BRINGING OUT THE BEST OF SONDHEIM, HERMAN AND … SCHRAUBSTADER? by Robert Shuman

(Jesse Green's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/3; via Pam Green; Photo: Emily Skinner performing "The Ladies Who Lunch" as part of the Signature Theater's "Simply Sondheim" revue.C…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:42pm on February 7, 2021☆⚑

HOW RUSSIAN THEATER GURU KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY CHANGED THE ACTING UNIVERSE by Robert Shuman

  B.Brilliantov/Sputnik; Getty Images (Valeria Paikova's article appeared in Russia Beyond, 1/29/2021.) Konstantin Stanislavsky's ideas changed the face of theater as much as Albert Einst…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:12am on February 7, 2021☆⚑

ARS NOVA ANNOUNCES NEW FEBRUARY EVENTS INCLUDING VISION RESIDENCY PROGRAMMING FROM RONA SIDDIQUI  by Robert Shuman

(Via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency; Photo: Rona Siddiqui.) Ars Nova, "a company known for pop-culture-savvy experimentation, with a hipness that sets it apart" (New York Times), under…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:19pm on February 6, 2021☆⚑

THE LAST METRO: THEATRE IS A SANCTUARY IN FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT'S WARTIME GEM by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/2; Photo: Backstage secrets … Catherine Deneuve in The Last Metro. Photograph: APL Archive/Alamy.) Our series on films about the stage …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:45am on February 6, 2021☆⚑

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, SOUND OF MUSIC STAR AND OLDEST ACTOR TO WIN AN OSCAR, DIES AGED 91 by Robert Shuman

(Andrew Pulver's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/5; via Pam Green; Christopher Plummer, who has died aged 91. Photograph: Vera Anderson/WireImage.) Veteran and respected actor had a care…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 2:17pm on February 5, 2021☆⚑

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (32) by Robert Shuman

  Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D.  All rights reserved.

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 8:39am on February 5, 2021☆⚑

FRANZ KAFKA'S 'LETTER TO MY FATHER' LIVE ONLINE " DIRECTED BY M-34'S JAMES RUTHERFORD, 2/19 " 3/28 by Robert Shuman

(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity; Photo of Michael Guagno: Bailey Bretz; photo of scene: Eileen Meny Photography.) Brooklyn, NY " M-34 presents Franz Kafka's Letter To My Father, translated …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:05pm on February 4, 2021☆⚑

SOUTH AFRICA: SANDRA PRINSLOO AND LARA FOOT COLLAB IN GUT-WRENCHING THEATRE DRAMA 'KAMPHOER' by Robert Shuman

(Kedibone Modise's article appeared in the Johannesburg Cape Times, 2/2; Photos:  Sandra Prinsloo stars in 'Kamphoer die verhaal van Susan Nell'. Pictures: Key Eye Poetry Photography.) La…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:56am on February 4, 2021☆⚑

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (110) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: [According to theatre practitioner Gordon Craig's interpretation] in order to lighten the sufferings of his father, it was necessary [for Ham…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:14pm on February 3, 2021☆⚑

WHO WAS MIKE NICHOLS WHEN HE WASN'T PLAYING MIKE NICHOLS? by Robert Shuman

(Louis Menand's article appeared in the New Yorker, 2/1; PHOTO: Nichols on the set of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), which swept the Academy Award nominations.Photograph by © B…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:29am on February 3, 2021☆⚑

DIXON PLACE: SPRING SNEAK PEEK by Robert Shuman

Friday, February 5, 2021 at 7:30PM (est) Free Admission Participants from the Sirovich Senior Playwriting & Visual Theatre Workshop (part of CECO DP's Cultural Education &…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:36pm on 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 for…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:52am on February 2, 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.

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:34pm on February 1, 2021☆⚑

***** '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 actors d…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 8:59am on February 1, 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 reopens,…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:04pm on January 31, 2021☆⚑

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 …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:23am on January 31, 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 o…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:06pm on January 30, 2021☆⚑

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. …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:21am on January 30, 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 3:13pm on January 29, 2021☆⚑

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 actor…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 8:56am on January 29, 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 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☆⚑