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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

TOVE DITLEVSEN’S ART OF ESTRANGEMENT by Robert Shuman

(Hilton Als’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 2/8. PHOTO: Photograph from AKG / TT News Agency. ) The Danish memoirist built a literature of disaster, brick by brick. Don’t think you…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:17PM

PAUL HUNTLEY EXIT INTERVIEW: BROADWAY’S HAIR MASTER PUTS AWAY THE WIGS by Robert Shuman

(Robin Pogrebin’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/7; via Pam Green. PHOTO: The eminent Broadway wig designer Paul Huntley in 1997, with a hairpiece to be worn by F. Murray Abraha…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:08AM
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

NEW DAWN: THEATRE AFFIRMATIONS by Robert Shuman

Inspiration and invention lead me, and my ship comes in now.   I can easily solve any problem and correct answers come to me easily.  I know what to do.   My projects complete easily and …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:58PM

BOOK: TOM STOPPARD’S DOUBLE LIFE by Robert Shuman

(Gaby Wood’s article appeared in the March 2021 issue of  the Atlantic; via Pam Green.) For Britain’s leading postwar playwright, virtuosity and uncertainty go hand in hand. Tom Stoppar…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:37AM
Monday, February 8, 2021

GOVERNOR CUOMO OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES EXPANSIVE “NY PopsUp” FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK by Robert Shuman

GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO MARSHALS THE RETURN OF THE PERFORMING ARTS TO NEW YORK WITH “NY PopsUp”   AN EXPANSIVE STATEWIDE FESTIVAL OF POP-UP EVENTS DELIVERED RIGHT INTO THE DAILY LIFE O…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:51PM

KYOTO EXPERIMENT MARKS A NEW ERA by Robert Shuman

(Andrew Eglinton’s and Mika Eglinton’s article appeared in the Japan Times, 2/5; Photo: Shared history: “This Song Father Used to Sing (Three Days in May),” a play by Thai director W…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:14AM
Sunday, February 7, 2021

BRINGING OUT THE BEST OF SONDHEIM, HERMAN AND … SCHRAUBSTADER? by Robert Shuman

(Jesse Green’s article appeared in The New York Times, 2/3; via Pam Green; Photo: Emily Skinner performing “The Ladies Who Lunch” as part of the Signature Theater’s “Simply Sondhei…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:42PM

HOW RUSSIAN THEATER GURU KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY CHANGED THE ACTING UNIVERSE by Robert Shuman

  B.Brilliantov/Sputnik; Getty Images (Valeria Paikova’s article appeared in Russia Beyond, 1/29/2021.) Konstantin Stanislavsky’s ideas changed the face of theater as much as Albert Ein…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:12AM
Saturday, February 6, 2021

ARS NOVA ANNOUNCES NEW FEBRUARY EVENTS INCLUDING VISION RESIDENCY PROGRAMMING FROM RONA SIDDIQUI  by Robert Shuman

(Via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency; Photo: Rona Siddiqui.) Ars Nova, “a company known for pop-culture-savvy experimentation, with a hipness that sets it apart” (New York Times), und…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:19PM

THE LAST METRO: THEATRE IS A SANCTUARY IN FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT’S WARTIME GEM by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/2; Photo: Backstage secrets … Catherine Deneuve in The Last Metro. Photograph: APL Archive/Alamy.) Our series on films about the stag…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:45AM
Friday, February 5, 2021

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, SOUND OF MUSIC STAR AND OLDEST ACTOR TO WIN AN OSCAR, DIES AGED 91 by Robert Shuman

(Andrew Pulver’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/5; via Pam Green; Christopher Plummer, who has died aged 91. Photograph: Vera Anderson/WireImage.) Veteran and respected actor had a ca…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:17PM

LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (32) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:39AM
Thursday, February 4, 2021

FRANZ KAFKA’S ‘LETTER TO MY FATHER’ LIVE ONLINE – DIRECTED BY M-34’S JAMES RUTHERFORD, 2/19 – 3/28 by Robert Shuman

(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity; Photo of Michael Guagno: Bailey Bretz; photo of scene: Eileen Meny Photography.) Brooklyn, NY – M-34 presents Franz Kafka’s Letter To My Father, transla…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:05PM

SOUTH AFRICA: SANDRA PRINSLOO AND LARA FOOT COLLAB IN GUT-WRENCHING THEATRE DRAMA ‘KAMPHOER’ by Robert Shuman

(Kedibone Modise’s article appeared in the Johannesburg Cape Times, 2/2; Photos:  Sandra Prinsloo stars in ‘Kamphoer die verhaal van Susan Nell’. Pictures: Key Eye Poetry Photography.…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:56AM
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (110) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: [According to theatre practitioner Gordon Craig’s interpretation] in order to lighten the sufferings of his father, it was necessary [for H…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:14PM

WHO WAS MIKE NICHOLS WHEN HE WASN’T PLAYING MIKE NICHOLS? by Robert Shuman

(Louis Menand’s article appeared in the New Yorker, 2/1; PHOTO: Nichols on the set of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966), which swept the Academy Award nominations.Photograph b…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:29AM
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

DIXON PLACE: SPRING SNEAK PEEK by Robert Shuman

Friday, February 5, 2021 at 7:30PM (est) Free Admission Participants from the Sirovich Senior Playwriting & Visual Theatre Workshop (part of CECO DP’s Cultural Education & Comm…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:36PM

FAILING BETTER: THE AFTERLIFE OF SAMUEL BECKETT’S BEST-KNOWN PHRASES by Robert Shuman

(Terence Killeen’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 2/1; Photo: Samuel Beckett being at a rehearsal of Waiting for Godot in Paris, 1961. Photograph: Roger Viollet via Getty.) Waiting f…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:52AM
Monday, February 1, 2021

LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (31) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:34PM

***** ‘WEG MET EDDY BELLEGUEULE’ REVIEW – A FOUR-WAY TRIUMPH (LIVE STREAM, AMSTERDAM) by Robert Shuman

(Susannah Clapp’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/31; Photo: The Guardian.) Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, live stream Playing multiple roles – and all the music – four young ac…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:59AM
Sunday, January 31, 2021

BROADWAY THEATER OWNER RETHINKS POST-PANDEMIC TICKET SELLING by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson’s and Ben Sisario’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/29; via Pam Green;  In a sign that some theaters are rethinking how they will operate when Broadway reopen…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:04PM

NEW DAWN:  THEATRE AFFIRMATIONS by Robert Shuman

My projects complete easily and automatically—and I am pleased with my process and results.   All right resources are mine now–and I am grateful.    I am worthy of success.   My path…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:23AM
Saturday, January 30, 2021

‘HOTEL GOOD LUCK’–CO-PRESENTED BY THE NEW OHIO THEATRE, NYC, 2/12-20 (WHO’S ZOOMIN’ WHO?) by Robert Shuman

(via Emily Owens)   Hotel Good Luck tells the moving and dizzying story of Bobby, a late-night radio DJ who is confronted with an upsetting event which plunges him into a rabbit hole of pa…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:06PM

AFTER AUDITION: TAKASHI MIIKE’S REHEARSAL-ROOM SHOCKER OVER YOUR DEAD BODY by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the UK Guardian, 1/26. Photo:  Stage fright … Ebizô Ichikawa in the play within the film Over Your Dead Body. Photograph: OYDB Film Partners. ) Co…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:21AM
Friday, January 29, 2021

MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV: A DANCER WHOSE FLIGHT TO FREEDOM BROUGHT HIM CULT STATUS by Robert Shuman

(Valeria Paikova’s article appeared in Russia Beyond, 1/28; Photos:  Russia Beyond. ) Mikhail Baryshnikov is not one to go unnoticed. A true living legend of ballet, he is one of the grea…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:13PM

HOLLYWOOD MOURNS CICELY TYSON: ‘ONE OF THOSE LEGENDS YOU’D HOPED WE WOULD HAVE FOREVER’ by Robert Shuman

(Angelique Jackson’s article appeared in Variety, 1/29; via Pam Green; Photo: Variety.) Cicely Tyson’s co-stars and admirers shared their remembrances of the late Emmy and Tony-winning a…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:56AM
Thursday, January 28, 2021

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (109) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: [To Gordon Craig—a genius as a stage director–] Hamlet was the best of men, who passed like Christ across the earth and became the victim…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:36PM

CLORIS LEACHMAN, OSCAR WINNER AND TV COMEDY STAR, IS DEAD AT 94 by Robert Shuman

(Robert Berkvist’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/27; via Pam Green.  Photo: The actress Cloris Leachman in 1974. She won accolades and an Academy Award for her dramatic work, …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:20AM
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

JAPAN: EXPECT REVIVALS AND VR FROM THE STAGE AS THEATER CONTINUES TO DEAL WITH THE CORONAVIRUS  by Robert Shuman

(Nobuko Tanaka’s article appeared in the Japan Times, 1/27. Photo: Look into the future: A sign of things to come in the world of performing arts, director Kuro Tanino’s virtual reality …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:27PM

LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (30) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:35AM
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

FROM OLIVER! TO GOLDA… NEW LIFE FOR LONG-LOST LIONEL BART MUSICAL by Robert Shuman

(Vanessa Thorpe’s article appeared in the Observer, 1/24; Photo: Jack Wild (left) and Mark Lester in the 1968 film version of Lionel Bart’s Oliver!) Songs from the composer’s doomed sh…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:50PM

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