1,596 stories by "Robert Shuman"
We, who knew the true nature of the Theatre, understood that the boards of our stage could never become a platform for the spread of propaganda, for the simple reason that the very least uti…
(Geoffrey O'Brien's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 11/21.) Â Porgy and Bess an opera by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, at the Metropolit…
(Joshua Barone's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/6; via Pam Green.) The French wunderkind's books have quickly become magnets for the stage. Adaptations of "History of Violenc…
The darker side of human nature is on display in DruidShakespeare: Richard III, a chilling story of power and ambition in a wickedly comic production from Ireland's Druid thea…
(Roger Friedman's article appeared on Show Biz 411, 11/10; via the Drudge Report.) Last year, director Ivo von Hove brought his hit London production of "Network" to New York and caused a lo…
Interview with Tania Fisher, Author of Children's Book, "Grandma's Garden" By Lori Beedsler  Briefly, what's the book about? To a grown up all that happens in this book is that a child t…
Doctor Stockman became popular at once in Moscow, and especially so in Petrograd. "The Enemy of the People" became the favorite play of the revolutionists, notwithstanding the fact that Stoc…
(Martin Scorsese's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/6.) When I was in England in early October, IÂ gave an interview to Empire magazine. I was asked a question about Marvel movie…
Children's Book:Â "Grandma's Garden" Author Tania Fisher, Illustrator Riley Hagan Review by Lori Beedsler A simple and inviting title, once you enter "Grandma's Garden", you will discover…
POWER PLAYS Listen As East Germany crumbled in 1989, actors were centre stage. Andrew Dickson discovers how had theatre had survived under communist rule, with its censors and secret police …
Chekhov always had the best of opinion about military men, especially those in active service, for they, in his own words, were to a certain extent the bearers of a cultural mission, since, …
(Stuart Jeffries's article appeared in the Spectator, 11/2.) 'THE ONLY PLACE I CAN'T GET MY PLAYS ON IS BRITAIN': PETER BROOK INTERVIEWED Stuart Jeffries talks to the loquacious 94-year-old …
Back by popular demand. Happy Halloween, from Stage Voices
The men of Chekhov do not bathe, as we did at that time, in their own sorrow. Just the opposite: they, like Chekhov himself, seek life, joy, laughter, courage. The men and women of Chekhov w…
(Jesse Green's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/23; via Pam Green.) When "Macbeth" meets McDonald's, a meaty new musical is born. When classics get adapted or updated, I often find…
In talking and acting so that the spectator does not understand either the words or the problems of the actors, all that the actor really accomplishes is the letting down and lowering of the…
"David's Play" by Tom Rowan to be performed at the NYC International Fringe Festival.  Express Lane Productions is proud to present David's Play, a new play by Tom Rowan (Kiss and Cr…
To heighten tone means to heighten the mood of the audience, to strengthen the interest of the spectator in the performance; to quicken tempo means to live more strongly and intensively and …
Theater Resources Unlimited TRU Love Benefit: Follow Your Art, Fulfill Your Dreams Honoring James Morgan and Haley Swindal Sunday, December 8, 2019 (via Michelle Tabnick) Theater Resource…
The prevalent mistake of beginning stage directors and actors is that they think that the heightening of tone is the quickening of tempo; that playing in full tone is loud and quick talking …
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki U.S. production premiere October 19"22, 2019 Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall At the turn of 18th-century Japan, a clerk and a cour…
The work of stage direction began. As was the custom I wrote a detailed mise en scène,"who must cross to where and why, what he must feel, what he must do, how he must look. . . . (MLIA)
(Adam Smyth's article appeared in The London Times, 10/24.) Ben Jonson's comedy The New Inn (1629) was, by all accounts, a theatrical disaster: 'negligently played' at the Blackfriars …
Chekhov was most enthusiastic about Hauptmann's "Lonely Lives." He saw it for the first time and he liked it more than any of his own plays. (MLIA)
By Bob Shuman Director Tonya Pinkins asked six American women of multi-cultural backgrounds to compose one-acts on the theme of women oppressing women"her seven actors are all women, too"a c…
