On March 6, 1997, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London reopened its gates, marking a triumphant resurrection of Elizabethan-era theater. Spearheaded by American actor and director Sam Wanam…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/5; Photo:Â Increasingly polemical … Edward Bond. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian.) One of the greatest dramatists of the…
(Max Zander's article appeared on DW, 3/3/2024; Photo: DW.) A dance school in Kharkiv offers children a reprieve from the war. The Ukrainian city has been targeted by Russian air strikes for…
(Bard [Gemini], the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity AI, the innovative AI search engine and knowledge discovery platform, provided information, insights, and materials fo…
The Theater for the New City proudly presents the 25th Anniversary production of "Orson's Shadow" by Austin Pendleton, and, for the first time, the play is directed by the author himself (th…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: What needs to burn is your imagination. (AP) Â
(Peter Conrad's article appeared in the Observer, 2/27.) Tricia Romano's entertaining oral history of the radical New York newspaper is an elegy to a rough and ready era of punch-ups and pas…
On February 28, 1896, Giacomo Puccini's opera "La Bohème" debuted at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy. This poignant tale of love and loss among struggling artists captivated audiences with…
(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/19;Â Photo: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville. Â Photograph: The Guardian.) Eugene O'Neill's mighty drama, returning to the West…
Eddie Izzard's portrayal of Shakespeare's Hamlet is poised for a seamless transition from Greenwich House Theater to New York's Orpheum Theatre. From March 19 to April 14, audiences will con…
        We are sad to share the news that our brother, Thomas F. Shuman, died unexpectedly on January 11, 2024, in Princeton, N.J. Tom was born in Trenton, New …
The past week's international stage highlights, brought to you via the world's foremost journalism. Â Gemini, the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity, provided information,…
(Bard [Gemini], the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity AI, the innovative AI search engine and knowledge discovery platform, provided information, insights, and materials fo…
A look at current issues, challenges, and controversies spilling beyond the proscenium. The following three stories, discussed by prominent stage journalists, provided tension and debate …
By Bob Shuman The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre (CAMT) has just finished dates at Theater for the New City (from February 1-18) with The Good Soldier Å vejk (rhyme that last nam…
The recent death of Alexei Navalny, a courageous dissident and symbol of hope for freedom in Russia, is a stark reminder of the fragility of human rights and the chilling price paid by those…
(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/14, 2024; Drawing a younger audience … Mathew Baynton as Bottom and Pyramus. Photograph: Pamela Raith.) Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratf…
(Neha Gohil's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/11; Photo: Britannica.) Audiences should be 'shocked and disturbed' by the impact of theatre, says Schindler's List and Harry Potter actor T…
By Bob Shuman In Act 3, Scene 2 of Hamlet, the melancholy, introspective Dane instructs the newly arrived players, who will be acting before his new father's court, "to hold the mirror up to…
The past week's international stage highlights, brought to you via the world's foremost journalism. Â Gemini, the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity, provided information,…
(Bard (Gemini), the large language model from Google AI, and Perplexity AI, the innovative AI search engine and knowledge discovery platform, provided information, insights, and materials fo…
A look at current issues, challenges, and controversies spilling beyond the proscenium. The following three stories, discussed by prominent stage journalists, provided tension and debate wit…
The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The false acting of passions, or of types, or the mere use of conventional gestures,"these are frequent faults in our profession. But you mus…
(Caroline Butterwick's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/7; Photo: Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent, who died in 1996. Photograph: AP. ) Using an ensemble cast of deaf and hearing a…
On February 7, 1933, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's groundbreaking musical The Threepenny Opera graced the stages of New York City's Adelphi Theatre. Despite its brief initial run of only 1…