NOT WAITING FOR GODOT: NEW SHOW TACKLES BECKETT'S BAN ON WOMEN   by Robert Shuman

(Kate Wyver's article appeared in the Guardian, 10/18; Photo: Clown theatre company Silent Faces would legally have to wait until 2059 (70 years after Samuel Beckett's death) to perform Wait…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 2:34pm on October 22, 2020☆⚑

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (12) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:52pm on October 21, 2020☆⚑

THEATER RESOURCES UNLIMITED ANNOUNCES WRITER-PRODUCER VIRTUAL SPEED DATE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2020 AT 2:30PM by Robert Shuman

(via Michelle Tabnick, Michelle Tabnick Public Relations) Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is offering their popular  Writer-Producer Virtual Speed Date event on Sunday, November 8…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 8:15pm on October 20, 2020☆⚑

BEN BRANTLEY ON SHUTTING THE STAGE DOOR BEHIND HIM by Robert Shuman

(Jesse Green's and Ben Brantley's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/13; Photo of Karen Finley: Credit…Dona Ann McAdams;  via Pam Green.) After 27 years and more than 2,500 revi…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 2:12pm on October 19, 2020☆⚑

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (11) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:19pm on October 18, 2020☆⚑

7 FACTS ABOUT THE MARIINSKY THEATER IN ST. PETERSBURG by Robert Shuman

(Alexandra Guzeva's article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 10/15.) Long before the Bolshoi was founded in Moscow, this leading Russian theater was a favorite with emperors and empr…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:21pm on October 17, 2020☆⚑

SONIA FRIEDMAN: I'VE CLOSED 18 SHOWS AND PAUSED 10. HERE'S MY CURE FOR THEATRE by Robert Shuman

(Friedman's article appeared in the Guardian, 10/15; Photo: Chaotic and farcical … The Pin " Ben Ashenden, left, and Alex Owen " are coming to the West End. Photograph: Oliver Rosser/Feast…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:10pm on October 16, 2020☆⚑

TONY AWARDS 2020: FULL LIST OF NOMINATIONS by Robert Shuman

(Brent Lang's article appeared in Variety, 10/15.) Tony Awards "Jagged Little Pill," a ferocious reimagining of Alanis Morissette's album of the same name, captured a leading 15 Tony Award n…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:57pm on October 15, 2020☆⚑

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (96) by Robert Shuman

It is easy to dream and create theories in art, but it is hard to practice them. It would seem that there is nothing simpler than naked passion and nothing else. But the simpler the thing is…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:31pm on October 15, 2020☆⚑

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (10) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 7:50pm on October 14, 2020☆⚑

BEN BRANTLEY: WHY I'LL NEVER STOP BEING A THEATER CRITIC by Robert Shuman

(Ben Brantley's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/13; via Pam Green.) After 27 years on the job, the writer Ben Brantley bids farewell with one last recommendation: Watch a show as …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:18pm on October 14, 2020☆⚑

DRAMA DESK AWARD-WINNING WORKING THEATER LEADS THE NEW DIGITAL AGE OF THEATER ANNOUNCING 2020-2021 SEASON by Robert Shuman

DRAMA DESK AWARD-WINNING WORKING THEATER LEADS THE NEW DIGITAL AGE OF THEATER ANNOUNCING 2020-2021 SEASON PRESENTING WORKS BY LEILA BUCK, MICHAEL PREMO, RACHEL FALCONE and LISA RAMIREZ WO…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:30pm on October 13, 2020☆⚑

MANDY PATINKIN IS STILL SINGING by Robert Shuman

(Rachel Syme's article appeared in The New Yorker, 10/11;  From his converted farmhouse, in upstate New York, the actor talks about his four-decade career and his social-media stardom in …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 1:19pm on October 12, 2020☆⚑

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (9) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:19pm on October 11, 2020☆⚑

BROADWAY SHUTDOWN DUE TO VIRUS EXTENDED AGAIN UNTIL MAY 30 by Robert Shuman

(Mark Kennedy's article appeared on the AP, 10/8; via the Drudge Report.) NEW YORK (AP) " Fans of Broadway will have to wait a little longer for shows to resume " until at least late May. Al…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:30am on October 10, 2020☆⚑

HOW ARE AUDIENCES ADAPTING TO THE AGE OF VIRTUAL THEATRE? by Robert Shuman

(Vinson Cunningham's article appeared in The New Yorker, 10/5.) With so much time away from in-person performance, we are undergoing a worldwide reconstrual of what it means to be a…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:33pm on October 9, 2020☆⚑

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (95) by Robert Shuman

I understood that on the stage truth is that in which the actor sincerely believes. I understood that even a palpable lie must become a truth in the theatre so that it may become art. For th…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 1:51pm on October 8, 2020☆⚑

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (8) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 7:43pm on October 7, 2020☆⚑

'THE GREAT HUNGER' REVIEW: AMBITIOUSLY STAGED, WITH SCENES OF RARE BEAUTY by Robert Shuman

(Sara Keating's article appeared in the Irish Times, 10/5; Photo: Cora Venus Lunny, Caimin Gilmore and Olesya Zdorovetska in the Abbey Theatre's production of The Great Hunger by Patrick Kav…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:56pm on October 6, 2020☆⚑

10 MAIN RUSSIAN POETS YOU NEED TO KNOW by Robert Shuman

(Alexandra Guzeva's article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 10/5.)  (Public Domain; Tretyakov Gallery; Anefo / Croes, R.C. (CC BY-SA 3.0 NL) Poetry is usually lost in translation…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:45pm on October 5, 2020☆⚑

MURRAY SCHISGAL, WHO BROUGHT THE ABSURD TO THE MAINSTREAM, DIES AT 93 by Robert Shuman

(Will Dudding's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/2; via Pam Green.) With "Luv" on Broadway and "Tootsie" on the screen, he wrote with knowing, slightly askew humor about subjects l…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:37pm on October 4, 2020☆⚑

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (7) by Robert Shuman

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

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:54am on October 4, 2020☆⚑

HOW I MET THE RECLUSIVE GEORGIA O'KEEFFE by Robert Shuman

(Roxana Robinson's article appeared in the New Yorker, 10/1; Photograh: Georgia O'Keeffe lived in a small village in rural New Mexico and rarely gave interviews. Seclusion and withholding we…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 7:46pm on October 3, 2020☆⚑

CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND RAISES NEARLY $20 MILLION FOR ARTISTS by Robert Shuman

(Sarah Bahr's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/24;  Photo: Elizabeth Alexander, the president of the Mellon Foundation, said, "We continue to call on others to join us in support…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 8:45pm on October 2, 2020☆⚑

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (94) by Robert Shuman

From the moment of the appearance of if the actor passes from the plane of actual reality into the plane of another life, created and imagined by himself. Believing in this life, the actor c…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:52pm on October 1, 2020☆⚑