1,641 stories by "Robert Shuman"
(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…
(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 8/13; Photo: Playgoers at the Donmar Warehouse for "Blindness," a reimagining of José Saramago's 1995 novel as a sound installation hear…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/16; Photo:Â Pointed arguments and rounded characters … Polly Lister in Votes for Women at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme, in…
The entire physical and spiritual nature of the actor must be concentrated on what is going on in the soul of the person he (or she) plays. (MLIA)
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(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency) RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER AND NEW YORK THEATRE SALON PRESENT A LOVE LETTER TO LEBANON, AUGUST 15 In the wake of the horrible explosion in Beirut…
(Alexis Soloski's article appeared in the New York Times, 8/11; Photo: Good casting: Andrew Anderson, a BBC reporter, portraying a correspondent for a fictional network in "The Evidence Cham…
(James P. Pinkerton's article appeared on Breitbart, 8/12; Photo: Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress.) Male Democrat presidential nominees don't always do a good job of vetting their fema…
(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…
