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Thursday, June 17, 2021

HOW A FAMILY TRANSFORMED THE LOOK OF EUROPEAN THEATER by Robert Shuman

(Joseph Cermatori’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/11; via Pam Green; Illustration: Rotating the perspective to depict massive, magnificent interiors, the Bibiena family transfo…

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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

RITA MORENO DEFENDS LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA OVER ‘IN THE HEIGHTS’ COLORISM CRITICISM: ‘YOU CAN NEVER DO RIGHT’ by Robert Shuman

(Ellise Shafer’s article appeared in Variety, 6/15; Photo: Samantha Okazaki.) Rita Moreno is defending Lin-Manuel Miranda and “In the Heights” following criticism over the film’s …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:27PM
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

BARD DAY’S WORK: WHAT I LEARNED FROM EAVESDROPPING ON RSC REHEARSALS by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/14; Photo: ‘It’s about the process, not the product’ … Lily Nichol as Joan la Pucelle. Photograph: Ellie Kurttz. Copyrigh…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:37PM
Monday, June 14, 2021

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (120) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: When . . . somebody advised Chekhov to write a play about the [Russo-Japanese] war, the great writer was insulted: “Listen,” he said, “…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:51AM
Sunday, June 13, 2021

HARMONY RULES IN “IN THE HEIGHTS” by Robert Shuman

(Anthony Lane’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 6/11; PHOTO: Anthony Ramos stars in Jon M. Chu’s film of the Broadway musical.Illustration by Katty Huertas.) Jon M. Chu’s adaptatio…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:12PM
Saturday, June 12, 2021

KATORI HALL WINS DRAMA PULITZER FOR ‘THE HOT WING KING’ by Robert Shuman

 (Julia Jacobs’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/11; via Pam Green. Photo:  Katori Hall in New York City last year. The playwright was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for “The Hot…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:23PM
Friday, June 11, 2021

SCREAMING ARTIST ELECTRIFIES BELARUS PROTESTS IN WARSAW by Robert Shuman

(Dario Thuburn’s article appeared on Yahoo, 6/11; Photo: France24.) Jana Shostak says her protests is ‘a scream of spite, of anger, of powerlessness over what is happening in our country…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:48AM
Thursday, June 10, 2021

WHAT DID I MISS? A CHILDREN’S THEATRE SPACE COMES BACK TO LIFE by Robert Shuman

(Sara Keating’s article appeared in The Irish Times, 6/9; Photo:  Naomi Moonveld-Nkosi stars as Kyla in The Ark’s What Did I Miss? by Sean Dunne, which explores and shares children’s …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:12PM
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

LLOYD WEBBER SAYS HE WILL RISK ARREST TO REOPEN HIS THEATRES ON 21 JUNE by Robert Shuman

(PA Media’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/8; Photo: The Guardian.)  Impresario is determined his production of Cinderella will start this month in London as planned Andrew Lloyd Web…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:43AM
Monday, June 7, 2021

HOW ACT UP CHANGED AMERICA by Robert Shuman

(Michael Specter’s article appeared in The New Yorkers, 7/7; Photo: In 1988, protesters laid siege to the F.D.A. for a day, one of many interventions designed to capture public attention.P…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:44PM
Sunday, June 6, 2021

NATIONAL BLACK THEATER PLANS NEXT ACT IN A NEW HARLEM HIGH-RISE by Robert Shuman

(Julia Jacobs’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/4; via Pam Green; Photo: National Black Theater is working with developers to replace its longtime home. This rendering shows a pl…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:35AM
Friday, June 4, 2021

ICE FACTORY FESTIVAL RETURNS TO NEW OHIO THEATRE JUNE 30 – AUGUST 14 by Robert Shuman

(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity) New York, NY – New Ohio Theatre is excited to announce that the 28th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival will return to live in-person performa…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:45PM
Thursday, June 3, 2021

BELGIUM: ARTDOCFEST FILM FESTIVAL: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR VOICING THE TRUTH by Robert Shuman

(Nicolai Khalezin’s article appeared in The Brussels Times, 6/2; Photo: Nicolai Khalezin performing in Generation Jeans, an autobiographical duologue about rock music and resistance.) This…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:59PM
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (40) by Robert Shuman

Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:02PM
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

BEST BOOKS FOR SUMMER by Robert Shuman

Great reads for summer 2021, represented by Marit Literary Agency: REAGAN’S COWBOYS: INSIDE THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN’S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRARO  by John B. Roberts…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:30PM
Sunday, May 30, 2021

FOR A NEW TROUPE, GOING DIGITAL HAS BEEN EASIER THAN RETURNING LIVE by Robert Shuman

(Stuart Miller’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/26; via Pam Green; Photo:  Lucie Tiberghien directing the staged reading of “Tartuffe” for Molière in the Park, the company…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:01PM
Saturday, May 29, 2021

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (119) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: What torture it is to feel truthfully but to incarnify your true feelings falsely and in unworthy form. I bore these pains for two seasons in…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:45AM
Friday, May 28, 2021

NATO, EU POWERS TALK TOUGH OVER BELARUS BUT CAN’T PROTECT EXILED DISSIDENTS by Robert Shuman

(David Brennan’s article appeared in Newsweek, 5/28; Photo: Newsweek.) Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko shocked the world when a fake bomb threat forced a passenger plane to diver…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:43AM
Thursday, May 27, 2021

SOUTH AFRICA–DAVID LAN: IN THE AGE OF APARTHEID, THEATRE RESISTED by Robert Shuman

(Lan’s article appeared in the Guardian 5/26; Photo: Then, as now, theatre was in every sense political’ …David Lan. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian.) The theatre director and wr…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:17AM
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

SAMUEL E. WRIGHT, WHO VOICED SEBASTIAN IN ‘THE LITTLE MERMAID,’ DIES AT 74 by Robert Shuman

(Haley Bosselman’s article appeared in Variety, 5/25; Photo: Variety.) Samuel E. Wright, the actor who voiced Sebastian in “The Little Mermaid,” has died. He was 74. The news of his de…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:08PM
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

NATALIA KALIADA, BELARUS FREE THEATRE: ‘THAT’S A HOSTAGE VIDEO’ BELARUSAN EXILE CLAIMS JOURNALIST ‘TORTURED’ AFTER PLANE ARREST by Robert Shuman

(Alastair Lockhart’s article appeared on Express, 5/25.) The video released of arrested Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich is a “hostage video,” a Belarusian exile has said. View:…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:04PM

PLAYWRIGHT DAVID STOREY’S POSTHUMOUS MEMOIR: ‘THE MORE SUCCESSFUL I BECAME, THE MORE ILL I FELT’ by Robert Shuman

(David Storey’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/23; Photo: David Storey at home in Belsize Park, London, 1961, with his paintings in the background. Photograph: Courtesy of the Storey…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:20PM
Monday, May 24, 2021

DRAMA BOOK SHOP, BACKED BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, TO OPEN IN JUNE by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/19; via Pam Green; Photo:  The Drama Book Shop, in a former location. When it reopens next month, it will also have a cafe.Cre…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:10PM
Sunday, May 23, 2021

LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (39) by Robert Shuman

Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:07AM
Saturday, May 22, 2021

LUCILLE BALL’S SCANDALOUS PAST OF NUDE PHOTOS AND CASTING COUCHES by Robert Shuman

(Larry Getlen’s article appeared in the New York Post, 5/21; via the Drudge Report;  Photo: the New York Post.) Before she became America’s sweetheart, Lucille Ball’s path to stardom …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:55AM
Friday, May 21, 2021

CHILTON WILLIAMSON, JR. ON: THE SOUL OF FLANNERY O’CONNOR by Robert Shuman

(Williamson’s article appeared in the Spectator, 5/17; Photo:  Wise blood: Flannery O’Connor in 1952.) Was Flannery O’Connor a racist, or was she not? Since the racial riots last summ…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:14PM
Thursday, May 20, 2021

NEW DEAL FOR ARTISTS: AN UNEARTHED FILM ON HOW ARTS FUNDING SHOULD WORK by Robert Shuman

(Charles Bramesco’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/19; Photo:  A still of Orson Welles from New Deal for Artists. Photograph: Corinth Films.) For its 40th anniversary, the Orson Wel…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:12AM
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

DANCING THROUGH DARK TIMES: THE RETURN OF LIVE PERFORMANCES IN FRANCE by Robert Shuman

(Olivia Salazar-Winspear’s article appeared on France 24, 5/13.)   As a storytelling tool, a ritual or a release, dance has been with us since our earliest days as humans. As live perfor…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:03AM
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

CHARLES GRODIN, STAR OF ‘BEETHOVEN’ AND ‘HEARTBREAK KID,’ DIES AT 86 by Robert Shuman

(Neil Genzlinger’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/18; Photo: The actor Charles Grodin with the title dog in the hit 1992 family movie “Beethoven.” “I don’t complain,”…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:37PM

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (118) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: First-class workers must receive first-class pay. (MLIA)  

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:52AM
Monday, May 17, 2021

WHEN COVID DROPPED THE CURTAIN ON BROADWAY ACTORS, TV KEPT THE LIGHTS ON by Robert Shuman

(Alexis Soloski’s article appeared in The New York Times, 5/12; via Pam Green; Photo: Denée Benton, left, and Louisa Jacobson during filming of the coming HBO historical drama “The Gild…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:32AM

All that Chat

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