1,652 stories by "Robert Shuman"
The fantastic is a glass of foaming champagne. . . . In The Snow Maiden there is exceptionally beautiful Russian epos, and in The Blue Bird an artistically interpreted symbol. It is engaging…
(via Gwendolyn Quinn) (New York, NY " September 30, 2019) " It is with deep sadness and sorrow that we announce the passing of international opera star Jessye Norman, in a statement issue…
(Michael Cooper's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/24; via Pam Green.) The star singer, accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, dropped out of Verdi's "Macbeth" and indicate…
We are sentimental . . . we actors, and we love to play the part of injured innocence not only on the stage, but in life also. (MLIA)
(Boyd Tonkin's article appeared in the Spectator, 9/26.) The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen reviewed Pick up a Penguin Classic from a cult Danish author w…
My business of stage directing was done, it was behind me; the matter lay in the hands of the actors now. Only they could bring the performance to life, and I could do nothing more than …
(Derek O'Connor's article appeared in The Irish Times, 9/23.) Derek O'Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre I never saw Diego Maradona play football. I never saw Nijin…
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/13; via Pam Green.) Â Ntozake Shange's play, with its unflinching depiction of black women's experience, is coming back t…
"If we could only see the image, see how he walks, talks, laughs, and come to know the quality of his voice," we said to ourselves when we approached the role. "If we can find the image,…
Part of Citywide Recognition Peter Brook/NY, This Free Event Will Be Captured by Partner Organization WNET/ALL ARTS for Future Broadcast Thursday, September 26 at approximately 8:45pm Pol…
In order to rejuvenate art, we declared war on all the conventionalities of the theatre wherever they might occur"in the acting, in the properties, in the scenery, the costumes, the interpre…
Listen In 2011 Ai Weiwei was arrested without notice by the Chinese authorities and detained for 81 days. Here he writes a letter to his son Ai Lao who was two years old when he disappeared.…
Our goal was to destroy the ancient hokum of the theatre. (MLIA)
(from the Guardian, 9/20/19.) 20 September 1960Â Promoting her latest play, The Lion in Love, Delaney says 'I would rather write a terrible play than a mediocre one' Surrounded by a clutch…
"Lateness, laziness, caprice, hysterics, bad character, ignorance of the role, the necessity of repeating anything twice are all equally harmful to our enterprise and must be rooted out."Â…
(Gia Kourlas's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/20; via Pam Green.) In Elizabeth Streb and Anne Bogart's "Falling & Loving," dancers and actors share the stage with the Guck Mac…
"All disobedience to the creative life of the theatre is a crime."Â Â (MLIA)
Listen on BBC Radio 4Â Â Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and biographer Ben Moser debate Susan Sontag's life and ideas with presenter Laurence Scott, focusing in on her 1966 essay collec…
"The poet, the actor, the artist, the tailor, the stage hand, serve one goal, which is placed by the poet in the very basis of his play."Â (MLIA) Â
(via Craig Smith) Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Artistic Director Elise Stone announces the appointment of Kevin Confoy as Producing Director starting October 2, 2019. Confoy, who is a reside…
(Rosalyn Sulcas's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/13; via Pam Green.)  The Théâtre du Châtelet is reopening after a two-and-a-half-year makeover, with a new artistic dir…
"Today Hamlet, tomorrow a supernumerary (walk-on actor), but even as a supernumerary you must become an artist."Â (MLIA)
(Chabon's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 9/26 issue)  This essay will appear in somewhat different form in Fight of the Century, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet …
"One must love art and not one's self in art."Â (MLIA)
(Eric Grode's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/11; via Pam Green.) It often seems like safety first on Broadway, but the commercial stage has historically been home to shows that pu…
