FAUCI SAYS IT COULD BE A YEAR BEFORE THEATER WITHOUT MASKS FEELS NORMAL by Robert Shuman

(Sarah Bahr's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/13; Broadway theaters have been closed since March 12. Some productions have set dates to reopen in March and April 2021.Credit…Davi…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:18pm on September 18, 2020☆⚑

AN AMERICAN WRITER FOR AN AGE OF DIVISION by Robert Shuman

(Alexandra Schwartz's article appeared in The New Yorker, 9/14.  Photograph by Cole Barash for The New Yorker.)  Ayad Akhtar's autofictional novel cunningly entwines outrage and ambiva…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:45pm on September 17, 2020☆⚑

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (92) by Robert Shuman

I am interested in the truth that is within myself, the truth of my relation to this or that event on the stage, to the properties, the scenery, the other actors who play parts in the drama …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 2:44pm on September 17, 2020☆⚑

THEATER RESOURCES UNLIMITED: ANNUAL MEET AND GREET INTRODUCTION TO TRU VIA ZOOM by Robert Shuman

(via Michelle Tabnick Public Relations   Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents its annual free Meet and Greet Introductory gathering, this year revamped for social distancing via …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:56am on September 16, 2020☆⚑

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (2) by Robert Shuman

Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:24am on September 16, 2020☆⚑

***** RICHARD NELSON: 'INCIDENTAL MOMENTS OF THE DAY' REVIEW " A FEAST FOR COVID HISTORIANS (VIEW ON YOUTUBE UNTIL 11/5) by Robert Shuman

(Mark Lawson's article appeared in the Guardian, 9/13.) In the Guardian on Saturday, Martin Amis predicted it will be years before novelists can make sense of the pandemic. Theatre's s…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:15pm on September 15, 2020☆⚑

MICHAEL FRAYN ON THE STATE OF BRITAIN AND THE FUTURE OF THEATRE by Robert Shuman

(Andrew Dickson's article appeared in The New Yorker, 9/13; Illustration by Grace J. Kim; source photograph by Roberto Ricciuti / Getty.) A conversation with the playwright and novelist abou…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 1:15pm on September 15, 2020☆⚑

HOW TO BIRTH A NEW AMERICAN THEATER by Robert Shuman

(Jesse Green's, Maya Phillips's, Laura Collins-Hughes's, Elisabeth Vincentelli's and Alexis Soloski's article appeared in The New York Times, Sept. 11, 2020; Photo: The New Yo…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:59pm on September 14, 2020☆⚑

SHAKESPEARE & FRIENDS (1) by Robert Shuman

  Can you beat the Bard? Questions by Joyce E. Henry, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:48pm on September 13, 2020☆⚑

DIXON PLACE EVENTS, WEEK OF 9/14-9/20 by Robert Shuman

DP TV is free to watch and our artists are compensated. Donations help support the community during this precarious time & ensure DP emerges from this crisis continuing to bring toget…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:15am on September 13, 2020☆⚑

INTERNATIONAL FILM STAR IN 2021 WORLD MEN'S HANDBALL CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW by Robert Shuman

Adam Sullivan writes to say that last Saturday the 2021 International World Men's Handball Championship Draw took place at the Giza Pyramids plateau, with Egyptian actor Khaled El Nabawy, fa…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:49pm on September 12, 2020☆⚑

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (91) by Robert Shuman

I speak of the truth of emotions, of the truth of inner creative urges which strain forward to find expression, of the truth of bodily and physical perceptions. I am not interested in a trut…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 2:30pm on September 12, 2020☆⚑

JAPAN : 'TWELVE ANGRY MEN'"1950s COURTROOM DRAMA ABOUT CONFRONTING PREJUDICE STILL RINGS TRUE by Robert Shuman

(Nobuko Tanaka's article appeared in The Japan Times, 9/11; photo of actor Shinichi Tsutsumi.) Back in January, when English director Lindsay Posner visited Tokyo for preparatory meetings to…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:20pm on September 11, 2020☆⚑

DIANA RIGG, EMMA PEEL OF 'THE AVENGERS,' DIES AT 82 by Robert Shuman

(Anita Gates's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/10; Photo: Terry Disney, Fulton Archive; via Pam Green.) Ms. Rigg also played many classic roles onstage in both New York and London …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 6:59pm on September 10, 2020☆⚑

TRU COMMUNITY GATHERINGS VIA ZOOM, FRIDAYS, SEPTEMBER 11 AND 18, 2020 AT 4:30PM by Robert Shuman

(via Michelle Tabnick Public Relations; Photo of Bob Ost by Walter McBride.) Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) hosts weekly Community Gatherings every Friday at 4:30pm via Zoom, to explor…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 8:09pm on September 9, 2020☆⚑

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER WARNS ARTS 'AT POINT OF NO RETURN' by Robert Shuman

(from the AP, 9/8; via the Drudge Report.) LONDON (AP) " "The Phantom of the Opera" composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has told British lawmakers that the arts are "at the point of no return," and…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 7:35pm on September 9, 2020☆⚑

MABOU MINES: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS WITH NEW LEADERSHIP by Robert Shuman

Mabou Mines is Thrilled to Announce MALLORY CATLETT and CARL HANCOCK RUX   will join KAREN KANDEL and SHARON ANN FOGARTY as the Company's new team of Co-Artistic Dire…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:40pm on September 8, 2020☆⚑

SHE GAVE UP A LOT TO PLAY OTHELLO by Robert Shuman

  (Michael Paulson's article originally appeared in The New York Times, 9/6; Photo: The New York Times; via artdaily.com and  Pam Green.) Actor Jessika Williams in Staunton, Va., Sept.…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 5:27pm on September 8, 2020☆⚑

JANET MALCOLM: "A SECOND CHANCE"""WHEN SHE WENT ONSTAGE AND PERFORMED LIKE A TROUPER" by Robert Shuman

(Malcolm's article appeared in The New York Review of Books, 9/24.) Once a week in the spring of 1994 I would bicycle over to a brownstone on West 16th Street to see a man named Sam Chwat in…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 3:23pm on September 7, 2020☆⚑

10 FACTS ABOUT THE COMPOSER IGOR STRAVINSKY YOU NEED TO KNOW by Robert Shuman

(Anna Galayda's  article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 9/4; Photo: classicstogo.nl) The legendary musician lived for 88 years (1882-1971). He witnessed some of the most dramati…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 8:51pm on September 5, 2020☆⚑

13 ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR THEATRE STUDENTS by Robert Shuman

(Dan Meyer's article Appeared on Playbill, 9/3.) Check out these reads before heading to class this semester. Now that the school year is here, it's time for students to put down their summe…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 8:04pm on September 3, 2020☆⚑

CAN GREEK TRAGEDY GET US THROUGH THE PANDEMIC? by Robert Shuman

(Elif Batuman's article appeared in the New Yorker, 9/1; photo: In Sophocles' "Oedipus the King," staged via Zoom by Theater of War Productions, the city of Thebes is in the grip of a terrib…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:10pm on September 2, 2020☆⚑

NEWS FROM THE WOOSTER GROUP: THE B-SIDE AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING THROUGH SEPTEMBER 14 by Robert Shuman

(from Jim Byk/Kelly Guiod, the Press room, 9/1) NEWS FROM THE WOOSTER GROUP:  THE B-SIDE AVAILABLE TO STREAM ONLINE, CAPPING SUMMER OF OPENED ARCHIVES European tour of The Mother, p…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 8:14pm on September 1, 2020☆⚑

BELARUS FREE THEATRE'S REBEL TROUPES STAND UP TO THE LUKASHENKO REGIME by Robert Shuman

(Shaun Walker's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/31; Svetlana Sugako in rehearsals for the Belarus Free theatre. Photograph: Misha Friedman.) For 15 years, the acclaimed company has be…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 9:03pm on August 31, 2020☆⚑

REVIEW: CHLOROFORM, LIES AND RACISM FIRE UP 'THE JACKSONIAN' by Robert Shuman

(Ben Brantley's article appeared in The New York times, 8/28; Clockwise from top left: Bill Pullman, Carol Kane, Amy Madigan, Juliet Brett and Ed Harris in "The Jacksonian;" via Pam Green.) …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 4:25pm on August 30, 2020☆⚑