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Annie Jin Wang on Opera Dramaturgy
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Re-imagining the City through Performance: “The Drifting Room”, Created and Performed by Stephen Bain
The Drifting Room, created and performed by Stephen Bain. The Performance Arcade 2024,...
On Kyoto Experiment’s Curatorial Vision
The interdisciplinary theatre, dance, and performance art festival Kyoto Experiment (KEX) wowed me...
George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession at the Garrick Theatre: Slimmed Down Revival Of A Classic About The Woman Question Stars Imelda Staunton
George Bernard Shaw is the supreme example of old writing. Maddeningly verbose, eye-poppingly...
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Coral Wylie’s Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew at the Bush Theatre: Tender And Original Debut About The Black Queer Experience
Diaries are dynamite — they hold secrets, and secrets can tear families apart. In Coral Wylie’s...
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Post-Colonial B-Horror: “The Visitors” at Volksbühne Berlin
This summer, Berlin’s Volksbühne presented The Visitors, a new work by the choreographer Constanza...
Theatres In Tehran Rise From The Ruins Of The Iran-Israel War
“The homeland is not only a piece of land, it’s a memory, it’s love, it’s pain” is a line of...
29th International Shakespeare Festival runs in n Gdańsk (Poland) from 25 July to 3 August
Seventeen productions, including nine premieres, from Japan, Ukraine, the UK, Spain, and Poland,...
Annie Jin Wang on Opera Dramaturgy
Dramaturgy is all about being able to facilitate a line of communication between artists and audience.
Oscar Barney Finn and Paulo Brunetti Interview
I had the opportunity to interview frequent collaborators, writer-director Oscar Barney Finn and...
Electrifying Ensemble Performance and Political Satire in New Māori Play: “Unreel” by Helen Pearse-Otene
The stage explodes with ihi (essential force) and aroha (love, empathy) in Unreel, the new work by...
Philip Ridley’s Tarantula at the Arcola Theatre: Blazingly Emotive And Beautifully Poetic Account Of Trauma From A Master Penman
Even the best streamed theatre can’t compete with the live version. It’s simple — with this art...
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Catharsis in the Eleventh Row: The Aesthetics of Truth on Stage and an Audience That Is Not Afraid of the Dark
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Imagine Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, staged as a sort of salon game, in a real couple’s home serving as...
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On Lone Borders: Juan Mayorga’s “Los Yugoslavos”
Juan Mayorga’s Los yugoslavos [The Yugoslavs] is, to-date, the only one of the acclaimed Spanish...
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Exploring a Global Vision in the Sinosphere: An Interview with Katherine Chou, Chair of the World Sinophone Drama Competition for Young Playwrights
The World Sinophone Drama Competition for Young Playwrights is the largest playwriting contest in...
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On Creativity, Labor, and Uncertainty: An Interview with Taiwanese Playwright Yu-Chia Wei
Yu-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese playwright whose work has earned numerous accolades. Her two plays, A...
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Claire Dowie’s Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? at the Finborough Theatre: Pioneering Queer Theatre Artist Revisits Her Greatest Hits
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Terence Rattigan’s In Praise of Love at the Orange Tree Theatre: Rarely Revived 1973 Study Of Love In A Time Of Deception
Only the truth, we are told, can set us free — but there are times in love when the New Testament...
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Creating History, Changing the Future, or Enslaved in Eternal Present: 70th Sterijino Pozorje Festival
In honour of playwright Jovan Sterija Popović, Sterijino pozorje was held this year for the...
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Pandora`s Ritual: To “Kill My Darlings” On The Brink Of An Individual Existential Revolution
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Ekman / León-Lightfoot / Dawson – A Dance Evening of Excellence at Rome Opera House
Under the artistic direction of the étoile Eleonora Abbagnato, Rome Opera House (Teatro dell’Opera...
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”The Village”, Revolver Copenhagen
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“The Pillars of the Earth”: Bestseller and Musical. An Exclusive Interview with Ken Follett. Part II
For the first part of the interview go here. From the earliest musicals, one can trace the...
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“Hamlet”, Teatro La Plaza, Barbican
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“Rhinoceros”, The Almeida Theatre
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A “Self-Portrait” By Davide Enia
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“The Cherry Orchard” By Benedict Andrews: A Stark Mirror For A Collapsing Present
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Black and White. Aleksandr Volodin’s “Five Evenings,” directed by Eduard Tolokonnikov, produced by Polina Belkina, in New York City (March 20-30, May 28-June 15, 2025)
Soviet nonconformist art was emerged in the 1950s when artists dared to transcend the official...
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Conor McPherson’s The Brightening Air at the Old Vic: Wonderfully Numinous And Eccentric Account Of Family Life In 1980s Rural Ireland
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A Play About Abortion – “Hypothetıcal Baby”
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Five Young Performance Artists Unravel the Meaning of Tradition: A Review of “Practicing Freedom”
In the intimate setting of a small black box theatre, audience members find themselves not in the...
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Interview with Michael Salvatore Commendatore, Projection Designer for Disney’s Frozen at Children’s Theatre Company
This is a video interview with Michael Salvatore Commendatore, projection designer for Disney’s...
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Queer Surrealism in Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods
Space Lesbians! Portals! Psychic Sisters! Oh my! These are just some of the elements introduced in...
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“Shards of Chaotic Memory in Multicoloured Ink”
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Julia Grogan’s Playfight at the Soho Theatre: Superbly Punchy Teen Drama That Electrifies The Senses And Engages The Emotions
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Uncle Actor
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Robert Icke’s Manhunt at the Royal Court Theatre: Terrifyingly Powerful Account Of Toxic Masculinity And Murderous Rage
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“Liberation.” Roundabout Theatre. Look Back to Know Where You Are
Did you knit your scarf? A woman asked me while we were waiting in the line for the restroom. No!...
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Violence Is Not Fate. Change Is Possible
Turkish writer, theatre critic, and academic Zehra İpşiroğlu’s book Woman Plays features...
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The Beauty of Cultural Specificity in “Bubble Schmeisis”
The room is thick with steam (ok, it’s smoke machine smoke), an accordion and clarinet cycle...
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I Am Not Afraid For The Future Of The Theatre
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Underneath the Grass Roots
Alice Childress has been having a moment the past few years. This extraordinary Black playwright,...
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Chris Fung’s “The Society for New Cuisine” at Omnibus Theatre: Exceptionally Powerful Monologue About Grief And Mental Torment
Anxiety. Apprehension. Angst even. Yes, that’s the feeling that rises in me as I come into the...
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The Rebellious Power of “Liberation” at Roundabout Theatre Company
Much like the women it centers on, Roundabout Theatre Company’s Liberation is rebellious and not...
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Theatre “Haunts” People
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Nikoletta Soumelidis’s Spent at the Old Red Lion Theatre: Intriguing And Suggestive Exploration Of Gender Roles
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Getting To an Emotional Truth With Padraic Lillis
Getting to the truth – the emotional truth and understanding. I think emotion more than ideology. It resonates with us is how we feel. I can understand that we can be in conflict, I have an emotional connection to both sides of an emotional argument. I not only resonate and feel seen, then I have a better understanding of the person whose thought was in opposition of me.
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Brave New Theatrical World or One Flew Over the 21st Century’s Cuckoo’s Nest?: “Nexxt”
The theatrical kamikaze that destroys all the mechanisms of the world and itself—that is, theatre...
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In November 2024, the world premiere of a new musical by composer Iván Macías, The Pillars of the...
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An Innovative “Romeo E Giulietta” In Milan
In February I caught Antonio Syxty’s staging of Romeo e Giulietta (Romeo and Juliet) at Milan’s...
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Woman Is A Changeling: Redefining Femininity In “Maiden Mother Crone”
But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape Just when you think you have it figured out...
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