(Mark Kennedy's article appeared in Time Magazine, 10/27.) Tony Award-winning composer Jerry Herman, who wrote the cheerful, good-natured music and lyrics for such classic shows as Mame,�…
We exaggerated the outward and external side of manners. . . . . This resulted in naked naturalism. And the nearer it was to reality, the more ethnographical it was"the worse it was for us T…
(Matthew Aucoin's article appeared in the New York of Books 12/19.) Verdi: Creating "Otello" and "Falstaff""Highlights from the Ricordi Archive an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum…
(from the London Review of Books, 12/19, where he reads the entries.) 1 January 2019, Yorkshire. The New Inn, the village pub, always lays on a quarter of an hour of fireworks at midnight, w…
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/18; via Pam Green.) Lois Smith, Estelle Parsons and Vinie Burrows on age, agility, perseverance and steering clear of "self…
The spectator would not be bored in looking at us and listening to us; he would find it pleasant to believe us all of the time, for the spiritual content of Gorky and of ourselves would just…
It was necessary to enter into the spiritual springs of Gorky himself, just as we had done in the case of Chekhov, and find the current of the action in the soul of the writer. Having made o…
(Acocella's article appeared in The New York Review of Books, 12/19.) Souls in Single File Marius Petipa: The Emperor's Ballet Master by Nadine Meisner Oxford University Press, 497 pp., $34.…
(via Sean Katz, Katz PR) The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, America's Preeminent Gilbert & Sullivan Repertory Ensemble, Presents The Mikado Novel Production of Enduring Classic…
The spectator can make his own conclusions, and create his own tendency from what he receives in the theatre. The natural conclusion is reached of itself in the soul and mind of the spectato…
PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bob Shuman, [email protected] Dixon Place Presents End Zone by Bob Shuman, starring Roger Hendricks Simon, the Simon Studio; Michae…
(Palko Karasz's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/13; via Pam Green.) With new rules on funding, the government has taken a further step in controlling arts in the country, promptin…
True art fades whenever it approaches tendential, utilitarian, unartistic paths. In art tendency must change into its own ideas, pass into emotion, become a sincere effort and the second nat…
(Marissa Nicosia's article appeared in Folger's Shakespeare Library's Shakespeare Plus, 12/3.) Knots, cookies, and women's skill A plate of beautifully baked cookies is a wonderful thing. It…
Artistic truth, hinted to us by nature, is incomparably more aesthetic and more beautiful, and what is even more important, more scenic than relative truth and theatrical conventionality wit…
By Frank Gagliano, 12/10 The death of actor Renè Auberjonois (at age 79) is another sad RIP instance of a recent extraordinary theatre personality who once touched my life. In 1968, Joh…
(Laura Cappelle's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/5; via Pam Green.) The genre has long been seen as minor in the French capital, but a string of English-language productions is c…
On that occasion so important for me, at that performance in the dawn . . . the trees, the air, the sun hinted to us of such real, beautiful and artistic truth which cannot, because of its a…
How conventional we saw to be what we had become used to do on the stage, considering our scenic truth to be real truth. Theorists will say, "This is as it must be," and they will develop a …
(Benedict Nightingale's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/27; via Pam Green. Listen to a BBC interview with Jonathan Miller.) Known for his radical restagings of classic works, …
I could not continue my false and theatrical pose. All that I had done seemed untrue to nature, to reality. And it had been said of us that we had developed simplicity to a point of naturali…
By Bob Shuman John Doyle's production of Macbeth, playing through December 15 at Classic Stage Company (CSC), should fit into the current zeitgeist exactly. In a world of 280-characte…
(Robert D. McFadden's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/25; via Pam Green.) Â Prolific, erudite and caustic in his wit, he surveyed the entire cultural landscape John Simon, one …
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/11; via Pam Green.) The return of Tony Kushner's "A Bright Room Called Day" prompted us to ask leading writers:Â How did …
By Bob Shuman Aaron Monaghan, as Richard III, in Ireland's Druid Theatre U.S. production premiere of Shakespeare's history"it plays until November 23 as part of Lincoln Center's White Light …