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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
Friday, March 4, 2022

WELL, SLAP MY SHOE! A LEDERHOSEN CLASSIC AND A POLKA ONLY FIVE MEN CAN DO by Robert Shuman

(Lyndsey Winship’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/28; via Pam Green; Photo:  Don’t stop till you’re married! … dancers in traditional clothing perform the Schuhplattler. Photo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:31AM
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

SHIFTING IDENTITIES IN SANAZ TOOSSI’S “ENGLISH” (NY) by Robert Shuman

(Alexandra Schwartz’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 2/28/22;  In Toossi’s play, four Iranian students become friends or rivals in an English class.Illustration by Sophi Miyoko Gul…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:53PM
Sunday, February 27, 2022

JOAQUINA KALUKANGO ISN’T AFRAID TO SPEAK UP ANYMORE by Robert Shuman

(Originally printed in The New York Times,  2/25; via Update News World and Pam Green; Photo:  The New York Times.) When Joaquina Kalukango was Done with “Slave Play,” she was done w…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:11PM
Saturday, February 26, 2022

IRISH REP, NYC: ‘A TOUCH OF THE POET’ BEGINS PERFORMANCES TODAY, 2/26/2022! by Robert Shuman

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1936 was awarded to Eugene Gladstone O’Neill “for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of trag…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:22PM
Friday, February 25, 2022

UKRAINIANS ABROAD TALK OF SHOCK AND DISBELIEF AS HOMELAND IS INVADED by Robert Shuman

(Megan Specia’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/24; Photo: back home, and expressed feelings of hopelessness. Ukrainians and supporters of Ukraine outside Prime Minister Boris Jo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:42PM
Thursday, February 24, 2022

UKRAINIAN ARTISTS: ‘STOP PUTIN NOW!’ by Robert Shuman

(interviews from DW.com, 2/24/2022.) In an interview with DW, Ukrainian artists such as Oksana Lyniv and Andrei Kurkov call on the West to take more decisive action against Russia. Conductor…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:55PM
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

PHOENIX THEATRE ENSEMBLE (NYC): ‘HONDURAS’ (4/5-4/10) by Robert Shuman

(via Phoenix Theatre Ensemble)   “After 24 months and 14 days, we are performing once again in NYC! This powerful unforgettable play by Sara and stunning performance by ensemble member Va…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:13PM
Monday, February 21, 2022

DIAGHILEV AND ME: DISCOVERY REVEALS BALLETS RUSSES MAESTRO WAS ALSO A MONSTER by Robert Shuman

(Dalya Alberge’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/20; Photo:  Nijinska, right, and her brother Nijinsky in L’Apres-midi d’un Faune, 1912. Photograph: Baron de Meyer. Eakins Press …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:32AM
Sunday, February 20, 2022

5 MONOLOGUES, EACH A SHOWCASE FOR ASIAN AMERICAN ACTORS OVER 60 by Robert Shuman

(Matt Stevens’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/16/22; via Pam Green; Photo: Cast members who will perform in “Out of Time” at the Public Theater (from left): Natsuko Ohama, …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:34PM
Thursday, February 17, 2022

‘ROMEO AND JULIET’ ON BBC RADIO 4 IN OUR TIME (DISCUSSION PROGRAM) by Robert Shuman

Romeo and Juliet Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, written in the early 1590s after a series of histories and comedies. His audience …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:10PM
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

MARIA FRIEDMAN: ‘SONDHEIM WAS A KIND MAN, BUT GOD, HE COULD BE VERY DIRECT’ by Robert Shuman

(Kate Kellaway’s article appeared in the Guardian,  2/13;  via Pam Green; Maria Friedman at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer.) The musical t…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:03PM
Monday, February 14, 2022

‘CABARET’ AT 50: BOB FOSSE’S SHOW-STOPPING MUSICAL REMAINS A DARK MARVEL   by Robert Shuman

(Scott Tobias’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/14/2022; Photo: Michael York and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret: seductive, witty, delightful – and utterly bone-chilling. Photograph: ABC/…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:37PM
Sunday, February 13, 2022

HARPER LEE ESTATE TOLD TO PAY $2.5 MILLION IN DISPUTE OVER ‘MOCKINGBIRD’ PLAYS by Robert Shuman

(Alexandra Alter’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/10; via Pam Green; photo: In 1969, Harper Lee and Dramatic Publishing agreed on a contract that authorized the company to lice…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:46PM
Friday, February 11, 2022

***** ‘ANNA KARENINA’ REVIEW – TOLSTOY MEETS BAZ LUHRMANN IN A MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE  (UK) by Robert Shuman

(Nick Ahad’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/11. Photo: Through the wringer … Adelle Leoncé (Anna) in Anna Karenina at the Crucible, Sheffield. Photograph: Marc Brenner.) Crucible,…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:30PM
Saturday, February 5, 2022

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (131) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other artist may create whenever he (or she) is in the mood…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:34PM
Thursday, February 3, 2022

‘COLETTE’ ON BBC RADIO 4 “IN OUR TIME” by Robert Shuman

Colette Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the outstanding French writers of the twentieth century. The novels of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873 – 1954) always had …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:39PM
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

WHY MARLON BRANDO’S STREETCAR CO-STARS COULDN’T STAND HIM by Robert Shuman

(Isaac Butler’s work appeared in Slate, 2/1. Excerpted from The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act. Used with the permission of the publisher, Bloomsbury. Copyright © 2022…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:51PM
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

‘SKELETON CREW’ TRACES POWER DYNAMICS AT A FACTORY by Robert Shuman

  (Vinson Cunningham’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 1/21/22; Phylicia Rashad plays Faye, a tough, wisecracking union leader and matriarch.Illustration by Owen D. Pomery.) Dominique…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:43PM
Monday, January 31, 2022

‘THERE IS NOTHING MORE MAGICAL’: RESURRECTED THEATRE BRINGS ANCIENT GREECE TO LIFE by Robert Shuman

(Helena Smith’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/31; A member of Prof Lambrinoudakis’ team showing a picture of farmer Christos Zafiris, the site’s former owner, on the spot where t…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:05AM
Friday, January 28, 2022

***** ‘DOUBT: A PARABLE’ REVIEW – MONICA DOLAN DAZZLES IN A DRAMA OF SUREFIRE BRILLIANCE (UK) by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/28; The truth at any cost … Monica Dolan as Sister Aloysius in Doubt. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Many will know John Patrick Shanley�…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:36PM
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

SEEING IRELAND: STAGING A CULTURAL COUP IN PARIS 100 YEARS AGO by Robert Shuman

(Billy Shortall’s and Ciarin O’Neill’s article appeared in The Iris Times, 1/26/2022; Photo: Delegates to the World Congress of the Irish Race led by Katherine Hughes, Mary MacSwiney, …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:00PM
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

‘COMPULSION’ FOLLOWS THE JOURNEY OF ANNE FRANK’S DIARY FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE, WITH MARIONETTES by Robert Shuman

(Celia Wren’s article appeared in The Washington Post, 1/25. Playwright Rinne B. Groff’s semi-fictional tale follows the struggle to turn the Holocaust diary into a stage production. A m…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:39PM
Sunday, January 23, 2022

BRITAIN’S INDIFFERENCE TO MOLIÈRE’S 400TH IS NO SURPRISE BUT IT’S STILL SHAMEFUL by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/18; via Pam Green; Photo:  Agile update … Keira Knightley and Damian Lewis in Martin Crimp’s 2009 version of The Misanthrope …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:00PM
Saturday, January 22, 2022

THE MANY VISIONS OF LORRAINE HANSBERRY by Robert Shuman

(Blair McClendon’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 1/17/22; Photo:  With “A Raisin in the Sun,” Hansberry became an emblem of American progress. Photograph by David Attie / Getty.…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:50PM
Friday, January 21, 2022

‘IT TOOK FOUR MEN AND A FIRE EXTINGUISHER TO GET THE TIGER OFF HIM’: THE TRAGEDY OF VEGAS MAGICIANS SIEGFRIED AND ROY by Robert Shuman

(Alexi Duggins’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/17; ‘No one has ever properly examined their story – or the attack – in depth’ … Siegried, left, and Roy onstage with one of …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:01PM
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

O’NEILL’S ‘A TOUCH OF THE POET’ COMING TO IRISH REP, 2/26-4/17 (NY) by Robert Shuman

  A TOUCH OF THE POET on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage By Eugene O’Neill Directed by Ciarán O’Reilly With Belle Aykroyd, Robert Cuccioli, Kate Forbes, Mary McCann, Andy Murra…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:27PM
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

MOLIÈRE AT 400 by Robert Shuman

(FRANCE IN FOCUS © FRANCE 24 By: Monte FRANCIS|Stéphanie CHEVAL|Camille FEVRIER|Sonia BARITELLO/ France24; Photo: Photograph: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy.)  He’s known as the …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:43PM
Sunday, January 16, 2022

LIZA MINNELLI–WITH JANE PAULEY ON CBS by Robert Shuman

(via Pam Green; Photo: Frank Beacham’s Journal.) The legendary Liza Minnelli The EGOT-winning entertainer sits down with “Sunday Morning” host Jane Pauley, and with her friend and acco…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:52PM
Friday, January 14, 2022

EVERY BRILLIANT THING REVIEW: A MAGICAL, UPLIFTING SHOW (IRELAND) by Robert Shuman

(Sara keating’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 1/13; photo: With an implacable smile, Conroy encourages and supports even the most reluctant of audience members to join her on stage.…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:24PM
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

PARIS’S ‘HOUSE OF MOLIÈRE’ WISHES HAPPY 400TH BIRTHDAY TO FRENCH THEATRE LEGEND by Robert Shuman

(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/10;  Gift for improvisation … painting of Molière reading from Tartuffe at the home of Ninon de L’Enclos. Photograph: Heritage …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:22PM

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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