1,640 stories by "Robert Shuman"
(from Shakespeare & Beyond, 7/ 6/ 2021.) In a recent post on the Folger's Collation blog, assistant curator Elizabeth DeBold shared a small set of photographs, newly added to the F…
(from France24 ) The Avignon Festival is back after 2020's Covid-19 hiatus. France's biggest performing arts festival sees thousands of actors, dancers and musicians from around the world pe…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Our art is not eternal, but it is the most inescapable of all arts so far as our contemporaries are concerned. What strength there is in it! …
(Mary Coll's article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/8; Photo: Kathy Rose O'Brien stars as Vera in In the Middle of the Fields.) ★★★★ West Wall Walkway, Kilmallock Tim…
(Kate Wyver's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/4; Photo: Contrition mission … Cillian Murphy in All of This Unreal Time. Photograph: MIF.) Central Hall, Manchester Central, a…
In her second interview for Stage Voices, Phyllis Wheeler talks race in America, during three different time periods; stranger danger and comfort zones; and walking a mile"in someone else's …
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 6/23; via Pam Green.) One afternoon in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, a small crowd gathered around a storefront window, wh…
(John Podhoretz's article appeared in The New York Post, 6/30; via the Drudge Report.) For more than four decades, screen mavens have been eagerly awaiting the time when Steven Spielberg wou…
(from The New York Times, 6/30; via the Drudge Report.) The billionaire David Geffen is giving $150 million to Yale School of Drama, allowing one of the nation's most prestigious programs…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: It remains unknown why certain places in a play are laughed at by everybody at all performances in one city, while altogether different place…
(Johnny Oleksinski's article appeared in the New York Post, 6/27; via the Drudge Report; Photo: Broadway " and The Boss is back: Bruce Springsteen performs during reopening night of "Springs…
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 6/14; via Pam Green; Photo: Shoshana Bean as Elphaba in the musical "Wicked" at the Gershwin Theater in 2005. A tour of the long-ru…
(Anna Galayda's article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 6/21; Photo:Â Elena Svinko;Â The Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theater.) We have rounded up the rising stars,…
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 6/18; via Pam Green; Photo: Credit…David S. Allee for The New York Times.) The Asian American Performers Action Coalition is hopi…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved. Â Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(Les Standiford's article appeared in the Washington Posts, 5/20; Photo: Ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson says farewell to the crowd alongside Paulo Dos Santos, center, and Tatiana Tchalabae…
(Erin Kelley's article appeared in the Guardian, 5/26; Photo: The Bolshoi ballet premieres its production Krakatuk in Moscow in January 2020. Photograph: Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Tass.) From Noe…
(Jacob Bentley-York's article appeared in the Sun, 6/18; via the Drudge Report.) Terrifying video shows a pack of 30 wolves chasing actors on stage and lunging into the audience in Chinese t…
(Joseph Cermatori's article appeared in The New York Times, 6/11; via Pam Green; Illustration: Rotating the perspective to depict massive, magnificent interiors, the Bibiena family transform…
(Ellise Shafer's article appeared in Variety, 6/15; Photo: Samantha Okazaki.) Rita Moreno is defending Lin-Manuel Miranda and "In the Heights" following criticism over the film's la…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 6/14; Photo: 'It's about the process, not the product' … Lily Nichol as Joan la Pucelle. Photograph: Ellie Kurttz. Copyright @ Ro…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: When . . . somebody advised Chekhov to write a play about the [Russo-Japanese] war, the great writer was insulted: "Listen," he said, "it is …
(Anthony Lane's article appeared in The New Yorker, 6/11; PHOTO: Anthony Ramos stars in Jon M. Chu's film of the Broadway musical.Illustration by Katty Huertas.) Jon M. Chu's adaptation ofÂ…
 (Julia Jacobs's article appeared in The New York Times, 6/11; via Pam Green. Photo: Katori Hall in New York City last year. The playwright was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "The Hot…
(Dario Thuburn's article appeared on Yahoo, 6/11; Photo: France24.) Jana Shostak says her protests is 'a scream of spite, of anger, of powerlessness over what is happening in our country' Wi…
