1,596 stories by "Robert Shuman"
Watch Give to Mabou Mines   FROM THE ARCHIVES: THE 1980'S  A NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL/MABOU MINES PRODUCTION PRESENTED BY JOSEPH PAPP HAJJ A PERFORMANCE POEM The Publi…
(Michael Wilson's article appeared in The New York Times, 5/1.) Frank Sinatra can thank Robert De Niro and two annoyed songwriters for the song that revived his career and now is the theme m…
(National Theatre.) Watch A new play by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley. Watch Danny Boyle's monster hit Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature and Jonny Lee Mi…
(from the Guardian.) Written by Howard Brenton and directed by James Macdonald in 2013, this riveting drama based on real events is available to watch until 10pm on 3 May.
(Charles McNulty's article appeared in the Los Angeles Times, 4/23; photo: Variety.) Luminous is an overused word in theater criticism, but the word is aptly applied to Shirley Knight, the T…
(Matthew Aucoin's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 5/14.) Â Lear an opera by Aribert Reimann, at the Paris Opera, November 21"December 7, 2019 Orest an opera by Manfred Tr…
(Joan Acocella's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 5/14.) THE RED SHOES The White Helicopter a play by Alvis Hermanis, at the New Riga Theater, Riga, Latvia, opened November …
The secret of the voice lies in feeling an emotion. Once that is felt, the voice comes of itself. (MLIA) Â
(Chris Wiegand's article was updated 4/24 and appeared in the Guardian; photo: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian.) From live-streams of new plays …
By Bob Shuman SCENE: In the woods. A small clearing, off a parking lot"hardly more than a triangle where two parallel felled logs act as benches. MARY JANE, early 70's, sits on a log. As…
(Maureen Lee Lenker's article appeared in Entertainment Weekly, 4/21; photo: EW; via Pam Green.) It's time for a virtual celebration of 90 years of Stephen Sondheim being alive. EW…
(Natasha Tripney's interview appeared in the Guardian, 4/21.) Natalia Kaliada and Nikolai Khalezin explain how political exile prepared them for lockdown and why their latest project is abou…
(from The New York Times, 4/16; photo: The New York Times;Â via Pam Green.) The Belarus Free Theater, founded in 2005 by dissident artists in the former Soviet republic, has operated clan…
(By Frank Gagliano, 4/19.) When I think of Wynn Handman's recent death, I feel guilty for not staying in touch with him over the years. And I feel (in this plague year, when all theaters …
In moments of inspiration, when, due to reasons unexplainable to us, one feels not the conception of the words themselves, but the deep meaning that is hidden in them, one finds the simplici…
Dear Friends, Of all of New York City's traditions, our favorite is this: every summer, we gather under the stars at the magical Delacorte Theater for Free Shakespeare in the Park. We co…
(Carmel Dagan's article appeared in Variety, 4/16.) Brian Dennehy, the winner of two Tonys in a career that also spanned films including "Tommy Boy," "First Blood" and "Cocoon," and televisi…
(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 4/9; via Pam Green.) LONDON " We live in unprecedented times " or so they tell us. The coronavirus lockdown, which began in Britain on Ma…
(Nathaniel Rich's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 4/23.) American Humbug Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson Simon and Schuster, 341 pp., $28.00 Since his heyday in t…
ROGER HENDRICKS SIMON has just won the BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE award from INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS 2020 for DANIEL KEITH's multi award winning feature film LOVE…
Beloved Artists! I know we're all settling into our new lives inside and we here at Dixon Place are leaning into our new lives online. We have an Online Event Page that lists …
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 4/1; Photo: Among the playwrights commissioned to write short plays that can be read or performed by people sheltering in place: Â…
By Bob Shuman SCENE: A dog park in the Bronx. NARRATOR: As Mary Jane suspected, the dog park was closed, on 4/6/2020, along with all runs throughout the city. Fearing Coronavirus…
(Chris Wiegands' Guardian interview appeared 4/7.) (Go to National Theatre at Home) As her bold staging of the classic novel is screened as part of National Theatre at Home, the director dis…
