1,602 stories by "Robert Shuman"
(Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/28/2023; via Pam Green; Photo: Transatlantic tragedy … Kenneth Branagh. Photograph: Johan Persson.) The play, which the actor has de…
(Tom Lamont's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/29; Photo: Photograph: David Vintiner/The Guardian.) He's the anarchic comedian behind the musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day. He talks abou…
(via Scott Klein, Keith Sherman Associates.) www.DramaDesk.org The 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards (www.DramaDesk.org) will be held on Tuesday afternoon, June 6 at Sardi's Re…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: In our art [as actors] you must live the part every moment that you are playing it, and every time. Each time it is recreated, it must be liv…
(Hillel Italie's article appeared on AP News, 4/25; via the Drudge Report; Photo: Vanity Fair.) NEW YORK (AP) " Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groun…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/24; Photo: Deeply deceptive dramas … W Somerset Maugham, 1957. Photograph: Jane Bown/The Observer.) A new revival of The Circle…
(Mathew Murphy's article appeared in the Daily Beast, 4/23; via Pam Green; Photo: REUTERS/Ian Waldie.) GOODBYE POSSUMS Tributes have poured in for Australian comedian Barry Humphries who has…
(Juri Rescheto's report appeared on DW, 4/21.) View at: https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-artists-push-back-against-identity-denial/video-65401461 Vladimir Putin claims Ukraine has no national i…
It is never too late to be alive (to theatre)"Penelope Chatterton paraphrase I take the time needed to express my creativity"and it is always in demand. Inspiration and invention lead me…
(Lloyd Webber's opinion appeared in The New York Times, April 17, 2023; via Pam Green. Photo: Andrew Kelly/Reuters.) By Andrew Lloyd Webber Mr. Lloyd Webber is the composer of 13 …
(Charles McNulty's article appeared in the L.A. Times, Â 4/5.) "It's a radical act to ask someone to go to the theater these days," Pasadena Playhouse Producing Artistic Director Danny Fel…
(David Smith's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/15; via Pam Green; Photo: The Phantom of the Opera has been seen by more than 140 million people worldwide. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP…
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(Clare Brennan's article appeared in the Observer, 4/9; Photo: Conor O'Kane as John Hume and Naiomh Morgan as his wife, Pat, in Beyond Belief. Photograph: The Playhouse Derry-Londonderry)…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The organic bases of the laws of nature on which our art is founded will protect you in the future from going down the wrong path. Who knows …
(via Angela Yamarone, bbbway.com.) Atlantic Theater Company Announces Complete Casting and Extension for Exclusive World Premiere Musical Event DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES Book by Craig Lucas …
(Dan Bilefsky's and Jeremy Fassler's  article appeared in The New York Times, 4/7; via Pam Green; Photo: Dmitry Krymov, one of Russia's most important theater directors, has remained in t…
(Andrew Dickson's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/7; via Pam Green; Photo: Tom Varey and Madeleine Mantock as William and Agnes, the characters based on Shakespeare and Hathaway.Credit�…
(Jack Thorne's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/7; via Pam Green; To thine own self be true … John Gielgud directs Richard Burton in rehearsals for Hamlet. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettm…
(Jesse Green's article appeared in The New York Time, 4/4; via Pam Green; Photo:Â John Kander at home on the Upper West Side. His latest Broadway production, "New York, New York," is sche…
  (Austin Malloy's report appeared on Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, 4/4.) A new photo project by Ukrainian photographer Marta Syrko captures stunning images of soldiers and civilia…
(Anya Ryan's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/2; Photo: Boyish energy … For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy. Photograph: Ali Wright.)  Apollo th…
(John Shand's article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 4/5; Â Photo: The play essentially a one-hander, although Jessica Bentley is also intermittently present.CREDIT:PRUEDENCE UPTON…
(Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/2; Photo: Host Hannah Waddingham at the Olivier awards. Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for SOLT.) Olivier awards: full list of w…
By Bob Shuman Iceland, both the title and central metaphor for an opera by O-Lan Jones (director) and Emmet Tilley (music)"now playing at La MaMa through April 2"is like this year's slow cra…