What about Bob?

​I'm an award-winning syndicated theater critic and entertainment feature writer in Cleveland, Ohio, which has one of the largest theater districts in the nation, second only to New York City.   I am also a professional actor who, as a younger man, appeared on Broadway and so far off-Broadway it was Connecticut.  For the past 20 years I've spent most of my weekends on stage or sitting in front of it from the sixth row center.

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Refereeing the Muses

Discover why Scott Brown (former Chief Theater Critic, New York Magazine) declares that  "Bob Abelman and Cheryl Kushner have delivered a book of remarkable clarity, a detailed survey and breakdown of critic-craft that's granular without ever getting grainy."

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All The World’s A Stage Fright:
​Misadventures of a Clandestine Critic

Get ready for a  fictionalized memoir of a theater critic who embeds himself in a professional production of the comedy As You Like It in order to overcome a debilitating fear of Shakespeare and turn in a decent performance.

Playwright Eric Coble (Velocity of Autumn, Bright Ideas) describes the book as "Fast, punchy and funny.  Abelman combines a warm-hearted comic look at the terrors of creation with nuggets of history and context.  It's one of those rare escapist reads where you come out a bit smarter than you went in."  

​A quick laugh-out-loud novella,  ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE FRIGHT is written for those who love theater and need Shakespeare's gorgeous words now more than ever. ​
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