1,603 stories by "Robert Shuman"
Maeterlinck is a charming, kind, and joyful host and companion. For days at a time we spoke about art, and he was very glad to know that actors were entering so deeply into the very being, m…
I adapt my vision to the new theatrical reality"and find deeper understanding and wider horizons. Theatre comes back strong in 2021"and heals us. Â
(Mark Brown's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/31; Photo: Tammy Faye Messner with Jim Bakker. Photograph: Associated Press.) Writer says singer's cancelled farewell tour resulted in '…
Theatre comes back strong in 2021"and heals us.
The hardest thing of all is to begin creative work, to find a goal, a foundation, a ground, a principle, or even a simple scenic piece of hokum and to be enthused by it. Enthusiasm, even the…
(Natasha Tripney's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/30; Photo: A mirror on the world … Mark Rylance in Jerusalem at the Royal Court. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian. ) Whil…
(Berlind played a role in producing more than 100 plays and musicals. And while he kept an eye on the bottom line, he could be seduced by sheer artistry; Photo: Even as he experienced flops,…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/28. Photosgraph: Debonair … Noël Coward. Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock .) A new exhibition is devoted to the visual …
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(Dorian Lynskey's article appeared on the BBC 12/7; Photo, Getty Images, BBC.com; via Pam Green. She gives little away about her private life, and touts a cartoonish public image: how did Do…
Two contrasting pieces of narration set to music. The BBC Singers and conductor Nicolas Chalmers present Hymn " Alan Bennett's early musical recollections, originally set to music written fo…
The production of the stage director and the playing of the actors, may be realistic, conventionalized, modernistic, naturalistic, impressionistic, futuristic,"it is all the same so long as …
(Anita Gates's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/23; Â Photo: Â Rebecca Luker as Maria, surrounded by the von Trapp children, in the 1998 Broadway revival of "The Sound of Music…
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/23; Photo: Clockwise from top left: Death of England, The Outside Dog, Pass Over, Oleanna and Crave. Composite: Nobby Clark, Marc Brenner,…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
MABOU MINES/BECKETT:Â 'IMAGINATION DEAD IMAGINE'"DIRECTED BY RUTH MALECZECH (12/21-12/17) Ruth Nelson (Voice) & Clove Galilee (Figure) __________________________________ Light, voice, …
(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/17; via Pam Green; Photo: At the National Theater in London in September. The city's theaters were closed and reopened twice in 2020, …
(Michael Wood's article appeared in The London Review of Books, 12/17.) Ihad​ misremembered The Scarlet Empress (1934), one of the thirteen Marlene Dietrich movies currently sho…
(Chilton Williamson, Jr.'s article appeared in The Spectator, 12/13.) Laramie, Wyoming Nearly all the famous artistic controversies in the aesthetic history of the western world " the …
More than forty-six years ago, the Sherman brothers' Big Band musical Over Here! (they had written the scores for Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book, and the song "It's a Small World," for the…
(Alex Marshall's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/9; updated 9/14 : Photo: A security guard takes ticket holders' temperatures before a performance of "Six" in London, on Dec. 5.Cr…
The lie must become or seem to be the truth on the stage in order to be convincing. (MLIA)
(Eli Countryman's article appeared in Variety, 12/14.) Tony Award winner Ann Reinking, an actor, dancer and choreographer, died on Saturday night in Washington, her sister-in-law Dahrla R…
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/13. Photo: Riveting … Jonathan Slinger and Rosie Sheehy in Oleanna by Mamet at Theatre Royal Bath. Photograph: Nobby Clark.…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
