Jan Kott, City Garage, and the Polish Theatre in Los Angeles
“Does anyone still read Jan Kott?” asked Michael Billington, theatre critic, in his article in The...
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John Freedman on New Russian Drama
Aleena Karim interviews John Freedman, an acclaimed American critic, translator and playwright, on...
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Monique Stalens: A Life Steeped In Polish Theater
Today, Monique Stalens often directs her theater adaptations of Gombrowicz and Witkacy in Polish,...
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Where are Women’s Voices in Translation?
Our correspondent Amelia Parenteau attended a “consciousness-raising” discussion of...
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Building Bridges: Moscow Play Unites Deaf-Blind, Sighted And Hearing Actors
A play staged by Moscow’s Theater of Nations has become the first theatrical production in Russia...
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Playwriting Doesn’t Get Better Or Worse–But It Does Evolve
This is a long-read essay, the third in a series on playwriting and drama by Julian Meyrick. Read...
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Built for Collapse: “Red Wednesday”
The evening that I saw Red Wednesday by Built for Collapse at the LaGuardia Performing Arts...
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Culture Wars in the Russian Theater
As the government continues to censor and cancel Russian theater performances, a group of artists...
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We Can’t Get Those Two Hours Back–Drama Works As Time Unfolds
This is a long-read essay, the second in a series on playwriting and drama by Julian Meyrick. Part...
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Why We Should Expect Great Things From David Bowie’s New Musical Play
I’m not sure many saw David Bowie’s latest creative project coming. It was recently announced that...
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Jimmy Savile Play May Revolt Some, But It’s A Necessary Part Of Confronting The Horror
The announcement that a play about Jimmy Savile is to be staged in London this summer has raised...
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Need A Stage Coach? Why Some Plays Work, And Others Don’t
We all know whether a given play, film or TV drama “works” or not, but it’s often difficult to...
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A Pig’s Head at the Moscow Art Theater
On April 1st, 2015, orthodox activists, calling themselves “God’s Will”,...
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3 Russian Contributions To Theater That Changed The World
In honor of World Theater Day on March 27, RBTH presents three of Russia’s greatest contributions...
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Experts Fear “Tannhäuser” Case A Warning, Despite Dismissal
A lawsuit filed by a local branch of the Russian Orthodox Church against the director of the...
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The “Dancer’s Body” Is Fat: Force Majeure’s “Nothing To Lose”
The fear and loathing of fat is such a ubiquitous part of contemporary Western culture that it...
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Mieczysław Weinberg’s Opera “The Passenger”: On Memory and Forgetting
Polish classical musicians and opera singers have always enjoyed global renown, with singers such...
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Theatre Reviewing Is A Responsible Job–And It Requires Care
Is there any job other than theatre critic where so little knowledge can carry so much weight? If...
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A National Theatre Of Australia Is Needed, And It’s Time
Sociologist Max Weber once called politics “the slow boring of hard boards”. If he had been in the...
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What do Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Simpsons, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s film Birdman have in...
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