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PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bob Shuman, [email protected] Dixon Place Presents End Zone by Bob Shuman, starring Roger Hendricks Simon, the Simon Studio; Michae…
(Palko Karasz's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/13; via Pam Green.) With new rules on funding, the government has taken a further step in controlling arts in the country, promptin…
True art fades whenever it approaches tendential, utilitarian, unartistic paths. In art tendency must change into its own ideas, pass into emotion, become a sincere effort and the second nat…
(Marissa Nicosia's article appeared in Folger's Shakespeare Library's Shakespeare Plus, 12/3.) Knots, cookies, and women's skill A plate of beautifully baked cookies is a wonderful thing. It…
Artistic truth, hinted to us by nature, is incomparably more aesthetic and more beautiful, and what is even more important, more scenic than relative truth and theatrical conventionality wit…
By Frank Gagliano, 12/10 The death of actor Renè Auberjonois (at age 79) is another sad RIP instance of a recent extraordinary theatre personality who once touched my life. In 1968, Joh…
(Laura Cappelle's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/5; via Pam Green.) The genre has long been seen as minor in the French capital, but a string of English-language productions is c…
On that occasion so important for me, at that performance in the dawn . . . the trees, the air, the sun hinted to us of such real, beautiful and artistic truth which cannot, because of its a…
How conventional we saw to be what we had become used to do on the stage, considering our scenic truth to be real truth. Theorists will say, "This is as it must be," and they will develop a …
(Benedict Nightingale's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/27; via Pam Green. Listen to a BBC interview with Jonathan Miller.) Known for his radical restagings of classic works, …
I could not continue my false and theatrical pose. All that I had done seemed untrue to nature, to reality. And it had been said of us that we had developed simplicity to a point of naturali…
By Bob Shuman John Doyle's production of Macbeth, playing through December 15 at Classic Stage Company (CSC), should fit into the current zeitgeist exactly. In a world of 280-characte…
(Robert D. McFadden's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/25; via Pam Green.) Â Prolific, erudite and caustic in his wit, he surveyed the entire cultural landscape John Simon, one …
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/11; via Pam Green.) The return of Tony Kushner's "A Bright Room Called Day" prompted us to ask leading writers:Â How did …
By Bob Shuman Aaron Monaghan, as Richard III, in Ireland's Druid Theatre U.S. production premiere of Shakespeare's history"it plays until November 23 as part of Lincoln Center's White Light …
We, who knew the true nature of the Theatre, understood that the boards of our stage could never become a platform for the spread of propaganda, for the simple reason that the very least uti…
(Geoffrey O'Brien's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 11/21.) Â Porgy and Bess an opera by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, at the Metropolit…
(Joshua Barone's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/6; via Pam Green.) The French wunderkind's books have quickly become magnets for the stage. Adaptations of "History of Violenc…
The darker side of human nature is on display in DruidShakespeare: Richard III, a chilling story of power and ambition in a wickedly comic production from Ireland's Druid thea…
(Roger Friedman's article appeared on Show Biz 411, 11/10; via the Drudge Report.) Last year, director Ivo von Hove brought his hit London production of "Network" to New York and caused a lo…
Interview with Tania Fisher, Author of Children's Book, "Grandma's Garden" By Lori Beedsler  Briefly, what's the book about? To a grown up all that happens in this book is that a child t…
Doctor Stockman became popular at once in Moscow, and especially so in Petrograd. "The Enemy of the People" became the favorite play of the revolutionists, notwithstanding the fact that Stoc…
(Martin Scorsese's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/6.) When I was in England in early October, IÂ gave an interview to Empire magazine. I was asked a question about Marvel movie…
Children's Book:Â "Grandma's Garden" Author Tania Fisher, Illustrator Riley Hagan Review by Lori Beedsler A simple and inviting title, once you enter "Grandma's Garden", you will discover…
POWER PLAYS Listen As East Germany crumbled in 1989, actors were centre stage. Andrew Dickson discovers how had theatre had survived under communist rule, with its censors and secret police …
