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Bigger And Better: Ninth Hakawy Children’s Arts Festival Offers More Performances Spread Over Three Cities
The ninth edition of the Hakawy International Arts Festival for Children will include eight...
In The Labyrinth Of Surfaces: Performativity, And Visitor Experience In The teamLab Exhibitions
Cutting-edge technology and visual immersion in a flow of digital images have been the focus of...
Without Language: Marius Ivaškevičius’s “Exile” at Moscow’s Vl. Mayakovsky Theatre
Pavel Rudnev reviews "Exile" at the Mayakovsky Theatre in Moscow.
Goof Troupe: Little Lord’s “Skinnamarink”
Sport is sometimes defined as a task with arbitrary but necessary constraints. Education is never...
When Poetry Is The Protagonist: “Lugones,” The Lord Of All The Words
Traditional literary analysis has focused on a tripartite division of genres as if they were...
“The Cursed Child” Is The Latest In A Line Of Big Shows That Date Back To The Romans
“This,” the Chicago Tribune critic reminds us on the billboard of seemingly every tram stop in...
- Adaptation
- Devised Theatre
- Immersive Theatre
- Musical Theatre
- Translation
- Transmedia
- Transcultural Collaborations
- LGBTQ Theatre
- Theatre and Disability
- Theatre and Gender
- Theatre and Politics
Tears of a Clown: “American Juggalo”
What is a juggalo? Let me think for a second…Oh! He gets butt-naked and then he walks through the...
Goof Troupe: Little Lord’s “Skinnamarink”
Sport is sometimes defined as a task with arbitrary but necessary constraints. Education is never...
“The Justice Syndicate”: How Do You Make Decisions? Immersive Theatre and Jury Duty
An empty room. A large table. 12 iPads, 12 note pads, and 12 name desk holders that designate “Juror” along with a number. That is the simple setting for The Justice Syndicate, a new piece by fanSHEN. This interactive play revolves around a jury deliberation on a high-profile sexual assault case.
On Broadway, “Kiss Me, Kate” Is True To Fashion, For Better Or Worse
Anyone who tells you that Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate isn’t, or can’t be, a kick in the teeth to...
Theatre Centre-Stage At US Literary Translation Conference
In 2018, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) gave pride of place to theatre...
In The Labyrinth Of Surfaces: Performativity, And Visitor Experience In The teamLab Exhibitions
Cutting-edge technology and visual immersion in a flow of digital images have been the focus of...
The Immigrant Dragons–Part II: On The Hunt For The Right Master
For 126 years, the small Australian city of Bendigo has embraced Chinese dragons. This year, their...
Who’s His Daddy?: Jeremy Harris’ “Daddy” at Signature Theatre Center
The English author Samuel Butler once quipped grimly that the death of a father was “a new lease...
Creating Opportunities For “Inclusive Dance” With Stopgap Dance Company
“I believe people with almost any kind of physique can do contemporary dance. Yet though...
Ravi Jain’s “Prince Hamlet” Breathes New Life Into The Bard
Just when you thought no one could possibly find a fresh interpretation of Hamlet, along come...
Revolution Is A Necessary Cause, But Impossible Today: Interview with Director Kokan Mladenović
Kokan Mladenović’s name is well known both within and outside the theatre: he is the director who...
Joseph Keckler’s “Train With No Midnight
Walking into the lower theatre at HERE for Train With No Midnight you may have thought you were...
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- Dramaturgy
- Design
- Management
- Playwriting
Stéphanie Turple’s “Un-Countried”: How Regimes And Mindsets Change
Un-Countried, written by Stéphanie Turple, and directed by Kevin Orr shows what happens when a...
Where There Is Cowardice, Winking Returns: A Conversation with Hungarian Director Róbert Alföldi
Fear Eats the Soul (Átrium), The Crucible (Szombathely) and Richard III (Radnóti Színház) – these...
Care To Dance Dramaturg? The Invention Of A New Craft
A Foreword by the Editor Thirty years ago an essay was published in the Canadian journal Theatrum...
The Immigrant Dragons–Part II: On The Hunt For The Right Master
For 126 years, the small Australian city of Bendigo has embraced Chinese dragons. This year, their...
Basma Hamed, A Remarkable Star Of Egypt’s Arts Management
A unique cultural player, Hamed’s work in the PR and marketing of the arts, helped launch,...
Christina Ham Talks The Blues And Black Women With Dominic-Madori Davis
Strange Fruit They were pronounced dead on the scene. Sunday morning, September 15th, 1968,...
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In The Labyrinth Of Surfaces: Performativity, And Visitor Experience In The teamLab Exhibitions
Cutting-edge technology and visual immersion in a flow of digital images have been the focus of...
INTERVIEWS
Interview With Director Johanny Bert
Recently, in February, Johanny Bert, Director/actor/puppeteer developed the play She No Princess,...
REVIEWS
Without Language: Marius Ivaškevičius’s “Exile” at Moscow’s Vl. Mayakovsky Theatre
Pavel Rudnev reviews "Exile" at the Mayakovsky Theatre in Moscow.
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Without Language: Marius Ivaškevičius’s “Exile” at Moscow’s Vl. Mayakovsky Theatre
Pavel Rudnev reviews “Exile” at the Mayakovsky Theatre in Moscow.
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In The Labyrinth Of Surfaces: Performativity, And Visitor Experience In The teamLab Exhibitions
Cutting-edge technology and visual immersion in a flow of digital images have been the focus of...
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Goof Troupe: Little Lord’s “Skinnamarink”
Sport is sometimes defined as a task with arbitrary but necessary constraints. Education is never...
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Mechanical Reproduction: J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” directed by Stephen Daldry at ArtsEmerson
In the theatre, it is rare to see a dramatist get second billing to a director. Usually,...
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Nuria Espert Returns To Lorca With “Gypsy Ballads”
2018 was a good year for veteran Spanish actress Nuria Espert. Two years after winning the...
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The Immigrant Dragons–Part II: On The Hunt For The Right Master
For 126 years, the small Australian city of Bendigo has embraced Chinese dragons. This year, their...
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Interview With Director Johanny Bert
Recently, in February, Johanny Bert, Director/actor/puppeteer developed the play She No Princess,...
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On Broadway, “Kiss Me, Kate” Is True To Fashion, For Better Or Worse
Anyone who tells you that Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate isn’t, or can’t be, a kick in the teeth to...
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Complexity Is Beauty: Academy for Digitality and Theatre
Virtual reality, 3D animation, and robotics have long been used by theatre directors in other...
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“For The Love Of , Or, The Roller Derby Play”: Block Party 2019 Off To A Strong Start At The Kirk Douglas
It is Block Party time again at the Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver...
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Interview With Debbie Devine: The Missionary Of Arts Education
Debbie Devine is an award-winning theatre director, teacher, and renowned leader in Theater Arts...
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Revolution Is A Necessary Cause, But Impossible Today: Interview with Director Kokan Mladenović
Kokan Mladenović’s name is well known both within and outside the theatre: he is the director who...
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Stéphanie Turple’s “Un-Countried”: How Regimes And Mindsets Change
Un-Countried, written by Stéphanie Turple, and directed by Kevin Orr shows what happens when a...
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A Hong Kong Take On An American Classic: In Conversation With Tim Yip And Septime Webre
This article is brought to you by The Hong Kong Ballet Half-way through his second season as Hong...
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“Skinnamarink” at Next Door at NYTW
Skinnamarink is a deliriously diverting new production by Little Lord, a performance ensemble that...
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Christina Ham Talks The Blues And Black Women With Dominic-Madori Davis
Strange Fruit They were pronounced dead on the scene. Sunday morning, September 15th, 1968,...
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Ravi Jain’s “Prince Hamlet” Breathes New Life Into The Bard
Just when you thought no one could possibly find a fresh interpretation of Hamlet, along come...
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The Presence Of Others In A World Without Boundaries: An Interview With teamLab
teamLab, founded by Toshiyuki Inoko and several of his friends in 2001, is an art collective, an...
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Yngvild Aspeli’s “Ashes”: Puppets That Haunt And Kindle
When does desire give way to fixation, compulsion, addiction? In Yngvild Aspeli’s exquisite show...
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Ödön von Horváth’s “Tales From Vienna Woods,” Directed by Yana Ross
Directed by Yana Ross. Lithuanian State Youth Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania. March 4, 2019. Tales...
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We Complement One Another: Gabriela Carrizo, a Founding Member of Peeping Tom
An interview with Gabriela Carrizo, a founding member of Peeping Tom After ten years we had the...
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Theatre Of The Real And Embracing The Politics Of The Current Moment: Heidi Schreck’s “What The Constitution Means To Me”
“Man can change the world with bayonet and with science, but only art can renew it, in play, in...
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Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” At The Harold Pinter Theatre: Brilliant Minimalism
Tom Hiddleston. What can I say? His career has sprinkled handfuls of stardust from the beginning:...
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Juan Mayorga’s “Intensely Blue”: Spain’s Premier Dramatist Seeing The World Anew
Juan Mayorga has been keeping busy. He was recently elected to the Royal Spanish Academy—the...
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Great Ape: “Chimpanzee” at HERE Arts Center
Of all the non-human animals that human animals love, the primate is the most embarrassing. (The...
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The Development Of Israeli Theater–A Brief Overview
In comparison with West European theater, Hebrew theater is young: only a century separates the...
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David Henry Hwang On Theatre, Trump, And Asian-American Identity
American writers don’t get much bigger than David Henry Hwang. The award-winning playwright’s...
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Tatty Hennessy’s “A Hundred Words For Snow” At The Trafalgar Studios
Fifteen-year-old Rory, a schoolgirl on the adventure of a lifetime, is puzzled. “Why,” she asks,...
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“Be More Chill” Brings Broadway Viral, Rewiring The High School Musical
The high school musical’s calling card has always been the “be yourself” thematic. A nerdy,...
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The 10 Craziest Russian Art Performances
While acclaimed American performance artist Marina Abramovic was exploring her own body, Russian...
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Creating “Kathakali Literacy”
Thrissur Kathakali Club has launched a Kathakali Workshop Project to familiarize viewers with the...
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Bigger And Better: Ninth Hakawy Children’s Arts Festival Offers More Performances Spread Over Three Cities
The ninth edition of the Hakawy International Arts Festival for Children will include eight...
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Martin Askew’s “There Is A Field” at The Theatre 503: Modern Conversion Play
The events of 9/11 were a global wake-up call — and that includes theatre. In the wake of the War...
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“Saviour Samuel” At Pittsburgh Playwrights Company In Pittsburgh, PA
Set on the Kansas prairie in the late 19thcentury, Mark Clayton Southers’ Saviour Samuel might...
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“Eden” at The Hampstead Theatre: Building a Luxury Golf Course
In the medieval Mappa Mundi, which hangs in Hereford cathedral, the Garden of Eden is pictured at...
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“An Octoroon” At Kinetic Theatre Company In Pittsburgh, PA
The Octoroon is a 19th-century melodrama by Irish playwright Dion Boucicault that tells the story...
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“The Cursed Child” Is The Latest In A Line Of Big Shows That Date Back To The Romans
“This,” the Chicago Tribune critic reminds us on the billboard of seemingly every tram stop in...
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At SoHo Playhouse, “Fiercely Independent” Demystifies Divorce
In 1977, Margaret Trudeau somewhat famously told People Magazine that “it takes two to destroy a...
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“The Animals And Children Took To The Streets” at The Lyric Hammersmith
Whenever I hear the word “cosmopolitan” I think of Europe in the 1920s: German Expressionism,...
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Where There Is Cowardice, Winking Returns: A Conversation with Hungarian Director Róbert Alföldi
Fear Eats the Soul (Átrium), The Crucible (Szombathely) and Richard III (Radnóti Színház) – these...
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French Playwright Florian Zeller’s “The Son” at The Kiln Theatre
Well, you have to hand it to French playwright Florian Zeller — he’s certainly cracked the problem...
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Who’s His Daddy?: Jeremy Harris’ “Daddy” at Signature Theatre Center
The English author Samuel Butler once quipped grimly that the death of a father was “a new lease...
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“Mary, Queen Of Scots” Is Newly Relevant In The Age Of #MeToo
The dramatic life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots is a hot topic in popular culture. Josie Rourke’s...
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Invigorated By A New Cast, “My Fair Lady” Continues to Enchant Broadway
Lincoln Center has reissued its mandate for Lerner and Loewe’s 1956 classic, casting off whatever creative anxiety earlier dogged the production and staging a decidedly lighter, exuberant My Fair Lady.
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Creating Opportunities For “Inclusive Dance” With Stopgap Dance Company
“I believe people with almost any kind of physique can do contemporary dance. Yet though...
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Peter Shaffer’s “Equus” at Theatre Royal Stratford East
There is no doubt that Peter Shaffer’s Equus is a modern classic. But does that justify reviving...
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Warring Siblings: Bárbara Lennie And Irene Escolar In Pascal Rambert’s Sell Out Madrid Run Of “Sisters”
Tickets for French writer-director Pascal Rambert’s Hermanas (Bárbara And Irene) (English title...
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Get Out Of The Box: New Business Models And International Co-Operation
The European Theatre Lab (ETL) is an international co-operation that brings together several...
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“Superhoe” at The Royal Court: Nicôle Lecky’s One-Woman Debut
Titles matter: they send out messages. So, in the current #MeToo climate, isn’t it a bit...
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Using Theatre To Promote Positive Mental Health
The link between creative expression and positive mental health has been known for quite some time...
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