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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 2h

Rehearsals onstage today with the great Lyric Opera of Chicago orchestra!

Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Technical rehearsals, piano dress, and orchestra begin next week. Ready to bring Don Giovanni back to the stage at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Massive seizure. Good, solid police work by an agency committed to ending homecoming antics in our lifetime. Estimated street value of contraband: $116. Personnel engaged: 17 Police overtime paid: $1578

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anne Bancroft would have been 95 today. One of the great actresses, one of the great marriages—and here she is with Mel Brooks, singing “Sweet Georgia Brown” with exactly the kind of lunatic elegance you’d hope for. youtu.be/JM7WG9C5HTg?...

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Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft - "To Be or Not to Be" Musical Opening Number in Polish

YouTube video by Kovacs Corner

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Irish President Catherine Connolly. No caption really improves on the body language.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What can I say? It made me happy.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ah, the final days of summer. Finisce l’estate, comincia l’opera. Don Giovanni.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/08/2026

Thou art proclaim’d fool, I think.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A few weeks after opening Don Giovanni in an almost 3,500-seat opera house, I’ll be back in a 35-seat Chicago storefront, directing a new play at Redtwist Theatre. Very different rooms and very different work. I’m greatly looking forward to both. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/25/c...

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Chicago Theater Report: Robert Falls returns to Chicago storefronts, ‘Downstate’ heads to Broadway and a tribute to Kurt Ehrmann

Robert Falls will direct a Chicago storefront show for Redtwist Theatre and Shattered Globe Theatre has announced its 36th season.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Now that I have your attention… My 2013 production of Don Giovanni returns to open Lyric Opera of Chicago’s new season. A favorite production, a terrific new cast, and the great pleasure of spending my days in a rehearsal room surrounded by Mozart. And yes—that’s the great soprano Marina Rebeka.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A sad and disturbing New York Times piece today argues that friendship itself is becoming a luxury good—dependent on having enough time, money, stability and freedom to sustain it. When basic human connection becomes a privilege, something has gone badly wrong.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Samuel Beckett at rehearsals for Waiting for Godot at the Royal Court in the 1980s. Donald Cooper.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Northwestern University admin accepting $35 million for the football program from MAGA donors Dick and Liz Uihlein while also shuttering the African Studies program and its 80-year-old history is a pretty good encapsulation of higher ed in the US.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Now appearing as Nag in a new London production of Beckett’s ENDGAME.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Fun poster. Great movie. Showed it to the kids when they were young and they loved it. Their second favorite B&W film - Number one: Some Like it Hot.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Every third post on my feed today, there’s that fucking bloated orange sack of shit’s face again — a malignant jack-o’-lantern marinated in grease, vanity, and human sewage.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

don’t know why, but this photograph makes me enormously happy.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

How the fuck did I never think of that?

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National Theatre @nationaltheatre.org.uk · 04/08/2026

We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Welsh playwright and director Peter Gill (1939-2026). Peter was one of British theatre’s quietest masters whose association with the National Theatre stretched back 45 years. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/news/pet…

The image shows Welsh playwright and director Peter Gill, wearing a suit jacket and sweater, standing and smiling. The background is dark and features blurred objects, possibly furniture or decorations.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This isn’t an interview. It’s a great theatrical monologue waiting for an actor.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I Have One Eye and It's In the Center of My Head. Here's What Christopher Nolan Gets Wrong About People Like Me.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@openspacer.bsky.social ugh. Trust your well as the show “must go on!” All best with everything.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

First impression: Twyla Tharp rehearsal. Actual caption: something rather different.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

BOTD: Pina Bausch, artist extraordinaire. I can’t think of a theatre or opera director I admire who hasn’t been influenced by—or stolen from—her masterworks, The Rite of Spring and Café Müller. One of the most radical and influential artists of our time.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

When I was fifteen, my father knew I was obsessed with Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides, Now” and the Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” He surprised me with this Bing Crosby album, containing both songs, and a turtleneck dickie. I remain touched by the gift and fascinated by the pairing.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Before filmmaker Chris Nolan raised eyebrows with the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in his blockbuster The Odyssey, Orson Welles had cast Eartha Kitt in the same role in his 1950 stage production of Time Runs..." #FilmSky wellesnet.com/eartha-kitt-...

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Eartha Kitt was cast as Helen of Troy in 1950

Eartha Kitt co-starred with Orson Welles in "Time Runs."

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

“I have ten commandments. The first nine are: don’t bore. The tenth is: thou shalt have right of final cut.” —Billy Wilder BOTD 1906

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Apparently everyone on my BlueSky feed saw The Odyssey this weekend… except Werner Herzog, Judi Dench, the Pope, and my cousin Gary, who said he’d wait for the director’s cut.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Today would have been Gena Rowlands’ birthday. I love watching Criterion Closet Picks, where actors and filmmakers choose the films that shaped them. Again and again, someone reaches for A Woman Under the Influence and speaks of Gena Rowlands’ influence. One of cinema’s greatest actors.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’ve never actually read The Odyssey. I read the Classics Illustrated comic, and at seven, considered the matter settled.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Live look (as of a few moments ago) from the Field Museum. You can see 1000 S Michigan, but that’s about it.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I can't breathe the air, I can't eat lettuce, I can't afford gas, and my kids have measles. But at least now our soldiers will have enough testosterone.

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

In anticipation of what I’m sure will be another dangerous and idiotic Trump speech tonight, I never thought I’d quote Brett Stephens quoting Thomas B. Reed: “They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sitting in a cottage in northern Michigan, I decided this was the week to embrace a healthier diet: lettuce, berries, fresh vegetables. The Cyclospora headlines, apparently, had the same week circled on their calendar.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

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Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Rolling Stones have a genuinely inspired new album, and somehow it made me think of Verdi. (Yes, I realize how absurdly pretentious that sounds.) Verdi was 79 when he wrote Falstaff. The best artists never really get old. They just keep surprising us.

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Eileen Oz @eileenoz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum September Song, composer Kurt Weill

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