1,640 stories by "Robert Shuman"
(Stefan Dege's article appeared in DW, 8/26; Photo: Honored for promoting cultural exchange with Germany: Taiwanese dramaturge and theater festival curator Yi-Wei KengImage: Willie Schumann/…
(Mark Fisher's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/14/2023; Photo: Dark and surreal … Inga Mikshina-Zotova and Roman Mikshin-Zotov in The Last of the Soviets. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: To reproduce feelings you must be able to identify them out of your own experience. But as mechanical actors do not experience feelings they …
(Natalia Chekotum's and Liza Pyrozhkova's vidieo appeared in the Kyiv Independent, 8/8; Photo: Kyiv Independent.) Launched in February last year, Russia's war against Ukraine has taken a tol…
(Tim Ashley's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/19; Dramatic pressure … Endgame. Photograph: Sisi Burn.) Royal Albert Hall, London For its UK premiere, György Kurtág's opera faced…
By Bob Shuman Who is this Shakespeare who needs to be banned in Florida public schools, who dared to write a play called Romeo and Juliet? Was he decadent? Was he warped? Has he …
 PROM 36 A SPACE ODYSSEY: LPO/GARDNER REVIEW Listen (Tim Ashley's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/13. ) Royal Albert Hall, London Intense and finely focused performances of the Liget…
(Jeffrey S. Solochek's article appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, 8/8; via the Drudge Report.) The big story:Â After Florida adopted its Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking standards i…
(Via Emily Owens, Emily Owens PR"rehearsal photo from Ladies at Tea.) Â Â Â First Flight Theatre Company presents Shakespeare's Ladies at Tea or I Thought You'd Never Asp Written by…
(Mark Fisher's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/7/2023. Only the merciless survive … Dark Noon. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod) Pleasance @ EICC, Edinburgh South African actors replay the br…
(Javier C. Hernandez's article appeared in The New York Times and Japan Times, 7/27. Photo: Cincinnati Opera's new production of "Madame Butterfly," directed by Matthew Ozawa, frames the act…
(Clare Brennan's article appeared in The Observer, 7/30; Photo: 'Ophelia-like' Sophie Lenglinger as Nora, with Liam Heslin as Jack, in The Plough and the Stars. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh.)…
(Marion Chaval's, Magali Faure's, and Eve Jackson's article appeared on France24, 7/26.) Just over 100 years ago, painters, sculptors, writers and musicians battled for gold, silver and bron…
NEW DAWN: THEATRE AFFIRMATIONS I got a show to do, remember, baby? Oh baby, I got a show to do. (Dreamgirls) I'm all right, right now (from The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle) I love my e…
(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20; Photo: Gripping … Sarah Slimani in Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors at Dorfman theatre, London. Photograph: Myah Jeffers.) Dorf…
(Dalya Alberge's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/23; Photo: Gertrude Robins, pictured in 1911: she depicted women's often limited choices between second-rate marriages and independence.�…
(Jesse Green's article appeared in The New York Times, 7/20; Photo: Jose Llana, left, and Arielle Jacobs as Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in "Here Lies Love" at the Broadway Theater in Manhatt…
(Via Emily Owens PR) Barefoot Shakespeare Company PRESENTS LADY CAPULET  Written by Melissa Bell Directed by Emily Gallagher  Presented as part of the 2023 Little Shakespeare…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/18.Photo: 'The power to draw the audience together' … the Swan Theatre at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon. Photograph: Tristram…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: It is important to know what you are feeling on the stage, because it often happens that even the most experienced actors work out at home an…
(via France24, 7/14/2023) We bring you a special edition from the 77th international theatre festival in the southern French city of Avignon, where change is in the air under its new Port…
(David Ng's article appeared on Breitbart, 7/15.) New York's prestigious Public Theater " which staged the assassination of President Donald Trump in its infamous 2017 production of Shakespe…
(Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/4; Photo: Divine … Stephen Jackman-Torkoff as Richard II. Photograph: David Hou.) A disco king hits the dancefloor, Beatrice and Benedi…
(Casey Cep's article appeared in the New Yorker, 7/10,17/23; Photograph by Vandamm Studio © Billy Rose Theatre Division / NYPL for Performing Arts.) A collection of previously unpublished…
(Rana Moussaoui's article appeared on Barron's, 7/12; via Drudge Report; Pictures by Clement Mahoudeau.) Brazilian performer Carolina Bianchi was herself raped after being drugged on a night…
