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Saturday, September 12, 2020

INTERNATIONAL FILM STAR IN 2021 WORLD MEN'S HANDBALL CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW by Robert Shuman

Adam Sullivan writes to say that last Saturday the 2021 International World Men's Handball Championship Draw took place at the Giza Pyramids plateau, with Egyptian actor Khaled El Nabawy, fa…

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CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (91) by Robert Shuman

I speak of the truth of emotions, of the truth of inner creative urges which strain forward to find expression, of the truth of bodily and physical perceptions. I am not interested in a trut…

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Friday, September 11, 2020

JAPAN : 'TWELVE ANGRY MEN'"1950s COURTROOM DRAMA ABOUT CONFRONTING PREJUDICE STILL RINGS TRUE by Robert Shuman

(Nobuko Tanaka's article appeared in The Japan Times, 9/11; photo of actor Shinichi Tsutsumi.) Back in January, when English director Lindsay Posner visited Tokyo for preparatory meetings to…

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Thursday, September 10, 2020

DIANA RIGG, EMMA PEEL OF 'THE AVENGERS,' DIES AT 82 by Robert Shuman

(Anita Gates's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/10; Photo: Terry Disney, Fulton Archive; via Pam Green.) Ms. Rigg also played many classic roles onstage in both New York and London …

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Wednesday, September 9, 2020

TRU COMMUNITY GATHERINGS VIA ZOOM, FRIDAYS, SEPTEMBER 11 AND 18, 2020 AT 4:30PM by Robert Shuman

(via Michelle Tabnick Public Relations; Photo of Bob Ost by Walter McBride.) Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) hosts weekly Community Gatherings every Friday at 4:30pm via Zoom, to explor…

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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER WARNS ARTS 'AT POINT OF NO RETURN' by Robert Shuman

(from the AP, 9/8; via the Drudge Report.) LONDON (AP) " "The Phantom of the Opera" composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has told British lawmakers that the arts are "at the point of no return," and…

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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

MABOU MINES: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS WITH NEW LEADERSHIP by Robert Shuman

Mabou Mines is Thrilled to Announce MALLORY CATLETT and CARL HANCOCK RUX   will join KAREN KANDEL and SHARON ANN FOGARTY as the Company's new team of Co-Artistic Dire…

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SHE GAVE UP A LOT TO PLAY OTHELLO by Robert Shuman

  (Michael Paulson's article originally appeared in The New York Times, 9/6; Photo: The New York Times; via artdaily.com and  Pam Green.) Actor Jessika Williams in Staunton, Va., Sept.…

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Monday, September 7, 2020

JANET MALCOLM: "A SECOND CHANCE"""WHEN SHE WENT ONSTAGE AND PERFORMED LIKE A TROUPER" by Robert Shuman

(Malcolm's article appeared in The New York Review of Books, 9/24.) Once a week in the spring of 1994 I would bicycle over to a brownstone on West 16th Street to see a man named Sam Chwat in…

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Saturday, September 5, 2020

10 FACTS ABOUT THE COMPOSER IGOR STRAVINSKY YOU NEED TO KNOW by Robert Shuman

(Anna Galayda's  article appeared in Russia Beyond the Headlines, 9/4; Photo: classicstogo.nl) The legendary musician lived for 88 years (1882-1971). He witnessed some of the most dramati…

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Thursday, September 3, 2020

13 ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR THEATRE STUDENTS by Robert Shuman

(Dan Meyer's article Appeared on Playbill, 9/3.) Check out these reads before heading to class this semester. Now that the school year is here, it's time for students to put down their summe…

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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

CAN GREEK TRAGEDY GET US THROUGH THE PANDEMIC? by Robert Shuman

(Elif Batuman's article appeared in the New Yorker, 9/1; photo: In Sophocles' "Oedipus the King," staged via Zoom by Theater of War Productions, the city of Thebes is in the grip of a terrib…

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Tuesday, September 1, 2020

NEWS FROM THE WOOSTER GROUP: THE B-SIDE AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING THROUGH SEPTEMBER 14 by Robert Shuman

(from Jim Byk/Kelly Guiod, the Press room, 9/1) NEWS FROM THE WOOSTER GROUP:  THE B-SIDE AVAILABLE TO STREAM ONLINE, CAPPING SUMMER OF OPENED ARCHIVES European tour of The Mother, p…

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Monday, August 31, 2020

BELARUS FREE THEATRE'S REBEL TROUPES STAND UP TO THE LUKASHENKO REGIME by Robert Shuman

(Shaun Walker's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/31; Svetlana Sugako in rehearsals for the Belarus Free theatre. Photograph: Misha Friedman.) For 15 years, the acclaimed company has be…

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Sunday, August 30, 2020

REVIEW: CHLOROFORM, LIES AND RACISM FIRE UP 'THE JACKSONIAN' by Robert Shuman

(Ben Brantley's article appeared in The New York times, 8/28; Clockwise from top left: Bill Pullman, Carol Kane, Amy Madigan, Juliet Brett and Ed Harris in "The Jacksonian;" via Pam Green.) …

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Saturday, August 29, 2020

LINN ULLMANN ON HER FATHER, INGMAR BERGMAN: 'IT WAS AS IF ALL THE WINDOWS OF HIS MIND HAD OPENED' by Robert Shuman

(Alex Clark's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/29; Ingmar Bergman with his daughter Linn Ullmann during the filming of Autumn Sonata (1978). Photograph: Arne Carlsson © AB Svensk…

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Friday, August 28, 2020

THE REAL MACBETH: MAD KING OR A CLEVER EYE TO SOLID POWER? by Robert Shuman

(Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh; this article appeared in Brewminate, 8/27; photo: Royal Opera; via Pam Green.) Macbeth appears to have cleverly positioned Scotland between her more powerful …

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Thursday, August 27, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (90) by Robert Shuman

The actor must first of all believe in everything that takes place on the stage, and most of all he must believe in what he himself is doing. And one can believe only in the truth. Therefore…

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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

CAN GORE VIDAL FIND REST IN HIS FINAL RESTING PLACE? by Robert Shuman

(Kitty Kelley's article appeared in the New Yorker, 8/24.) The contentious writer, who liked to say that, after fifty, litigation replaces sex, had very specific plans for his burial. "Never…

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Monday, August 24, 2020

KHALED NABAWY WILL BE A GUEST WITH DIRECTOR MOLLY SMITH ON MOLLY'S SALON THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 AT 7 P.M. by Robert Shuman

Adam Sullivan tells us that international film star Khaled ELnabawy will "be a guest with director Molly Smith on Molly's Salon next Thursday 7:00 pm Washington D.C. Time and 1:00 am Cair…

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BELARUS FREE THEATRE: VIDEO SHOWS ARMED BELARUS PRESIDENT AS PROTESTS ROIL CAPITAL by Robert Shuman

(Yuras Karmanau's article appeared in the Mercury NEws, 8/23; photo: Thousands of people gather for a protest at the Independence square in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. Demonstrato…

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Sunday, August 23, 2020

IN FRANCE, LIVE THEATER CALLS FOR MASKED ACTORS AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS by Robert Shuman

(from The New York Times, 8/20; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) PARIS " In countries where live performances have resumed, masked audiences have become a familiar " if still curio…

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Friday, August 21, 2020

TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR CHICAGO'S ARTS TO TAKE IT OUTSIDE. LET'S NOT WASTE THIS OPPORTUNITY. by Robert Shuman

(Chris Jones's article appeared in the Chicago Tribune, 8/20; Photo: Chicago Tribune.) We're safer staying outside. But in Chicago, where summer is short, time rapidly is running out for the…

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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

SOME LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS FOR LONDON'S WEST END by Robert Shuman

(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 8/13; Photo: Playgoers at the Donmar Warehouse for "Blindness," a reimagining of José Saramago's 1995 novel as a sound installation hear…

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Monday, August 17, 2020

FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 12 " 'VOTES FOR WOMEN' (1907) BY ELIZABETH ROBINS by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/16; Photo:  Pointed arguments and rounded characters … Polly Lister in Votes for Women at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme, in…

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Sunday, August 16, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (89) by Robert Shuman

The entire physical and spiritual nature of the actor must be concentrated on what is going on in the soul of the person he (or she) plays. (MLIA)

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Saturday, August 15, 2020

THEATRE BOTANICAL, STARRING THE PLANTAGENETS by Robert Shuman

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Friday, August 14, 2020

'A LOVE LETTER TO LEBANON', AUGUST 15 ONLY by Robert Shuman

(via John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency) RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER AND NEW YORK THEATRE SALON PRESENT A LOVE LETTER TO LEBANON, AUGUST 15 In the wake of the horrible explosion in Beirut…

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Thursday, August 13, 2020

IN THESE IMMERSIVE SHOWS, THE JURY IS IN (YOUR HOME) by Robert Shuman

(Alexis Soloski's article appeared in the New York Times, 8/11; Photo: Good casting: Andrew Anderson, a BBC reporter, portraying a correspondent for a fictional network in "The Evidence Cham…

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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

PINKERTON: THAT TIME WHEN DEMOCRATS' VETTING OF A FEMALE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WENT AWRY (REVIEW OF 'REAGAN'S COWBOYS', BY JOHN B. ROBER by Robert Shuman

(James P. Pinkerton's article appeared on Breitbart, 8/12; Photo: Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress.) Male Democrat presidential nominees don't always do a good job of vetting their fema…

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FORGOTTEN PLAYS: NO 11 " 'THE HIGH BID' (1908) BY HENRY JAMES by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 8/10; Billy Russell in The High Bid at the Mermaid theatre in 1967. Photograph: Tony Gibson/ANL/Rex/Shutterstock.)   James's ric…

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