1,602 stories by "Robert Shuman"
The legendary Crystal Field will be touring New York City boroughs with "The Socialization of a Social Worker," starting 8/3 through 9/15. Â Her unmissable street theater, a yearly staple …
(From the production, Saturday & Sunday, July 20th & 21st, 2024; credit: Frank Farrell.) QR Code for Little Women program:
(Eyre's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/17; as told to Lindesay Irvine. Photo: Jimmy Jewel, Dave Hill and Jonathan Pryce in Comedians at the National Theatre in 1975. Photograph: Dona…
Love and Information Listen Drama on 3 The first audio production of Caryl Churchill's insightful drama about human relationships in the post-information age. Love and Information is a v…
Visit The Hermitage Directions to The Hermitage 335 North Franklin Turnpike, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423 From Rt. 17:Â Take the Hollywood Avenue exit. Bear left after exiting, following signs for …
(Premiered Jul 8, 2024; Illustration: The Atlantic) Anna Deavere Smith Listen Award-winning actress, playwright, and professor Anna Deavere Smith explores performance as a way of knowing in …
HOMEGROWN SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed by Jessica Irons Shakespeare never looked so sustainable! Earth conscious actors are assigned their roles 30 days before the perform…
(Jason Jay Smart's article appeared in the Kyiv Post, 7/7.) Incredibly, due to years of Russian occupation, many Ukrainian soldiers do not recognize some of the "classic" Ukrainian songs tha…
(Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 6/28; Photo: God, I hate Shakespeare … Mark Uhre as Nick Bottom in Something Rotten! Photograph: Ann Baggley.) The side-splitting Some…
(Eve Jackson's, Olivia Salazar-Winspear's, Marion Cheval's, Natacha Milleret's , Solène Clausse's, and Magali Faure's report appeared on France24, 7/4/2024.) Culture reporter Olivia Salazar…
On 7/2/2024, Director Frank Farrell and playwright Bob Shuman went for a 1:00pm meeting with Dream Up Festival director, Michael Scott-Price, at Theater for the New City (TNC) to have a walk…
(Richard Lea's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/1; Photo: Ismail Kadare, pictured in 2005. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian.) His allegorical stories, informed by life under …
(via David Gibbs, DARR Publicity) Dogteam Theatre Project launches its inaugural Off-Broadway season with two world premieres. "La Viuda," by Cuban American pioneer MarÃa Irene Fornés, e…
Don't miss a fresh take on classic drama, June 27 to July 7, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 3:00 PM. Theater for the New City is presenting August Strindberg Rep's …
In May, when director Frank Farrell began working with playwright Bob Shuman on staging Tongs and Bones Shakespeare"coming to Theater for the New City, as part of the Dream Up Festival (at t…
(Jacobi's and Anderson's article appeared in the Guardian, 6/13; Photo/ illustrations: Relentless in his self-satire … Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Photograph: Alamy.) Derek Jac…
(Ethan Shanfeld's article appeared in Variety, 6/17. Photo:  Ian McKellen plays John Falstaff in Player Kings. Photograph: Manuel Harlanthe Guardian.) Ian McKellen was hospitaliz…
(Rachel Sherman's article appeared in The New York Times, 6/17. Photo: Mashable SEA.) The Tony Awards were held on Sunday at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater in New York City. Maleah J…
Listen In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling" (1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), one of the most influential of the early English novels and a…
(From Radio Free Europe. Photo: Theatre director Zhenya Berkovich, left, and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk are seen in a glass cage prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, …
(6/7/2024) Director Frank Farrell is announcing auditions for five productions " Saturday, June 15 from 2pm " 7pm at Houghton Hall Arts Community, 22 East 30th Street in NYC. Actors a…
(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 6/3; Photo: Teenage kicks … an audience member in Viola's Room. Photograph: Julian Abrams.) One Cartridge Place, London Helena Bonham C…
Theater for the New City to present "Ella The Ungovernable," a play by David McDonald about 15 year-old Ella Fitzgerald's incarceration in Hudson, NY, in 1933 and the escape that launched…
(Caroline Butterwick's article appeared in the Guardian, 6/3; Cape fear … Bela Lugosi in a publicity still for the 1931 film of Dracula. Photograph: Universal/Allstar.) The iconography …
Listen Drama on 3 Antigone by Jean Anouilh Translated by Barbara Bray After the deaths of Antigone's brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, the king Creon, orders that Polynices's body be left u…
