1,603 stories by "Robert Shuman"
 Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
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Adam Sullivan writes to say that last Saturday the 2021 International World Men's Handball Championship Draw took place at the Giza Pyramids plateau, with Egyptian actor Khaled El Nabawy, fa…
I speak of the truth of emotions, of the truth of inner creative urges which strain forward to find expression, of the truth of bodily and physical perceptions. I am not interested in a trut…
(Nobuko Tanaka's article appeared in The Japan Times, 9/11; photo of actor Shinichi Tsutsumi.) Back in January, when English director Lindsay Posner visited Tokyo for preparatory meetings to…
(Anita Gates's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/10; Photo: Terry Disney, Fulton Archive; via Pam Green.) Ms. Rigg also played many classic roles onstage in both New York and London …
(via Michelle Tabnick Public Relations; Photo of Bob Ost by Walter McBride.) Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU)Â hosts weekly Community Gatherings every Friday at 4:30pm via Zoom, to explor…
(from the AP, 9/8; via the Drudge Report.) LONDON (AP) " "The Phantom of the Opera" composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has told British lawmakers that the arts are "at the point of no return," and…
Mabou Mines is Thrilled to Announce MALLORY CATLETT and CARL HANCOCK RUX  will join KAREN KANDEL and SHARON ANN FOGARTY as the Company's new team of Co-Artistic Dire…
 (Michael Paulson's article originally appeared in The New York Times, 9/6; Photo: The New York Times; via artdaily.com and Pam Green.) Actor Jessika Williams in Staunton, Va., Sept.…
(Malcolm's article appeared in The New York Review of Books, 9/24.) Once a week in the spring of 1994 I would bicycle over to a brownstone on West 16th Street to see a man named Sam Chwat in…
(Anna Galayda's article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 9/4; Photo: classicstogo.nl) The legendary musician lived for 88 years (1882-1971). He witnessed some of the most dramati…
(Dan Meyer's article Appeared on Playbill, 9/3.) Check out these reads before heading to class this semester. Now that the school year is here, it's time for students to put down their summe…
(Elif Batuman's article appeared in the New Yorker, 9/1; photo: In Sophocles' "Oedipus the King," staged via Zoom by Theater of War Productions, the city of Thebes is in the grip of a terrib…
(from Jim Byk/Kelly Guiod, the Press room, 9/1) NEWS FROM THE WOOSTER GROUP: THE B-SIDE AVAILABLE TO STREAM ONLINE, CAPPING SUMMER OF OPENED ARCHIVES European tour of The Mother, p…
(Shaun Walker's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/31; Svetlana Sugako in rehearsals for the Belarus Free theatre. Photograph: Misha Friedman.) For 15 years, the acclaimed company has be…
(Ben Brantley's article appeared in The New York times, 8/28; Clockwise from top left: Bill Pullman, Carol Kane, Amy Madigan, Juliet Brett and Ed Harris in "The Jacksonian;" via Pam Green.) …
(Alex Clark's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/29; Ingmar Bergman with his daughter Linn Ullmann during the filming of Autumn Sonata (1978). Photograph: Arne Carlsson © AB Svensk…
(Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh; this article appeared in Brewminate, 8/27; photo: Royal Opera; via Pam Green.) Macbeth appears to have cleverly positioned Scotland between her more powerful …
The actor must first of all believe in everything that takes place on the stage, and most of all he must believe in what he himself is doing. And one can believe only in the truth. Therefore…
(Kitty Kelley's article appeared in the New Yorker, 8/24.) The contentious writer, who liked to say that, after fifty, litigation replaces sex, had very specific plans for his burial. "Never…
Adam Sullivan tells us that international film star Khaled ELnabawy will "be a guest with director Molly Smith on Molly's Salon next Thursday 7:00 pm Washington D.C. Time and 1:00 am Cair…
(Yuras Karmanau's article appeared in the Mercury NEws, 8/23; photo: Thousands of people gather for a protest at the Independence square in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. Demonstrato…
(from The New York Times, 8/20; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) PARIS " In countries where live performances have resumed, masked audiences have become a familiar " if still curio…
(Chris Jones's article appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 8/20; Photo: Chicago Tribune.) We're safer staying outside. But in Chicago, where summer is short, time rapidly is running out for the…
