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A Production to Satisfy Sydney’s Darkest Imaginings: Sydney Theatre Company’s “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”
Review: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, directed by Kip Williams for Sydney Theatre Company...
“When God Kicks You In The Womb,” The Artist is Born
Performance “When God Kicks You In The Womb”, based on the novel by Ildiko Lovaš, is a...
Russian Theater Beyond Time and Place. On the 25th Anniversary of the STEPS Theatre
“Time means nothing. That is, it does, but not in the way we think,” says Joseph, the protagonist...
With “My Self in That Moment” Chamber Made Gives Us a Dystopian View of Our Lost Soul in the Digital Age
Review: My Self in That Moment, directed by Tamara Saulwick for Chamber Made. In his visionary...
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Karnad spoke about his life as a writer and cultural administrator, his accidental foray into...
Young Europe IV: Non-Dominant Voices in European Youth Theatre. Interview with Zoe Apostolidou and Emel Aydoğdu.
Young Europe IV is a large-scale artistic collaboration project to tackle the dominance of stories...
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Young Europe IV: Non-Dominant Voices in European Youth Theatre. Interview with Zoe Apostolidou and Emel Aydoğdu.
Young Europe IV is a large-scale artistic collaboration project to tackle the dominance of stories...
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Aaron Kilercioglu and Bilal Hasna’s “For A Palestinian” at Camden People’s Theatre: Emotionally Intense Exploration of Identity
Identity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some...
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A Queer Memory Play for the Online Generation: “You Don’t Have to Do Anything” Workshops in NYC This October
This October, playwright Ryan Drake and director Ryan Dobrin bring a memory play to the IRT Theater that explores online sexuality.
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Young Europe IV: Non-Dominant Voices in European Youth Theatre. Interview with Zoe Apostolidou and Emel Aydoğdu.
Young Europe IV is a large-scale artistic collaboration project to tackle the dominance of stories...
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Aaron Kilercioglu and Bilal Hasna’s “For A Palestinian” at Camden People’s Theatre: Emotionally Intense Exploration of Identity
Identity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some...
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Imagine/: Artificial Intelligence Comes to Theatrical Design
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“Who Killed My Father,” Young Vic
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A Blast from the Past: Les Champignons de Paris by La Compagnie du Caméléon
On June 13, 2022, I spoke with Guillaume Gay, who is operational and artistic director of the...
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Russian Theater Beyond Time and Place. On the 25th Anniversary of the STEPS Theatre
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A Production to Satisfy Sydney’s Darkest Imaginings: Sydney Theatre Company’s “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”
Review: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, directed by Kip Williams for Sydney Theatre Company...
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When Playwrights Complicate Dramatic Form: Recent Developments in African American Plays of the 2010s
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Five Myths About Shakespeare’s Contribution to the English Language
Shakespeare’s language is widely considered to represent the pinnacle of English. But that status...
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“Flo & Joan,” Lund Comedy Festival
Here’s a few things to start with. Following my recent relocation from London to the Swedish...
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Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 2
To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. Nahm: Let’s talk now about Texas Aunt. I said...
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Daily Life under State Violence: Interview with South Korean Playwright Yun Mi Hyun, Part 1
Yun Mi Hyun is a playwright based in South Korea. After writing fiction and poetry in her early...
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“When God Kicks You In The Womb,” The Artist is Born
Performance “When God Kicks You In The Womb”, based on the novel by Ildiko Lovaš, is a...
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More Morisseau: “Skeleton Crew” by Dominique Morisseau
Skeleton Crew is Dominique Morisseau’s best play so far. It’s the most streamlined work in her...
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The Return of Gringoire: An Exclusive Interview with Bruno Pelletier
Interview of the “original” Gringoire from Notre Dame de Paris the musical – Bruno...
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“The Drawer Boy” and Another Way of Telling History
The opening play of the Blyth Theatre Season, Michael Healey’s Canadian classic, The Drawer Boy,...
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Haunted History in Cottage Country: “Cottagers and Indians”
Cottagers and Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor A lazy afternoon on a cedar deck that could be...
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Bodies of Knowledge – Facilitating Alternative and Humane Ways of Learning
Bodies of Knowledge (BOK) is a semi-nomadic classroom that facilitates alternative and...
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Highlights from the Mladi Levi Festival in Ljubljana
The 25th edition of the international theatre and dance festival Mladi Levi (Young Lions) was...
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Learning From Scratch: Istanbul Theatre Through a Canadian-Armenian Lens. Interview with Art Babayants.
Dr. Art Babayants is a multilingual artist-scholar who lives and works in what is now called...
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“Kurios: A Cabinet of Curiosities” Helping You Dream with Your Eyes Wide Open!
I can prescribe the remedy if you need medicine to blow up your imagination! Get a ticket to...
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This review contains spoilers. TW: suicide, homicide, mental illness The Butcher Boy, which opened...
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In Conversation with Regan Hicks: Part Two
This is part 2 of the bipartite interview. To read part 1, click here. Welcome back to the second...
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In Conversation with Regan Hicks: Part One
Regan Hicks is one of my dearest friends and closest collaborators. We’ve worked on a number of...
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American playwright and concert pianist, William Robert Martin, is an emerging artist whose star...
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I went to theatre school. Know this before reading on. I went to theatre school, trained as an...
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“Chasing Hares” at the Young Vic
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Honey, I’m Home! — Robert Icke’s “Oresteia”
If nothing else, you have to admire the chutzpah of Robert Icke’s Oresteia, which tries to...
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“The Cherry Orchard,” Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble
What might Anton Chekov, that Russian master of the nineteenth century, have to say about the...
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The pioneering theatre company, founded and run by Afghan theatre maker and refugee, Saleh Sepas,...
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Leveling Effects: Matthew Spangler’s Adaptation of “The Kite Runner”
Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 novel The Kite Runner is a vividly descriptive and often gripping tale of...
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Sacrament of the Sea: Houseworld’s “Bottom of the Ocean”
Whispering the word BOTO into the speakeasy-style window of a door, I felt a sense of trepidation,...
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Just over a hundred years since its founding (by impresario and theatre director Max Reinhardt),...
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Theatre After COVID: The 2022 Avignon Theatre Festival in Search for Theatrical Magic and Forms of Philosophical Transgressions – Part II
This is Part 2 of the bipartite report. To read Part 1, click here. Anaïs Nin au Miroir, written...
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Theatre After COVID: The 2022 Avignon Theatre Festival in Search for Theatrical Magic and Forms of Philosophical Transgressions – Part I
I arrived at the 2022 Avignon Theatre Festival seeking emotional rejuvenation after two years of...
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“The Hour of Death,” Bokshi Theatre Company
Pristina Prison, a notorious building in the centre of the city, was built during the Yugoslav era...
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Yesterday evening I went to see Dog/Actor at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. Written by Steven...
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Review: Future. Joy. Club., Finucane & Smith The theatre of the occasion starts with a...
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National Theatre, Belgrade, premiere 12th March 2022 The Years of Crows is the great comeback for...
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”Seven Women in Search of Mia” or ”Breast Cancer Trilogy” (A Postproduction Reflection)
In 2011, I published my first medical humanities book, Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily...
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A Director Needs “to Practice What They Preach”: An Interview with Milosh Andonovski, Theatre Director and Educator
Milosh Andonovski (1989) was born in Kumanovo, North Macedonia. He graduated Comparative...
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“Murat IV” Opera to tell Ottoman Sultan’s Story in Istanbul
Turkish opera’s great master, composer, and conductor Okan Demiriş’s ‘Murat...
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