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Saturday, April 18, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (80) by Robert Shuman

In moments of inspiration, when, due to reasons unexplainable to us, one feels not the conception of the words themselves, but the deep meaning that is hidden in them, one finds the simplici…

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Friday, April 17, 2020

CANCELLED: FREE SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK by Robert Shuman

Dear Friends, Of all of New York City's traditions, our favorite is this: every summer, we gather under the stars at the magical Delacorte Theater for Free Shakespeare in the Park.  We co…

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Thursday, April 16, 2020

BRIAN DENNEHY, 'TOMMY BOY' AND 'FIRST BLOOD' STAR, DIES AT 81 by Robert Shuman

(Carmel Dagan's article appeared in Variety, 4/16.) Brian Dennehy, the winner of two Tonys in a career that also spanned films including "Tommy Boy," "First Blood" and "Cocoon," and televisi…

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

CLOSED THEATERS ARE NOTHING NEW. THE GOOD NEWS IS, THEY REOPEN by Robert Shuman

(Matt Wolf's article appeared in The New York Times, 4/9; via Pam Green.) LONDON " We live in unprecedented times " or so they tell us. The coronavirus lockdown, which began in Britain on Ma…

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Monday, April 13, 2020

BOOK: 'AMERICAN HUMBUG'"ROBERT WILSON'S BIO OF P.T. BARNUM by Robert Shuman

(Nathaniel Rich's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 4/23.) American Humbug Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson Simon and Schuster, 341 pp., $28.00 Since his heyday in t…

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Sunday, April 12, 2020

ROGER HENDRICKS SIMON WINS BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE FROM INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS 2020 by Robert Shuman

ROGER HENDRICKS SIMON has just won the BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE award from INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS 2020 for DANIEL KEITH's multi award winning feature film LOVE…

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Saturday, April 11, 2020

DIXON PLACE ONLINE CONTAGION CABARET"WED., 4/22 by Robert Shuman

Beloved Artists! I know we're all settling into our new lives inside and we here at Dixon Place are leaning into our new lives online. We have an Online Event Page that lists …

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Friday, April 10, 2020

MAKING ART DURING A PANDEMIC: THEATERS SEEK AND SHARE MINI-PLAYS by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Times, 4/1; Photo: Among the playwrights commissioned to write short plays that can be read or performed by people sheltering in place: Â…

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Thursday, April 9, 2020

LIFE SKETCHES (SHORT SCENES AND MONOLOGUES): "AT THE DOG PARK" (6) by Robert Shuman

By Bob Shuman SCENE: A dog park in the Bronx.  NARRATOR:  As Mary Jane suspected, the dog park was closed, on 4/6/2020, along with all runs throughout the city.  Fearing Coronavirus…

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'WOW, I'D LOVE TO BE SOMEONE LIKE THAT!' SALLY COOKSON ON OUR PASSION FOR JANE EYRE by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegands' Guardian interview appeared 4/7.) (Go to National Theatre at Home) As her bold staging of the classic novel is screened as part of National Theatre at Home, the director dis…

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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

BROADWAY TO REMAIN CLOSED THROUGH JUNE 7, APPARENTLY ENDING 2019-2020 SEASON IMMEDIATELY by Robert Shuman

(Greg Evans's article appeared on Deadline, 4/8; via the Drudge Report.) Broadway will remain closed through June 7, a two-month extension of the current coronavirus shutdown that w…

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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

OPERA STAR BOCELLI TO SING FROM EMPTY DUOMO IN MILAN by Robert Shuman

(From Reuters, 4/7; via the Drudge Report. ) MILAN, April 7 (Reuters) " Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli, one of the world's most famous tenors, will perform from Milan's empty Duomo cath…

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Monday, April 6, 2020

PATRICIA BOSWORTH, ACTOR TURNED CELEBRITY BIOGRAPHER, DIES OF CORONAVIRUS by Robert Shuman

(Stacy Perman's article appeared in the Los Angeles Times, 4/4; photo: Patricia Bosworth, left, with Audrey Hepburn in "The Nun's Story." [Patricia Bosworth]). Patricia Bosworth, known fo…

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Sunday, April 5, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (79) by Robert Shuman

In us there are two types of movement and gestures, one normal, natural and lifelike, used in everyday life; the other abnormal, unnatural, non-lifelike, used to imitate something that you c…

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Saturday, April 4, 2020

LIFE SKETCHES (SHORT SCENES AND MONOLOGUES): "AT THE DOG PARK" (5) by Robert Shuman

By Bob Shuman Photo of Juno (Junie) SCENE: A dog park in the Bronx. There are two benches. The first is near the entrance to the run"the second is toward the opposite end. MARY JANE, early 7…

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Thursday, April 2, 2020
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

THE PAGE'S THE THING " TAKE IT FROM SHAKESPEARE'S EARLIEST READERS by Robert Shuman

(Emma Smith's article appeared in the Guardian, 4/1.) With theatres closed, now is the time to find pleasure in Shakespeare's texts. His first fans used them for chat-up lines " and read the…

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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

'KINGDOMS OF FIRE', STARRING KHALED NABAWY by Robert Shuman

New for Stage Voices, from our Mideast correspondent. Keep an eye out for: KINGDOMS OF FIRE  By: Adam Sullivan International Egyptian Actor Khaled Nabawy as Tuman in Kingdoms of Fire T…

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Monday, March 30, 2020

HEAR BOB DYLAN'S ABSOLUTELY MIND-BLOWING NEW SONG 'MURDER MOST FOUL by Robert Shuman

(Brian Hiatt's article appeared in Rolling Stone, 3/27; Photo: Rolling Stone.) Bob Dylan, who hasn't released an original song since 2012's Tempest, unexpectedly dropped a previously u…

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WHAT TO STREAM: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT A FAILED STEPHEN SONDHEIM PRODUCTION   by Robert Shuman

(Richard Brody's article appeared in the New Yorker, 3/27; Photo Source: Atlas Media via Pam Green.) March 27, 2020 The coronavirus lockdown adds wild emotional lurches to the movie-vi…

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Friday, March 27, 2020

LIFE SKETCHES (SHORT SCENES AND MONOLOGUES): "AT THE DOG PARK" 4 by Robert Shuman

(Photo of Jasper) SCENE: A dog park in the Bronx.  Today, it is warmer"and there is sun.   (MARY JANE, early 70's, sits on a bench in the dog park. Using a launcher, SHE plays fetch…

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

GREAT THEATER, DANCE AND CLASSICAL MUSIC TO TUNE INTO WHILE STUCK AT HOME by Robert Shuman

(Published 3/20 in The New York Times; via Marit Shuman.) If you're stuck at home and hankering for the fine arts, there's plenty online. Since the coronavirus pandemic began temporarily…

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (78) by Robert Shuman

Oftener and oftener [Chekhov] would repeat: "I have written a great deal already, a whole library, in fact. I am not a dramatist. Hauptmann is a dramatist, and Naidenov." (MLIA)

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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

TERRENCE MCNALLY, TONY-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT, DIES OF CORONAVIRUS COMPLICATIONS by Robert Shuman

(Richard Natale's and Brent Lang's article appeared in Variety, 3/24.) Terrence McNally, the playwright behind "Master Class" and "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune," has died of compl…

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Monday, March 23, 2020

STARS ON SONDHEIM: DONNA MURPHY REVEALS HER INTENSE PREPARATION FOR A SONDHEIM AUDITION by Robert Shuman

(by Broadway.com Staff,  Mar 22; Photo: The New York Post; via Pam Green.) March 22 marks Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday. It's impossible to state the great contribution and influences …

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Sunday, March 22, 2020

OBERAMMERGAU PASSION PLAY CANCELED AS CORONAVIRUS LOCKS DOWN GERMANY by Robert Shuman

(The post Oberammergau Passion Play Canceled as Coronavirus Locks Down Germany appeared first in The New York Times; Photo: The New York Times; via Pam Green.) Over 400 years ago, village…

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Saturday, March 21, 2020

FILM ACADEMY MIGHT CHANGE OSCAR RULES DUE TO CORONAVIRUS by Robert Shuman

(Brandon Katz's article appeared in the Observer, 3/20;  via Pam Green.) We're such Oscar fanatics that mere days after this year's ceremony we began predicting the nominees and winner…

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Friday, March 20, 2020

LIFE SKETCHES (SHORT SCENES AND MONOLOGUES) 3 by Robert Shuman

By Bob Shuman SCENE: A wet dog park in the Bronx.   (MARY JANE, early 70's, sits on a bench in the dog run. Using a launcher, SHE plays fetch with her spaniel, HUDSON"although CHRISTIE…

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Thursday, March 19, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (77) by Robert Shuman

Chekhov had decided to gather all his friends and relatives in one place while he married Olga Knipper at another, and to leave for their honeymoon on the Volga and the Oka without unnecessa…

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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

15 BROADWAY PLAYS AND MUSICALS YOU CAN WATCH ON STAGE FROM HOME by Robert Shuman

(Logan Culwell-Block's article appeared on Playbill.com,  3/18 and 10/6; photo: Playbill.com; via Pam Green.) (Don't forget  the current free Nightly Opera Stream from the Met Opera.)…

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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

CONSTANT STANISLAVSKI (76) by Robert Shuman

Chekhov was in reality a practical joker and a schoolboy in spirit. (MLIA)

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