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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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Is It A “Birdman”? Is It A Play? It’s Super Meta-Textuality!
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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