1,596 stories by "Robert Shuman"
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/10; Billy Russell in The High Bid at the Mermaid theatre in 1967. Photograph: Tony Gibson/ANL/Rex/Shutterstock.)  James's ric…
The more the actor wishes to amuse his audience, the more the audience will sit in comfort waiting to be amused, . . . not even trying to play its part in the play on the stage before it.Â�…
(Mark Fisher's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/8; Photo: Fairy glow … Ghost Light was filmed at Edinburgh's Festival theatre. Photograph: Peter Dibdin.) Hope Dickson Leach's magical…
(Christopher Lehmann-Haupt's obituary appeared in The New York Times, 8/5; Photo: The New York Times;Â via Pam Green.) Mr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of mod…
(Daniel Arkin's article appeared on ABC News on , 8/7; via the Drudge Report. Photos: The livelihoods of thousands of Broadway performers were dramatically upended after the coronavirus cris…
(Greg Evans's article appeared on Deadline, 8/6; via Pam Green.) Brent Carver, a stage and screen actor who won the 1993 Tony Award for his performance in Broadway's The Kiss of the…
(Alexandra Guzeva's article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 7/31; Photo: Russia Beyond the Headlines.) You won't find another period in Russian literature with such a concentration …
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/2; Photo: Unnerving questions … Leon Quartermaine and Fay Compton in Mary Rose at the Haymarket theatre, 1926. Photograph: Sash…
DIGGING DEEPER:Â JOHN B. ROBERTS II ON THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN'S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRARO, THINKING OUTSIDE THE BALLOT BOX, AND HIS NEW BOOKÂ ON MORNING IN AMERI…
(Darin Strauss's article appeared in The New York Times, 7/31; Photo: The New York Times;Â via Pam Green.) With her sitcom over and marriage finished, Lucille Ball fulfilled an old dream:…
(Dalya Alberge's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/2; Photo:Â The Guardian.) Experts find hundreds of errors in the writer's works, mostly made by editors and typesetters Ernest Hemingw…
(Chosen by Rosita Boland, Donald Clarke, Peter Crawley, Martin Doyle, and Hilary Fannin for the Irish Times, 8/1; Photo: The Irish Times.) FROM NIDGE AND CONNELL WALDRON TO GRETT…
(Via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency.) Laurie Metcalf, Kelli O'Hara, Brian Cox, Austin Pendleton, Daniel K. Isaac, and More Premiere New Work by Craig Lucas, Lena Dunham, Sylvia Khoury, St…
THE SHOW MUST GO ONLINE: HENRY IV PART I Â PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list… SUPPORT THE CAST AND CREW: https://patreon.com/theshowmustgoonline HOMEPAGE: https://robmyles…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/27; Above, Yeats's masterpiece … Peter Cormican as the Old Man in a 2009 production of Purgatory at the Irish Repertory Theatr…
MOB RULE: JOHN B. ROBERTS II ON THE 1984 REELECTION CAMPAIGN'S SECRET OPERATION AGAINST GERALDINE FERRARO, THINKING OUTSIDE THE BALLOT BOX, AND HIS NEW BOOK ON MORNING IN AMERICA:Â�…
(Michael Schulman's article appeared in The New Yorker, 7/26; Illustration by Nhung Lê.) Audra McDonald came out of Juilliard in 1993, a twenty-two-year-old with a lyric soprano as pristi…
(Tim Gray's article appeared in Variety, 7/26; photo: Associated Press; via Pam Green.) Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age, two-time Academy A…
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 7/22; Photo: Adrienne C. Moore, center, in the Public Theater production of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When th…
I felt so pleasantly and comfortably on the stage because . . . [I] centered my attention on the perceptions and states of my body, at the same time drawing my attention away from what was h…
(Laura Cappelle's article appeared in The New York Times, 7/16; Photo:"Ionesco Suite," directed by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota at the Espace Cardin in Paris. Credit…Jean-Louis Fernandez;Â via …
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20; Â photo: Pioneer … John Whiting, right, with CE Webber and Enid Bagnold at the Arts theatre in 1951. Photograph: Bentley Arc…
(Bennett's monologue appeared in the London Review of Books, 7/16.)  An ordinary kitchen. Gwen, a middle-aged woÂman, talks to the camera. He​ pulled up his trousers. 'You…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/12; Â Riveting drama … from left, David Hemmings, Chloe Ashcroft and Phillip Martin in Skyvers at the Royal Court. Photograph: A…
(from The New York Times, 7/2; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) Â This is a narrative about youngsters who make up tales. This is a narrative through which ladies wield swords, …
