1,596 stories by "Robert Shuman"
The Chekhov mood is that cave in which are kept all the unseen and hardly palpable treasures of Chekhov's soul, so often beyond the reach of mere consciousness. The cave is that vessel in wh…
Tune In for the Funeral Service of International Opera Star JESSYE NORMAN Today, Saturday, October 12, 2019 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT/10:00 a.m. PT) ABC-TV (Augusta, GA) NBC-TV/CBS-TV (Aug…
I know of no greater idealism than that which believes in a better future although it is surrounded by hopeless circumstances. (MLIA)
White Light Festival Theater Advisory  Tenth Anniversary of Festival Includes Two U.S. Theater Production Premieres  The premiere of Sugimoto Bunraku Sonezaki Shinju: The Love …
There are plays written on the simplest of themes, which in themselves are not interesting. But they are permeated by the eternal, and he who feels this quality in them perceives that they a…
(Hugo Hamilton's article appeared in the Guardian, 10/10.) Since his 1966 debut The Hornets, the Austrian playwright and author has tested, inspired and shocked audienceshares It was, undoub…
Everyday cares, politics, economics, the larger part of general social interests"these make the kitchen of life. Art lives higher, observing from the height of its birdlike flights all that …
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/3; via Pam Green.) George Bernard Shaw gets sensitively streamlined in a briskly entertaining production with winning perfo…
Let us leave trivial matters at home, let us gather here in a common effort and not engage in petty squabbles and the settling of scores. . . . Let us be guided by the motto of "common work,…
 (Patricia Storace's article appeared in The New York Review of Books, 10/5.) Keith Hamilton Cobb in American Moor The first recorded African-American theater troupe, the African Comp…
(via Gwendolyn Quinn) (New York, NY " October 7, 2019) " The family of international opera star Jessye Norman announces today through the family spokesperson, Gwendolyn Quinn, the H…
Listen The Mother by Bertolt Brecht with original musical score by Hanns Eisler. Translated by Mark Ravenhill, from a literal translation by Marc Funda, with song lyrics translated by St…
It is necessary to play a role hundreds of times, to crystallize its essence, to perfect the crystal, and in showing it, to interpret the quintessence of its contents. (MLIA)
LET'S GO: AUSTIN PENDLETON AND PETER BLOCH RETEAM TO HELM CHILLING NEW VERSION OF THE GLASS MENAGERIE TO USHER IN THE HALLOWEEN SEASON AT THE WILD PROJECT Â New York, New York " Ruth Stage…
It is a hard nut to crack"the Symbol. It is successful when it has its source not in the mind, but in the inner soul. In this sense symbol and grotesque are alike. (MLIA)
Gillian Slovo Listen Novelist Gillian Slovo's letter to her mother, the anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First. Part of a series in which writers from around the world read letters on the theme…
(Margalit Fox's article appeared in The New York Times, 10/4; via Pam Green.) Diahann Carroll, who more than half a century ago transcended racial barriers as the star of "Julia," the fir…
By Bob Shuman  A cello stands at the center of This Is Why We Live, at La Mama, which closed September 29 and Oedipus, Sex with Mum was Blinding, at BAM Fisher, which also ended…
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/26; via Pam Green.) An easily legible production of the ancient Greek tragedy borrows from the tradition of Noh theater at t…
The fantastic is a glass of foaming champagne. . . . In The Snow Maiden there is exceptionally beautiful Russian epos, and in The Blue Bird an artistically interpreted symbol. It is engaging…
(via Gwendolyn Quinn) (New York, NY " September 30, 2019) " It is with deep sadness and sorrow that we announce the passing of international opera star Jessye Norman, in a statement issue…
(Michael Cooper's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/24; via Pam Green.) The star singer, accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, dropped out of Verdi's "Macbeth" and indicate…
We are sentimental . . . we actors, and we love to play the part of injured innocence not only on the stage, but in life also. (MLIA)
(Boyd Tonkin's article appeared in the Spectator, 9/26.) The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen reviewed Pick up a Penguin Classic from a cult Danish author w…
My business of stage directing was done, it was behind me; the matter lay in the hands of the actors now. Only they could bring the performance to life, and I could do nothing more than …
