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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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***** 'OLEANNA' REVIEW " BRUTAL AND BRILLIANT REVIVAL OF PRE-#METOO MASTERPIECE (SV PICK, UK) by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/13. Photo:  Riveting … Jonathan Slinger and Rosie Sheehy in Oleanna by Mamet at Theatre Royal Bath. Photograph: Nobby Clark.…

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Sunday, December 13, 2020

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (23) by Robert Shuman

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

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Saturday, December 12, 2020

A LOST ORSON WELLES TV PILOT THAT'S AS GROUNDBREAKING AS "CITIZEN KANE" by Robert Shuman

(Richard Brody's article appeared in The New Yorker, 12/11; Photo: The New Yorker.) The project that Orson Welles planned to film, in 1939, before turning his attention to "Citizen Kane" was…

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Friday, December 11, 2020

'HIP HOP CINDERELLA' FOR THE HOLIDAYS"A FAMILY-FRIENDLY VIRTUAL THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE by Robert Shuman

(via David Coffman and Linda Chichester) HIP HOP CINDERELLA is a new musical, brought to our attention through the  TRU Zoom Community Gatherings, free on Fridays at 4:30 pm"also don't fo…

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Thursday, December 10, 2020

AUGUST WILSON, AMERICAN BARD by Robert Shuman

(Maya Phillips's article appeared in The New York Times, 12/4/2020; via Pam Green. To accompany this essay, the Baltimore-based artist Jerrell Gibbs painted "Portrait of August Wilson" (2020…

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

FIRST MAN IN UK TO GET COVID-19 VACCINE IS NAMED WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by Robert Shuman

(Lee Brown's article appeared in the New York Post, 12/9; via the Drudge Report.) It's one for the books. The first man to get the new coronavirus vaccine in the UK is named William Shakespe…

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

BEST THEATER OF 2020 (NY) by Robert Shuman

(Jesse Green's, Laura Collins-Hughes's, Scott Heller's, Maya Phillips's, Alexis Soloski's, and Elisabeth Vincentelli's article appeared in the New York Times, 12/1; Photogr…

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Monday, December 7, 2020

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (22) by Robert Shuman

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

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Sunday, December 6, 2020

ACTOR HARRY LENNIX PLANS TO BUILD 'THE BLACK VERSION OF LINCOLN CENTER' ON CHICAGO'S SOUTH SIDE by Robert Shuman

(Chris Jones's article appeared in The Chicago Tribune, 12/2; photo: This building at 4343 South Cottage Grove Ave. is slated to be the African American Museum of Performing Arts and a theat…

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Saturday, December 5, 2020

THIS LOCKDOWN, ENGLAND'S THEATERS KNOW WHAT TO DO ONLINE by Robert Shuman

(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 11/26; Tamzin Outhwaite, left, and Fiona Button in "What a Carve Up!"Credit…via Barn Theatre/Lawrence Batley Theatre/New Wolsey Theatre…

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Friday, December 4, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (102) by Robert Shuman

The charming delicacy of the scenic artist's sketch is always uglified on the stage. . . . And no matter what the artist might do, he will never be able to conquer materiality and coarseness…

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

THEATRE COMPANIES IN UK TIER 3 AREAS DESCRIBE 'SHOCK AND HEARTBREAK' by Robert Shuman

(Lanre Bakare's article appeared in the UK Guardian, 12/3; Photo: Nottingham Playhouse says its Cinderella pantomime and Jack and the Beanstalk family show will now only be available to stre…

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Wednesday, December 2, 2020

IRELAND: COVID-19"ANGER AS THEATRE SECTOR PONDERS WHY IT'S NOT ALLOWED REOPEN by Robert Shuman

(Ronan McGreevy's article appeared in the Irish Times, 12/2: Photo: Abbey Theatre directors Graham McLaren (left) and Neil Murray: Calling on the Government to "look again at the reopening o…

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Tuesday, December 1, 2020

LET'S PLAY 'BEAT THE BARD' (21) by Robert Shuman

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

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Monday, November 30, 2020

ANITA DURST, CHASHAMA, TALKS WITH BOB OST AND THE TRU COMMUNITY by Robert Shuman

On 11/27 at 4:30pm, Anita Durst talked with Executive Director Bob Ost and the Friday TRU Community Gathering about an organization she founded twenty-five years ago, one that supports artis…

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