1,641 stories by "Robert Shuman"
(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.
(Richard Brody's article appeared in The New Yorker, 12/11; Photo: The New Yorker.) The project that Orson Welles planned to film, in 1939, before turning his attention to "Citizen Kane" was…
(via David Coffman and Linda Chichester) HIP HOP CINDERELLA is a new musical, brought to our attention through the  TRU Zoom Community Gatherings, free on Fridays at 4:30 pm"also don't fo…
(Maya Phillips's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/4/2020; via Pam Green. To accompany this essay, the Baltimore-based artist Jerrell Gibbs painted "Portrait of August Wilson" (2020…
(Lee Brown's article appeared in the New York Post, 12/9; via the Drudge Report.) It's one for the books. The first man to get the new coronavirus vaccine in the UK is named William Shakespe…
(Jesse Green's, Laura Collins-Hughes's, Scott Heller's, Maya Phillips's, Alexis Soloski's, and Elisabeth Vincentelli's article appeared in the New York Times, 12/1; Photogr…
 Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(Chris Jones's article appeared in The Chicago Tribune, 12/2; photo: This building at 4343 South Cottage Grove Ave. is slated to be the African American Museum of Performing Arts and a theat…
(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/26; Tamzin Outhwaite, left, and Fiona Button in "What a Carve Up!"Credit…via Barn Theatre/Lawrence Batley Theatre/New Wolsey Theatre…
The charming delicacy of the scenic artist's sketch is always uglified on the stage. . . . And no matter what the artist might do, he will never be able to conquer materiality and coarseness…
(Lanre Bakare's article appeared in the UK Guardian, 12/3; Photo: Nottingham Playhouse says its Cinderella pantomime and Jack and the Beanstalk family show will now only be available to stre…
(Ronan McGreevy's article appeared in the Irish Times, 12/2: Photo: Abbey Theatre directors Graham McLaren (left) and Neil Murray: Calling on the Government to "look again at the reopening o…
 Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
