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“Amahemhem”: Walking Alongside the Ghosts of Our Past
At the University of Pretoria, South Africa’s Student Gallery, I was met with the open space of...
Sensing Others through Dancing Bodies as Data: Review of Sense Datum by UBIN DANCE
In this day and age, the word data evokes preconceived images of algorithms, artificial...
Prison Shakespeare at Milan’s Young Offenders Institute
Since 2015 my theatre studies colleague, Cristina Cavecchi, and I have been leading Shakespeare...
AI, Sci-Fi, Neuroscience and ChatGPT – An Interview with Playwright Saviana Stănescu
Within the past six years, prominent Romanian playwright Saviana Stănescu has written two “AI...
“Waiting for Lucky” and “Quê Onde” – A Brazilian Beckett Double Bill Presented at the Between.Pomiędzy Dispersed Festival 2023
Waiting for Lucky and Quê Onde [1] were presented on the evening of Friday May 19, 2023 in Teatr...
“My Sister Jill:” Patricia Cornelius’ New Play is a Blistering Post-War Social and Cultural Commentary
Emerging from one of Australia’s most enduring and significant theatrical partnerships between...
The Digital Spectator. Romanian Experiences During the Pandemic
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Sydney Theatre Company’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”: Fresh, Funny and Completely Joyous
It is easy to forget that when Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was first written and...
Tartuffe or the Hypocrite: Tartare of Tartuffe
One of the most popular dishes in French cuisine is tartare. Diced beef with egg yolk and lots of...
“A Short History of Burgers and Other Stories” Kosovo Theatre Showcase 2023
Some years ago, I discussed my love of buckwheat with the co-artistic director of Belarus Free...
Àlex Rigola’s Lean, Mean Riff on “Hedda Gabler”
Catalan director Àlex Rigola, the former artistic director of the Venice Biennale’s theatre...
Polish People Deserve Better From Irish Theatre…
In 2004, Ireland, as one of the first countries in the EU, invited Polish people to live and work...
SheNYC Takes the Stage: “Fort Huachuca” and “Bloodshot” at A.R.T./NY
To begin as we proceed, with full transparency, I have to admit how big a fan I am of SheNYC Arts...
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Prison Shakespeare at Milan’s Young Offenders Institute
Since 2015 my theatre studies colleague, Cristina Cavecchi, and I have been leading Shakespeare...
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AI, Sci-Fi, Neuroscience and ChatGPT – An Interview with Playwright Saviana Stănescu
Within the past six years, prominent Romanian playwright Saviana Stănescu has written two “AI...
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“Waiting for Lucky” and “Quê Onde” – A Brazilian Beckett Double Bill Presented at the Between.Pomiędzy Dispersed Festival 2023
Waiting for Lucky and Quê Onde [1] were presented on the evening of Friday May 19, 2023 in Teatr...
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Prison Shakespeare at Milan’s Young Offenders Institute
Since 2015 my theatre studies colleague, Cristina Cavecchi, and I have been leading Shakespeare...
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Within the past six years, prominent Romanian playwright Saviana Stănescu has written two “AI...
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“Interview with Ukrainian Actor Orest Pastukh”
Orest Pastukh is a theatre and film actor, director, playwright and educator. He was born in the...
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In this day and age, the word data evokes preconceived images of algorithms, artificial...
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“The Interview,” Park Theatre
Journalism is a despised profession. And when you consider the story behind the interview that...
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“Is It Me? Am I the Drama?”: Marketing “Switzerland” on Social Media
“Is it me? Am I the drama?” I’m going to be completely honest with you. Sometimes I am the drama....
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Reflections On Teaching Israel/Palestine in The Theatre Studies Classroom
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“Antigones” Kosovo Theatre Showcase
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In Conversation with Sartre and Plato: Locus29’s “Hell Dialogues”
The Sheen Center is, I find myself thinking, the perfect place to host Locus29’s Hell Dialogues....
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“The Shadow Garden” Kosovo Theatre Showcase
The Shadow Garden, part of this year’s Kosovo Theatre Showcase, seems an almost impossible task to...
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“The Interview” Review: A Blend of Fact and Speculation
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Wicked the Musical Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary On Stage. An Exclusive Interview With Adam Garcia – the Original Fiyero of the West End.
The musical Wicked premiered on Broadway twenty years ago and quickly earned the title of the very...
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“Negotiating Peace”, Kosovo Theatre Showcase 2023
There are wars, and then there are post wars, the kind of which take place around the negotiating...
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“Gadjo (The Young Europeans)” Kosovo Theatre Showcase 2023
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“La Regenta” as Opera: a Coruscating Portrait of Smalltown Community Abuse
It is not an easy prospect to adapt into opera one of the most acclaimed social realist novels of...
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The Danger Within: “Asesinato y adolescencia” / “Assassination and Adolescence” Opens the Español’s Season at Madrid’s Matadero
There is something beguiling, provocative and timely in Andrés Lima’s staging of Antonio San...
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Floating Islands of AI: Agrupación Señor Serrano’s “La isla/The Island” in Madrid
Agrupación Señor Serrano go where other theatre-makers fear to tread. They are always one step...
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“Strength, Don’t Let Yourself Be Anyone’s” – BITEF, Belgrade, Serbia
The Belgrade International Theater Festival was founded in 1967 and to this day represents one of...
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Emerging from one of Australia’s most enduring and significant theatrical partnerships between...
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James Fritz’s The Flea at the Yard Theatre: History Play Gives a Queer Reading of the Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889
Famous sex scandals don’t always make good plays. Although the tabloid nature of such events...
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Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hamnet at the Garrick Theatre: Pedestrian Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Bestseller About Shakespeare’s Wife and Son
Why are stage adaptations of bestselling novels so disappointing? Okay, I appreciate the...
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The Life of Three “Best Friends:” Anat Gov’s Feminism at the 14th Street Y
Anat Gov’s Best Friends lives in a world of dichotomy. The title is both entirely true and...
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Groundbreaking Autistic-Led Production of “A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” at A Common Thread Theatre Company in Framingham, MA
When Christopher Boone from A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was first introduced...
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“The Overcoat:” A Balaganza of Absurdity and Travesty.
The 10th MITEM Theatre Festival continues to showcase the theatre achievements of Hungarian...
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The Ephemera of the Cherry Orchard: Agnieszka Kazimierska’s “Katie’s Tales”
Agnieszka Kazimierska has always been an artist. From the age of six, she told as much to her...
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Tanika Gupta’s “The Empress” at the Lyric Hammersmith: Epic RSC History Play Tackles Race and Empire
Anniversaries are great moments for reassessment. Ten years ago, the Royal Shakespeare Company...
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“Leaning Church”: The Voices of a Vanished City
This is the story of the Big Bang. Not the explosion that gave birth to the universe. But an...
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“Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist” Review: An Absolute Treat
Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist may be presented as a concert, but Drew McOnie’s...
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“Kinder” Review: Tackling Big Issues One Little Footstep At A Time
In a short hour, Smoking Apple’s touring production, Kinder, transports us across...
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“Fear Eats The Soul”: Love In The Grip of Hate
These two people are separated by history, geography, language, maths, and other school subjects...
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James Reaney’s The Donnelly Trilogy and the Making of the Canadian Nation
When you head out of London on Highway 4 North, it is almost a straight line through to Lucan,...
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“The Book of Ruth”: Kaddish For Peaceful Life
The 10th edition of the Madách International Theatre Meeting in Budapest coincided with the Jewish...
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“Look What You Made Me Do”: Marketing “POTUS” on Social Media
How do you market theatre on social media? What strategies can a social media manager use to...
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“Gulliver’s Travels”: a Lesson in Satire for Children.
“The life of man to represent, And turn it all to ridicule, Wit did a puppet-show...
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Keeping Alive the U.N.’s Dialogue Among Civilizations – as Theatre
This is the third of a series of articles to discuss the Dialogue of Civilizations theater...
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A Journey of Discovery and Identity Formation: “The Dictionary of Lost Words” Makes Its Wonderful Stage Debut
The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme as she navigates the patriarchal world of Victorian...
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“That Face” at Orange Tree Theatre
Playwright Polly Stenham had a meteoric rise with this play, her award-winning 2007 debut which...
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Edinburgh Festivals, May Luck Be With You
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Nice to MITEM you: the 10th edition of the Madách International Theatre Meeting Opens in the Hungarian Capital
Budapest is becoming a vibrant place and proving highly attractive to theatre lovers. All the...
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A Performance of Pediophobia: “Nightmare Dollhouse” Brings Uncanny Horror to NYC
A long-running immersive horror production returns to New York with ‘Nightmare Dollhouse,’ exploring a surprisingly popular fear.
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Sweeney Todd: Not a Demon, But a Barber of Fleet Street
Up to the present moment a debate has been going on – whether the demon-barber of Fleet Street had...
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Lauren Gunderson’s Anthropology at the Hampstead Theatre: Interesting Digital Thriller Falters On The Edge of Darkness
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Renée Fleming’s Cities That Sing
Grammy winner Renée Fleming recently appeared in the two-part immersive opera series Cities That...
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