HAMILTON CLANCY'S ROAD RAGE: SitPL'S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ON NYC'S DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT), 90% CHUTZPAH, AND THE MOST DYNAMIC ASSOCIATI by Robert Shuman

Hamilton Clancy (producer/director/actor/ theatre (producer/director/actor/ theatre maker) has  been  making  theatre  in and  around  Manhattan  for  the  last…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:49pm on July 4, 2019☆⚑

BROADWAY: LIBERACE MUSICAL BASED ON HBO MOVIE "BEHIND THE CANDELABRA" FINALLY ON THE WAY, PRODUCERS WANT BRADLEY COOPER by Robert Shuman

(Roger Friedman's article appeared on Showbiz 411, 7/29.) Liberace and his glittering pianos are finally on track for Broadway. For the last couple of years, movie producer David Permut"who …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 7:11pm on June 30, 2019☆⚑

***** 'THEATRE FOR ONE' (REVIEW PICK, IE) by Robert Shuman

(Peter Crawley's article appeared in The Irish Times, 6/25.) Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just you Review: Theatre for One's six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whis…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:57pm on June 28, 2019☆⚑

A PLAY DISSECTED WHITE PRIVILEGE IN EDUCATION. THEN THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL BROKE. by Robert Shuman

(Nancy Coleman's article appeared in the New York Times, 6/21; via Pam Green.) Jeremy Wechsler was on his way to rehearsal one morning in March when his phone started, and then wouldn't stop…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:36pm on June 26, 2019☆⚑

ROB ACKERMAN: 'DROPPING GUMBALLS ON LUKE WILSON'"THROUGH JULY 6 (REVIEW FROM NEW YORK)  by Robert Shuman

By Bob Shuman Rob Ackerman's Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson, has all the commercial patter of a Tootsie or Neil Simon"even David Ives"comedy, but it's a play for wimps, symptomati…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:03pm on June 22, 2019☆⚑

BYUNGKOO AHN: '13 FRUITCAKES' (REVIEW FROM NEW YORK) by Robert Shuman

By Bob Shuman Byungkoo Ahn's distillation of the lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Alan Turing, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Hans Christian Andersen, among others, works so effectively"and is so differe…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:03pm on June 17, 2019☆⚑

ITALY'S 'GENIUS' FILM DIRECTOR FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI DIES by Robert Shuman

(Frank Iovene's article appeared on AFP, 6/15.) Rome (AFP) " The world of cinema was in mourning Saturday after Italian film and opera legend Franco Zeffirelli, feted for his lavish producti…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:18am on June 16, 2019☆⚑

ROGER HENDRICKS SIMON " NEW YORK'S OWN by Robert Shuman

By Tania Fisher Sitting down with Roger Hendricks Simon is always an interesting experience.  Director Oliver Stone put it most succinctly when he referred to Roger as "that wonderful act…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:22pm on June 14, 2019☆⚑

LET'S GO: '13 FRUITCAKES' AT LA MAMA by Robert Shuman

2018 Tony Award-winning LA MAMA PRESENTS 13 FRUITCAKES WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY BYUNGKOO AHN AS PART OF STONEWALL 50 AT LA MAMA JUNE 13 " 16, 2019   'MOre' Zimin from 13 Fruitcakes Photo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:10pm on June 12, 2019☆⚑

TONYS 2019: "HADESTOWN" THE BIG WINNER (FULL LIST) by Robert Shuman

(CBS News, 6/10.) "Hadestown," the brooding musical about the underworld, had a heavenly night at the Tony Awards, winning eight trophies Sunday night including best new musical and getting …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:30pm on June 10, 2019☆⚑

IN THIS 'DEATH OF A SALESMAN,' WILLY LOMAN IS BLACK by Robert Shuman

(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 5/30; via Pam Green.) LONDON " This city's season-long love affair with Arthur Miller reaches an intriguing if emotionally muted conclusi…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:52pm on June 8, 2019☆⚑

HOW KELLI O'HARA GETS READY FOR BROADWAY, NIGHT AFTER NIGHT by Robert Shuman

(Taffy Bodesser-Akner's article appeared in The New York Times, 5/30; photos by Brenda Ann Kenneally; via Pam Green.) THE TONY-WINNING ACTRESS TAKES US INSIDE HER DRESSING ROOM AND SHARES HE…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 8:56am on June 6, 2019☆⚑

2019 DRAMA DESK WINNERS by Robert Shuman

(via  Scott Klein/Logan Metzler at Keith Sherman & Associates)                                                 …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:15pm on June 4, 2019☆⚑

SEAN O'CASEY:  'THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS' AT IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE (REVIEW FROM NEW YORK) by Robert Shuman

By Bob Shuman The Plough and the Stars (1926), by Sean O'Casey, is an inflammatory play, which insulted the families of those who died in the 1916 Easter Rebellion and started a riot at the …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:29pm on June 1, 2019☆⚑

QUENTIN TARANTINO: HOW SPAGHETTI WESTERNS SHAPED MODERN CINEMA by Robert Shuman

(Tarantino's article appeared in the Spectator, 3/30.) The movie that made me consider filmmaking, the movie that showed me how a director does what he does, how a director can control a mov…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:52pm on May 31, 2019☆⚑

2,000-YEAR-OLD MARBLE HEAD OF GOD DIONYSUS DISCOVERED UNDER ROME by Robert Shuman

Photo © EPA-EFE/MUNICIPALITY OF ROME (Nick Squires's article appeared in the Telegraph, 5/28.) The head of a deity emerges during excavations under Rome Town Hall Archeologists in R…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 7:36pm on May 28, 2019☆⚑

AT 11, I SAT IN SEAT D8. NOW I'M ONSTAGE IN 'BEETLEJUICE.' by Robert Shuman

(Rob McClure's article appeared in The New York Time, 5/6; via Pam Green.) When did "sentimental" become a bad word? I've always felt the opposite. I became an actor because I enjoy being mo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:00pm on May 15, 2019☆⚑

FULL LIST OF THE 2019 TONY AWARD NOMINEES by Robert Shuman

(from The New York Times, 4/30; via Pam Green.) The Tony Award nominees were announced Tuesday. Below is a list of all the nominees. This morning's announcement held a few surprises, includi…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:15pm on May 8, 2019☆⚑

SEAN O'CASEY:  "THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN" AT IRISH REP"NOW THROUGH JUNE 22 (REVIEW FROM NEW YORK by Robert Shuman

                By Bob Shuman In the splendid revival of The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), now running at Irish Repertory Theatre until June 22, Sean O'Casey describes h…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:28pm on May 5, 2019☆⚑

HOW THESE BLACK PLAYWRIGHTS ARE CHALLENGING AMERICAN THEATER by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson's and Nicole Herrington's article appeared in The New York Times, 4/25; via Pam Green.) Jackie Sibblies Drury, Jeremy O. Harris, Antoinette Nwandu and Jordan E. Cooper, on i…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:39pm on May 1, 2019☆⚑

SHAKESPEARE: 'THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN' (LISTEN NOW ON BBC RADIO 3"LINK BELOW) by Robert Shuman

  Listen This and the Two Gentlemen of Verona are the least performed of the Shakespeare cannon and I wanted to see the progression between the first and the last. It is for this reason t…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 7:48pm on April 29, 2019☆⚑

ALIEN THE PLAY FULL SHOW NORTH BERGEN NJ HIGH SCHOOL 4K by Robert Shuman

ButtonSmasher Published on Apr 27, 2019 Alien The Play Full Show North Bergen NJ High School 4K including introduction and thank you from Sigourney Weaver #AlienThePlay #Alien #AlienDay #Sig…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:12am on April 28, 2019☆⚑

'TOOTSIE': THEATER REVIEW by Robert Shuman

(David Rooney's article appeared on The Hollywood Reporter, 4/23; via the Drudge Report.) Santino Fontana steps into Dustin Hoffman's Spanx in this contemporary musical update of the classic…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 7:09pm on April 24, 2019☆⚑

GEORGIA ENGEL, GENTLE-VOICED 'MARYTYLER MOORE' ACTRESS, IS DEAD AT 70 by Robert Shuman

(Neil Genzlinger's article appeared in The New York Times, 4/15; via Pam Green.) Georgia Engel, whose distinctive voice and pinpoint comic timing made her a memorable part of "The Mary Tyler…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 1:36pm on April 23, 2019☆⚑

ON 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM' WITH MELVYN BRAGG by Robert Shuman

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Listen  Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare's most popular works, written c1595 in the last years of Elizabeth I. It is a comedy of love and desir…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:01pm on April 22, 2019☆⚑