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Monday, January 11, 2021

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (27) by Robert Shuman

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

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Sunday, January 10, 2021

FAUCI SUGGESTS THEATERS COULD REOPEN 'SOME TIME IN THE FALL' by Robert Shuman

(Julia Jacobs's article appeared in The New York Times, 1/9; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, right, speaking with Maurine Knighton, program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Founda…

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Saturday, January 9, 2021

NEW DAWN: THEATRE AFFIRMATIONS by Robert Shuman

I am most truly successful, as an artist and otherwise, when I am my most authentic self, openly and honestly.   I adapt my vision to the new theatrical reality"and it has all positive ou…

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Friday, January 8, 2021

ROBOT WARS: 100 YEARS ON, IT'S TIME TO REBOOT KAREL ÄŒAPEK'S 'RUR' by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 1/17.  Photo:  Satirical … a sketch for Karel ÄŒapek's RUR by BedÅ™ich Feuerstein. Photograph: Dea Picture Library/De …

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Thursday, January 7, 2021

LEE BREUER: ON 'THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS', 'PATAPHYSICS PENYEACH', AND  'LA DIVINA CARICATURA, PART 1: THE SHAGGY DOG' by Robert Shuman

(Photos: Mabou Mines) By Bob Shuman Some of us had never seen Lee Breuer working, without a stocking cap"but what is probably most surprising is that we saw a playwright, so hands-on, at all…

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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

LOST IN 2020: EPIC SHAKESPEARE, AND THE THEATER THAT PLANNED IT by Robert Shuman

(Maya Phillips's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/29/2020 Photo: Brendan Edward Kennedy, center, in the title role of "Henry V" at Brave Spirits Theater in Virginia.Credit…Claire…

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Tuesday, January 5, 2021

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (26) by Robert Shuman

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

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Monday, January 4, 2021

LEE BREUER, REST IN PEACE (1937-2021) by Robert Shuman

(from Mabou Mines)  Dear Friends, It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Mabou Mines co-founder Lee Breuer on January 3, 2021. He died peacefully at home surrounde…

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Sunday, January 3, 2021

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (106) by Robert Shuman

Maeterlinck is a charming, kind, and joyful host and companion. For days at a time we spoke about art, and he was very glad to know that actors were entering so deeply into the very being, m…

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Saturday, January 2, 2021

NEW DAWN:  THEATRE AFFIRMATIONS by Robert Shuman

I adapt my vision to the new theatrical reality"and find deeper understanding and wider horizons. Theatre comes back strong in 2021"and heals us.  

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Friday, January 1, 2021

JAMES GRAHAM REVEALS COVID CRISIS ACCELERATED ELTON JOHN MUSICAL COLLABORATION by Robert Shuman

(Mark Brown's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/31; Photo: Tammy Faye Messner with Jim Bakker. Photograph: Associated Press.) Writer says singer's cancelled farewell tour resulted in '…

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NEW DAWN: THEATRE AFFIRMATIONS by Robert Shuman

Theatre comes back strong in 2021"and heals us.

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Thursday, December 31, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (105) by Robert Shuman

The hardest thing of all is to begin creative work, to find a goal, a foundation, a ground, a principle, or even a simple scenic piece of hokum and to be enthused by it. Enthusiasm, even the…

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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM? THE TROUBLE WITH UTOPIAN DRAMAS by Robert Shuman

(Natasha Tripney's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/30; Photo: A mirror on the world … Mark Rylance in Jerusalem at the Royal Court. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian. ) Whil…

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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

ROGER BERLIND, 90, DIES; BROADWAY IMPRESARIO WHO AMASSED 25 TONYS by Robert Shuman

(Berlind played a role in producing more than 100 plays and musicals. And while he kept an eye on the bottom line, he could be seduced by sheer artistry; Photo: Even as he experienced flops,…

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Monday, December 28, 2020

BEYOND THE SILK PYJAMAS: THE STYLE OF NOËL COWARD by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/28. Photosgraph: Debonair … Noël Coward. Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock .) A new exhibition is devoted to the visual …

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Sunday, December 27, 2020

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (25) by Robert Shuman

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

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Saturday, December 26, 2020

HOW DOLLY PARTON BECAME THE WORLD'S BEST-LOVED CELEBRITY by Robert Shuman

(Dorian Lynskey's article appeared on the BBC 12/7; Photo, Getty Images, BBC.com; via Pam Green. She gives little away about her private life, and touts a cartoonish public image: how did Do…

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Friday, December 25, 2020

ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT WITH THE BBC SINGERS AND BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA by Robert Shuman

Two contrasting pieces of narration set to music. The BBC Singers and conductor Nicolas Chalmers present Hymn " Alan Bennett's early musical recollections, originally set to music written fo…

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Thursday, December 24, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (104) by Robert Shuman

The production of the stage director and the playing of the actors, may be realistic, conventionalized, modernistic, naturalistic, impressionistic, futuristic,"it is all the same so long as …

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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

REBECCA LUKER, A BROADWAY STAR FOR THREE DECADES, DIES AT 59 by Robert Shuman

(Anita Gates's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/23;  Photo:  Rebecca Luker as Maria, surrounded by the von Trapp children, in the 1998 Broadway revival of "The Sound of Music…

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A DRAMATIC YEAR: THE 10 BEST THEATRE SHOWS OF 2020 (UK) by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 12/23; Photo: Clockwise from top left: Death of England, The Outside Dog, Pass Over, Oleanna and Crave. Composite: Nobby Clark, Marc Brenner,…

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (24) by Robert Shuman

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

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Monday, December 21, 2020

MABOU MINES/BECKETT: 'IMAGINATION DEAD IMAGINE'"DIRECTED BY RUTH MALECZECH (12/21-12/17) by Robert Shuman

MABOU MINES/BECKETT: 'IMAGINATION DEAD IMAGINE'"DIRECTED BY RUTH MALECZECH (12/21-12/17) Ruth Nelson (Voice) & Clove Galilee (Figure) __________________________________ Light, voice, …

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Sunday, December 20, 2020

2020: A THEATER OF THE ABSURD FOR EUROPE'S PLAYHOUSES by Robert Shuman

(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/17; via Pam Green; Photo: At the National Theater in London in September. The city's theaters were closed and reopened twice in 2020, …

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Saturday, December 19, 2020

AT THE MOVIES: MARLENE DIETRICH by Robert Shuman

(Michael Wood's article appeared in The London Review of Books, 12/17.) Ihad​ misremembered The Scarlet Empress (1934), one of the thirteen Marlene Dietrich movies currently sho…

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Friday, December 18, 2020

THE WONDER OF WAGNER by Robert Shuman

(Chilton Williamson, Jr.'s article appeared in The Spectator, 12/13.) Laramie, Wyoming Nearly all the famous artistic controversies in the aesthetic history of the western world " the …

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Thursday, December 17, 2020

ON: ANN REINKING (1949-2020) by Robert Shuman

More than forty-six years ago, the Sherman brothers' Big Band musical Over Here! (they had written the scores for Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book, and the song "It's a Small World," for the…

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

'SIX' TRIES TO GET BACK ONSTAGE. AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN. by Robert Shuman

(Alex Marshall's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/9; updated 9/14 : Photo: A security guard takes ticket holders' temperatures before a performance of "Six" in London, on Dec. 5.Cr…

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (103) by Robert Shuman

The lie must become or seem to be the truth on the stage in order to be convincing. (MLIA)

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Monday, December 14, 2020

ANN REINKING, TONY WINNER AND STAR OF BROADWAY'S 'CHICAGO,' DIES AT 71 by Robert Shuman

(Eli Countryman's article appeared in Variety, 12/14.) Tony Award winner Ann Reinking, an actor, dancer and choreographer, died on Saturday night in Washington, her sister-in-law Dahrla R…

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