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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

THE HOMEBOUND PROJECT RETURNS JANUARY 27–31 WITH MUSIC ICON STING, PLUS MORE by Robert Shuman

(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency) Music Icon Sting and Actors Paul Sparks and Eden Malyn Join Sixth Edition Previously Announced Participants Include Dylan Baker, Christopher Abbott, D…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:54AM
Monday, January 25, 2021

SWEDISH ACTRESS AND DIRECTOR GUNNEL LINDBLOM HAS DIED AGED 89 by Robert Shuman

(Matthew Roscoe’s article appeared in EuoWeekly, 1/24.) SWEDISH Actress and Director Gunnel Lindblom Has Died Aged 89 Gunnel Lindblom, who performed the lead role in Miss Julie for BBC T…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:31PM

‘MOULIN ROUGE!’ WAS THEIR TICKET. THEN 2020 HAPPENED. by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/21; via Pam Green. Photo: Behind the scenes of “Moulin Rouge,” which is on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic in New Yo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:39AM
Sunday, January 24, 2021

ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF ‘ROBOT,’ THEY’RE FINALLY TAKING OVER by Robert Shuman

(Christopher Mims’s article appeared in the Wall Street Journal, 1/23; Photo from The Wall Street Journal; via the Drudge Report.)   A century after playwright Karel Čapek coined the wor…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:01PM

NEW DAWN:  THEATRE AFFIRMATIONS by Robert Shuman

All right resources are mine now–and I am grateful.    I am worthy of success.   My path is important to myself and our community.   I am most truly successful, as an artist and otherw…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:23PM
Saturday, January 23, 2021

JUDI DENCH: ‘IN MY MIND’S EYE I’M SIX fOOT AND WILLOWY’ by Robert Shuman

 (Xan Brooks’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/22; Photo: The Guardain; via Pam Green.) At 86 and in lockdown, the actor finds herself in the rare position of not working. Instead, sh…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:01PM

TONY AWARD-WINNING BROADWAY CHOREOGRAPHER BOB AVIAN DIES AGED 83 by Robert Shuman

(Adrian Horton’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/22. Photo: Bob Avian in 2013. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian.) The director and choreographer, whose credits include A Chorus …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:45AM
Friday, January 22, 2021

MABOU MINES’ ‘COLD HARBOR’–“A SARDONIC, SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBE OF ULYSSES S. GRANT.” STREAMING UNTIL 1/26 (LINK BELOW) by Robert Shuman

INTO THE ARCHIVES | COLD HARBOR View Mabou Mines Home MABOU MINES’ Cold Harbor CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY Bill Raymond and Dale Worsley TEXT BY Dale Worsley WITH EXCERPTS FROM THE MEMOIRS O…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:35PM

A CALL FOR NEW ARTS NORMS IN THE U.S. by Robert Shuman

By Bob Shuman In a 2019 BBC interview on “Free Thinking,” the actress Patti LuPone succinctly noted that the U.S. does not have a National Theatre, nor does it celebrate the work of any…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:45PM
Thursday, January 21, 2021

IRISH REP: THEATRE @ HOME WINTER FESTIVAL STARTS 1/26 by Robert Shuman

Irish Reps Theatre @ Home Winter Festival begins on Tuesday, January 26! Featuring all nine of our Performances on Screen, from Molly Sweeney to The Weir to A Touch of the Poet, thi…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:49PM

IRELAND: ‘2020 WAS GOING TO BE THE MOST AMAZING YEAR EVER FOR US’ by Robert Shuman

(Sara Keating’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 1/16; Aisling O’Sullivan, Cathy Belton and Derbhle Crotty in The Approach by Mark O’Rowe. Photograph: Patrick Redmond.) It is the m…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:08AM
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (29) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:02PM

OPENING NIGHT: JOHN CASSAVETES’ UNROMANTIC ODE TO THEATRE IS STUNNING by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian 1/19/; Photo: Going on … Gena Rowlands in Opening Night. Photograph: Alamy.) One of many tantalising theatre shows cancelled last year b…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:16AM
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (108) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: [Gordon] Craig dreamed of having the entire performance take place without intermissions or the use of the curtain. The public was to come to…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:59PM

HOW 8 COUNTRIES HAVE TRIED TO KEEP ARTISTS AFLOAT DURING PANEMIC by Robert Shuman

The National Theatre in London, Sept. 21, 2020. Governments around the world have tried to support the arts during the pandemic, some more generously than others. Lauren Fleishman/The New Yo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:08AM
Monday, January 18, 2021

HOW THE LEGACY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. INSPIRED THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM by Robert Shuman

(Walter Rutledge’s article appeared on Playbill Online, 1/18; Photo of Arthur Mitchell by Sharon Perry.)  THE GREAT AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTION WAS BUILT ON A MODEL OF INCLUSIVENESS. On Apr…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:42PM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CARY GRANT by Robert Shuman

Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best Nancy Nelson’s Evenings with Cary Grant, which uses the icon’s own words—and is enhanced with material from Grant’s pers…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:33AM
Sunday, January 17, 2021

ROBOTS TURN 100—AND STILL ENTHRALL US by Robert Shuman

(Adam Kirsch’s article appeared in The Wall Street Journal, 1/16.)  The intelligent, human-like machines long promised by science fiction still don’t exist, but they’ve played an impo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:08PM

NEW DAWN:  THEATRE AFFIRMATIONS by Robert Shuman

I am worthy of success in the Theatre, and I am successful.   My path is important to myself and our community.   I am most truly successful, as an artist and otherwise, when I am my most …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:43PM
Saturday, January 16, 2021

FREE INAUGURATION MUSICAL: “A DAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE” BY VIN MORREALE, JR. AND ERIC B. SIROTA (LINK BELOW) by Robert Shuman

Vin Morreale, Jr. (book & lyrics) and Eric B. Sirota (music) are pleased to announce the release of their new full-length musical comedy, “A Day at the White House,” on podcast and …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:54PM

THE DELIGHTS OF SEA-CHANTEY TIKTOK by Robert Shuman

(Amanda Petrusich’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 1/14.  Photo: After nearly a year of solitude and crushing restrictions, chanteys are providing a glimpse into a more exciting way …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:56AM
Friday, January 15, 2021

LET’S PLAY ‘BEAT THE BARD’ (28) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:16PM

TIM RICE: ‘EVITA WAS A BONKERS IDEA’ by Robert Shuman

(Rob Walker’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/14; Photo: Dynamic duo … Tim Rice, right, and Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1970. Photograph: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images.) As the …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:17AM
Thursday, January 14, 2021

ILLUSIONIST SIEGFRIED FISCHBACHER OF SIEGFRIED & ROY DIES by Robert Shuman

(Paul Davenport’s article appeared on the AP, 1/14; via the Drudge Report; Photo: Sigfried, left, with tiger: Reviewjournal.com.) Siegfried Fischbacher, the surviving member of the magic d…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:34PM

CUOMO OUTLINES PLANS TO ‘BRING ARTS AND CULTURE BACK TO LIFE’ by Robert Shuman

(Sarah Bahr’s article appeared in The New York Times 1/12; via Pam Green.  Photo: “New York City is not New York without Broadway,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday in unveiling p…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:37AM
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (107) by Robert Shuman

Gordon Craig dreamed of a theatre without men and women, without actors. He wanted to supplant them with marionettes who had no bad habits or bad gestures, no painted faces, no exaggerated v…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:39PM

IRELAND: LIVE THEATRE WAS GETTING INTERESTING. THEN COVID ARRIVED by Robert Shuman

(Chris McCormack’s article appeared in The Irish Times, 1/13; Photo: When the curtain came down on Our New Girl, did it come down on innovative programming along with it? Credit: Ros Kavan…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:38AM
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

BELARUS THREATENS TO KILL TWO UK DISSIDENTS by Robert Shuman

“We will definitely find you … and we will hang you, side-by-side,” the main Belarusian government newspaper, Sovietska Belarus, wrote on 27 December 2020.reetheatre.com) “Death thre…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:28PM

MORE THAN THE GIRL NEXT DOOR: 8 ACTORS ON EMILY IN ‘OUR TOWN’ by Robert Shuman

(Laura Collin-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 1/6; via Pam Green.  In a Broadway production of “Our Town,” Helen Hunt, right, played Emily Webb with Jason Gedrick, le…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:22PM
Monday, January 11, 2021

HERE ANNOUNCES IN-PERSON AND ONLINE PROGRAMMING FOR WINTER AND SPRING 2021 by Robert Shuman

(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman) Highlights include 9th Annual PROTOTYPE Festival, Soundwalks in Harlem and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Online Premieres The OBIE-winning HERE (Kristin Mar…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:45PM

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