IN THIS 'DEATH OF A SALESMAN,' WILLY LOMAN IS BLACK
(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…
(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…
(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…
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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 …
(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…
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…
(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…
(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…
        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…
(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…
 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…
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…
(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…
(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…
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…
By Bob Shuman Theatre watchers may contemplate how two plays, both once directed by Orson Welles for the Depression's Federal Theatre, have devilishly reappeared, not during a time of low un…
(Harrison Smith's article appeared in the Washington Post, 4/14.) Bibi Andersson, a Swedish actress whose portrayals of chaste schoolgirls, beguiling young women and tortured wives made her …
(Michael Billlington's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/12.) Absent from the stage for 12 years, Maggie Smith returns in triumph. But this is no barnstorming performance. She plays,…
THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN The Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage by Sean O'Casey directed by Ciarán O'Reilly Visit Irish Rep With Una Clancy, Terry Donnelly, Rory Duffy, Meg Hennessy…
(Daniel Mendelsohn's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 4/18.) The Best Intentions by Ingmar Bergman, translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate Arcade, 298 pp., $16.99 (paper) …
(Alexis Soloski's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/31; via Pam Green.) Shattering, galvanizing and very funny, Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me close reads an old text in…
TRANSFORMING THE TRADITIONAL WORLD OF KABUKI WITH KINOSHITA-KABUKI (Nobuko Tanaka's article appeared in Japan Times, 3/12.) For many people, the mention of kabuki brings to mind images of ex…
(Published 3/31.) Cillian Murphy and Sarah Morris win main acting awards BEST PRODUCTIONÂ Richard IIIÂ "A Druid Theatre production of Shakespeare's play, in association with the Abbey Th…
Listen Mathew Baynton, Andrew Buchan and Toby Jones star in an energetic new production of the play that made Tom Stoppard's reputation overnight in 1967. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Ha…
(Ben Brantley's article appeared in The New York Time, 3/28; via Pam Green.) In the beginning, there is nothing. And in the end, there is " nothing, once again. Such is the way of all flesh,…