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 of …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:36pm on January 28, 2021☆⚑

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 9:20am on January 28, 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 prod…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:27pm on January 27, 2021☆⚑

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 on January 27, 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 show abo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:50pm on January 26, 2021☆⚑

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 9:54am on January 26, 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…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 1:31pm on January 25, 2021☆⚑

'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 York, Ja…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:39am on January 25, 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 ÄŒapek coined the w…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:01pm on January 24, 2021☆⚑

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 …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 1:23pm on January 24, 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 3:01pm on January 23, 2021☆⚑

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 on January 23, 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 OF …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:35pm on January 22, 2021☆⚑

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 d…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 2:45pm on January 22, 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 Touc…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:49pm on January 21, 2021☆⚑

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 morning…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:08am on January 21, 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 4:02pm on January 20, 2021☆⚑

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 by …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:16am on January 20, 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 3:59pm on January 19, 2021☆⚑

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 on January 19, 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 2:42pm on January 18, 2021☆⚑

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 personal pap…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:33am on January 18, 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 importan…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:08pm on January 17, 2021☆⚑

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 m…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 1:43pm on January 17, 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 st…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:54pm on January 16, 2021☆⚑