1,604 stories by "Robert Shuman"
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…
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…
