1,596 stories 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…
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…
 Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved. Â
(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 …
DRAMA DESK AWARD-WINNING WORKINGÂ 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…
(Rachel Syme's article appeared in The New Yorker, 10/11; Â From his converted farmhouse, in upstate New York, the actor talks about his four-decade career and his social-media stardom in …
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(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…
(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…
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…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved. Â
(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…
(Alexandra Guzeva's article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 10/5.)Â (Public Domain; Tretyakov Gallery; Anefo / Croes, R.C. (CC BY-SA 3.0 NL) Poetry is usually lost in translation…
(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…
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(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…
(Sarah Bahr's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/24;Â Photo: Elizabeth Alexander, the president of the Mellon Foundation, said, "We continue to call on others to join us in support…
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…
A PHOENIX THEATRE ENSEMBLE FUNDRAISER NOW ON YOU-TUBE! Tennessee Williams was in residence for his final NY play in the 80's, the intensely personal and autobiographical Something Cloudy, So…
Many thanks to Christine L. who is playing a perfect game of 'Beat the Bard', 1-5. Send answers through Leave a Reply/ Comments, if you would like to play, too. Thanks so much, Christine, fo…
(Amy O'Connor's article appeared in The Irish Times, 8/29; Pan Pan's production of WHAT IS THE WORD is due to screen in Belfast and Paris in the coming weeks. Photograph: Robbie Jack/Corbis …
 (Clare Brennan's article appeared in the Guardian, 9/27. Indira Varma, David Threlfall and Michael Sheen in rehearsals for Faith Healer at the Old Vic. Photograph: The Old Vic/Getty …
Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
(from The New York Times, 9/23; Article by Michael Paulson, Elizabeth A. Harris, and Graham Bowley; Photographs by Dina Litovsky, Victor Llorente and Daniel Arnold; via Pam Green.) We zero i…
(Reevel Alderson's article appeared 9/19, BBC Scotland.) A rare edition of Shakespeare's last play has been found in a Scottish Catholic college in Spain. The Two Noble Kinsmen, written by S…
