE HOLLAND TAYLOR’S ‘ANN’ by Robert Shuman

(Mary McNamara’s appeared in the Los Angeles Times, 3/29; Photo: Holland Taylor portrays former Texas Gov. Ann Richards in “Ann” at the Pasadena Playhouse. [Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:03PM
Monday, March 28, 2022

ROBERT MOSES AND JANE JACOBS GO TO LONDON by Robert Shuman

(Rebecca Mead’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 3/26; illustration: from The New Yorker.) How David Hare took a few Moses-esque liberties when writing “Straight Line Crazy,” which …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:02PM
Sunday, March 27, 2022

MARINA ABRAMOVIC AUCTIONS LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE FOR UKRAINE CHARITY by Robert Shuman

(Andrea Kasiske’s article appeared in DW, 3/27; Photo: A scene from “The Artist is Present.”) The Serbian artist is redesigning her legendary 2010 performance “The Artist is Present,…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:26PM
Saturday, March 26, 2022

OPEN THREAD by Robert Shuman

(Vanessa Friedman’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/25; via Pam Green; Photo: Emma Stone in “Cruella.” The costume designer for the film was Jenny Beavan, who is nominated fo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:25PM
Friday, March 25, 2022

LIV ULLMANN ANSWERS QUESTIONS FROM STAGE VOICES IN THE UK GUARDIAN by Robert Shuman

(The legendary Liv Ullmann, recipient of an honorary Oscar in 2022, answered two questions, in the U.K. Guardian, from Bob Shuman of Stage Voices Web site (BobStageVoices). Read her response…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:08PM
Thursday, March 24, 2022

‘ANTIGONE’ (LISTEN NOW ON BBC RADIO 4 “IN OUR TIME”—DISCUSSION PODCAST) by Robert Shuman

Antigone Listen  In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what is reputedly the most performed of all Greek tragedies. Antigone, by Sophocles (c496-c406 BC), is powerfully ambiguous, inv…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:20PM
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

BACK TO BACK THEATRE RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL IBSEN AWARD by Robert Shuman

(Michael Kaufmann’s article appeared 3/22/22 on Limelight; Photo: Back to Back Theatre’s The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes. Photo © Jeff Busby.) The pioneering group’s work wi…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:20PM
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

A TINY ENGLISH-LANGUAGE KYIV THEATRE TURNED ‘ART SHELTER’ GOES TO WAR by Robert Shuman

(David Gormezano’s article appeared on France24, 3/21; Photo: Alex Borovensky, Tetiana Shelepko and their friends sit in front of the ProEnglish Theatre in Kyiv, on March 20.) The ProEngli…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:02PM
Monday, March 21, 2022

BRIAN FRIEL’S PLAYS COME ALIVE AGAIN AFTER A STRANGE DECADE by Robert Shuman

(Chris McCormack’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 3/21; Photo: Niamh Cusack in Faith Healer at the Abbey theatre, Dublin. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh.) Having been sanitised in the 2010…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:08PM
Sunday, March 20, 2022

RUSSIAN TROOPS ‘EVERYWHERE’ IN MARIUPOL AS ART SCHOOL SHELTERING 400 IS BOMBED by Robert Shuman

(Loveday Morris’s and Annabelle Timsit’s article appeared in The Washingotn Post, 3/20; Photo: People dig a grave Sunday for victims of the fighting in the besieged port city of Mariupol…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:46PM
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Thursday, March 17, 2022

‘THE HOMECOMING’: PINTER’S MALE FANTASISTS RETURN IN THE AGE OF #METOO by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/16; Harold Pinter as Lenny with Jane Lowe as Ruth in a 1969 production of The Homecoming at Watford Palace theatre. Photograph: T…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:29AM
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

RUSSIA BOMBS THEATER WHERE HUNDREDS SOUGHT SHELTER AND ‘CHILDREN’ WAS WRITTEN ON GROUNDS by Robert Shuman

(Tim Lister’s. Olga Voitovych’s, Tara John’s, and Paul P. Muphy’s article appeared on CNN, 3/16; Photo: The Drama Theater in Mariupol, where hundreds were taking refuge, sustained he…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:32PM
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

TONY AWARDS TO ANNOUNCE PRIZES IN JUNE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Time, 3/9; via Pam Green; Photo: The Tony Awards ceremony will return to Radio City Music Hall on June 12, after being presented at the …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:57PM
Monday, March 14, 2022

‘DOGS OF EUROPE’ REVIEW – ART AND ACTIVISM COMBINE IN BREATHTAKING SPECTACLE by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the guardian, 3/13; Photo: A necessary affront … Aliaksei Naranovich and Raman Shytsko in Dogs of Europe. Photograph: Linda Nylind/the Guardian.) Barb…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:01PM
Sunday, March 13, 2022

WILLIAM HURT, OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR FOR ‘KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN,’ DIES AT 71 by Robert Shuman

(Brent Lang’s and J. Kim Murphy’s article appeared, 3/13, in Variety; Photo:  Rich Fury/Invision/AP.) William Hurt, who became a top leading man in the 1980s,, winning an Oscar for 1985…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:42PM
Saturday, March 12, 2022

AN EXILED THEATER WITH A WARNING FOR EUROPE by Robert Shuman

(Alex Marshall’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/10; Photo:  A rehearsal for “Dogs of Europe,” which opens at the Barbican theater in London on Thursday.Credit…Jeremie Sou…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:03PM
Thursday, March 10, 2022

PUSSY RIOT’S NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA: ‘YOU CANNOT PLAY NICE WITH PUTIN. HE IS INSANE. HE MIGHT OPEN FIRE ON HIS OWN PEOPLE’ by Robert Shuman

(Zoe Williams’s article appeared in the U.K. Guardian, 3/8; Photo: ‘I’m in a panic, I’m crying every day’ … Nadya Tolokonnikova at a concert in Tennessee earlier this month. Pho…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:51PM
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

SEE AN EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK AT BEANIE FELDSTEIN, JANE LYNCH IN REHEARSALS FOR BROADWAY’S FUNNY GIRL by Robert Shuman

(Michael Gioia’s article appeared in People; 3/18/2022; via Pam Green; Photo CREDIT: MATTHEW MURPHY.) Beanie Feldstein will star as Fanny Brice in the first Broadway revival of Funny Girl…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:57PM
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

‘ANNE BOLEYN’S TIARA WAS FROM CLAIRE’S ACCESSORIES’ – HOW WE MADE SIX: THE MUSICAL by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/7; via Pam Green;  Photo:  ‘The format was inspired by Beyoncé’s Live at Roseland show’ … Six at the Arts theatre. Photogra…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:43PM
Monday, March 7, 2022

BELARUS FREE THEATRE: ‘WE MUST GET OUT OF OUR COMFORT ZONES IF WE WANT TO CONTINUE AS A DEMOCRACY by Robert Shuman

(Natasha Tripney’s  article appeared in The Stage, 3/ 4; Photo: Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada. Credit: Marilyn Kingwill.)                                       …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:24PM

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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