Thrown into the Deep End! A Participant’s Perspective from The Kennedy Center New Play Dramaturgy Intensive 2019
Students and early career dramaturgs were invited to The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing...
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Month: October 2019
Maxim Gorky’s “Vassa” at the Almeida Theatre
“Our family doesn’t get on,” sneers the eponymous matriarch of Maxim Gorky’s Vassa, now playing at...
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Samuel Gallet’s “Mephisto [A Rhapsody]” at The Gate Theatre
Adaptation is too banal a word to describe the cross-fertilization of theatre and other art forms....
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Protiv Etogo: “Mayakovsky and Stalin”
As someone who has long been fascinated by both of the title characters, I am not sure who Murray...
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“Slave Play”: Jeremy O. Harris’s “Balcony”
Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play is the New York theater’s scandal du saison. It’s a play about race...
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“A History Of Water In The Middle East” at The Royal Court
Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian writer who has explored issues of Muslim and British...
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“Found” at The Cell: Immersive Theatrical Experience
Multi-disciplinary hothouse The Cell in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood is currently home to...
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Danusia Samal’s “Out of Sorts” at the Theatre 503: Deeply Emotional Account of Personal Identity
One of the delights of London fringe theatre is its ability to nurture new talent. In this respect...
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How to Stage an Opera? Summer Munich Opera Festival as a Role Model
Summer in Europe is the time for performing art festivals. Avignon in France or Edinburgh in...
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“1984” at The Actors’ Gang
“He who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past controls the...
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Taking Classic Musical “West Side Story” to New Heights.
Back in 1961, Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’ Hollywood film West Side Story became something of a...
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Playing the Family: Dramaturgy in Peeping Tom’s Family Trilogy
Peeping Tom is a theatre company founded in 2000 in Brussels by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck...
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Vienna: Mental Eclipse Theater’s “Blasted” (Sarah Kane). Separating Admirable Impulse From Mixed Impact
Mental Eclipse Theater’s production of Sarah Kane’s Blasted is, admittedly, a mixed experience,...
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“Games” at Soho Playhouse
Henry Naylor’s Games, now at the SoHo Playhouse, highlights those human activities that are...
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“Farewell My Concubine” Is Rekindling Hong Kong’s Interest in Cantonese Opera
Three years before the Xiqu Centre opened as Hong Kong’s first purpose-built center for Chinese...
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Reflecting on Theatre Education and History with Laurence Senelick
Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory Emeritus, is a theatre historian...
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Olympian Calm: The International Theatre Olympics
The Olympics is a paradoxical phenomenon. On the one hand, it lives in a spirit of competition and...
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“A Night At The Kabuki”: Giving a Classic Love Story the Queen Treatment
The title of Hideki Noda’s new play is Q: A Night At The Kabuki. The “Q” refers to British rock...
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“A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” at Trafalgar Studios
Playwright Peter Nichols died aged 92 last month, just before the opening of this starry West End...
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Family Secrets Get Messy in “All My Fathers”
Is the truth always best or should some secrets go to the grave? For playwright Paul David Young,...
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