MARINA ABRAMOVIC AUCTIONS LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE FOR UKRAINE CHARITY by Robert Shuman

(Andrea Kasiske's article appeared in DW, 3/27; Photo: A scene from "The Artist is Present.") The Serbian artist is redesigning her legendary 2010 performance "The Artist is Present," and wi…

OPEN THREAD by Robert Shuman

(Vanessa Friedman's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/25; via Pam Green; Photo: Emma Stone in "Cruella." The costume designer for the film was Jenny Beavan, who is nominated for an O…

LIV ULLMANN ANSWERS QUESTIONS FROM STAGE VOICES IN THE UK GUARDIAN by Robert Shuman

(The legendary Liv Ullmann, recipient of an honorary Oscar in 2022, answered two questions, in the U.K. Guardian, from Bob Shuman of Stage Voices Web site (BobStageVoices). Read her response…

'ANTIGONE' (LISTEN NOW ON BBC RADIO 4 "IN OUR TIME""DISCUSSION PODCAST) by Robert Shuman

Antigone Listen  In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what is reputedly the most performed of all Greek tragedies. Antigone, by Sophocles (c496-c406 BC), is powerfully ambiguous, i…

BACK TO BACK THEATRE RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL IBSEN AWARD by Robert Shuman

(Michael Kaufmann's article appeared 3/22/22 on Limelight; Photo: Back to Back Theatre's The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes. Photo © Jeff Busby.) The pioneering group's work with…

A TINY ENGLISH-LANGUAGE KYIV THEATRE TURNED 'ART SHELTER' GOES TO WAR by Robert Shuman

(David Gormezano's article appeared on France24, 3/21; Photo: Alex Borovensky, Tetiana Shelepko and their friends sit in front of the ProEnglish Theatre in Kyiv, on March 20.) The ProEnglish…

BRIAN FRIEL'S PLAYS COME ALIVE AGAIN AFTER A STRANGE DECADE by Robert Shuman

(Chris McCormack's article appeared in the Irish Times, 3/21; Photo: Niamh Cusack in Faith Healer at the Abbey theatre, Dublin. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh.) Having been sanitised in the 2010s,…

RUSSIAN TROOPS 'EVERYWHERE' IN MARIUPOL AS ART SCHOOL SHELTERING 400 IS BOMBED by Robert Shuman

(Loveday Morris's and Annabelle Timsit's article appeared in The Washingotn Post, 3/20; Photo: People dig a grave Sunday for victims of the fighting in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Uk…

ON WITOLD GOMBROWICZ, POLISH WRITER AND DRAMATIST: THE DRAMA OF FORM " A LECTURE BY JAROSLAW ANDERS (ONLINE, TUES., 3/22) by Robert Shuman

'THE HOMECOMING': PINTER'S MALE FANTASISTS RETURN IN THE AGE OF #METOO by Robert Shuman

(Michael Billington's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/16; Harold Pinter as Lenny with Jane Lowe as Ruth in a 1969 production of The Homecoming at Watford Palace theatre. Photograph: T…

RUSSIA BOMBS THEATER WHERE HUNDREDS SOUGHT SHELTER AND 'CHILDREN' WAS WRITTEN ON GROUNDS by Robert Shuman

(Tim Lister's. Olga Voitovych's, Tara John's, and Paul P. Muphy's article appeared on CNN, 3/16; Photo: The Drama Theater in Mariupol, where hundreds were taking refuge, sustained heavy dama…

TONY AWARDS TO ANNOUNCE PRIZES IN JUNE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL by Robert Shuman

(Michael Paulson's article appeared in The New York Time, 3/9; via Pam Green; Photo: The Tony Awards ceremony will return to Radio City Music Hall on June 12, after being presented at the Wi…

'DOGS OF EUROPE' REVIEW " ART AND ACTIVISM COMBINE IN BREATHTAKING SPECTACLE by Robert Shuman

(Arifa Akbar's article appeared in the guardian, 3/13; Photo: A necessary affront … Aliaksei Naranovich and Raman Shytsko in Dogs of Europe. Photograph: Linda Nylind/the Guardian.) Barb…

WILLIAM HURT, OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR FOR 'KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN,' DIES AT 71 by Robert Shuman

(Brent Lang's and J. Kim Murphy's article appeared, 3/13, in Variety; Photo:  Rich Fury/Invision/AP.) William Hurt, who became a top leading man in the 1980s,, winning an Oscar for 1985's…

AN EXILED THEATER WITH A WARNING FOR EUROPE by Robert Shuman

(Alex Marshall's article appeared in The New York Times, 3/10; Photo:  A rehearsal for "Dogs of Europe," which opens at the Barbican theater in London on Thursday.Credit…Jeremie Souteyr…

PUSSY RIOT'S NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA: 'YOU CANNOT PLAY NICE WITH PUTIN. HE IS INSANE. HE MIGHT OPEN FIRE ON HIS OWN PEOPLE' by Robert Shuman

(Zoe Williams's article appeared in the U.K. Guardian, 3/8; Photo: 'I'm in a panic, I'm crying every day' … Nadya Tolokonnikova at a concert in Tennessee earlier this month. Photograph:…

SEE AN EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK AT BEANIE FELDSTEIN, JANE LYNCH IN REHEARSALS FOR BROADWAY'S FUNNY GIRL by Robert Shuman

(Michael Gioia's article appeared in People; 3/18/2022; via Pam Green; Photo CREDIT: MATTHEW MURPHY.) Beanie Feldstein will star as Fanny Brice in the first Broadway revival of Funny Girl…

'ANNE BOLEYN'S TIARA WAS FROM CLAIRE'S ACCESSORIES' " HOW WE MADE SIX: THE MUSICAL by Robert Shuman

(Chris Wiegand's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/7; via Pam Green;  Photo:  'The format was inspired by Beyoncé's Live at Roseland show' … Six at the Arts theatre. Photograph…

BELARUS FREE THEATRE: 'WE MUST GET OUT OF OUR COMFORT ZONES IF WE WANT TO CONTINUE AS A DEMOCRACY by Robert Shuman

(Natasha Tripney's  article appeared in The Stage, 3/ 4; Photo: Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada. Credit: Marilyn Kingwill.)                       …

WELL, SLAP MY SHOE! A LEDERHOSEN CLASSIC AND A POLKA ONLY FIVE MEN CAN DO by Robert Shuman

(Lyndsey Winship's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/28; via Pam Green; Photo:  Don't stop till you're married! … dancers in traditional clothing perform the Schuhplattler. Photogr…

SHIFTING IDENTITIES IN SANAZ TOOSSI'S "ENGLISH" (NY) by Robert Shuman

(Alexandra Schwartz's article appeared in The New Yorker, 2/28/22;  In Toossi's play, four Iranian students become friends or rivals in an English class.Illustration by Sophi Miyoko Gullb…

JOAQUINA KALUKANGO ISN'T AFRAID TO SPEAK UP ANYMORE by Robert Shuman

(Originally printed in The New York Times,  2/25; via Update News World and Pam Green; Photo:  The New York Times.) When Joaquina Kalukango was Done with "Slave Play," she was doneÅ

IRISH REP, NYC: 'A TOUCH OF THE POET' BEGINS PERFORMANCES TODAY, 2/26/2022! by Robert Shuman

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1936 was awarded to Eugene Gladstone O'Neill "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of traged…

UKRAINIANS ABROAD TALK OF SHOCK AND DISBELIEF AS HOMELAND IS INVADED by Robert Shuman

(Megan Specia's article appeared in The New York Times, 2/24; Photo: back home, and expressed feelings of hopelessness. Ukrainians and supporters of Ukraine outside Prime Minister Boris John…

UKRAINIAN ARTISTS: 'STOP PUTIN NOW!' by Robert Shuman

(interviews from DW.com, 2/24/2022.) In an interview with DW, Ukrainian artists such as Oksana Lyniv and Andrei Kurkov call on the West to take more decisive action against Russia. Conductor…