1,641 stories by "Robert Shuman"
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Time, 8/8; via Pam Green.) With plays and musicals folding left and right, Broadway stars impart wisdom they gained when it happened …
Listen on BBC Radio 3 Imagine where we'd be without Shakespeare's plays. It's difficult to contemplate now. But it was thanks to another man that many of them were brought to life. Today…
(Gemma Tipton's article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/27.) Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions It's fascinating how the same set of w…
(Frank Gagliano is a playwright who has held many positions in the world of theatre, including being the Artistic Director of Carnegie Mellon's Showcase of New Plays and the Benedum Professo…
(Laura Cappelle's article appeared in The New York Times, Â 8/2; via Pam Green.) Despite a history stretching to 1934, it feels like a David to the art exhibition's Goliath. but its progra…
Listen Chris Bowlby travels with Tony Harrison to Prague, to discover how one of Britain's best known poets was shaped by the cultural energy and tragedy of 1960s Czechoslovakia. Harrison re…
By Bob Shuman Historians, looking back at contemporary American theatre, will have to evaluate whether our stages were reflections of society or partisan distortions. Were our artists "livin…
(Mark Kennedy's article appeared on the AP, Â 7/31.) NEW YORK (AP) " Harold Prince, a Broadway director and producer who pushed the boundaries of musical theater with such groundbreaking s…
Listen on BBC Radio 3Â Vladimir Mayakovsky was THE poet of the Russian Revolution. A revolutionary in his personal life as well as in his art, Mayakovsky sought to overthrow traditional p…
PTP/NYC'S (POTOMAC THEATRE PROJECT) INCLUDES WORKS BY TOM STOPPARD, VACLAV HAVEL, HAROLD PINTER & SAMUEL BECKETT THAT RESONATE WITH OUR CULTURAL AND POLITICAL MOMENT PTP/NYC (Potomac The…
FREE INTRODUCTION TO TRU'S PRODUCER PROGRAM Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from 6:30pm-8:30pm Polaris North Theatre Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces a Free Introduction to TRU's P…
(Laura Cappelle's article appeared in The New York Times, 7/18; via Pam Green.) An underwhelming official lineup led many festivalgoers to branch out into the less well-known complimentary p…
       Listen A celebration of the simple joys of life, and the story of Brecht's much-loved poem that described them. In 1954, poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht…
(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 7/13; via Pam Green.) Most theaters closed down on their most lucrative night of the week, but some casts gave their fans a memorab…
(From Andrea Alton, Alton PR and Production) Hip to Hip Theatre Company Announces Summer Dates & Venues for 2019 Season Tour of Free Shakespeare in the Parks A Midsummer Night's Dream an…
(Georgianna Ziegler's article appeared in Shakespeare & Beyond, 7/9; via Pam Green.) Shakespeare by the sea, on the river, in the park or garden, on the common " in the summertime Shakes…
(Mark Fisher's article appeared in the Guardian, 7/9.) Crucible, Sheffield Transformative puppetry, design and direction, and a great human lead, make this adaptation of Yann Martel's book u…
UNCLE JIM CALLED (Rabe's story appeared in the 7/8 & 15 New Yorker.) A week ago Thursday, my uncle Jim called. When I picked up the phone and said, "Hello," he said, "Hello." The voice w…
Listen LORCA Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), author of Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba, who mixed the t…
(Adam White's article appeared in the Telegraph, 7/3; via Pam Green.) Spare a thought for the Benedict Cumberbatch of an alternate end-of-2017. Having said goodbye to Sherlock, fresh f…
Hamilton Clancy (producer/director/actor/ theatre (producer/director/actor/ theatre maker) has been making theatre in and around Manhattan for the last…
(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 …
(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…
(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…
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…
