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Tuesday, February 2, 2021

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…

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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.

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***** ‘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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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