Teatr Chorea’s Retro//Per//Spectives Festival: Part 2
Over the five days of the Retro//Per//Spectives festival, the host company Teatr Chorea performed...
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Teatr Chorea’s Retro//Per//Spectives Festival: Part 1
American writer/director, Dara Weinberg, live-blogs for TheTheatreTimes.com from Teatr...
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New Fringe Play Offers Insights On Illegal “eBay For Drugs”
Alex Oates’ debut Fringe play traces the journey of 19-year-old Geordie lad Bruce, as he begins...
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Assessing The First Wave Of The AIDS Epidemic, A Generation On
My Night With Reg, Kevin Elyot’s 1994 play, has returned to the London stage, poignantly only a...
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“Medea” Is As Relevant Today As It Was In Ancient Greece
A new production of Medea recently opened at London’s National Theatre to critical acclaim. This...
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Romeo, Juliet, Viola, And Will: “Shakespeare In Love” Mash-Up Hits The Stage
I don’t really go in for creative mash-ups. You know: Alien Vs. Predator, or the films where...
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Bringing Children’s Stories Out Of The Shadows
There are over 200 theaters in Moscow. In addition to the traditional drama and music theaters,...
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Treading A Fine Line: The Return Of Politics To Russian Theater
After a long period in which Russian theater productions avoided political themes, the last few...
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Bard Labour: Doing Time With The Shakespeare Prison Project
Since 2006, I have led the Shakespeare Prison Project, an initiative by the Queensland Shakespeare...
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It’s Time To Adapt: We Need A Fully Functioning National Drama
Last year in Australian theatre a rare event took place: a sector-wide debate about the role of...
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Women Directors in Poland
Although historically Polish theatre has gained worldwide renown predominantly thanks to its male...
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Shakespeare’s Globe: Why The Bard Travels So Well
We’ve been celebrating Shakespeare’s 450th birthday week with fun, festivals, exhibitions, a cake...
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Sex, Rape, And Role Models–How Women In Comedy Perform
Two performance artists in this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF)–the...
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We Need More Racial Diversity On The Stage, Both Sides Of The Pond
In 1825 the African-American actor Ira Aldridge came to London in The Slave’s Revenge. Before...
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Theatre for Dialogue Confront the Unrest in Ukraine
Between 11-18 February 2014, seven International Theatre of the Oppressed practitioners were...
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Poland’s Teatr “Cinema”: Over 20 Years of Surrealist Collage
The group of visual artists and actors who comprise the surrealist dance-theater Teatr...
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Special Theatres Give The Disabled Self-Expression
For people with physical or intellectual disabilities, the art of theatre is the powerful mode of...
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Part Of A Living Tradition: Russian Drama In London
Some of London’s most innovative theatres and theatre companies are inspired by Russia but in very...
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Alexander Ostrovsky: Russia’s Shakespeare?
It is impossible to imagine the Russian stage without the works of Alexander Ostrovsky – they are...
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Behind The Curtains Of The New Mariinsky
The new Mariinsky Theatre is a site of pilgrimage in St. Petersburg. Ballet and opera enthusiasts...
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