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Saturday, May 1, 2021

OLYMPIA DUKAKIS DIES: OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESS FOR ‘MOONSTRUCK’ WAS 89 by Robert Shuman

(Bruce Haring’s and Erik Pedersen’s article appeared on Deadline, 5/1; via Pam Green. Photo: Olympia Dukakis in ‘Moonstruck’Everett Collection.) Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for…

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Friday, April 30, 2021

SONDHEIM MUSICAL, IN DEVELOPMENT FOR YEARS, LOOKS UNLIKELY by Robert Shuman

(Sarah Bahr’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/27; via Pam Green. Photo: Stephen Sondheim, who had been working on developing “Buñuel” for the last decade or so with the play…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:51PM
Thursday, April 29, 2021

MABOU MINES: ‘LEAR’ (WATCH NOW–THROUGH MAY 5) by Robert Shuman

MBOU MINES LEAR BY William Shakespeare ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY Lee Breuer PREMIERE: Triplex Performing Arts Center, NYC January 9, 1990 Ruth Maleczech with Greg Mehrten and Karen Kandel, ph…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:28PM
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

CROWD ME WITH LOVE! OUR ULTIMATE TOP 20 “BEING ALIVE” COUNTDOWN FROM STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S COMPANY by Robert Shuman

(from Broadway Box, 4/26; via Pam Green.)  BroadwayBoxCom BroadwayBox Photo by Emilio Madrid, Martha Swope/NYPL for Performing Arts At the Alvin Theatre on April 26, 1970, the name Bobby be…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:46PM
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

SPAIN: ‘NOVIEMBRE’: EXPLOSIVE MANIFESTO TAKES THEATRE TO THE STREETS by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/24; Authentic and earnest … Óscar Jaenada in Noviembre. Photograph: Album/Alamy.) Actors roam Madrid, springing provocative perform…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:21PM
Monday, April 26, 2021

BROADWAY’S CAPITALIST MODEL ISN’T PERFECT, BUT HERE’S WHY IT WORKS, AND WHAT CAN BE FIXED by Robert Shuman

(Chris Jones’s article appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 4/22; Photo:  Aaron Tveit and Karen Olivo during a shutdown. Olivo has since left the cast. (Matthew Murphy via AP/AP) The anti-ca…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:33PM

‘WEST SIDE STORY’: THE REMAKE OF THE 1961 CLASSIC HITS THEATERS DEC. 10. by Robert Shuman

(Aaron Couch’s article appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, 4/25; Photo: Twentieth Century Fox.) The first trailer for West Side Story danced its way to the Oscars on Sunday night. Steve…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:54AM
Saturday, April 24, 2021

RARE PHOTOS OF LEGENDARY BALLETS RUSSES ON TOURS ABROAD by Robert Shuman

(Anna Sorokina’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 8/24; Photos above, credit: E. O. Hoppé; A.Botkin; The New York Public Library.) The world glory of the Russian ballet st…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:27PM
Friday, April 23, 2021

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHAKESPEARE–LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (37) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:20PM
Thursday, April 22, 2021

IRELAND: DRUID’S NEW PRODUCTION EXPLORES THE MIND AND IMAGINATION OF EAVAN BOLAND by Robert Shuman

(Deirdre Falvey’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 4/20; One of Frances Kelly’s paintings, a portrait of her daughter Eavan Boland as a young girl. It features in the poster for Drui…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:09PM
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

“SIX GUN JUSTICE” WITH PAUL BISHOP PODCAST: ROBERT DWYER & AUSTIN WRIGHT ON THEIR BOOK: ‘THE SHERIFF’ (FROM TWODOT BOOKS) by Robert Shuman

Listen Hang out around the Six-Gun Justice water cooler for another Six-Gun Justice Conversation segment.  Co-host Paul Bishop talks with Western writers Austin Wright & Robert Dwyer, …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:21PM
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

REJECTED BROADWAY POSTERS ON SALE TO HELP THEATER COMMUNITY by Robert Shuman

(Mark Kennedy’s article appeared on the AP, 4/19; via Pam Green.) This combination of photos shows rejected theatrical poster art from “Cabaret, from left, “Equus,” and “Matilda Th…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:45PM
Monday, April 19, 2021

LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (36) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:42AM
Sunday, April 18, 2021

THE BRIEF, BRILLIANT AND RADICAL LIFE OF LORRAINE HANSBERRY by Robert Shuman

(Parul Sehgal’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/14; via Pam Green. Photo: The playwright Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. Credit…David Attie/Getty Images.) The curtain rises on a di…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:07PM
Saturday, April 17, 2021

STEPHEN SONDHEIM & JOHN WEIDMAN’S ‘ASSASSINS’ GATHERS A KILLER ROSTER OF PERFORMERS by Robert Shuman

(Charles McNulty’s article appeared in the LA Times, 4/16; via Pam Green.) Members of three “Assassins” casts perform “Everybody’s Got the Right” during the Classic Stage Company…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:17PM
Friday, April 16, 2021

MOLIERE IN THE PARK’S PEN/MAN/SHIP LIVE VIRTUAL PERFORMANCES by Robert Shuman

(Via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity) Molière in the Park to present 7 live virtual performances of Christina Anderson’s pen/man/ship, the company’s first contemporary American play, direct…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:27PM
Thursday, April 15, 2021

NEXT PROBLEM FOR THE ARTS IS GETTING AUDIENCES TO TRUST THE VACCINE by Robert Shuman

(Chris Jones’s article appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 4/15; Photo: The Chicago Tribune.) On Monday, the Washington Post arts critic Peter Marks announced a grand slate of live 2021-22 …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:52PM
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (115) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: People who meet daily in the nervous atmosphere of the stage cannot establish those close and friendly relations which are necessary for true…

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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

FRANCE: POEMS! SONGS! DEMANDS! IT’S NOT THEATER, BUT IT’S … SOMETHING by Robert Shuman

(Laura Cappelle’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/8; via Pam Green.; Photo: Improvised choreography on Sunday in front of La Colline, one of the first theaters in Paris to be o…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:30PM
Monday, April 12, 2021

‘HOWLING ANGER’: HOW ANGELS IN AMERICA AND THE NORMAL HEART CONFRONTED THE AIDS CRISIS by Robert Shuman

(Ryan Gilbey’s article appeared in the Guardian, 4/5; Photo: The Guardian.) ‘You couldn’t phone it in’ … Andrew Garfield and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett in the National Theatre’s 2017…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:31PM
Sunday, April 11, 2021

OST/TODOROFF/HARCUM: THEATER RESOURCES UNLIMITED (TRU) ON ADVOCACY, OPPORTUNITY AND INSPIRATION DURING (AND AFTER) COVID by Robert Shuman

TRU community Gathering of Friday 4/9/21. In the room with Bob Ost, TRU Executive Director, President, and Co-founder: Aimee Todoroff, director, Managing Director of the League of Independen…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:51PM

FRENCH AUDIENCES DEVELOP A TASTE FOR WINDOW THEATRE by Robert Shuman

(from Reuters, 4/11; via the Drudge Report.) PARIS, April 11 (Reuters) – French actress Isabelle Cagnat is pining to get back on stage once the pandemic is over, but on Sunday she had to b…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:27PM
Friday, April 9, 2021

ROBERT DWYER & AUSTIN WRIGHT’S ACE IN THE HOLE: “THE SHERIFF” FROM TWODOT BOOKS (INTERVIEW, Part 2) by Robert Shuman

Robert Dwyer & Austin Wright posse up with Bob Shuman for the second part of their Stage Voices interview on The Sheriff–to talk about fact being stranger than fiction, human nature an…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:42PM
Thursday, April 8, 2021

MILLIONS TO WATCH “COME TO EGYPT” MOVIE  by Robert Shuman

“Ancient Egyptians were unique, powerful, and a very advanced people,” Khaled El-Nabawy says  Correspondent Adam Sullivan wrote about Khaled El-Nabawy’s new venture in Egypt.  Filme…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:56AM
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

ACTORS’ EQUITY ISSUES NEW PROTOCOLS FOR ‘FULLY VACCINATED’ PRODUCTIONS by Robert Shuman

(Ryan McPhee’s article appeared in Playbill, 4/5; via Pam Green; Photo: 45th Street Playbill Staff.)   As the U.S. approaches COVID-19 vaccine eligibility for all adults, the union has up…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:08AM
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

THEATER RESOURCES UNLIMITED (TRU) PRESENTS WRITER-PRODUCER VIRTUAL SPEED DATE: THE ART OF THE PITCH SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 2021 AT 2:30PM by Robert Shuman

(via Michelle Tabnick.) Theater Resources Unlimited presents Writer-Producer Virtual Speed Date: The Art of the Pitch Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 2:30pm Submission Deadline: Thursday, April 15…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:10AM
Monday, April 5, 2021

ARTHUR KOPIT, WHOSE ‘OH DAD’ SHOOK UP THE THEATER, DIES AT 83 by Robert Shuman

(Anita Gates’s article appeared in The New York Times, 4/3; via Pam Green. Photo: The playwright Arthur Kopit with the cast of his play “Wings” in 1978. Constance Cummings, second from…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:45AM
Sunday, April 4, 2021

TERESA DEEVY AND THE SECRETS OF THE GREEN SUITCASE by Robert Shuman

(Caoilfhionn Ni Bheachain’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 4/3; Photo:  Teresa Deevy: in recent years, critical attention has turned to her radio drama. The Irish Times.) BEST KNOWN…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:34AM
Thursday, April 1, 2021

ROBERT DWYER & AUSTIN WRIGHT’S ACE IN THE HOLE: “THE SHERIFF” FROM TWODOT BOOKS (INTERVIEW, Part 1) by Robert Shuman

  Robert Dwyer & Austin Wright posse up with SV’s Bob Shuman to talk about big ideas, big landscapes, and tackling the biggest questions–like what it means to be human. Robert Dwyer…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:10PM
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

KURT WEILL’S PATH FROM EUROPE TO BROADWAY WAS A STRAIGHT LINE by Robert Shuman

(Joshua Barone’s article appeared in The New York Times, 3/15; via Pam Green; Photo: When the composer Kurt Weill was a teenager in Germany, as seen here in 1919, he was already showing si…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:43PM
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

‘SHAKESPEARE WALLAH’: MERCHANT IVORY’S BITTERSWEET TALE OF BOLLYWOOD AND THE BARD by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/30/2021; Photo: Shashi Kapoor and Felicity Kendal in Shakespeare Wallah, the second feature by Merchant Ivory Productions. Photograph: …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:53AM