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What do Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Simpsons, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s film Birdman have in...
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50 Years with Ariane Mnouchkine’s Théâtre du Soleil
American playwright, translator, and journalist Amelia Parenteau is currently in residence in...
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Where Are the Women in French Theater?
American playwright, translator, and journalist Amelia Parenteau is currently in residence in...
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Ridley Scott’s Casting Of White Actors Is Symptomatic Of Larger Problems
Director Ridley Scott recently set off a firestorm when he dismissed those who criticized him for...
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Strange Fates of Shakespeare’s First Folio
The Shakespeare First Folio (1623), the first collected edition of his plays and the sole source...
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The Profound Effect of Russian Plays on Nicola McCartney
This is the second installment in John Freedman’s TheaterPlus video blog, which now appears...
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Comparing New York and Parisian Theatre
American playwright, translator, and journalist Amelia Parenteau is currently in residence in...
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Sasha Dugdale Recalls the Origins of New Drama in Russia
Back when I used to publish a blog called TheaterPlus on the website of The Moscow Times, I would...
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Intermittence Du Spectacle
Since moving back to Paris this fall, I’ve been making my rounds at the theater, sampling this...
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Yury Lyubimov, For whom History was a Home
The death of Yury Lyubimov in Moscow on Sunday morning, October 5, 2014, at the age of 97, puts...
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Terrorism, Truth, and Trust – How Dramaturgy Informs Real Life
Drama and its core principles are to be found in theatres while the real world goes on outside,...
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Back to the U.S.S.R.
On occasion, rather than buried and hidden somewhere, essences lie right there on the surface,...
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Tackling Gender Inequality On Stage Needs To Go Further Than Female Hamlets
Several British theatres have made a pledge to address the levels of gender inequality on the...
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Teatr Chorea’s Retro//Per//Spectives Festival: Part 3
After the enormous Oratorium Dance Project, in 2011, no one wanted to stop working with the Łódź...
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Patriarchy’s Ghosts In The Light Bulbs: “Hamlet” At The Royal Exchange
The ghost, in this autumn’s Royal Exchange Theatre production of Hamlet, is in the light bulbs....
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We Need Language To Shock: Why “The Sublime” Gets Rape Wrong
Here are two opposing definitions of rape: Rape: a violent, criminal act almost exclusively...
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Plays In Ancient Athens Would Have Been More Like A Kate Bush Concert Than High-End Theatre
The September 4 live transmission of Euripides’ Medea will have brought an ancient Greek tragedy...
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“Naked, Obscene Theater, That’s What Our People Fear” – On Russian Theatre and Politics
Kirill Serebrennikov, the artistic director of Moscow’s innovative Gogol Center, and a...
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Mariinsky Theatre: From Imperial Legend to Modern Powerhouse
Under Valery Gergiev’s leadership, the Mariinsky has emerged from the post-Soviet crisis to become...
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