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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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:…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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)  

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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
Sunday, May 16, 2021

‘THE SALESMAN’: ARTHUR MILLER’S AMERICAN CLASSIC REFRAMED IN IRAN by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/11; Photo: Cracks in a marriage … Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti in The Salesman. Photograph: Allstar/Memento Films Production…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:54AM
Saturday, May 15, 2021

5 MUST-READ BOOKS (ALSO A PLAYWRIGHT) BY MIKHAIL BULGAKOV by Robert Shuman

(Alexandra Guzeva’s article appeared on Russia Beyond, 5/15;  Photo: Press photo; Public domain.) One of the most mysterious and funniest Russian writers, he had a turbulent, complicated …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:29PM
Friday, May 14, 2021

AUSTRALIA: DARK MOFO TO TURN ASHES OF DEAD TASMANIANS INTO FIREWORKS by Robert Shuman

(Nick Miller’s article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 5/14; Photo: Pope Alice will appear at the 2021 Dark Mofo festival.) Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Hoba…

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Thursday, May 13, 2021

‘THE BACCHAE’: MELVYN BRAGG AND BBC RADIO4 ‘IN OUR TIME’ GUESTS DISCUSS EURIPIDES’ GREAT TRAGEDY by Robert Shuman

The Bacchae Listen  In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Euripides’ great tragedy, which was first performed in Athens in 405 BC when the Athenians were on the point of defeat and …

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