Saturday, January 11, 2025

‘IF YOU HEAR THE SIREN, GO TO THE SHELTER’: THE WRENCHING PLAY ABOUT THE BOMBING OF A THEATRE IN UKRAINE by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/10/2024; Photo: The destroyed theatre in Mariupol in April 2022. Photograph: Pavel Klimov/Reuters.) In March 2022, the largest theatre i…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:13PM
Thursday, January 9, 2025

RECORD-BREAKING ‘MACBETH’ COMES TO CINEMAS FROM FEBRUARY 5, 2025 by Robert Shuman

(via John Singh, J2 Communications.) After breaking box-office records on the West End, the five-star, “hypnotic,” “magical” production of Shakespeare’s MACBETH starring David…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:14PM
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL! THE JOINT JOYS OF IN-THE-ROUND THEATRE by Robert Shuman

(Caroline Butterwick’s article appeared in the Guardian, 1/8/2025; Photograph: New Vic.) For audiences, it has a campfire vibe and immersive appeal. Performers and directors explain the re…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:03PM
Monday, January 6, 2025

AUDITIONS FOR RIVER’S EDGE THEATRE CO. (JAN 15, 2025: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM and JAN 19, 2025: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM, HASTINGS ON HUDSON, NY) by Robert Shuman

(via Meghan Covington.) Hello actors! I would love to invite you to audition for River’s Edge Theatre Co’s 2025 season. We are holding auditions Jan 15, 2025: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM and J…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:02PM

ARTHUR MILLER’S ‘THE PRICE’ OFF-BROADWAY AT THEATRE AT ST. CLEMENTS – FEB 21-MAR 30, 20 by Robert Shuman

   (via Paul Siebold, Off Off PR) The Village Theater Group Presents  The Price  Written by Arthur Miller Directed by Noelle McGrath*  February 19-March 30, 2025 (40 performances) Mon…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:34PM
Saturday, January 4, 2025

SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF AN ELIZABETHAN CARD TRICK by Robert Shuman

(From the BBC, 1/1/2025; Photo: Colin Beveridge sat down with a pack of cards in a bid to solve the puzzle, BBC.) More than four centuries ago, a Shakespearean theatre owner in London noted …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:36PM
Friday, January 3, 2025

RENOWNED CZECH FILM AND THEATER DIRECTOR VIKTOR TAUŠ: ‘SNOWFLAKES’–BEST CZECH NEW PLAY OF 2024 by Robert Shuman

(Via Gary Springer, Springer Associates PR.)  Renowned Czech Film And Theater Director Viktor Tauš, Brings 30 Child Actors – Many Of Whom Were Raised In Orphanages And Foster Care In Th…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:25PM
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

JENNY LYN BADER: ‘MRS. STERN WANDERS THE PRUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY’–MUST CLOSE JANUARY 19 by Robert Shuman

(via David Gibbs/DARR Publicity) Berlin, 1933. With martial law in effect, political activism has become a capital crime. A young Gestapo officer arrests a graduate student suspected of ille…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:07PM
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

THE MUSIC THAT INSPIRED SAMUEL BECKETT: “INTENSITY BEYOND ANYTHING I HAVE EVER HEARD” by Robert Shuman

(Matthew Ingate’s article appeared 12/31 on Far Out; Photo Getty Images.) Like his contemporary writer Ernest Hemingway and then later Cormac McCarthy to come, the Irish novelist and playw…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:15PM
Monday, December 30, 2024

50TH ANNUAL THUNDERBIRD AMERICAN INDIAN DANCERS’ DANCE CONCERT AND POW-WOW AT THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (1/10-1/19) by Robert Shuman

(Via Jonathan Slaff) Theater for the New City (TNC) is to present the 50th annual Thunderbird American Indian Dancers’ Dance Concert and Pow-Wow, to be held January 10 to 19. Performances …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:58PM
Sunday, December 29, 2024

THE JOY OF OLD ENGLISH by Robert Shuman

(Graham Elliott’s article  is taken from the December-January 2025 issue of The Critic.) We meet Professor Higgins in Pygmalion (1912) eavesdropping on the impending subject of his soci…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:07AM
Saturday, December 21, 2024

PLUTARCH’S ‘PARALLEL LIVES’—AND CHARACTERS WHO FASCINATED SHAKESPEARE (BBC RADIO 4) by Robert Shuman

From BBC4 “In Our Time”) Listen at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00260s5   Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek biographer Plutarch (c46 AD-c120 AD) and especially his work �…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:45PM
Sunday, December 8, 2024

THE APOLLO THEATER AT 90 by Robert Shuman

(Sunday Morning.) Dec 8, 2024 On Sunday, the Apollo Theater, the landmark New York City performance venue, will be awarded a prestigious Kennedy Center Honor – the first institution to rec…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:56PM
Monday, November 25, 2024

THE PLAY THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: JANET SUZMAN ON STAGING OTHELLO IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA by Robert Shuman

(Janet Suzman’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/25; as told to Lindesay Irvine; Thrilling … Joanna Weinberg, Richard Haines and John Kani during a performance of Othello at the Mark…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:54PM
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

‘HELLO, DOLLY!’ COMES TO PARIS: HIT MUSICAL CELEBRATES 60TH ANNIVERSARY by Robert Shuman

(Genie Godula’s and Amanda Alexander’s article appeared on France24, 11/20/2024.) Paris is not always associated with musical theatre, but little by little the French capital is becoming…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:53PM
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

“KISS ME, KATE” IN CINEMAS BEGINNING SUNDAY, 11/17! by Robert Shuman

(via John Singh.) Smash-Hit London Production of   Joyous Musical Comedy KISS ME, KATE Comes to U.S. Movie Screens This November   Filmed During Sold-Out Production at the Barbican Theat…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:32PM
Sunday, November 10, 2024

THE PLAY THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: ‘CARYL CHURCHILL’S CLOUD 9 HAD US DANCING IN THE AISLES’ by Robert Shuman

(Susan Croft’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/4; Photo: Miriam Margolyes (Maud), Antony Sher (Clive), Julie Covington (Edward) and William Hoyland (Harry Bagley) in Cloud 9 at the Ro…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:55PM
Sunday, October 27, 2024

OUTNUMBERED BY PUPPETS’: DEPOPULATED VILLAGE IN JAPAN CRAFTS DOLLS FOR SENSE OF LIFE by Robert Shuman

(Peter Guo’s article appeared on NBC News, Oct. 27, 2024. Photo: Puppets in the tiny rural village of Ichinono, Japan.Philip Fong / AFP – Getty Images.) Ichinono has fewer than 60 reside…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 08:18PM
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

THE PLAY THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: JIM BROADBENT ON KEN CAMPBELL’S ELECTRIFYING EPIC ILLUMINATUS! by Robert Shuman

(Jim Broadbent’s article appeared in the Guardian, 11/22; Photo: aragec.com.) In the 70s, Campbell’s sprawling sci-fi odyssey was a huge education and a hysterical adventure for an eclec…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:11PM
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

***** OEDIPUS REVIEW – LESLEY MANVILLE AND MARK STRONG ELECTRIFY ANCIENT SAGA TURNED POLITICAL THRILLER by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/16; From left: Jordan Scowen (Eteocles), Mark Strong (Oedipus), and Lesley Manville (Jocasta) in Oedipus. Photograph: Manuel Harlan. Wes…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:40AM
Friday, October 11, 2024

REST IN PEACE, PAMELA S. GREEN (AUGUST 3, 1958 – SEPTEMBER 29, 2024) by Robert Shuman

Pamela S. Green Obituary Pamela, was born on August 3,1958 to Alfred G. Green and Marilyn G. Green in Chicago, Ill. After a brief illness, Pam passed peacefully at the age of 66 on September…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:58PM
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

HOW THE EXCAVATION OF SHAKESPEARE’S CURTAIN THEATRE HAS CHANGED STAGE HISTORY by Robert Shuman

(Esther Addley’s article appeared in the Guardian, 10/7; photo: Guardian.) Recovery of stage foundations, which will be part of new London museum, has changed understanding of theatre deve…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:04PM
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

MEGHAN COVINGTON’S DON’T-MISS ‘PEEK-A-BOO’ by Robert Shuman

PEEK-A-BOO (An immersive Hudson Valley haunt) Welcome, guys and gals, to the 1920s in Tarrytown, NY. You are invited to the Peek-a-boo flats, a paltry little club nestled on the banks of th…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 07:36PM
Monday, September 2, 2024
Thursday, August 29, 2024

BETTE BOURNE, SEPT. 22, 1939 TO AUG. 23, 2024 by Robert Shuman

(by Mark L. Hannay; via Jonathan Slaff.) English “Radical Drag” Actor and Gay Rights Activist, Beloved by Downtown New York Theater Audiences, Dies at Age 84 Bette Bourne, the founder an…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:17PM
Monday, August 19, 2024

TNC STREET THEATER, 8/17, AT ST. MARKS: “THE SOCIALIZATION OF A SOCIAL WORKER,” BY CRYSTAL FIELD (PHOTOS) by Robert Shuman

“The Socialization of a Social Worker,” by Crystal Field, starting 8/3 through 9/15. FULL SCHEDULE Sat, 8/3 @ 2:00 PM – MANHATTAN: Outside Theater for the New City at E. 10th St. &…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:09PM
Saturday, August 10, 2024

‘TONGS AND BONES SHAKESPEARE’–OUR PRESS RELEASE, CAST, AND FLYER by Robert Shuman

Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am very happy to be writing to you about Theater for the New City’s world premiere of my very own work, “Tongs and Bones Shakespeare: Tempestuous Amusement…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:10AM
Sunday, August 4, 2024

‘TONGS AND BONES SHAKESPEARE’–MEET THE CAST (AT THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY: 9/1 at 8pm, WED., 9/4 at 6:30pm, FRI., 9/6 at 6:30pm, SUN., 9/8 at 8p by Robert Shuman

(Credit for art: Fight Over the Breeches; Gift of Louis E. Shecter, 1972, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.)

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:04AM
Thursday, August 1, 2024

DREAM UP FESTIVAL, 2024: 17 PLAYS, REAL INSPIRATION (THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY, 8/25-9/15) by Robert Shuman

Stage Voice’s Bob Shuman will have a play running at TNC’S DREAM UP FESTIVAL, but don’t settle for just one, there are 16 more shows to choose from.  “Tongs and Bones Shakespeare: T…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 06:19PM
Sunday, July 28, 2024

CRYSTAL FIELD AND TNC STREET THEATER 2024 by Robert Shuman

The legendary Crystal Field will be touring New York City boroughs with “The Socialization of a Social Worker,” starting 8/3 through 9/15.  Her unmissable street theater, a yearly stapl…

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:55AM
Monday, July 22, 2024

PHOTOS: ‘LITTLE WOMEN’ AT THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM, HO-HO-KUS, N.J. by Robert Shuman

(From the production, Saturday & Sunday, July 20th & 21st, 2024; credit: Frank Farrell.) QR Code for Little Women program:

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 05:53PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime