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Sunday, August 8, 2021

***** ‘ANYTHING GOES’ REVIEW – SUTTON FOSTER DAZZLES IN COLE PORTER’S FIZZING TONIC FOR OUR TIMES by Robert Shuman

(Lyndsey Winship’s article appeared in the Guarddian, 8/5;  Photo: Full-beam lustre … Sutton Foster, centre, with, from left, Robert Lindsay, Jack Wilcox, Haydn Oakley and Samuel Edwar…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:34AM
Friday, August 6, 2021

AUSTRALIA: ‘JUST DEVASTATING’: SYDNEY FRINGE AXES 370 SHOWS by Robert Shuman

(Linda Morris’s article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, 8/6; Photo: Sydney Fringe director Kerri Glasscock says the festival’s cancellation is “just devastating”.CREDIT:LOUIE …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:24PM
Thursday, August 5, 2021

NO SHOT, NO SHOW: DC THEATERS TO REQUIRE VACCINATIONS FOR AUDIENCE MEMBERS by Robert Shuman

(Jason Fraley’s article appeared on WTOP News, 8/5.) If you’re planing on attending a local theater production, you better get vaccinated. An alliance of theaters across the D.C. area an…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:12PM
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

SHAKESPEARE CUISINE:  THE THREE MOST POPULAR RECIPES FROM BEFORE ‘FARM TO TABLE’ by Robert Shuman

(From Shakespeare & Beyond; Photo: Savory Cogs Biscuits. Photo by Brittany Diliberto.) With the Folger’s four-year Before ‘Farm to Table’ project drawing to a close, we’re revi…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:13PM
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (124) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: It is better not to read verse at all, than read it in the way which is considered lawful, requisite, and patented in the sense of poetry and…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:31PM
Monday, August 2, 2021

EDINBURGH FRINGE FLOP IS NO LAUGHING MATTER FOR SCOTLAND by Robert Shuman

(Tom Rees’s article appeared in the Telegraph, 7/31. Photo: A street entertainer performs on the Royal Mile during a previous Fringe Festival. Organisers are concerned another bad year for…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:22PM
Sunday, August 1, 2021

BLASPHEMY, VIOLENCE AND LIVE TURTLES: 10 PLAYS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD by Robert Shuman

(Kate Wyver’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/30; Photo: ‘Uniquely startling’ … Kunst und Revolution. Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images.) A history of theatre’s most controversi…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:57PM
Friday, July 30, 2021

SHAKESPEARE AT THE DELACORTE: ‘MERRY WIVES’ by Robert Shuman

By Bob Shuman Shakespeare in the Park returns to the Delacorte with a new version of The Merry Wives of Windsor, called Merry Wives, which is suited less for the outdoors than for small scre…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:04PM
Thursday, July 29, 2021

THE WOOSTER GROUP’S PRODUCTION OF BERTOLT BRECHT’S ‘THE MOTHER’ TO MAKE US DEBUT AT THE PERFORMING GARAGE, OCTOBER 2021 by Robert Shuman

(via Jim Byk/Kelly Guiod, The Press Room) The Wooster Group’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother  to make US debut   The Performing Garage October 2021   Photo: The Wooster Gro…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:37PM
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

***** ‘COPPELIA’: A MYSTERY REVIEW – SUPERB ADVENTURE VEERS FROM SWEET TO SINISTER by Robert Shuman

(Mark Fisher’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/22; Photo: Michael Hugo, Kira McPherson and Corinna Brown in Coppelia: A Mystery, directed by Theresa Heskins. Photographer: Jenny Harper…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:23PM
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

IRELAND: ‘WAITING FOR POIROT’ REVIEW: A CELEBRATION OF LIMERICK’S LOCAL TALENT by Robert Shuman

(Sara Keating’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/26; Photo: Waiting for Poirot performed at the People’s Park, Limerick. Photograph: Keith Wiseman.) The daring murder mystery is fu…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:39PM
Monday, July 26, 2021

NYT CRITIC’S PICK ‘ENDURE’, IMMERSIVE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE IN CENTRAL PARK, ADDS ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES by Robert Shuman

(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency; Photo: (c) Daniel M. Weiss.) Based on Real-Life Struggles of Runners, One Woman Show Celebrates Resilience Through The Stories of Athletes  “Bracin…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:29PM
Sunday, July 25, 2021

DIXON PLACE: 30TH HOT FESTIVAL – LIVE & IN-PERSON! by Robert Shuman

30th Anniversary!! JULY 28 – AUGUST 14, 2021 HOT! began at Dixon Place in 1992 as the first inclusive all-embracing month-long LGBTQ+ festival of theater, dance, music, literature, perform…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:32PM
Saturday, July 24, 2021

THE EXTRAVAGANT EXUBERANCE OF IVO DIMCHEV (PERSONS OF INTEREST) by Robert Shuman

(Dimiter Kenarov’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 7/23; Photo: During the coronavirus pandemic, Ivo Dimchev embarked on a series of small-scale shows in private homes. Photographs by …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:25PM
Friday, July 23, 2021

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (123) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: The auditorium was filled by a crowd of simple workingmen and peasants. They listened to what was going on on the stage in the deepest of sil…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:12PM
Thursday, July 22, 2021

5 FOREIGNERS WHO HAVE BECOME BALLET STARS IN RUSSIA by Robert Shuman

(Anna Galayda’s article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 7/7; Photo: Olga Kereluk.)   Young dancers from other countries frequently come to study at Russia’s prestigious ballet …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:10PM
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

FUNDING CUTS TO GO AHEAD FOR UNIVERSITY ARTS COURSES IN ENGLAND DESPITE OPPOSITION by Robert Shuman

(Sally Weale’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/20; Photo: The education secretary, Gavin Williamson. Arts groups have warned cuts would affect the viability of some courses at universi…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:10PM
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

OPERA: THE SUBLIME TERROR OF KAIJA SAARIAHO’S “INNOCENCE” by Robert Shuman

(Alex Ross’s article appeared in The New Yorker, 7/19; illustration: The opera’s atmosphere is at once sensual and unsettled—dread in vivid colors. Illustration by Jun Cen.) The new o…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:34PM
Monday, July 19, 2021

MABOU MINES: ‘VS.’–A NEW DIGITAL THEATRE PIECE BY CARL HANCOCK RUX by Robert Shuman

Vs. indulges in a virtual game of ‘tag’ Mabou Mines presents  Vs.  written by Carl Hancock Rux directed by Mallory Catlett Online premiere July 30 – August 8 Fridays and Saturdays�…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:28PM
Sunday, July 18, 2021

WALLACE SHAWN’S ‘DESIGNATED MOURNER’ FEELS LIKE WATCHING THE NEWS by Robert Shuman

(Jessa Crispin’s article appeared in the Spectator, 7/15; photo:  Wallace Shawn in 2004—Getty.) Films, plays and novels can lurk, waiting for the right cultural context to resonate in a…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 09:23AM
Friday, July 16, 2021

***** ‘SOUTH PACIFIC’ REVIEW – A ROOF-RAISING RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN TRIUMPH by Robert Shuman

(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/14; Photo: The tones converge … South Pacific, with choreography by Ann Yee. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Old shows often pass nervousl…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:34PM
Thursday, July 15, 2021

THE HISTORY BEHIND SHAKESPEARE’S HENRIAD SERIES by Robert Shuman

(Marty Rosen’s article appeared in Leo Weekly, 7/14.) In 1398, King Richard II of England did something that astonished the cutthroat, blood-soaked world of medieval England: he stopped tw…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:02PM
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

I’VE BEEN CAST AS BITCHY THEATRE CRITIC MR SNARL – IT’S A ROLE I COULDN’T TURN DOWN by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/13; Photograph: Marilyn Kingwill.) Starring in a Zoom production of the play Masks and Faces tested my acting skills – not to me…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:55PM
Monday, July 12, 2021

‘HAMLET’ IN JAPAN (FOLGER FINDS HISTORIC 1930s PHOTOS) by Robert Shuman

(from Shakespeare & Beyond, 7/ 6/ 2021.) In a recent post on the Folger’s Collation blog, assistant curator Elizabeth DeBold shared a small set of photographs, newly added to the Fol…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:54PM
Sunday, July 11, 2021

AVIGNON FESTIVAL SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON ACTORS WITH DISABILITIES by Robert Shuman

(from France24 ) The Avignon Festival is back after 2020’s Covid-19 hiatus. France’s biggest performing arts festival sees thousands of actors, dancers and musicians from around the worl…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:07PM
Saturday, July 10, 2021

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (122) by Robert Shuman

The words and wisdom of Constantin Stanislavski: Our art is not eternal, but it is the most inescapable of all arts so far as our contemporaries are concerned. What strength there is in it! …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:40PM
Friday, July 9, 2021

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELDS (SV REVIEW PICK, IRELAND) by Robert Shuman

(Mary Coll’s article appeared in the Irish Times, 7/8; Photo: Kathy Rose O’Brien stars as Vera in In the Middle of the Fields.) ★★★★ West Wall Walkway, Kilmallock Timing is every…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:44AM
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

***** ‘ALL OF THIS UNREAL TIME’ REVIEW – CILLIAN MURPHY CONFESSES ALL IN POUNDING SOUND AND BLINDING LIGHT by Robert Shuman

(Kate Wyver’s article appeared in the Guardian, 7/4; Photo:  Contrition mission … Cillian Murphy in All of This Unreal Time. Photograph: MIF.)  Central Hall, Manchester Central, and o…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:54PM
Monday, July 5, 2021

PHYLLIS WHEELER SHINES A LIGHT ON HER TEEN NOVEL: ‘THE LONG SHADOW,’ FROM ELK LAKE PUBLISHING, INC. (INTERVIEW) by Robert Shuman

In her second interview for Stage Voices, Phyllis Wheeler talks race in America, during three different time periods; stranger danger and comfort zones; and walking a mile–in someone else�…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:21PM
Friday, July 2, 2021

STOREFRONTS TURNED STAGES FOR ‘SEVEN DEADLY SINS’ by Robert Shuman

(Laura Collins-Hughes’s article appeared in The New York Times, 6/23; via Pam Green.) One afternoon in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, a small crowd gathered around a storefront window…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:20PM
Thursday, July 1, 2021

STEVEN SPIELBERG’S ‘WEST SIDE STORY’ ADAPTATION IS GOING TO GET HIM CANCELED by Robert Shuman

(John Podhoretz’s article appeared in The New York Post, 6/30; via the Drudge Report.) For more than four decades, screen mavens have been eagerly awaiting the time when Steven Spielberg w…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:50AM

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