1,641 stories by "Robert Shuman"
Listen In 2011 Ai Weiwei was arrested without notice by the Chinese authorities and detained for 81 days. Here he writes a letter to his son Ai Lao who was two years old when he disappeared.…
Our goal was to destroy the ancient hokum of the theatre. (MLIA)
(from the Guardian, 9/20/19.) 20 September 1960Â Promoting her latest play, The Lion in Love, Delaney says 'I would rather write a terrible play than a mediocre one' Surrounded by a clutch…
"Lateness, laziness, caprice, hysterics, bad character, ignorance of the role, the necessity of repeating anything twice are all equally harmful to our enterprise and must be rooted out."Â�…
(Gia Kourlas's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/20; via Pam Green.) In Elizabeth Streb and Anne Bogart's "Falling & Loving," dancers and actors share the stage with the Guck Mac…
"All disobedience to the creative life of the theatre is a crime."Â Â (MLIA)
Listen on BBC Radio 4Â Â Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and biographer Ben Moser debate Susan Sontag's life and ideas with presenter Laurence Scott, focusing in on her 1966 essay collec…
"The poet, the actor, the artist, the tailor, the stage hand, serve one goal, which is placed by the poet in the very basis of his play."Â (MLIA) Â
(via Craig Smith) Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Artistic Director Elise Stone announces the appointment of Kevin Confoy as Producing Director starting October 2, 2019. Confoy, who is a reside…
(Rosalyn Sulcas's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/13; via Pam Green.)  The Théâtre du Châtelet is reopening after a two-and-a-half-year makeover, with a new artistic dir…
"Today Hamlet, tomorrow a supernumerary (walk-on actor), but even as a supernumerary you must become an artist."Â (MLIA)
(Chabon's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 9/26 issue)  This essay will appear in somewhat different form in Fight of the Century, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet …
"One must love art and not one's self in art."Â (MLIA)
(Eric Grode's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/11; via Pam Green.) It often seems like safety first on Broadway, but the commercial stage has historically been home to shows that pu…
"There are no small parts, there are only small actors." (MLIA)
(via Katie Rosin, Kampfire PR, 9/17/19) New York, NY: On Monday, September 16, 2019, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation announced the 2019 recipients at the annual Off-Off-Broadway I…
It is not enough to be simply talented and to have natural gifts; one needs ability, technique, and art. (MLIA)
(Alison Flood's article appeared in the Guardian, 9/16.) Hailed as one of the most significant archival discoveries of modern times, text seems to show the Paradise Lost poet making careful …
 TABULA RASA NYC THEATER AND PERFORMANCE LAB Proudly Presents the World Premiere of the Spanish Language Version of "Powerful production by Ramiro Antonio Sandoval." " Carlos Navedo, Imp…
Palpable objects seen by us on the stage are much more necessary and important for us actors than colorful canvases that we do not see. Sculptural things live with us and we with them, w…
(Benjamin Moser's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 9/9.) David Rieff went to Bosnia in September 1992, at the end of the first summer of siege. Like so many of the journalis…
It is much easier to destroy the old than to create the new. (MLIA) Â
Listen Fiona Shaw, BAFTA award-winning star of Killing Eve, joins Matthew Parris to explore the life of one of history's most remarkable actresses whose name has slipped from public memo…
If one is forced to give talentless actors big parts, one is also forced, for the sake of the performance, to hide their faults. Â (MLIA)
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/4; via Pam Green.) Eccentric and prodigious, the writer Jack Thorne won a Tony for "Cursed Child." Up next: "Sunday" at the Atlan…
