Li Cunxin, The Ballet Star Who Could Never Really Leave The Stage
Chinese-Australian dancer Li Cunxin has been enjoying his long yet productive retirement for...
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Socialist Morality in “The Threepenny Opera”
On Friday, March 23rd, Boston Lyric Opera continued its run of The Threepenny Opera to a sold-out...
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Myth, Motherhood, And Desperation in Modern Adaptation of Lorca’s “Yerma”
Last Monday, about forty minutes into the final preview of Yerma at the Park Avenue Armory—Simon...
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Searching For Lost Artists In “A Song Of Dewdrops”
I went to the Seoul Donhwamun Traditional Theatre in early November, the night of the first full...
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German Politicians Invest In Opera When Seeking Re-Election–Here’s Why
In virtually all rich democracies, governments subsidize expensive highbrow culture, such as...
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“The Delightful Journey Of Mr. Goldoni”: A National Premiere In Pavia
Since 2007, the year of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793), Ghislieri...
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The Politics of Child Abuse in Searing Māori Theatre: “Bless the Child” by Hone Kouka
Bless the Child by Hone Kouka. Co-produced by the New Zealand Festival, Auckland Arts Festival and...
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The PUTIN Show: Kirill Serebrennikov And Russia’s Conservative Revolution
Russian theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, arrested in August 2017 for alleged fraud, is the...
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World Premiere Musical: “The Lucky Ones”
With downtown theatre audiences, the never-ending challenge is how to push boundaries and create...
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Force And Fragility Meet And Merge In “Dunas”
There are mutual squeals of delight when Belgian dance artist, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Spanish...
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“Oklahoma!” at 75: Has the Musical Withstood the Test of Time?
Musicals have long depicted utopian worlds, offering an escape for audiences, if only for a few...
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Richard Eyre’s Production Of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” Performed By Irons And Manville At Wyndham’s Theatre
Dysfunctional families do not know about time or place. We may all know too well that reading...
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“The Great Wave” at The National Theatre: True Stories of Japanese People Abducted by the North Korean Regime
Until very recently British theatre has been pretty poor at representing the stories of Chinese...
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Moveable Cultural Feast
This weekend, the city gets a brand new festival that seeks to inject an infectious arts vibe into...
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The NAC Comes Up Trumps With “carried away”
carried away on the crest of a wave By David Yee, Directed by Kim Collier. A NAC English Theatre...
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“Black Men Walking” at The Royal Court: Ordinary Folk Doing Ordinary Thing
In the same week that Arinzé Kene’s Misty, a play that passionately questions the clichés of...
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“La Traviata” at the Teatro Sociale in Rovigo
On February 18th, 2018, Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata was staged at the Teatro Sociale in...
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Pathos Of The Oppressed
At the ongoing Theatre Olympics, Kishore Sengupta’s play Nuraldiner Sarajiban highlighted...
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Women Flying High In Circus
On International Women’s Day 2018 and in the year of Circus250, Poppy Burton-Morgan blogs for UK...
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The Greatest Play Ever Written: Translating “The Cherry Orchard”
Rory Mullarkey introduces his new version of Chekhov’s masterpiece for Bristol Old Vic. “The...
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